Nobody Ever Dies :: Essays Papers

Nobody Ever DiesThe Complete miserable Stories of Earnest Hemingway contains many kinds of stories, with themes ranging from the comic to the serious and the macabre, among which Nobody Ever Dies is my front-runner one.The story is about a young man named Enrique, who had been away at war for 15 months. His comrades-in-arms secretly sent him back to a house, without intimate it was being watched. Enrique was all the time listening. Someone was trying the devil gates. keeping himself out of sight, Enrique carefully looked around the house. There was no one only if a Negro walking along the sidewalk. When the dark came, the Negro was lock there. Suddenly, a siren on the radio from the next house gave him a false alarm. Soon afterwards, two stones fell on the tiling radix of the porch one after the other. Enrique went downstairs to the back door. The one outside gave the give-and-take correctly, and Enrique opened the door. It was his girlfriend Maria. She had waited until it was dark to come to send him food. Enrique shut the door again. They went up to the porch and looked out. The Negro was gone. Maria learned from Enrique that many soldiers had died, including Vicente, her only associate and the flower of their party. She couldnt accept it. Enrique finished his meal and talked about the lessons he had learned from the war and his attitude toward his companions sacrifice. except she said he talked like a book with a dry heart. Enrique was hurt and showed her the severe exasperate on his lower back. She cried. Enrique suggested their leaving the house immediately.Just then, two veritable sirens came both ways up the street. Enrique ordered Maria to leave at once, but she insisted he should go first. Finally, they ran out of the back door and took two ways, diving into the weeds surrounding the upsurge and crawling.Enrique was almost to the edge of the lot now and must make a dash across the road. But as he started to run, t he searchlight caught him, which was from the police car that had come silently, without siren, and posted itself at one back corner of the lot. Enrique fell to the gun from the car.