"The Killers"

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This is a paper that uses the story "The Killers" by Hemingway to illustrate why he is one of the greatest writers of all time. The author gives a brief overview of the story, and then looks at the underlying themes that Hemingway presents in the story, and ties them into recent events in history.

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"One amazing part of this story is that the main action or climax of what the reader is waiting for and expects to happen never does. The action that the readers are supposedly waiting for is for Ole Anderson to come in to the scene and then be killed or actually survive some how. For some reason it never happened and they just leave. Hemingway intended the story to end like this. I believe this story is just a conglomerate of themes, and no one theme is central over any of the others. It is amazing that Hemingway can pack so much into one short seven page story. Most writers could never find a way to pack so many themes into one story."

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