Transcription: During the 1930s, Hemingway wrote a number of articles and stories that enlarged upon the themes of his earlier work. In the Green Hills of Africa, he discusses killing as a spiritual experience. I did not mind killing anything, any animal, if I killed it cleanly. In the snows of Kilimanjaro, Hemingway's dying hero seeks the mountain heights, a symbol of his salvation. Wide as all the world, great, high and unbelievably white in the sun. In Death in the Alamo, Hemingway celebrates death as a ritual. The whole end of the bullfight was the final sword thrust, the actual encounter between the man ...
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