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Ernest Hemingway Contents The Themes of Hemingway’s Works and Hemingway’s Writing Features. Summary of The Story. Rhetorical Devices. What I Thought of This Novel. The Themes of Hemingway’s Works —Sterility , Failure and Death Hemingway’s works often deal with Sterility, failure and death, which unmask his negative comment on the society. And the theme of The Snows of Kilimanjaro is death. Hemingway’s Writing Features A painstaking selection process of words. Iceberg principle: the full meaning of the text is not limited to moving full meaning of the plot forward. In other words, there is always a wed of association and inference, a submerged reason behind the inclusion of every detail. Colloquial style, easy to understand. Consistent of short, concrete, direct prose and scenes consisting exclusively of dialogue, which gives the story a distinctive accessibility that is immediately identifiable with the author. Summary of The Story The Snows of Kilimanjaro was written during Hemingway’s second travel and haunting in Africa. It tells a story about Harry, a writer, who went to Africa to gain a new life with his lover Helen. Because Harry did not use iodine when a thorn scratched his knee, he was infected and got the gangrene. The story just showed what happened to Harry when he awaited death on the vast prairie. Harry could not move physically at that time, but his thoughts were active, therefore, he recalled his former life, regretted deeply. In the end, his soul went to the summit of Kilimanjaro when he finally died. Symbolize Mount Kilimanjaro symbolizes the originality and holiness which are not ruined by the modern civilization. The vultures that descend upon and fly above the camp signify the continual presence of death. The gangrenous leg of the dying writer is a symbol of Harry’s moral corruption and artistic decay. Wealth and Harry’s wife’s fortune symbolize the very forces that have culminated in the deterioration of Harry’s moral an