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Illuminated Texts: Ernest Hemingway
Most of these are from Hemingway's In Our Time
Cat in the Rain by Jenny Lee
The Illuminated Text that convinced me of the power and potential of the medium. This project explicates the short story "Cat in the Rain" from In Our Time. About a year and a half after this site opened, someone asked me how I got the idea for Illuminated Texts -- the answer for that one is easy: I saw Jenny Lee's "Cat in the Rain." Note: We now have a movie version of "Cat in the Rain" in case any of you were having problems viewing the Power Point version.
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"Indian Camp" - Illuminated text by Jesus Alonso
This illuminated text on Hemingway's "Indian Camp" uses to text, to among other things, point out the journey from dark to light and back to light again. The words, in the presentation, move from darkness to light, echoing Nick's journey to the world that awaits him at the Indian Camp. It is moving and insightful. I also continue to show this Illuminated Text every year when we read the story - it never fails to impress me or my students.
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"The End of Something" an Illuminated Text by Alex Nuttal
A thoughtful and complex treatment of Ernest Hemingway's short story, "The End of Something," as presented by Alex Nuttal. Alex uses both pictures, words, and graphic shapes to represent and to explicate the sadness and the resolution of the story about the end of a lumber town and the end of a relationship. [We now have a Flash Video version of this text - click on that if you have trouble hearing or viewing the Power Point version]
An Illuminated Text of Hemingway's "Soldier's Home" by Alison Moy and Lori Mai
This illuminated text was created by Alison Moy and Lori Mai. Key Points found in 'Soldier's Home" from Ernest Hemingways novel, 'In Our Time' were taken and kept in sequential order to enhance the greatness of the chapter. This illuminated text helps us envision a young soldier's thoughts about his familar, yet strange, surroundings and his new feelings towards those who were once close to him, after he comes back from war.
"Now I Lay Me" - An Illuminated Text by Drew Johnson and Chassity Santiago
This is the first presentation that my students have done on this text. I teach "Now I Lay Me," by Ernest Hemingway after we have discussed "Big Two-Hearted River" and it seems that the students have come up with a plausible theory about the level of detail and other specifics of this story. Well, "Now I Lay Me," nicely undercuts that theory -- with its own "Twilight Zone" possibility. The Illluminated Text, complete with chirping crickets, done by these two students does a wonderful job of explicating the entire story as well as its possible links with other Nick Adams stories.
An Illuminated Text of Hemingway's "Indian Camp"
This is an illuminated text on Hemingway's Indian Camp. It is done in power point and plays a lot with the light and dark showed in this short story. From beginning to end light has a strong play in all of this and shows the growth of Nick as well.
An Illuminated Text of Hemingway's "The End of Something"
This is an illuminated Text that is based on Ernest Hemingway's "The End of Something". It shows the scenery, in which Hemingway depicts, from one artists point of view. It shows the stiff day that Nick and Marjorie spend with each other up to the point where Nick breaks off his relationship with Marjorie. In the end the illuminated text refers back to a moment in the story where Nick possibly begins to hint to Marjorie that something was was wrong and that something was going to end that night.
Two Trains: An Illuminated Text of Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" by Nora Rosengarten and Jeremy Tomuta
In this illuminated text, we sought to convey to the viewers the artful tension of Hemingway's story "Hills Like White Elephants", and thereby expose the viewer to the words which betray so much of that story's hidden significance and meaning. This amazing Hemingway story uses the 'iceberg technique' so regularly cited by Hemingway fans, and we sought to draw the iceberg out of the water for everyone to see, while maintaining the story's structure.
Between the Lines: An Illuminated Text by Dana & Donna Lambert on the openings of stories from In Our Time
This presentation, has a unique and wonderful focus: rather than taking one story or interchapter from In Our Time, the Lambert sisters used the openings of many of the stories -- and show how Hemingway's text is connected from one story to the next. The evidence and presentation is convincing and enlightening.
An Illuminated Text of Hemingway's "Big Two-Hearted River"
What a great story. We tried to set up a context for Nick's catharsis by making the first slide purely setting; this story relies heavily upon its geography. [This was one of the few projects this year done in Power Point, and it wonderfully pushes that software to its limits - remember to hear sound - use Internet Explorer and Open - rather than save the presentation below. JRS]. In moving to the plot, we tried to keep to one paragraph (the top of p. 153 [it could have been almost any paragraph]), and then add to it. So much of Hemingway's meaning lie's under the surface of the text, that this medium is a great tool to realize that.
An Illuminated Text of Hemingway's "Cross Country Snow" by Alyssa Bivins
When I read "Cross Country Snow", a short story within Ernest Hemingway's "In Our Time", my first impression was that of bitterness and longing. I attempted to convey in this Illuminated Text the sorrow of departure between true friends and also the reluctance to grow up that follows most of us when we face difficult choices.
No Fun to be a kitty in the rain - A "Cat in the Rain" Illuminated Text created by Simon Huynh and Jennifer Cheung
This Illuminated Text created by Simon Huynh and Jennifer Cheung is notable for a number of reasons. One - it was done in Flash, rather than Power Point and the product is dazzling. Two - these are the first students that I am aware of to attempt another Illuminated Text of this story after the incredible effort done by Jenny Lee. They succeed magnificently (I promise, no hyperbole here) because they do not attempt to cover the same ground as the earlier version, but instead forge ahead into textual areas that were not covered before.
An Illuminated Text Like White Elephants - A presentation by Jamie Jamison
This presentation by Jamie Jamison on Ernest Hemingway's short story, "Hills Like White Elephants" accomplishes many feats -- none of them small. First of all it is a wonderful piece of work in its own right -- but it also walks the thin line that an interpretation of this story requires -- to explore the meaning without "giving the store away." She does a terrific job.
Atonement: "The End of Something" Illuminated Text by Izza Zlotkiewitz
Before I began allowing students to do only one of the stories from Hemingway's In Our Time per year, I would often end up with 5-10 different versions of this story. It touches the students in ways that are often more personal than some of the other stories in the novel. Izza's Illuminated Text shows not only her wonderful talent at explicating a text with words and animation -- but her choice of music from the movie, Atonement -- is very well fitted.
I love you now: An Illuminated Text on Hemingway's "Hills Like White Elephants" & other stories from In Our Time
This presentation by Moriah Martinez, Vinca Merriam, and Rheka Vaitla is an incredible work of art in its own right. The authors masterfully pull together text from "Hills Like White Elephants," "Cat in the Rain," "The End of Something," and more; in order to show Hemingway's depiction of relationships in crisis. The music is stark and ominous -- the words move as if they were as on the edge as the character -- fidgeting, screeching, falling and echoing what is going on with these couples -- in their movement as well as their meaning. The images are few but forceful -- ending with an image of Sisyphus - an idea that begins at the beginning of the school year and one that we come back to again and again. A terrific job.
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