A Good Nites Sleep.

Ernest Himmingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois. He was raised in the suburbs of Chicago. Himmingway had poor vision so they would not let him join the army. He took a job working as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. He was wounded in the war and became a correspondent for the Toronto Star and covered the Greco-Turkish War. Then after that he went to Paris and along with some others helped to create a revolutionary literary style and language.

The train disappeared into the distance, through the burnt woods. Nick sat. The town of Seney was gone, burned down. He looked into the river. The trout were still there. He watched them. They still gave him the old feeling. Nick picked up his pack and started walking through the country. He was sore and hot, but happy. He felt he had left the need for everything, including writing and thinking, behind him. He came up to the pine tree plain. Far away, he could see the blue hills next to Lake Superior. He stopped for a moment to sit and smoke with his legs stretched in front of him. A black grasshopper attached to his sock. He realized that the grasshoppers had not always been black but had changed because the forest was all burnt out. Nick guided himself by the sun. He could have turned toward the river, but decided to keep going as far as possible that day. There was no underbrush near the pine trees. Under the shade of those trees, he took off his pack and went to sleep.

This passage is about how you can leave something behind that is painful and you don’t want to think about. There are points in a person’s life where you must leave the painful memories behind in order to survive. I think this passage is telling the reader that Nick is running away from all the pain and frustration. I feel that in order to take his mind off of the pain Nick walks without thinking of anything else. He just preoccupies himself with his journey and long travel ahead of him.

Correlate:
This passage reminds me off myself when things go wrong in my life that I don’t want to deal with. I just keep myself busy in order not to think about them. When my ex-girlfriend and I broke up I was heartbroken and couldn’t eat or sleep so I just kept myself busy. I got into a lot of extra curricular activities to try and numb the pain of loneliness and despair. It worked as long as I kept myself busy I didn’t have time to be sad.

Identify the cause of suffering:
Ones self is the cause of suffering. He alone can stop the pain but instead he chooses not to deal with it and run away. The inability to face what is bothering you causes you to suffer more than to recognize the problem and solve it further more he inflicts pain upon himself. He needs to heal in order to stop the pain but he is running away therefore the pain will succeed and overcome him unless he stops it.

How could this become a comedy?
In order for this story to become a comedy Nick would have to face his fears and what is bothering he and stop running away. He would have to recognize what is wrong and get a solution.

Identify the cause of happiness:

He made coffee like Hopkins made it. He ate a can of apricots. He began to think about Hopkins, a serious man who was wealthy. Hopkins "went away when the telegram came." He gave Nick his gun and Bill his camera. They were all supposed to go fishing again the next summer. They never saw him again. Nick returned to the present. The coffee was bitter. He got into bed. He was comfortable, except for a mosquito buzzing in his ear. He killed the mosquito and went to sleep.