Perspectives

There are several perspectives from which you can further analyse the short story “The Whaler” by Joe Sheerin and we advise you to focus on the literary period and works with similar themes.…

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Literary period

The short story “The Whaler” is an example of the Modernist style. Literary modernism originates in the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century and it is mostly characterised by a detachment from Romanticism and tradition. One of the modernist features present i…

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Works with the same theme

The themes of coming of age and loss of innocence have been explored by Ernest Hemingway in the short story “Indian Camp” (Contexts, p. 12). The story follows a young boy named Nick while he witnesses his father performing a caesarean operation on a Native-American woman. The boy witnesses the birth of a baby and a suicide in t…