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elaurenalanna
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What did the white tiger represent  both the color and its climb up the mountain?...fbs Snows of Kilimanjaro

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Posted by elaurenalanna on Monday April 20, 2009 at 2:54 PM and tagged with the snows of kilimanjaro, white tiger climbing kilimanjaro/white snow caps.

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  1. ms-mcgregor Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    The tiger represents an attempt at both purity and immortality. When Hemingway wrote this story, he was very concerned with his own lack of discipline and ability to write something honest and therefore, pure. Harry, who realizes he is dying of gangrene on the plains of Africa, represents an author who has "sold out" because he never took the time to write about things that really matter to him.

    "His perceived failures eat away at him like the gangrene that eats his leg. At one point he explicitly equates them: ‘"Rot and poetry. Rotten poetry.'"

     He has the pilot fly past the peak of Mr. Kilimanjaro because  He 

    ‘‘knew that there was where he was going.’’

    Harry is like the tiger. Harry tried for some kind of immortality through his writing. However, like the tiger he fails to make it to the top.

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    Posted by ms-mcgregor on Sunday April 19, 2009 at 10:15 AM