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Ernest Hemingway's - The Killers

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Ernest Hemingway's - The Killers Hemingway (1899-1961) wrote the short story 'The Killers' that was originally published in 'scribners' magazine in 1927. Later on that year it was placed in a collection called 'Men without Women'. The story was a short text, which then inspired film makers Robert Siodmak and Donald Siegel to base a movie on this story. In the story there is evidence of professionalism as to the way this story is plotted. Even the way the two killers, Al and Max, shone off their image showed that it wasn't the first time they have done a hold up at a diner. Al joked around in the diner while Max kept on hesitating, he was only interested in getting the job done. Al played parts of homosexuality by saying 'pretty boy'. The two crooks had no shame in calling the cook a nigger. Hemingway handled racial issues carefully and well....

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