The the snow of kilimanjaro analysis done by my prose students

1. Summary of The Snows of
Kilimanjaro
• A writer named Harry and his wife Helen come
to Africa and leave their normal life which is
surrounded by their rich friends in Paris.
• They encamped on a meadow near mount
Kilimanjaro that has twenty thousand feet
height. It is the highest mountain in Africa.
• Kilimanjaro is covered by the snow and on its
western summit is called the Masai “Ngaje
Ngai” or the house of God.

2. •Harry and Helen trapped in a small place of Tanganyika along
with the servant Molo and the hunters because of the truck
that broke down.
•Some days earlier thorn pricked Harry’s knee and it made him
had gangrene because he did not treat his wound well
instead he put carbolic acid which made his wound became
worse.
•Harry’s wound was getting worse and he knew that he will
die in that place without any help.

3. • He spent his time by drinking and having
a quarrel with his wife Helen.
• He thought that Helen’s fortune brought
him to became unmotivated in writing.
• Helen tried to convince his husband that
a plane will come and save them.

4. • One day, Harry felt that his time will come
and tonight was his last time to see the
world.
• Then came a plane drove by his friend
Compton. They carried him into the plane
and went out from the meadow.
• He could see Kilimanjaro mountain from
height and he knew where he will go.

5. • That was his last dream at that
night. His hallucination brought him
fly to the Kilimanjaro mountain.
• At that night Helen heard howls of
hyena and she went back to the
tent to see her husband and found
he’s dead.

6. Start on the african savannah where a man
and a woman talk about his leg, which is
rotting away from gangrene
The Flashbacks into Harry’s Past
At the end, the rescue plane has come and
flies him off to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro

7. • Death itself is
personified as a visitor
who passes by Harry,
three times before
Harry finally succumbs
• Harry’s decaying
symbolizes the slow
demise of his life’s best
intentions
Death
•The post – World War I
struggled to find
meaning after
witnessing chaos of
conflict
•Harry’s reflections on
his former loves and on
the distance he feels
between himself
Postwar
• Harry’s memories tell a
larger story of World
War I in Austria and
Italy
• Harry also recalls
dramatics events in
which he was involved,
when he could have
changed the outcome
for someone else
Memory
THEMES

8. there are four characters:
1. Harry: is the protagonist of the story. He is
a writer, and has many experience in Europe
3. 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
4. Molo is minor character, is the African servant who serves harry and
Helen
2. Helen is major character, she’s Harry’s wife.
She remains unnamed until the end of the story.

9. Setting
Meadow, Afrika( the place where Harry and his wife with some hunt crew
trapped or stranded)
Paris, Karagatched, and Constatinople (including the places he had visited
during the war as he had experienced
TIME
Author Time : Published by Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961) about the snows
of Kilimanjaro.
Plot Time : Harry died and was taken to Mount Kilimanjaro using a plane that
picked him up.

10. Style
It also created by the choice of literary
devices, such as imagery, symbolism,
allegory, personification, and other
figurative language.
Style is one of the element of fiction
that refers to the writer’s choice
diction, sentence structure, literary
techniques, and uses of rhythm

11. Style in the story of the snows of
Kilimanjaro
• Hemingway describe
the sequence between
Harry and Helen in the
third person
• Hemingway divided the
sentences into the
stream of
consciousness italicized
for many of Harry’s
memory sequence.

12. Style in the story of the snows of
kilimanjaro
• Economic of language
This is the classical of
Hemingway characteristic
style. His writing is most
commonly known for
simplicity and writes
about important things in
an indirect passion .
• Visual Imagery
“Behind the house were
fields and behind the
fields was the timber. A
line of Lombardy poplars
ran from the house to the
dock. Other poplars ran
along the point. A road
went up to the hills along
the edge of the timber
and along that road he
picked blackberries”
In “Kilimanjaro” Hemingway
does not immediately tell the
readers his protagonist is
dying, but it can be found
based on the characters’
indirect, clipped dialogue,
and a few hints.
Through this description the
readers get the impression of
an extraordinary or beautiful
place.

13. The Leopard can be
seen as a symbol of
death, immortality,
and possibly
redemption
The hyena and
vultures are described
as a illness, fear, and
death
Low-lying, hot plains
areas as a symbol of
the difficult or painful
episodes in Harry’s life
Gangrene the rotting
of the flesh is a
symbol of Harry’s
soul
1 2
3
4
-Symbolism

14. Point of View
Third Person Limited Omniscient
Using the third person pronoun
in narrating the story
Story seen through the eyes of
outside observer
1 2
The use of “he, she, her, and
his” in narrating the story
The narrator is not a character of the
story.

15. Point of View
Third Person Limited Omniscient
Establishes intimate
relationship between reader
and narrator
3 4
Hemingway limits himself to a
complete knowledge of only
one character, that is “Harry”.
Hemingway puts the reader into the
mind of Harry and achieves immediacy
from Harry’s thought.
Access to consciousness of
only one character

16. Moral Value
One of the most difficult things to
think about in life is one’s regrets.
Something will happen to you and
you will do the wrong thing and for
years afterward you will wish you had
done something different
- Lemoy Snicket,
Horseradish

17. Thank You