Pamplona in July

                                                            Pamplona in July

            Ernest Hemingway’s purpose was to convey the excitement he felt when he visited Pamplona and witnessed the running with the bulls and bull fighting rituals using a descriptive narrative. He uses vivid adjectives to make the audience imagine they are actually there experiencing this deep-seeded tradition. The often-mentioned colors, red and yellow are also used to illustrate the scenery that Ernest Hemingway experienced that July. What Mr. Hemingway experienced, in fact was the San Fermin fiesta and it brought so much joy to him that it led him to write his first successful novel “The Sun Also Rises” for which he later won a noble prize for literature. Ernest Hemingway would continue to return and rejoice at the fiesta to take the pain away from his life.

            What made his writing so unique are the flow and the simplistic organization that made the descriptions coherent and deliberate. He wrote in a style similar to a song “Really beautiful girls, gorgeous, bright shawls over their shoulders, dark, dark-eyed, black-lace mantillas over their hair, walk with their escorts in crowds that pass from morning until night along the narrow walk that runs between inner and outer belts of cafe tables under the shade of the arcade out of the white glare of the Plaza de la Constitucion.”

Ernest Hemingway used repetition to really emphasize his surroundings and reach out to the audience what his emotions were as he was at the fiesta, he mentioned a lot about the exhilaration behind the bull fighting and the bull run. The colors were a huge part in this essay, because when his purpose is to illustrate to us the best times of his life, he wants the audience to be able to picture his experiences. This well-known author was an inspiration to enjoy life and aspire to do great things, which made this essay one of the more enjoyable ones because he was able to really connect to his audience without even directly talking to us. Ernest Hemingway made the Fiesta of San Fermin a place and time never to be forgotten.

http://www.askaboutsports.com/bull-fighting/        The exhilaration of San Fermin