SUMMARY"The Killers" is a mainly dialog story that may seem confusing. It takes place in in Henry's diner, in Summit, in about the early 1900's. It is about two men that come in to Henry's, on a beautiful day, to kill a man, Ole Anderson, a Swedish boxer. He was a man that moves from town to town. He came from Chicago, and is staying in a motel.
Nick a young boy in the diner thought that he may have double crossed someone and thats why they want to kill him. when the two killers, Max and Al, walked in to the diner to kill Ole because thats where he normally went for dinner at six.
At the diner they get annoyed by the waiter, George, because he is slow and everything they want is on the dinner menu. After being in the diner for a few minutes they took bright-boy, Nick, and the cook, Sam and tied them up in the kitchen.
They kept referring to the cook as the n-word. Then they told George that if any one was to come in and order something, to tell the the cook is out sick and if the were adamant about ordering something to go in the back and cook it for them. That is what he did, he sent one person away and when the second person was adamant about getting food, he went in the back to cook for that person.
After waiting for Ole till twenty pasted six the killers left and George went back in to the kitchen to untie Nick and Sam. once Nick was untie he went to go to see Ole, in the Hirsch's rooming-house, to tell him what happened. Ole did not seem surprised and when Nick asked him if he was going to skip town his answer was no. When Nick came back to the diner he said he was ready to leave this town and move he was not liking what was going on.
Although the story, "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, has a lot of content for a nine page story I feel that the themes and meanings behind the story was even greater. The story reflects the theme of racism, expressed many times by the characters calling the cook as the n-word.
Looking out for one another was another theme put was only used in one part of the story. to once when Nick went to tell Ole about the guys that wanted to kill him.
Along with the other themes from the story are what I believe are sub theme, I named them sub theme because if you are to analyze the story these might not be the first thing you see, one of the themes is staying out of trouble and another one is you can't run away from life. They both go hand and hand because if you make a mistake or get in to in life you can't run away from your life because it will all catch up to you.
Ole got tired of running from what ever happened in Chicago and lie around till they come and kill him, because his past caught up to him. Examples of this from other places are Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", Marian stole $40,000 and ran away and ended up getting killed.
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