Passion

When reading, I was really interested when they explained what an aficionado was. Hemingway described it in the story as "One who is passionate about the bull-fights"(page 136). I found this interesting because it brought the Spanish culture into the story. It was almost like a teaching to those readers who are clueless like me! I have taken Spanish but never learned about the bullfighting like this book explained it. I actually understood it when Jake said the experiences he said. For Hemingway to write this, I am guessing he had to do a lot of research about it. He probably had to go to them and experience them firsthand to write about this. I have heard this word before but never in the contex of bull fighting,too. I just thought it was actually cool that there was a connection between the word and the culture. Just something I found interesting in the book.

Another lit term:)

Literary Term #6

Alliteration

• page 172: "...swept a swath smoothly across the sand and out the red gate."

The alliteration occurs here from the "s". Since s is a consonant, this would be considered alliteration. The purpose of alliteration is: "it can place emphasis on specific phrases and represent the action that is taking place". In this particular phrase, the emphasis is on the actions and sequence of events taking place before the bull fighting. Bull fighting is a major theme of the story, so it is very fitting for Hemingway to use alliteration when describing things having to do with it. The use of this accentuates the experience of the characters. Hemingway wants to make every single part of the bull-fighting, even the events or actions leading up to it, have importance and appeal. He wants the reader to feel like they are there yet again with the men in the story. He wants us to have these experiences with them, and the alliteration gives us this ablity. We see more clearly what is taking place. Also, I think that alliteration just makes the sentence flow nicely. By doing this, it draws my attention to how the author does this. The reasosn for this is obviously the alliteration. This supports the fact that it is used for emphasis.

Another example of alliteration would be on page 98: "The chauffeur came out, folding up the papers and putting them in the inside pocket of his coat."