1. Ernest Hemingway
Why did the chicken cross the road? Hemingway: To die. Alone. In the rain. What inference can you make about Hemingway as a person? His writing style?

2. Hemingway’s iceberg theory
What do you know about an iceberg? Hemingway had the Iceberg Theory regarding writing. He gives you the facts—those hard facts are the tip of the iceberg floating above water. Everything else—the supporting structure—floats beneath the water, out of sight from the reader.

3. Iceberg theory

4. White elephants What do you know about white elephants?
Definition-a possession unwanted by the owner but difficult to dispose of
History-It is said that the King of Siam would award a disagreeable courtier a white elephant, the upkeep of which would ruin the courtier.

5. White elephants and you
Do you have any “white elephants” in your world?
What is a modern day example of a white elephant?

6. Ernest Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory
When you have finished reading, please draw the iceberg image on the back of the story.
Using the idea of the Iceberg Theory, you will fill out the following:
-What information does Hemingway directly provide the reader?
-What information does the reader fill in?