Harry, a writer, is stranded in Africa with his wife Helen as he dies of gangrene in his leg. In his delirious state, Harry has flashbacks to his time as a writer in Paris and realizes he wasted his talent by living luxuriously off his wife's wealth rather than dedicating himself to his writing. As he nears death, Harry comes to understand how he squandered his potential and regrets not writing the stories he wanted to tell.

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By Sir ERNEST HEMINGWAYBy Sir ERNEST HEMINGWAY
SILVIA VIEIRA

2. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
• Born on 21st July 1899
• Served in World War I and worked
in journalism
• In 1954, Hemingway won the
Nobel Prize
• He committed suicide on 2th July
1961

3. SUMMARY
• Harry, a writer, and his wife, Helen, are
stranded while on safari in Africa.
• Harry talks about the gangrene that has
infected his leg
• Harry have flashbacks and realise that
he wasted his talent with luxury because
of a rich woman that he doesn’t love, his
wife

4. PLOT
• Starts on the African savannah where a man and a woman talk
about his leg, which is rotting away from gangrene.
• The woman tries to make him believe that he will survive
• As she speaks to him, his resentment of her money and her
education comes out in his comments.
• He realizes that he has sacrificed his talent for the material pleasures
offered by Helen.

5. PLOT
• He remembers being in World War I
• As that flashback finishes, Harry returns to the present and argues with the
woman before falling asleep.
• When he wakes up, he thinks about her, why he married her, and why he
does not like her.
• Before he slips into another flashback, he and the woman have a drink
together.

6. PLOT
• He thinks about his time in Paris and Constantinople
• When he returns to consciousness, she convinces him to drink some
chicken soup and he stops thinking so harshly of her.

7. PLOT
• He is in the forest, living in a cabin, and then remembers being in Paris.
• He realise that he never took the time to write about many things that he
wanted to write about.
• His flashbacks brings him to the real world as he asks the woman to
explain why he never wrote the stories he wanted to write.
• He thinks about why he feels such contempt for the wealthy, a group to
which this woman belongs.

8. PLOT
• He thinks again about the war, this time about a man he saw die, before
waking from his flashback and talking more with the wife.
• He begins to see Death personified. It is then morning again, and the pilot,
Compton, has arrived to take him to the city and to the doctor.
• Harry gets in the plane and the pilot, flies him right by the peak of Mount
Kilimanjaro and Harry “knew that there was where he was going.”

9. PLOT
• The woman wakes up because the
hyena that has been making noise
for hours stopped whimpering and
has begun making another sound.
• As she looks over at Harry, she
realizes that he has died.

10. THE MAIN ASPECTS
THE CHARACTERS
• Compton – Flies the plane that is meant to take Harry back to the city to
save his life. However, he exists only in Harry’s dream.
• Harry – Is the protagonist of the short story. He is a writer and has had
many experiences in Europe
• Molo – Molo is a minor character, is the African servant who serves
Harry and Helen.
• Helen – Helen is a major character, she’s Harry’s wife. She remains
unnamed until the end of the story when a delirious Harry refers to her by
her name as he dies.

11. APROACH
• Death – Man’s spirit can triumph despite death. Same deeds during
Harry’s life make this possible like his Giving away his last morphine pills
that he saved for himself to his friend Wiliamson. This act shows that he
was trying to redeem himself doing something that maybe he would be
remembered, triumphing this way his spirit.

12. CONCLUSION
• “The snows of Kilimanjaro” provide us a reflection…
• It was easier for Harry to blame the environment, his wife and her money
for his unsuccessfulness rather than try to correct his mistakes and
perverted life.
• Only in the end of his life he realizes what he could have done in his life,
but he does not have time anymore to do it.

13. THE END