Analyze characterization as delineated through a character’s thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrator’s description; and the thoughts, words, and actions of other characters. Also included in this lesson: WI . 2 (p. 475), WI . 3 (p. 475), LLC . 4 (P. 475) brave to suffer in silence? KEY IDEA Whether from an injury or a broken heart, everyone suffers at times. Some people try hard to keep their pain to themselves, while others believe it is better to share their thoughts and feelings with others.
In “A Days Wait,” a young boy tries to e brave while suffering from an illness. QUICKER Do you consider it an act of bravery to face pain on your own, or does it take more courage for you to open up to other people? In a Journal entry, explain your answers to these questions. Literary analysis: style Style is a writer’s unique way of communicating ideas. It is often not only what writers say but how they say it that gives stories meaning and makes them memorable. To identify a writer’s style, focus on these elements: Word choice, or the author’s choice of language.
Hemingway strives to use vivid verbs and precise nouns rather than sing many adjectives and adverbs. Sentence structure and variety. In this story, Hemingway often uses long sentences for descriptions and short sentences when characters are talking. Dialogue, or conversations between characters. Hemingway relies heavily on realistic dialogue as a method of characterization. As you read “A Days Wait,” notice how these elements help create Hemingway unique writing style. An Adventurous Life Ernest Hemingway lived a life full of adventure.
He was one of a group of writers called the Lost Generation. These writers rejected what they saw Ernest Hemingway as an American 1899-1961 focus on acquiring many possessions. Along with being one of America’s most famous writers, Hemingway was a fisherman, a hunter, and a fan of bullfighting. He participated in both world wars. Many of his works are based on his experiences in Europe and Cuba. An Influential Style Hemingway and other Lost Generation writers, including F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sherwood Anderson, expressed their ideas in writing styles that were new and different.
Hemingway writing style, particularly his method of writing dialogue, has unintended many other writers. He is one tot the most oaten imitated writers tot the asses. Fact Becomes Fiction Like much of Hemingway writing, “A Days Wait” is based on actual events in Hemingway life. While Hemingway was living in France, his son came down with a high fever and reacted similarly to the boy in the story you will read. More about the author For more on Ernest Hemingway, visit the Literature Center at Classroom. Com. Reading skill: understand dialogue Characters reveal much about themselves by what they say or don’t say.
When reading dialogue, note that each speaker’s words are framed by quotes the line is indented when someone new is speaking As you read “A Days Wait,” keep track of who’s speaking by using a chart like the one shown. Line “What’s the matter, Chats? ” Speaker narrator vocabulary in context Each of the boldfaced terms reflects Hemingway word choice in “A Days Wait. ” How many of these words do you know? Try to figure out the meaning of each. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. People were there, but he felt detached from them. There is a serious flu epidemic this winter. He had slack muscles from lack of exercise.
It was evidently too much for him to deal with. The man observed a covey of partridges. A days wait 67 Ernest thymine g way 10 e came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move. “What’s the matter, Chats? “l “Eve got a headache. ” Mimi better go back to bed. ” “No. I’m all right. ” Mimi go to bed. I’ll see you when I’m dressed. ” a But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years.
When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever. Mimi go up to bed,” I said, “you’re sick. ” “I’m all right,” he said. When the doctor came he took the boys temperature. “What is it? ” I asked him. “One hundred and two. ” 1 . Chats (SSH¤TTS): German term of affection meaning “my treasure,” used here as a nickname. ANALYZE VISUALS Consider the expression on this boys face. What mood does it convey? Reread the dialogue in lines 4-8. Notice that Hemingway does not always tell the reader who is speaking. Use your chart to keep track of the different speakers. Nit 4: mood, tone, and style Contemplation (1930), Alice Kent Standard. Oil on canvas. 20 Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in differentiator capsules tit instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative,2 the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia.
Back in the room I wrote the boys temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules. “Do you want me to read to you? ” “All right. If you want to,” said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on. I read aloud from Howard Pile’s Book of Pirates;3 but I could see he was not following what I was reading. “How do you feel, Chats? ” I asked him. “Just the same, so far,” he said. I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule.
It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely. “Why don’t you try to go to sleep? I’ll wake you up for the medicine. “I’d rather stay awake. ” After a while he said to me, muff don’t have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you. ” b “It doesn’t bother me. ” “No, I mean you don’t have to stay if it’s going to bother you. ” c I thought perhaps he was a little lightheaded and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o’clock I went out for a while. Epidemic (Deep-dumped) n. An outbreak of a disease that spreads quickly among many people detached (g-http) ad]. Separated; disconnected detach v. B Reread lines 41-42. Hemingway reveals the narrator through dialogue. What does this tell you about his style? C DIALOGUE Use your chart to track the speakers in the dialogue in lines 27-44. 50 t was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush, and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice.
I took the young Irish setter for a little walk up the road and along a frozen creek, but it was difficult to stand or walk on the glassy surface and the red dog slipped and slithered and I fell twice, hard, once dropping my gun and having it slide away over the ice. D d STYLE Do the words Hemingway uses to describe the setting convey a positive or negative atmosphere? Explain. 2. Purgative (pјRPG-tag): laxative. 3. Howard Pile’s Book of Pirates: a collection of tales about real and fictional pirates, very popular when it was published in the asses. 470 ANALYZE VISUALS How does this painting convey the passing of time?
We flushed a covey of quail under a high clay bank with overhanging brush and I killed two as they went out of sight over the top of the bank. Some of the covey lit in trees, but most of them scattered into brush piles and it was necessary to Jump on the ice-coated mounds of brush several times before they would flush. Coming out while you were poised unsteadily on the icy, springy brush, they made difficult shooting and I killed two, missed five, and started back pleased to have found a covey close to the house and happy there were so many left to find on another day. Covey (PC) n. Small group or outlook tot birds, especially partridges or quail 471 70 t the house they said the boy had refused to let anyone come into the room. Mimi can’t come in,” he said. muff mustn’t get what I have. ” I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks lushes by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed. I took his temperature. “What is it? ” “Something like a hundred,” I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths. “It was a hundred and two,” he said. “Who said so? ” “The doctor. ” mirror temperature is all right,” I said. It’s nothing to worry about. ” “l don’t worry,” he said, “but I can’t keep from thinking. ” “Don’t think,” I said. “Just take it easy. ” “I’m taking it easy,” he said and looked straight ahead. He was evidently holding tight onto himself about something. “Take this with water. ” “Do you think it will do any good? “Of course it will. ” I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read, but I could see he was not following, so I stopped. “About what time do you think I’m going to die? ” he asked. “What? ” “About how long will it be before I die? ” Mimi aren’t going to die. What’s the matter with you? “Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two. ” “People don’t die with a fever of one hundred and two. That’s a silly way to talk. ” “l know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can’t live with forty- four degrees. Eve got a hundred and two. ” He had been waiting to die all day, ever nice nine o’clock in the morning. Mimi poor Chats,” I said. “Poor old Chats. It’s like miles and kilometers. You aren’t going to die. That’s a different thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it’s ninety-eight. ” “Are you sure? ” “Absolutely,” I said. It’s like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car? ” “Oh,” he said. But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance. Evidently (Dip-dent-LLC) DVD. Obviously; clearly SCIENCE CONNECTION On the Celsius scale, water tresses at 00 and boils at 1000. On the Fahrenheit scale, water freezes at 320 and boils at 2120. Slack (slab) ad]. Not firm or tight; loose 472 After Reading Comprehension 1 .
Recall Why does the boy think he is going to die? 2. Clarify Why does the father spend the afternoon hunting instead of staying with his worried son? 3. Summarize How does the story end? RE. 3 Analyze characterization as delineated through a character’s thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions; the narrator’s description; ND the thoughts, words, and actions of other characters. Literary Analysis 4. Understand Dialogue Look over the dialogue chart you created as you read. At which points do the father and son not seem to understand each other? 5. Analyze Characterization In what ways does the boy show concern for others?
Does he reveal his concern through thoughts, words, or actions? Do the narrator’s descriptions or other characters’ thoughts, words, and actions help you see the boys concern? Give examples from the text to support your answer. 6. Draw Conclusions Why does the boy cry so much the next day? 7. Make Judgments Do you think the boys actions show bravery? Why or why not? Support your answer with examples from the story. Use a diagram like the one shown to record your support. Use line numbers when referring to parts of the story. Boys Action What It Says About Him 8. Identify Style Reread lines 65-83.
Note Hemingway word choice, sentence structure, and use of dialogue. Why is this passage a good example of Hemingway style? Explain your answer, using evidence from the passage. Extension and Challenge 9. Creative Project: Drama Most of this story is told through dialogue between the father and son. With a partner, choose one of their conversations to act out. Use details from the scene to accurately portray the characters. Practice on your own, and then present the dialogue to the class. 10. Readers’ Circle With a small group, discuss what clues the story gives you about the relationship between the boy and his father.
Consider whether this experience is likely to affect their relationship in any way. If so, how? 473 Vocabulary in Context vocabulary practice Show that you understand the boldfaced words by deciding whether each statement is true or false. 1. If something is evidently true, it has been proven through a series f experiments. 2. A covey is a place where birds and small mammals go to spend the winter. 3. An epidemic generally affects a large number of people. 4. If you are detached from a situation, you are probably not very concerned about it. 5.
Tightened muscles around someone’s lips and Jaw are typical of a slack expression. Covey detached epidemic evidently slack vocabulary in writing Think of time when you misunderstood something important that someone else said. Write a paragraph describing what happened, using at least two vocabulary words. Here is a sample beginning. Example sentence At camp I thought I heard, “It’s time for nights out,” but I was evidently wrong. Vocabulary strategy: words for animal groups There are many names for groups of animals. Some, like the vocabulary word covey, are used mainly with one or two specific types of animals.
Others, like herd, are used when describing animals in certain categories, such as large animals that move or feed together (a herd of elephants, a herd of antelope). Knowing the correct word for an animal group can enrich both your reading and your writing. PRACTICE Match each numbered word for an animal group with the type of animal it is usually associated with. Refer to a dictionary if you need help. 1. Pride 2. Swarm 3. 4. 5. 6. Drove pack school flock a. Cattle b. Fish c. Wolves d. Birds e. Lions f. Bees vocabulary practice For more practice, go to the Vocabulary Center at Classroom. Mom. 474 Reading-writing Connection Increase your understanding of “A Days Wait” by responding to these prompts. Then complete the Grammar and Writing exercise. Writing prompts A. Short Response: Evaluate Characterization Hemingway wrote, “A writer should create living people; people not characters. ” Does Hemingway create real people in “A Days Wait”? Write a one-paragraph response, using the characters’ thoughts, words, speech patterns, and actions to support your opinion. B. Extended Response: Write a Letter Imagine how Chats would remember this day 20 years later.
Write a two- or three-paragraph letter from Chats in which he reminds his father about the misunderstanding and how it affected him. Self-check An effective evaluation will . .. Include a clear position statement use specific details and examples from the story that support the statement A creative response will … Summarize the events of the story show an understanding of how the boy felt that day rammer and writing. A compound subject made up of two or more subjects Joined by a conjunction, such as and, or, or nor.
When you write a sentence with a compound subject Joined by and, you should usually use a plural verb. When you write a sentence with a compound subject Joined by or or nor, use a verb that agrees in number with the subject closer to it. Original: Revised: Because Chats is constantly worrying, neither the capsules nor rest seem to help him. Because Chats is constantly worrying, neither the capsules nor rest seems to help him. LLC . 4 Demonstrate the mechanics of writing (e. . , quotation marks, commas at end of dependent clauses) and appropriate English usage (e. G. , pronoun reference).
PRACTICE Choose the verb form that agrees with each compound subject. 1. Parent’s and children sometimes (have, has) a problem communicating. 2. Often, the parent’s or the child (get, gets) confused about some information. 3. In the story, neither the father nor the boy (realize, realizes) the misunderstanding until later on. 4. Once they understand the problem, the boy and his father (relax, relaxes). For more help with subject-verb agreement with compound subjects, see pages ROR-ROR in the Grammar Handbook. A days wait 475 Reading for Information How Hemingway Wrote Informative Article What’s the Connection?
You’ve Just read a short story by Ernest Hemingway, an author whose style is so distinct and admired that writers often try to copy it. Now you will read an informative article that explains how Hemingway approached writing. Use with “A Days Wait,” page 468. Skill Focus: Distinguish Fact from Opinion An opinion is a statement of belief or feeling, such as “l think everyone should read Hemingway stories. ” A fact is a statement that can be proved, such as “Hemingway wrote 51 stories. When you read informative articles, it’s important to distinguish facts from opinions.
If you mistake an opinion for a fact, you run the risk of basing your conclusions on someone’s personal beliefs rather than on provable information. The opinions of experts can be good sources of information, but you should always know whether you are reading a fact or an opinion. As you read Bruce Rattan’s article, list the facts in one column and Rattan’s opinions in another. Use the tips on the chart to help you distinguish facts from opinions. RE. 1 Understand and analyze the differences in structure and purpose between arioso categories of informational materials (e. G. Textbooks, newspapers, instructional manuals, signs). RE. 6 Assess the adequacy, accuracy, and appropriateness of the author’s evidence to support claims and assertions, noting instances of bias and stereotyping. Fact or opinion? Is it a fact?
In order to understand the message, sent to us, the readers, in the short stories of Ernest Hemingway one needs at least to a certain point know and understand his life path, in other words - his biography. Ernest was born in Illinois, in a family of middle class parents, and his childhood, despite the strictness of his parents, can be called happy (Benson, 365). In his teen years, Ernest discovered his talent and passion to literature, and started his literary career by writing short stories for the school magazine. Hemingway graduated in 1917 and took a position of a reporter at "Kansas City Star" (Meyers). He was covering various events, having to deal with hospitals and police.
During the First World War, Ernest was working as the Red Cross driver in Italy, and this experience heavily influenced his further literary focus. During that period of time he got wounded in both legs and returned to the United States. He had to return to his journalistic activities, since he needed to earn money for living. At that time he was working for "Toronto Star". Soon he gets married and returns to Europe to start his literary work.
In the end of his life, Hemingway experienced severe mental disorders, had severe depression and despite the treatment he received, he committed a suicide.
Plot of the story
The story chosen for analysis is "a Day"s Wait" by Ernest Hemingway. The story was published in 1933 in the book "The Snows of Kilimanjaro". The story tells the reader about a boy of about nine years old and his father, who lived, or rather to say, survived through a very difficult day. Both the child and his father are waiting; however, they are waiting for quite different things.
The boy catches flu, and the doctor is being sent for. The doctor comes and prescribes three different medicines, checks the boy"s temperature and says that it is 102 degrees Fahrenheit. The boy occasionally hears those words and subconsciously prepares himself to die. He is aware of only one temperature measuring system, that being Celsius. And 102 degrees Celsius is an unbelievable high temperature. He heard once, that people do not live with the temperature of 42, now he has got 60 degrees more. This means, reflects the boy, that he is still alive due to some unknown mistake of nature, and he expects his death to come any moment. The situation is getting more and more complex. The more the boy waits for his death to come, the more severe his state becomes. He has no appetite, he does not listen to the stories told and read by his father, he is only looking at the foot of his bed, expecting his death to appear. However, the boy does not want to upset his father with the worries, which his heart is full of. He wants to cause as little trouble as possible, therefore he tries his best not to let his father know, what his concerns are all about. However, the horror would not let him concentrate on anything and in the final score the boy makes up his mind to ask his father: "How long will it be before I die?" The father did not understand the question at first, and then, after the boy explains his concern to the father, the latter takes a sigh of relief. He explains the misunderstanding to the boy. Since everything was over, the state of the boy changed drastically: "But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over him relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance." (Hemingway).
The author pays special attention to describing the state of tension, in which both the boy and his father find themselves. The boy"s awful state is described by the words "He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o"clock in the morning”.
The story and the reality
Thinking about possible parallels between the story and the reality we may run into a somewhat similar situation in the author"s life. When the author was wounded twice he woke up in the hospital and heard the doctor speak of his health. He did not quite understand what it was all about, but decided, that it really meant, that the end, his death. He puts his own feelings into the character of the boy - the boy does know very well, that people do not live with the temperature much higher, then 40 degrees, but the idea does not cross his mind, that there might be various ways of measuring body temperature.
The boy shows an outstanding example of heroism: he knows, or, rather to say, strongly believes, that he is going to pass away very shortly. He is afraid of his death and he is afraid of missing the moment it comes. He is afraid of something; he is not aware of what exactly it is, something new and eternal. And there is his father, who is there to share his concerns, ready to help and willing to help. Meanwhile, the boy understands how serous his concern is and does not want to share it even with his father. He realizes, that it would be the last thing he would ask for from his father, yet, he does not want to upset him, and therefore keeps the whole concern within his soul. He is not pitiful of his own self; he just does not want to upset others around him with his horrible discovery. They have enough of their own concerns.
Works Cited
- Benson, Jackson (1989). "Ernest Hemingway: The Life as Fiction and the Fiction as Life". American Literature. Volume 61, issue 3. 354-358.
- Meyers, Jeffrey (1985). Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Macmillan.
Hemingway, Ernest (1899-1961): a prominent American novelist and short-story writer. He began to write fiction about 1923, his first books being the reflection of his war experience. "The Sun Also Rises" (1926) belongs to this period as well as "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) in which the antiwar protest is particularly powerful.
During the Civil War Hemingway visited Spain as a war correspondent. His impressions of the period and his sympathies with the Republicans found reflection in his famous play "The Fifth Column" (1937), the novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) and a number of short stories.
His later works are "Across the River and into the Trees" (1950) and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952) and the very last novel "Islands in the Stream" (1970) published after the author"s death. In 1954 he was awarded a Nobel Prize for literature.
Hemingway"s manner is characterized by deep psychological insight into the human nature. He early established himself as the master of a new style: laconic and somewhat dry.
He came into the room to shut the windows while we were still in bed and I saw he looked ill. He was shivering, his face was white, and he walked slowly as though it ached to move. "What"s the matter, Schatz?"
"I"ve got a headache."
"You"d better go back to bed."
"No, I"m all right."
"You go to bed. I"ll see you when I"m dressed."
But when I came downstairs he was dressed, sitting by the fire, looking a very sick and miserable boy of nine years. When I put my hand on his forehead I knew he had a fever.
"You go up to bed," I said, "you"re sick."
"I"m all right," he said.
When the doctor came he took the boy"s temperature.
"What is it?" I asked him.
"One hundred and two."
Downstairs, the doctor left three different medicines in different colored capsules with instructions for giving them. One was to bring down the fever, another a purgative, the third to overcome an acid condition. The germs of influenza can only exist in an acid condition, he explained. He seemed to know all about influenza and said there was nothing to worry about if the fever did not go above one hundred and four degrees. This was a light epidemic of flu and there was no danger if you avoided pneumonia.
Back in the room I wrote the boy"s temperature down and made a note of the time to give the various capsules.
"Do you want me to read to you?"
"All right, if you want to," said the boy. His face was very white and there were dark areas under his eyes. He lay still in the bed and seemed very detached from what was going on.
I read aloud from Howard Pyle"s Book of Pirates, but I could see he was not following what I was reading.
"How do you feel, Schatz?" I asked him.
"Just the same, so far," he said.
I sat at the foot of the bed and read to myself while I waited for it to be time to give another capsule. It would have been natural for him to go to sleep, but when I looked up he was looking at the foot of the bed, looking very strangely.
"Why don"t you try to go to sleep? I"ll wake you up for the medicine."
"I"d rather stay awake."
After a while he said to me, "You don"t have to stay in here with me, Papa, if it bothers you."
"It doesn"t bother me."
"No, I mean you don"t have to stay if it"s going to bother you."
I thought perhaps he was a little light-headed and after giving him the prescribed capsules at eleven o"clock I went out for a while.
It was a bright, cold day, the ground covered with a sleet that had frozen so that it seemed as if all the bare trees, the bushes, the cut brush and all the grass and the bare ground had been varnished with ice. I took the young Irish setter for a little walk up the road and along a frozen creek.
At the house they said the boy had refused to let any one come into the room.
"You can"t come in," he said. "You mustn"t get what I have." I went up to him and found him in exactly the position I had left him, white-faced, but with the tops of his cheeks flushed by the fever, staring still, as he had stared, at the foot of the bed.
I took his temperature.
"Something like a hundred," I said. It was one hundred and two and four tenths.
"It was a hundred and two," he said.
"Your temperature is all right," I said. "It"s nothing to worry about."
"I don"t worry," he said, "but I can"t keep from thinking."
"Don"t think," I said. "Just take it easy."
"I"m taking it easy," he said and looked worried about something.
"Take this with water."
"Do you think it will do any good?"
"Of course, it will,"
I sat down and opened the Pirate Book and commenced to read but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.
"About what time do you think I"m going to die?" he asked.
"About how long will it be before I die?"
"You aren"t going to die. What"s the matter with you?"
"Oh, yes, I am. I heard him say a hundred and two."
"People don"t die with a fever of one hundred and two. That"s a silly way to talk!"
"I know they do. At school in France the boys told me you can"t live with forty-four degrees. I"ve got a hundred and two."
He had been waiting to die all day, ever since nine o"clock in the morning.
"You poor Schatz," I said. "Poor old Schatz, it"s like miles and kilometers. You aren"t going to die. That"s a diflerent thermometer. On that thermometer thirty-seven is normal. On this kind it"s ninety-eight."
"Absolutely," I said. "It"s like miles and kilometers. You know, like how many kilometers we make when we do seventy miles in the car?"
But his gaze at the foot of the bed relaxed slowly. The hold over himself relaxed too, finally, and the next day it was very slack and he cried very easily at little things that were of no importance.
VOCABULARY NOTES
1. to shiver υi дрожать, as shiver with cold
Syn. to tremble, to shudder, to start; to tremble is the most general word; shuddering/starting is generally the result of (great) fear or disgust, е.g. He seemed perfectly calm, only a slight trembling of his voice and hands showed he was excited. Keith shuddered at the sight of the dead body. The child was shivering with cold. She started when they came in.
2. ache n (a continuous, not sharp or sudden, pain). Usually used in compounds: headache, toothache, stomachache, earache, backache , е.g. I had a bad headache yesterday. Some people have (a) bad earache when the plane is losing height. But: to have a sore throat, eye, finger , etc., е.g. I can"t speak loude?, I have a sore throat.
Syn. pain n to feel (have) a bad (sharp, slight) pain in ..., е.g. I feel a sharp pain in my right knee. My leg gives me much pain.; painful adj болезненный, тяжелый
Ant. painless , е.g. It was a painful (painless) operation.
to ache υ i/t болеть (чувствовать боль) - to be in continuous pain, e, g. My ear aches. After climbing the mountain he ached all over.
Cf .: hurt υt/i причинять боль, е.g. It hurts the eyes to look at the sun. My foot hurts (me) when I walk.
3. medicine n 1. лекарство, е.g. What medicine (s) do you take for your headaches? 2. медицина, e.g. He is fond of medicine, he wants to become a surgeon.
medical adj, е.g. He studies at a Medical Institute. He is a medical student. My medical knowledge leaves much to be desired. You"d better consult your surgeon.
4. condition n 1. состояние; to be in (a) good (bad) condition , е.g. After the thunderstorm our garden was in a terrible condition, quite a number of trees were broken. Every parcel arrived in good condition (nothing was broken or spoiled).; to be in no condition to do smth ., е.g. He is in no condition to travel. The ship was in no condition to leave harbour, He can sing very well, but tonight he is in no condition to do it, he has a sore throat.
2. условие; under good (bad) condition(s) , е.g. The unemployed live under very hard conditions.; on condition that = if , е.g. I will do it on condition that you give me the time I need.; conditional adj, е.g. Conditional sentences contain "if or its synonyms.
5. foot n (pl feet) 1. нога (ниже щиколотки, ступня), е.g. The boyjumped to his feet. A dog"s feet are called paws.; 2. фут (около) 30,5 см, pl часто без изменений, е.g. The boy was too tall for his age and he was three foot two in his shoes.; 3. подножие, нижняя часть, основание, as the foot of the mountain, at the foot of the page, the foot of the bed, е.g. This boy is at the foot of his class.
Ant. top, head , as the top of the mountain, the top (head) of the page, at the head of the bed, etc. е.g. This boy is at the head of his class.
on foot (= walking, not riding), е.g. When people are having their walking holiday they cover long distances on foot. (Cf .: by train, by bus, etc.)
footnote n сноска
6. prescribe υi прописывать лекарство, е.g. Doctor, will you prescribe a tonic for me? What can you prescribe for my headache (cold, etc.) ?
prescription n рецепт; to make up a prescription for smb., е.g. Please call in at the chemist"s and have this prescription made up for me; to write out a prescription.
7. bare adj 1. обнаженный, голый, непокрытый (usu. about some part of our body), е.g. His head was bare.
Syn. naked (= having no clothes on), е.g. Victorine was shocked when she learned that she would have to sit for the painter quite naked.
barefoot adj predic, adv = with bare feet, without shoes and stockings, е.g. Children like to go (run, walk) barefoot.
barefooted adj, attr. Barefooted people were standing on the bank.
bare-legged (-armed) adj = with bare legs (arms), е.g. When we speak of bare-legged children we mean children wearing shoes, but no stockings; bare-footed children wear neither shoes nor stockings.
bare-beaded , adj = without a hat, е.g. It"s already too cold to go bare-headed.
2. пустой, голый, лишенный чего-л., as a bare room (with little or no furniture), bare walls (without pictures or wallpaper), bare trees (without leaves), bare facts (only facts; nothing but facts).
Cf .: a bare room (no furniture), an empty room (no people), a vacant room (a room in which either no one is living at present or no one is working; a room which can be occupied), е.g. After the piano was taken out, the room seemed quite bare. I thought I heard voices in the next room, but it was empty. "Won"t you look for a vacant room in which we could have a consultation?" - "I"m told that all the rooms are occupied."
8. refuse υt/i отказывать(ся), е.g. She refused my offer. She can"t refuse her children anything. He refused to do what I asked him.
N о t e: In the meaning of sacrificing smth., parting with smth., the English verb to give up is used, е.g. He gave up the idea of going there. Roger promised to give up smoking, but he didn"t keep his promise.
refusal n , е.g. He answered her invitation, with a cold refusal,
9. like adj похожий, подобный, е.g. They are as like as two peas. What is he like? (= What sort of person is he?) What does he look like? (= What kind of appearance has he got?) How does she look today? (= What is her appearrance today?) It looks like gold. (= It has the appearance of gold.) It looks like rain. It was just like him to take the biggest piece of cake. There is nothing like home.
like prep or adv подобно, как, е.g. I can"t do it like you. They are behaving like little children, I"ve never heard him sing like that.
Note: to act like means to do smth. in the same way or in the manner of other people, е.g. She can play like a real pianist.; to act as means acting in the capacity of smb., e g. Some of our students act as guides during summer.
alike adj predic одинаковый, похожий, подобный, е.g. The houses in this street are alike. (Cf.: The houses in this street are like those in the next street.)
likeness n сходство, е.g. I cannot see much likeness between the twins.
unlike adj непохожий, е.g. She was unlike all other girls.
unlike prep в отличие от, е.g. Unlike other girls she was not at all talkative.
In A Day’s Wait by Ernest Hemingway we have the theme of fear, courage, responsibility, isolation, confusion, acceptance and control. Taken from his The Complete Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the first person by an unnamed man (father) and after reading the story the reader realises that Hemingway may be exploring the theme of fear. Schatz fears that he is going to die however he is basing his predication on misinformation (Celsius versus Fahrenheit). However his father does not really have the ability to allay Schatz’s fears and to make matters worse Schatz isolates himself from the world around him. Spending the following days crying. Which may be important as by having Schatz cry Hemingway may be further highlighting Schatz’s fears when it comes to dying. The fact that the father is also lying down at the start of the story may be important as Hemingway could be using this as a symbolic representation for paralysis or not moving. Throughout the story the father’s words are not as comforting as one would expect a father’s words to be when it comes to a sick child. Though in the interest of clarity it might also be important to remember that Schatz’s has himself at death’s door. It may not be possible for anybody to alleviate Schatz’s fears. However despite believing that he is going to die Schatz shows a lot of courage and bravery and tries to accept the position he finds himself in.
The one thing that the father can do for Schatz is to tell him that he only has a flu. However he never fully explains this to Schatz and it is possible that Schatz’s imagination is running wild. Which is causing confusion. Schatz really believes that he is going to die because his temperature is so high. He also appears to have prepared himself by asking his father does he want to leave the room. This shows tremendous courage as Schatz is thinking of somebody else and how his death may affect them. He doesn’t want to see his father upset. However this point is not understood by his father. If anything throughout the story neither father or son appear to be listening to one another. Something that is noticeable when the father uses miles and kilometres to describe the differences between Celsius and Fahrenheit. The point is lost on Schatz and the father does not try and simplify further the point he is attempting to make. Though he is trying to alleviate Schatz’s concerns it doesn’t seem to be working.
It may also be a case that Hemingway is exploring the theme of control. Schatz does everything that is asked of him by his father when the reality may be that he might want to be left alone and face death as he thinks one should face death (alone). At no stage in the story does Schatz try and move from his bed and it is as though he is being controlled by the flu. His body may be unable to move. It is also possible that the father is trying to connect with Schatz however Schatz is trying to put a barrier between himself and his father. Something that is easier to understand should the reader remember that Schatz truly believes he is going to die. There is an element of not only heroism but stoicism when it comes to Schatz’s character. Again he firmly believes that he is going to die and is basing this understanding on incorrect information.
What is also interesting about the story is the fact that the father is able to leave the house and shoot quail. This may be important as it suggests that the father may be out of touch with how Schatz is feeling. However it might also be important to remember that the father is aware that Schatz only has a high temperature and the flu. His illness is yet to hit crisis point. Nonetheless some critics may suggest that the father throughout the story has not really been there for Schatz. Schatz after all is only nine years old and has no real understanding of what is really happening him. There is also so much more that the father could have done. Firstly he could have stayed with Schatz for the day rather than going shooting and secondly he could have realised that Schatz is only nine years old and may need a simpler explanation rather than the miles versus kilometres explanation that he gave Schatz. The mention of the line ‘we were still in bed’ may also be significant as it suggests the possibility that Schatz’s mother was in the bed when Schatz walked into the bedroom. At no stage of the story is there a motherly figure caring for Schatz. Yet the reader is left to assume there is a woman in the house. The onus or responsibility for Schatz’s care has fallen on his father who could have handled things a little bit better.
