The peculiarities of language and style of Ernest Hemingway’s novel "Islands in the Stream"

The plot of the novel is simple but holds very important things inside. Among the plenty of lines, some of which are unnecessary at first sight, there appears the bitter truth of life - the truth of evil war have been brought to mankind for more than twenty centuries already [15, ñ.208]. The first part of the novel is positive and light. Thomas Hudson enjoyed himself spending time with his three sons. They were his life, so he cared of nothing but the children he loved so much. We can find in the work that Thomas Hudson “was going to enjoy life within the limits of the discipline that he imposed and work hard. And today he was very happy because his children were coming in the morning”[6, c.11]. When the children came, he ate and drank with them, went for a walk and fishing enjoying the time with his children, he was really happy and, seemed, nothing could break such a picture of human happiness.

But the bitter truth didn't let him wait for it for long. Having changed the mood of the story in the second and the third parts of the novel the author showed that Thomas' life described at the beginning was too happy to be real; it couldn't last for long time. After his two sons died in the accident, and later the war took his eldest son, the heart and the life of Thomas Hudson was broken forever. Still we can see that he tried to handle with himself. And here we can find another important thing the author wished to say. The man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated [2, c.33].

The text of the novel consists of a great deal of dialogs, as usual, without explanations, which seem to be just sharp replicas. Here is some example.

- He ought to be over soon. We're going to eat with Johnny Goodner.

- What men like you and Roger Davis and Johnny Goodner that been around stay around this island for I don't know.

- It's a good island. You stay here, don't you?

- I stay to make a living.

- You could make a living in Nassau.

- Nassau, hell. There's more fun here. This is a good island for having fun. Plenty money been made here, too.

- I like to live here[6, ñ.77].

The dialogs are of various themes. Everything going on is written by the author with a help of dialogues. And it is not strange as E. Hemingway is considered as the master of a dialogue [13, c.84].

The language of the novel is simple and accurate, even sharp a little. General vocabulary is used; no complex long words or complicated terms. The language is similar to colloquial. This makes the novel easy-reading and understandable for readers of any age. There are not many adverbs and adjectives in the work and those present are accurate and strict. “It was really too good a gun to keep on a boat but Thomas Hudson was so fond of it and it reminded him of so many things, so many people, and so many places that he liked to have it with him and he found that, in the sheepskin case, once the clipped wool was well impregnated with Fiend-oil, the rifle was not harmed at all by the salt air. A gun is to shoot anyway, he thought, not to be preserved in a case, and this was a really good rifle, easy to shoot, easy to teach anyone to shoot with, and handy on the boat. He had always had more confidence shooting it, as to being able to place his shots at close and moderate range, than any other rifle he had ever owned and it made him happy to pull it out of the case now and pull back the bolt and shove a shell into the breech”[6, c.24]. In this extract we see not many adjectives, but if they present, they are accurate and necessary for general understanding of described picture or event and, as usual, bring no connotation meaning.

In difference from his early works, the novel, being published after the writer's death, contain more descriptions than all of the rest of his works. It can be explained by the fact that it was published posthumously, perhaps, he didn't finish the work and had a lot of things to do with it. The descriptions in the novel are poor, without embellishment. One of examples is the description of the place where Thomas Hudson lived at the very beginning of the novel. “The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship. It was shaded by tall coconut palms that were bent by the trade wind and on the ocean side you could walk out of the door and down the bluff across the white sand and into the Gulf Stream. The water of the Stream was usually a dark blue when you looked out at it when there was no wind. But when you walked out into it there was just the green light of the water over that floury white sand and you could see the shadow of any big fish a long time before he could ever come in close to the beach”[6, c.3]. So everything here was described as it was, in all details, with no waste things mentioned, with very few adjectives, by general words; still such author's style of creating pictures doesn't interfere us to get the idea of how this place looked. Even more, there was some space for imagination left by the writer for everyone could imagine his own island in the stream on which Thomas Hudson's house lied. The writer created the core, and readers should add everything they believe lack on their own [24, c.199].

So, in general, the style of the novel is kept in frames of general writing rules of E. Hemingway - of principles of simplicity, accuracy, hard choice of words and writing as short as it is possible.

3.2 The Reflection of the Author's Life and World History in the Novel

Sometimes E. Hemingway looks for an answer to the questions, what is truth and what should people do in the society, which in itself is basically hostile to the truth and the human person? Along with his characters Hemingway goes down a hard way to find answers to these questions.

Here is the truth to which he comes. The man must fight against evil, even if the forces of evil are stronger than him. Fight to the end without bowing the head, not giving up. Man is not created to suffer defeat; he can be destroyed but not defeated. This truth was expressed in the story “The Old Man and the See”. And this simple truth also became the basis for the novel “Islands in the Stream”. It also contains some another Hemingway's leitmotif: labor and duty. Throughout the book the character of the novel possesses two wishes: to work well and honestly keep his duty. Having suffered heavy blows, having lost two younger sons, and then the third, the hero of the novel says: “Let's face it. Your son is lost. Your love is lost. The glory has been abandoned long ago. The only thing remained is duty, and you need to keep it” (this refers to the great soldier's duty in the war against Nazi barbarism) [6, c.155].

The title of the first part of the novel is “Bimini”. Bimini are two small islands of the Bahamas group in the Atlantic Ocean not far from Cuba. They are well-known for their exotic beauty. From the biography of Hemingway we know that he visited Bimini, caught big fish in its water.

There exists an ancient Indian legend connected with the islands of Bimini, from which they got their names. On the islands of Bimini - as says the legend - there is a source of eternal youth water: having washed by this water, a bent old man turns into a slender young man. Spanish explorers of passed centuries, enchanted by wonders of the New World, believed in this wonderful legend and aggressively searched for the mythical islands with their magical source. Among them was the Ponce de Leon, the discoverer of Florida [11, c.118].

So by the blue sea lived a painter, Thomas Hudson, having many features similar to Ernest Hemingway. Like Hemingway, Thomas Hudson is whether soldier, whether sailor. He traveled a lot, spent his youth in Paris, where he belonged to the same group of people of literature and art, with whom Hemingway was associated in his Paris' days. Like Hemingway, Hudson went through the war and at night when the house was shaking from the Atlantic surf beats, he recalled the days when the earth shook beneath volleys of the guns of his battery. Like Hemingway, he worked selflessly, persistently seeking the highest perfection, sometimes recasting his creations again and again. Just as Hemingway, Hudson lived a stormy life; he loved many women, made friends with many good people.

It is assumed that by giving the character peculiar to him in so many features, the writer also gave him some of his thoughts. Some reserchers consider that similiarity of the author and his character is one of the reasons why the novel was left unfinished. Perhaps the natural reticence prevented the writer to reveal him completely to the public [14, ñ.166].

Immediately beyond the threshold of the house of Thomas Hudson is the sea, which he liked so much that nowhere else does want to live. The sea with its clear green and blue waves, lagoons and reefs, with its joys and perils, water sports and big-fishing. The sea, which Hudson wrote on the canvas, as Hemingway wrote it on paper [14, c.169] .

He was surrounded by friends, people of various types of society and occupation; friends who can be trusted as himself, who can be relied on under any circumstances, who helped out at any difficult moment. With the arrival of the children (as well as Hemingway, Hudson had three sons) for the summer holidays in the house reigned a complete and unlimited happiness. But in Hemingway's books, as well as in human life, grief and sorrow are the things that always somewhere close to happiness: life is hard, but a person so vulnerable under her blows. Once a telegram brought evil tidings: his two younger sons died along with his mother in a car accident. Thomas Hudson went through all the circles of hell, and there were a lot of circles in the hell and they do not have clear boundaries. Then came the war. It took his third son [22, ñ. 176].

The second part of the “Islands in the Stream” - “Cuba” - in which the action unfolded against the backdrop of the last World War, written in a different emotional and rhythmic manner from the first one. The second part of the novel breathes the atmosphere of war and feeling of impending tragedy.

In the West, some critics declared war to a major cross-cutting theme of Hemingway's works. Of course, he strongly displayed the First World War (“A Farewell to Arms”), and the war in Spain (“For Whom the Bell Tolls”), and the Western Front in World War II (“Across the River and Into the Trees”). But we are inclined to express cross-cutting theme of Hemingway's works differently: a man against war [2, c.54].

Ernest Hemingway hated “puta querra” as the characters of this book did. There was, however, the war, from participation in which an honest man could not escape. Like his eldest son John, Thomas Hudson became a soldier in the war against fascism. But, getting to know his reasoning, the reader should remember that the American attitude toward the thinking of the Second World War and, more importantly, to the role their state and government played in it, for understandable reasons evolved in different way than the Soviet man [2, c.59].

However, even in the far from battlefields corners of the globe the pulse of war was felt. A small detail allows us to accurately determine the approximate duration of this part of the novel: Hudson read a newspaper on the fighting in the Apennine peninsula. Allied landings in Calabria, and then in the Bay of Salerno, was held in September 1943, the events of the novel took place in the winter, and then it was the penultimate or the last winter of the war. In other words, the events took place at the final stage of the war, when the Soviet Army inflicted blow after blow to the fascist troops and over Nazi Germany had already hung the specter of imminent defeat. But it still resisted, and resisted fiercely [28, c.136].

In the vastness of the Atlantic Hitler's command attempted to inflict the greatest possible damage to allied shipping, paralyze their supply lines. German submarines based in the ports of occupied France and Franco's Spain, reached the American coast, sending to the bottom every ship of the countries of the Allied Powers. The naval and air forces of the United States and Britain waged a systematic hunt for enemy submarines. In close proximity to the coast in the operations against submarines also small boats of the Coast Guard took part [28, c.144].

As we know, Hemingway in 1942-1943, blessed by the U.S. Naval Command, hunted submarines on his boat “Pillar” near Cuba. He had on board the necessary military equipment, including machine guns, antitank guns, and depth charges. The crew of “Pillar” consisted of nine persons, proven friends of the commander - Spanish Republicans who had immigrated to Cuba after the triumph of Franco. Hemingway did not manage to sink a German submarine, but his reports have helped to detect the enemy. So the action of Thomas Hudson and his crew in the novel to a certain extent based on personal experiences of Ernest Hemingway.

During that period, described in this part of the novel, Cuba officially belonged to the camp of the United Nations, who fought against the fascist powers. However, the order in Cuba was then a very peculiar. By a few cursory strokes in a conversation with a casual acquaintance of Hudson at the bar, the writer draws the manners of the old Cuba, with its corrupt to the bone brain authorities, corrupt from top to bottom, manners of ill-fated country, where the loud phrases of bourgeois politicians during election campaigns could not hide their dirty machinations in the pursuit of personal enrichment, where even the laying of water, so essential to the population, becomes a source of profit. No wonder why under these conditions, which later were cut off by the Cuban revolution, the island was infested with Nazi agents. It maintained constant radio contact with German submarines. Hence those need who hunted them needed secrecy [19, c.300].

Hudson's team was disguised as a scientific expedition. Almost all members of the crew were the Spanish republicans, of Basque nationality. They have their own accounts with the Nazis. Hudson was connected with them a by strong friendship. But on the coast he was very lonely. Recently, he received the news of the death of his eldest son, a military pilot. Hudson tried in vain to forget it, forbids himself to think about the grief.

The core of the third part of the novel is a persecution and destruction of the Nazi squad of sailors who committed grave crimes against humanity, which are typical for the practice of the armed forces of Nazi Germany.

The group of sailors from the German submarine, wrecked or damaged by depth charges from aircraft, landed on a small island to take in possession the necessary for escape things, such as fishing schooners, food supplies, fresh water. Apparently, they planned to get to any port where the ships came in Franco's Spain, and through then return to their forces. Having decided to cover their tracks, they killed the entire population of the fishing village, including women and children as if those people stayed alive, they would tell about German troop strength, its arms. But having committed brutal crimes, Nazi sailors placed themselves outside the law, burnt all the bridges. They didn't deserve to be forgiven. Now, if they caught up with the chase, the only thing that was left is to fight to the end, to sell life as expensive as possible [19, ñ. 306].

The same occurred to the Nazi regime in Germany. Staining it by monstrous crimes, the very tip of the fascist signed a judgment by its own hand, made retribution imminent. The leaders of the Nazis had only to sit as long as possible in their bunkers, sending to die more new cohort of Germans, and then - to take poison, or wait for a loop.

Trying to escape retribution, the sailors from the sink Nazi submarine exhibited skill and courage, that courage which is called the courage of despair. Thomas Hudson and his team followed them stepping on their heels, as the inexorable fate in Greek drama. And the criminals were overtaken. They had to fight. Description of the fight, at the very beginning of which Hudson received a fatal wound, was written by a great master, moreover, a master who had seen similar scenes by his own eyes. As on many pages in other works of Hemingway, the writer tried to reflect here the belief that a person would manifest itself fully to the end in a moment of mortal danger [14, c.114].

Hudson and his friends fought like heroes, they fought the way all the heroes of Hemingway were able to fight. It was not their fault that in the heat of battle they could not perform their main task - to take a prisoner, which could provide the necessary information about the actions of the German submarine fleet. Yet this failure bitterly blackened the last hours of Thomas Hudson.

Like Robert Jordan's from the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls”, the character of “Islands in the Stream” found his death in battle against fascism, the greatest evil of our age. Hudson performed his duty to the end. Maybe if he gave immediately the helm to other hands after the injury and did something with his wound, he would be still alive. However, bleeding, Hudson did not quit the helm. Losing strength, he never ceased to command in the battle.

Last thoughts of Thomas Hudson were about his work. He looked at the blue sky, which he always so loved, the lagoon, which he would never paint.

To the mind of dying Hudson pure Hemingway's thought occurred: “Human life is not worth much in comparison with his affair” [6, c.253]. Thomas Hudson performed his duty: he painted good pictures; he fought bravely against the enemy. With a clear conscience he went beyond the verge forever. Beyond the verge of life as well went the great writer Ernest Hemingway, having left here the novel about Thomas Hudson, so similar to him.

3.3 The Impressionistic Techniques in the Novel

The thing that remains unchanged in the style of Hemingway in the 40-50's is his sincere love to impressionistic techniques. In the most books of the late period frequently references to the Impressionists can be found. In an interview with J. Plimpton Hemingway said: “I learned a lot in my craft from artists as well from writers” [30, c.244]. Among the first important ones to play a role were French Impressionists, especially Monet and Manet. The similarity with Impressionism in the manner of Hemingway's pen is not in the details but in the ability to carry the whole, the overall impression by them. Just as painters the writer creates in his literary works pure color, contrast, movement, prevailing in the world and changing it every minute. “Hemingway's prose allows to combine in short phrases the things which in the works of his predecessors were detailed and separate: a description of the environment and the transfer of the psychological state of characters, action and landscape” [1, c.139]. Short, smart sentences of the writer is an analogue of light, separate pure color swabs of Impressionists, which from a distance seem to be a real life full of moods and changes.

For example, an extract from the novel “Islands in the Stream” based on the transfer of certain visual impressions, is transformed by its clarity and precision to the complete emotionally charged picture: “The tide was running out fast and the lights of the boats shone on the water that showed green in the light and moved so fast it sucked at the piling of the docks and swirled at the stern of the big cruiser they were on. Alongside of the water where the light was reflected off the planking of the cruiser toward the unpainted piling of the dock where old motorcar and truck tires were tied as fenders, making dark rings against the darkness under the rock, garfish, attracted by the light, held themselves against the current. Thin and long, shining as green as the water, only their tails moving, they were not feeding, nor playing; only holding themselves there in the fascination of the light” [6, c.140].

As in the paintings of the Impressionists, every scene is described by Hemingway, whether a portrait, a landscape or a history of the past, everything becomes a kind of unity of subjective and objective principles, not only taken the impression from the outside, but also colored by the mood of the artist. Tom, remembering his childhood days spent in Paris, combines in a few sentences is not only a variety of pictures of the past (close people, the dog Shnautz, nature), but the impression from them that he had experienced as a child: “Just you and snow and our dog Schnautz and my nurse. She was beautiful. And I remember mother on skis and how beautiful she was. I can remember seeing you and mother coming down skiing through an orchard. I don't know where it was. But I can remember the Jardin du Luxembourg well. I can remember afternoons with the boats on the lake by the fountain in the big garden with the trees. The paths through the trees were all graveled and men played bowling games off to the left under the trees as we went down toward the Palace and there was a clock high up on the Palace. In the fall the leaves came down and I can remember the trees bare and the leaves on the gravel. I like to remember the fall best” [6, c.192]. The last sentence of the passage as a unifying tone of painters-impressionist returns us to the present and give a nostalgic tone to these few sentences.

Hemingway's landscape, portrait, interior - everything from traditional descriptions - is broken, included in the action. Descriptions do not interrupt the story; they contain actions, sensations of characters, making the reader implicated in it.

Like the Impressionists often wrote a series of papers on one topic or one species under different lighting and mood, Hemingway also has his favorite picture (Paris of 20's, living with his first wife, spring, rain), which he is never tired to remember and describe [48, c.279]. However, some fundamental differences between Impressionists' painting and literature should be noted.

Firstly, in contrast to the paintings, in the literary work a few writing styles may be combined. For example, in an episode of the novel “Islands in the Stream” describing the scene of bathing on the deck of the boat, Ernest Hemingway combines the principles of writing of Expressionists, Impressionists and Cézanne: “On the stern they were all bathing naked. They soaped themselves and stood on one foot and another, bending against the lashing of the rain as they soaped and then leaning back into it. They were really all brown but they looked white in this strange light. Thomas Hudson thought of the canvas of the bathers by Cezanne and then he thought he would like to have Eakins paint it. Then he thought that he should be painting it himself with the ship against the roaring white of the surf that came through the driving gray outside with the black of the new squall coming out and the sun breaking through momentarily to make the driving rain silver and to shine on the bathers in the stern” [6, c.63].

Expressiveness, contrasts characterizing this passage (white light, dark body, black squall, sudden movements, white surf) is taken from expressionists; sharp, structured pattern, flatness - from Cezanne. The common mood of the picture - a look from a distance at the instantaneous state of nature - is a feature of impressionists [45, c.90].

Secondly, the impressionistic techniques will not do if the writer shows war, suffering and violence. Therefore, in the novel “Islands in the Stream” they are used less frequently, mainly in the description of a landscape or a state of a human soul in moments of nostalgia, which are based on sketchy, fragmentary, and that feeling of novelty of memories that are inherent to best pictures of impressionists (especially their series, written on the same topic) [45, c.91].

The basis of impressionistic manner of writing is crisp and clean single stroke, which is typical for the creative manner of Hemingway. His style is characterized by simplicity and clarity of details. Hemingway seldom uses similes and metaphors in his early works, and this principle remains with him on the pages of his late works. And those comparisons and metaphors, which Hemingway did use, as a rule, perform a limited function: just refinement of vision a thing: “These comparisons suggest, but do not judge” [48, c.201]. Hemingway's pen is characterized not by a dominant of metaphors and words with transferred meaning, but words and ideas having direct meaning. For example, the poetic descriptions of nature in some parts of the novel “Islands in the Stream” is created not by means of use of special high-vocabulary, detailed comparisons and metaphors, but by the clarity, sharpness and tangibility of each word that brings to life well known to every reader sensation and presentation: “Thomas Hudson was steering on the topside and he headed her out over the bar and ran straight out toward where he could see the dark line of the Gulf. The water was so calm and so very clear that they could see the bottom clearly in thirty fathoms, see that the sea fans bent with the tide current, still see it, but cloudily, at forty fathoms, and then it deepened and was dark and they were out in the dark water of the stream” [6, ñ.54].

3.4 The Implication and the Manners of Expressing It in the Novel

The texts in literary works are rarely kept completely in the author's voice manner. In literary works there are different manners of telling. Various manners (ways, shapes) of thinking and speaking are restored there. In this case not only the author's word is significant, but also strange one (“foreign”). According to the widespread concept of Bakhtin, “the author does not speak this language... he speaks through this objectified, moved away from his mouth language… Discord and variety of telling manners are included to a novel and they form a coherent literary system in it” [39, ñ.101]. Of course, the most direct message about the character and his world is expressed by direct speech, both by dialogues (polylogues) and monologues [39, ñ. 104]. This is the position of L.Y. Ginsburg based on a large study of factual material.

In the novel, there are two kinds of dialogues. In its syntactic structure, they do not differ from solitary monologues, sometimes pronounced at the time when no one can hear them, so their structure is kind of programmatic statements of the protagonist.

The second type of dialogues includes those ones which hide the true state of the character inside them. The appearance of such dialogues in the novel is called for by “the inner demand of activity, use of energy, filling the vacuum, which a man can't bear. It may be kind of the most affordable substitute for action, and sometimes pointless. To protect against inactivity, boredom, emptiness any perception, any memories, associations, surfaced on the surface of the ceaseless flow of fragments of inner speech can be used” [34, ñ.59].

As these conversations fill the vacuum of communication, they are a kind of repository of implication that is subject-psychological givens, guessed only in the words that make up the text of the work [34, ñ.66]. Every element of the implication in the novel bears the same deep dissatisfaction with the life of the protagonist.

Modern scholars sometimes include to “space” of literary text (apart speech) depicted by the writer things, even expressed by him ideas, concepts, meanings, that is, artistic content. The words “text” and “work” in such cases are synonymous. In this context, we understand the word “text” as a proper voice brink of a literary work that is allocated to it, along with subject-like aspect (the world of the work) and the ideological and conceptual sphere (artistic content). In this case, it is correct to say that in his “late” works Hemingway often takes the implication out of ideological and semantic scope of the text. In his books of 40-50's the writer displays the inner speech of the character right during the (his original remarks “toward” self-replicas) [35, c.88].

In the novel “Islands in the Stream” of everything going on in the soul of the character, the reader learns from his internal monologue, a kind of “word of mouth”. One of the few examples of classic implication in the novel “Islands in the Stream”, comparable with the best early implications of Hemingway, is a conversation between Thomas Hudson and Lil (the second part of the novel, the scene in the bar). In the intonation, style, and nothing meaning conversation with her protagonist Clever Lil understands his hidden meaning, guessing the awful truth about the death of Thomas the younger.

Thomas Hudson is looking for meaning of life, because of this in the structure of his image the most important thing is solitary monologue speech. In the novel “Islands in the Stream” we can observe the intersection of the author's words and the word of the character, which is reflected even at the level of syntax. The author often expresses his thoughts by the mouth of his character. “The participants in the verbal-literary text statements are consistent with the author's position and expressing it at the same time, never exhaust what is embodied in the novel. Turning to a reader, the writer does not make a speech of direct verbal reasoning, but by created images, in particular, images of characters as the carriers of speech” [34, c.71].

M.M. Bakhtin said that in the novel “Islands in the Stream” strange speech shown in a certain light is not expressly parted from the author's speech: the limits of deliberately vague and ambiguous, often taking place within a single syntactic whole [35, c.96].

The character of the novel “Islands in the Stream” has a great life experience, he is involved in social and historical conflicts; he communicate with many people. All these things make him often speak or think about different events. The structure of this novel contains a lot of secluded and referred monologues (according to the terminology of V.E. Halizeva). “Referred monologues (as opposed to replicas of a dialogue) are not limited in scope, usually thought out in advance and clearly structured. They can be played repeatedly (while preserving the meaning), in different situations... Monologue, in other words, is limited in time and place of speaking much less than dialogic speech, it can easily be extended to the width of a human existence” [1, c.163]. In solitary monologues a man is focused primarily on himself, so they are important and play a major role in the structure of the image of Thomas Hudson.

Ernest Hemingway in the exposition of the novel “Islands in the Stream” begins to give an objective description of physical appearance and temper of his character, but then, just a few pages later, he transferred to the transfer of his inner speech. The narration in the novel always go from the third person, but a sense of nearness of the character and the author, their thoughts is so full that we have the impression that either Thomas Hudson thinks about himself from the third person, or Ernest Hemingway says of himself, as of Thomas Hudson: “I do not know almost what there is to know about living alone and he had known what it is to live with someone that you loved and that loved you. He had always loved his children but he had never before realized how much he loved them and how bad that he did not live with them. He wished that he had them always and that he was married to Tom's mother. Then he thought that was as silly as wishing you had the wealth of the world to use as intelligently as you could; to be draw like Leonardo or paints as Pieter Brueghel... He smiled in the night thinking about Roger. Then he pitied him until he thought how disloyal it was and how Roger would hate pity and he stopped it and, hearing them all breathing quietly, he went to sleep. But he woke again when the moonlight came on his face and he started to think about Roger ...” [6, c.28].

Despite the important role of inner speech of the character in the novel “Islands in the Stream” (possibly due to the incompleteness of the book) it can be seen that the structure of the novel at this stage of its creation contains some author characteristics of his characters that the writer did not have time to develop in their actions. For example, characteristics of the sons of Thomas Hudson remained not revealed. The eldest son, according to the characteristics given in the novel, was of a cheerful disposition, even though his face in the state of quiet took almost tragic expression. His middle son was affectionate and endowed with a sense of justice. The younger son was born a tricky boy [35, c.113].

So in his novel “Islands in the Stream” E. Hemingway maintained his writing traditions in general. The plot of the novel is simple but holds very important things inside. The text of the novel consists of a great deal of dialogs, as usual, without explanations, which seem to be just sharp replicas.

The language of the novel is simple and accurate, even sharp a little. General vocabulary is used; no complex long words or complicated terms. The language is similar to colloquial. This makes the novel easy-reading and understandable for readers of any age. There are not many adverbs and adjectives in the work and those present are accurate and strict.

In difference from his early works, the novel, being published after the writer's death, contain more descriptions than all of the rest of his works. The descriptions in the novel are poor, without embellishment.

The novel reflects the life events of the writer and some pages of history. E. Hemingway created a character very similar to him. It is assumed that by giving the character peculiar to him in so many features, the writer also gave him some of his thoughts. Some researchers consider that similarity of the author and his character is one of the reasons why the novel was left unfinished. Perhaps the natural reticence prevented the writer to reveal him completely to the public. Just as Thomas Hudson, the writer had three sons which tragically died. He lived at the sea, created masterpieces, went fishing and drank a lot of strong drinks. He took part in the war described in the novel, fought against fascism, hunted submarines on his boat near Cuba and, at last, disappointed about everything, died. So the actions of Thomas Hudson and his crew in the novel to a certain extent based on personal experiences of Ernest Hemingway.

Creating pictures he used the methods of Impressionism. It was expressed in the ability to carry the whole, the overall impression by described details. Short, smart sentences of the writer is an analogue of light, separate pure color swabs of Impressionists, which from a distance seem to be a real life full of moods and changes. As in the paintings of the Impressionists, every scene is described by Hemingway, whether a portrait, a landscape or a history of the past, everything becomes a kind of unity of subjective and objective principles, not only taken the impression from the outside, but also colored by the mood of the artist.

Like the Impressionists often wrote a series of papers on one topic or one species under different lighting and mood, Hemingway also has his favorite pictures. of impressionistic manner of writing is crisp and clean single stroke, which is typical for the creative manner of Hemingway. His style is characterized by simplicity and clarity of details. Hemingway seldom uses similes and metaphors in his early works, and this principle remains with him on the pages of his late works. And those comparisons and metaphors, which Hemingway did use, as a rule, perform a limited function: just refinement of vision a thing.

In the novel, there are two kinds of dialogues. In its syntactic structure, they do not differ from solitary monologues, sometimes pronounced at the time when no one can hear them, so their structure is kind of programmatic statements of the protagonist.

The second type of dialogues includes those ones which hide the true state of the character inside them. The appearance of such dialogues in the novel is called for by “the inner demand of activity, use of energy, filling the vacuum, which a man can't bear. It may be kind of the most affordable substitute for action, and sometimes pointless. To protect against inactivity, boredom, emptiness any perception, any memories, associations, surfaced on the surface of the ceaseless flow of fragments of inner speech can be used”.

In the novel “Islands in the Stream” of everything going on in the soul of the character, the reader learns from his internal monologue, a kind of “word of mouth”. Here we can observe the intersection of the author's words and the word of the character, which is reflected even at the level of syntax. The author often expresses his thoughts by the mouth of his character.

The narration in the novel always go from the third person, but a sense of nearness of the character and the author, their thoughts is so full that we have the impression that either Thomas Hudson thinks about himself from the third person, or Ernest Hemingway says of himself, as of Thomas Hudson.

Despite the important role of inner speech of the character in the novel “Islands in the Stream” (possibly due to the incompleteness of the book) it can be seen that the structure of the novel at this stage of its creation contains some author characteristics of his characters that the writer did not have time to develop in their actions.

PART 4. METHODS OF USING THE NOVEL “ISLANDS IN THE STREAM” AT LESSONS

As it has been said before social demands of society in the field of foreign language study set the challenges of the spiritual development of the learners, improvement the humanistic content of the study, a more complete implementation of educational and developmental potential of educational subject in relation to the personality of each learner. The primary objective of foreign language study in secondary schools is to develop the pupil's personality, able and willing to participate in cross-cultural communication and self-improve in the sphere of the study activity [21, c.19].

Communicative and socio-cultural development of a pupil by means of a subject “foreign language” is carried out by the proper implementation of country-study approach. This approach provides learning a language closely related to the foreign language culture, which includes a variety of useful information about the history, literature, architecture, lifestyle, habits and traditions of the people of the country the language of which is studied. Country-study lessons promote a pupil to keep on further study of the country-study material on his own. And that is the country study to serve as a support for maintaining motivation, as it includes such two aspects:

1) teaching language, its general and special features and preparing a learner to use this knowledge in practice;

2) giving information about the country, the language of which is studied, making a learner to take up the culture of native-speaking countries [21, c.26].

These are two aspects the teacher can aim using right authentic material and optimal methods of teaching.

So how can we use E. Hemingway's novel “Islands in the Stream” to develop foreign language skills of pupils? Firstly, the novel can be used both as material for listening, reading, speaking, writing and any other kind of general work at usual lesson. In such case the teacher creates beforehand some tasks according to the fact what English language aspect he would like to emphasize. For instance, he can take some fragment for reading it in the class to test or develop pupil's listening and understanding skill, so after reading the extract he can make some questions or tasks such as the following.

1) Listen to a few statements based on the text, put “+” if the statement is right, and put “ - ” if it is not.

2) Answer the questions based on the text.

3) Tell in few sentences how you have understood the text etc [20, c.99].

Aiming to develop spoken skills the teacher can create communication situations to discuss the text, ask pupils to retell some extract of it, to express pupil's own opinion to the text.

Secondly, the novel can be used at special course lessons to give information about the culture of the country: literature, history, traditions, lifestyle, politics etc. Thus from the novel we can learn some historic facts of the country, its place in the Second World War, what kind of people Americans are, what they usually do in peace time and in wartime [20, ñ.118].

The novel also can be good material for study stylistics on the example of it, both in general and of a certain author, in our case, E. Hemingway. Here the teacher creates more serious tasks connected with analysis and deep understanding of the novel. Such sort of work is up to major form pupils. At such lessons the following algorithm of working at the text can be quite optimal.

1. The subject matter of the text. What is the story about? Give its subject in one word or in short phrase, e.g. family relation, snobbery.

2. Setting of events. Where does the story take place and when? Does the setting matter of the story or could it take place equally well in some other place and at some other time? Has the narrator emphasized certain details? Which? Why? What functions does the setting have?

3. Composition of the text. What is the exposition, complication, climax, and denouement? Are the elements of the plot ordered chronologically? Is the action fast or slow moving? Which episodes have been given the greatest emphasis? Is the plot (the sequence of events) of major or minor importance?

4. The type of narration. (e.g. description, character drawing, account of events, dialogue, interior, monologue).

5. Characters. Main and minor characters, the protagonist and antagonist. Who are the characters? What are they like: in appearance, in habits of speech and behavior? What are their names? Does it have any significance? What method does the author use to describe the characters (direct or explicit - indirect or implicit)? Does he use direct characterization amply or sparingly? Personal features of the characters. How do their actions and doings characterize them? The speech of characters (as a means to reveal the character's individual experience, his/her culture and psychology, social position, profession and so on). In the course of the story do the characters change as a result of their experience? What is the relationship between the characters and how is the relationship pointed out? What contrasts and parallels are there in the behavior of the characters? Are the characters credible? Do they act consistently? If not, why?

6. The narrator. What tells the story? Is it told by one of the characters, by a narrator outside the story or by whom? Is it a third-person narrative with the omnipresent author who moves in and out of people's thoughts and comments freely on what characters think, say and do? If the story is told by one of the characters, does it help to make it more effective? Describe the participation of the narrator in the events.

7. Mood and tone. In what key is the text written? How is the mood achieved? Does it change general slant of the text? Is it lyrical, melancholy, satirical, humorous, pathetic, unemotional? Hove can you prove it? Is the general tone matter-of-fact, sentimental, moralizing, bitter, ironical, sarcastic? What attitude to life does the story express?

8. The language peculiarities of the text. What sort of language is used? Is it simple or elaborate, plain or metaphorical? Lexical and grammatical peculiarities. Expressive means and stylistic devices: their role in the text (what is the author's aim to use them? E.g. The author sympathizes with the main characters. We feel it because he uses such epithets as…). Is the author successful in the portrait of his subject and in conveying his feelings? Is he successful in portraying the characters? Are the images created in the genuine, poetic, fresh, trite, hackneyed, stale? Are there symbols in the text?

9. The message of the text. What is the author's point of view on the problems raised in the story? What does the author proclaim in his story? Is the end of the text clear-cut and conclusive or does it leave room for suggestion? Can there be alternative interpretations of the text?

10. The title of the text. Try to explain the title of the text. Is it metaphorical or symbolic?

11. Summary of the text. Sum up the text in 4-5 sentences.

12. Your own opinion of the story. Confirm it by the text [22, c.119].

So it is reasonable to use the novel “Islands in the Stream” for the analysis of all kinds of texts: additional texts, texts that are chosen for group and individual home reading, and as a basis or material for any other activities at lessons. Doing so the teacher makes pupils learn general and special features of the language and prepares them to use this knowledge in practice, and provides learning a language closely related to the foreign language culture, which includes a variety of useful information about the history, literature, architecture, lifestyle, habits and traditions of the people of the country the language of which is studied. And this promotes pupils to keep on further study of the material on their own.

CONCLUSIONS

At the beginning of the work we've set the aim to determine the peculiarities of E. Hemingway's novel “Islands in the Stream”. Having analyzed his writing in general and on the example of the novel we can make the following conclusions.

The main characteristics of Hemingway's writing style are: stark minimalism in creating images; strict selection of words; descriptions without embellishment; short declarative sentences; a lot of dialogues; language accessible to the common reader and presence of Spanish language.

The essential characteristic of the Hemingway's style is simplicity and accuracy of word choice. He usually misses adjectives and adverbs while creating a picture. This gives the reader the feeling of being there. This effect is also achieved by a heavy use of nouns and verbs. Hemingway's economical writing style often seems simple and almost childlike, but his method is used to achieve complex effect. In his writing Hemingway provided detached descriptions of action, using simple nouns and verbs to capture scenes precisely. By doing so he avoided describing his characters' emotions and thoughts directly. Instead, he provided the reader with the raw material of an experience and eliminated the authorial viewpoint.

One of the greatest writing techniques of the writer was “the principle of iceberg”, only eighth part of which could be seen above the level of water, and the rest seven parts were hidden beneath the water. The novelist believed that that was the way the writer had to create his works: he had not to say everything; most of the content had to be embedded in the subtext. Poetics of Hemingway is characterized by a lot of hints and omissions. He described only the facts, but it was easy to reveal complex psychological processes, emotional drama of characters they contained deep inside.

He uses a lot of dialogs through which you get the feeling of being at the scene. Yet when the dialogue is transferred to the motion picture screen, directors should be careful to keep it from sounding stilted and formal, because its effectiveness does not depend on reproducing the exact words (including the “uh's” and “er's”) that people utter in real life. Hemingway also doesn't often punctuate his dialogue with italics, capital letters, ellipses, and exclamation points to suggest emphasis. The effectiveness lies in stating with utmost simplicity the heart of what the characters mean.

Use of Spanish language is another feature typical for Hemingway's pen. He tried to reproduce in English the flavor of Spanish language. He uses the antiquated English form to better approximate the speech of his Spanish characters, strange word order or style. Hemingway also tries to convey the extremely physical and earthy - often crude - dialogue of Spanish peasants (particularly when they are upset with each other).

The technique of flashback is used sparingly but effectively. Describing the events, Hemingway attempts to create as real image as possible. The events in his fiction usually reflect the events of his own life. His writing has always been susceptible to tragedy. The reason of that were the conditions and events, spiritual and social state of that time. Pathos of many works of writers of that period was the result of referring to American tragedy of the time. They contained writer's strong resistance against greed, possessiveness, meanness characteristic of the U.S. These works revealed the contradiction between material progress and spiritual impoverishment, democratic ideals and reality. So similar sentiments were typical for creativity of Hemingway.

Tragic mood, in some degree, is the characteristic of the most works of Hemingway. It was also the result of ideological, personal and spiritual crisis of the writer. Thus, such conditions, both objective and subjective, led to a writer's crisis of vision, and this promoted him to create special type of a character, a special type of a conflict.

In his novel “Islands in the Stream” E. Hemingway maintained his writing traditions in general. The plot of the novel is simple but holds very important things inside. The text of the novel consists of a great deal of dialogs, as usual, without explanations, which seem to be just sharp replicas.

The language of the novel is simple and accurate, even sharp a little. General vocabulary is used; no complex long words or complicated terms. The language is similar to colloquial. This makes the novel easy-reading and understandable for readers of any age. There are not many adverbs and adjectives in the work and those present are accurate and strict.