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    The story is about two professional killers who come to a snack bar in Summit, Illinois in search of a Swedish boxer named Ole Andreson to kill him. The main character, Nick Adams, is a regular patron of the snack bar and speaks to the killers and Ole. The killers provide threatening information about their mission while the other characters demonstrate different attitudes in response to the threat.

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    The story is about two professional killers who come to a snack bar in Summit, Illinois in search of a Swedish boxer named Ole Andreson to kill him. The main character, Nick Adams, is a regular patron of the snack bar and speaks to the killers and Ole. The killers provide threatening information about their mission while the other characters demonstrate different attitudes in response to the threat.

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    THE KILLERS

    Ernest Hemingway

    ERNEST HEMINGWAY
    Hemingway was the most popular of American
    writers in the 1st half of the 20th century
    He wrote: A Farewell to arms (1929),For Whom
    the Bell Tolls(1940),The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    He writes about love, death ,hunger ,friendship

    ABOUT THE STORY


    The killers is a short story, it first appeared to the
    public in 1927 in Scribners Magazine
    The story takes place in Summit(Illinois) during the
    1920s, during prohibition
    Protagonist is Nick Adams, one of frequent
    characters in Hemingways prose

    In The Killers he appears as helper in snack bar


    Act shows how come two professional killers in
    snack bar in suburb Chicago
    They have mission liquidate Swedish boxer Ole
    Andreson

    CHARACTERS
    NICK ADAMS-he sounds amicable, because he
    answers without hassle when the killers start giving
    him a hard time.
    Hes earnest and helpful just look at his
    conversation with Ole but he never veers into what
    might be considered feminine compassion.

    OLE ANDRESON-Ole Andreson is a bit of a let down.


    Seeing as two hitmen have come to town for the sole
    purposes of gunning him down, we sort of expected
    someone tough, intimidating, and dynamic.
    MAX AND AL-Max and Al are hardened criminals. Theyre
    members of organized crime who have come to Summit
    solely for the purposes of tracking down and shooting in
    cold blood an ex-prizefighter theyve never met.

    GEORGE- he really gets the brunt of the killers


    abuse, Hes the kind of guy youd love to have
    around during a fire, earthquake, flash flood, or Lost
    season finale. Hes just that cool in a crisis.
    SAM-Sam is at the extreme opposite from Nick in
    terms of getting involved. He doesnt want to be
    involved, he doesnt even want to know, and he
    doesnt think anyone else should, either.

    VOCABULARY
    CHEST-front upper part of the body
    TWINS-children born at the same birth
    DUMB-stupid
    ARGUE-quarrel
    SLIT-narrow door
    CATSUP-ketchup

    CONVENT-monastery for women


    KOSHER-Jewish
    SWAGGER OFF-throw of
    BLUFF-false threat
    FLAT-low
    DOUBLE-CROSSED-cheated

    O P I N I O N A B O U T T H E S T O RY
    The Killers is presented to us rather nakedly. Heres
    what happens, judge for yourself. The authors
    attitude towards the work, then, is basically neutral. If
    the reader feels sympathetic, its because the reader is
    compassionate, not because the tone encourages
    sympathy. This really fits the bill as far as the story
    goes; if The Killer is about an encounter with
    unadulterated evil, then it should be presented to us in
    an unadulterated manner. Or, to put it another way, we
    as readers encounter The Killer the same way Nick
    Adams encounters the killers.

    THE END

    ZA PREZENTACIJU ZASLUNI:
    IVAN MILIEVI,3.A
    VLADIMIR RADAINOVI,3.A
    NIKOLA ULJEVI,3.A

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