He says that he has to be careful but admits thathe is not so.Д¬omment: Of course, we tend to be reckless, attimes as Shaw does. Shaw in вЂњSpoken English and Broken EnglishвЂќdeals with how English should be spoken and how it is spoken.Д®xplanation: In this passage Shaw says how he is careless in his private conversationwhile speaking with his wife. It was a speech made by Shaw for a gramophonerecording for the Linguaphone Institute in 1924. We ought to but we donвЂ™t.Д¬ontext: This passage is an extract from, вЂњSpokenEnglish and Broken EnglishвЂќ by G. No doubt I ought to speak to my wife ascarefully as I should speak to queen, and she to me as carefully as she shouldspeak to a king. Tennyson JohnMasefield Alfred Austin Robert BridgesДЎ. The Poet Laureate An actor a dramatist none was thechairman of the committee established by BBC. Shaw was themember of a committee established by-Д©. вЂYesвЂ™ and вЂnoвЂ™ are the two simplest wordsin. LinguaphoneInstitute BBC Fabian Society noneД§. вЂњSpoken English and Broken EnglishвЂќ is a gramophonerecording Shaw made for. The essay вЂњSpokenEnglish and Broken EnglishвЂќ was written by. Thus, Hemingway portrays the devastating effects of war through this moving short story.1. Hemingway felt sorry for the old man and the people like him who had been mentally broken by the civil war. The clever and the shrewd benefit by it, and as for the rest, they are left to fend for themselves with their homes and shelters destroyed. But whereto? This in a nutshell is what war does.

The animals the old man kept were goats, cats and pigeons. It brings out HemingwayвЂ™s point that this mad war unnecessarily destroys even such useful human beings who help to sustain life. the old man says again and again: вЂњI was taking care of animals.вЂќ The adverb вЂonlyвЂ™ is significant. However, he was much worried about the goats, as there was no one in the village to take care of them. The pigeons would fly away as he had left the cage open. The old man was deeply concerned about his birds and animals. He had come twelve kilometres until then, but he was not in a position to move further because of fatigue. He had kept a cat, two goats and four pairs of pigeons. He had some birds and animals but he had left them in San Carlos when the Captain told him to leave the place because of the artillery. On enquiry, the old man said that he was from San Carlos and that he had no family. It shows that even as he is moved by sympathy for the old man he does not forget his duty вЂ“ (because the old man may be an enemy spy also). The officer asks the old man about his political loyalty. The carts, the peasants, and the trucks were passing by, but the old man sat there without moving. Therefore, the old man cannot be allowed to stay any longer. Thus giving an impression that the evacuation is almost complete. He again and again mentions that the number of trucks and carts is growing less and less. The officer is constantly looking across the bridge. Now he describes the protagonist of the story, an old man about seventy-six, with steel-rimmed spectacles and very dusty clothes who sat by the side of the road. The narrator (Hemingway), an army officer on duty, to watch the advance of the enemy, has taken position on a bridge. The people are moving out in trucks and carts. The first part of the story neatly draws the picture. He established a Fascist dictatorship that lasted until his death in 1975. After periods of prolonged stalemate, Franco finally succeeded in capturing Barcelona and Madrid in early 1939. In bitter fighting, the Nationalists, led by General Franco, gradually gained control of the countryside.

The conflict between the Nationalists and the Republicans in Spain culminated in the Civil War in 1936. This feeling he has portrayed most vividly in вЂњThe Old Man at the Bridge,вЂќ a sensitive story about refugees who were displaced by the Spanish Civil War during 1936 вЂ“ вЂ™39.Д«ackground to the Story: The Spanish Civil War (1936 вЂ“ вЂ39) His experiences in the wars were extremely saddening, and he was oppressed by the thought that on the one hand man is so noble, so dignified, and on the other hand he has to dissipate and lose nobility, energy, and dignity in self-exterminating wars. This was because Hemingway was listed during the World War II and for a number of years had to fight during the Spanish Civil War.

Ernest HemingwayвЂ™s fiction contains a good deal of pessimism and sadness.

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