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It addresses the moral controversy surrounding the killing of horses in the ring, framed through Hemingway’s own experience and observations. 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It was originally published in 1932. The book provides a look at the history and what Hemingway considers the magnificence of bullfighting, while also being a deeper contemplation on the nature of fear and courage.  \nAny discussion concerning bullfighting would be incomplete without some mention of the controversy surrounding it. Toward that end Hemingway commented, \"anything capable of arousing passion in its favor will surely raise as much passion against it. \"  \nErnest Hemingway  \nDEATH IN THE AFTERNOON  \nto Pauline  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nAt the first bullfight I ever went to I expected to be horrified and perhaps sickened by what I had been told would happen to the horses. Everything I had read about the bull ring insisted on that point; most people who wrote of it condemned bullfighting outright as a stupid brutal business, but even those that spoke well of it as an exhibition of skill and as a spectacle deplored the use of the horses and were apologetic about the whole thing. The killing of the horses in the ring was considered indefensible. I suppose, from a modern moral point of view, that is, a Christian point of view, the whole bullfight is indefensible; there is certainly much cruelty, there is always danger, either sought or unlooked for, and there is always death, and I should not try to defend it now, only to tell honestly the things I have found true about it. To do this I must be altogether frank, or try to be, and if those who read this decide with disgust that it is written by some one who lacks their, the readers', fineness of feeling I can only plead that this may be true. But whoever reads this can only truly make such a judgment when he, or she, has seen the things that are spoken of and knows truly what their reactions to them would be.  \nOnce I remember Gertrude Stein talking of bullfights spoke of her admiration for Joselito and showed me some pictures of him in the ring and of herself and Alice Toklas sitting in the first row of the wooden barreras at the bull ring at Valencia with Joselito and his brother Gallo below, and I had just come from the Near East, where the Greeks broke the legs of their baggage and transport animals and drove and shoved them off the quay into the shallow water when they abandoned the city of Smyrna, and I remember saying that I did not like the bullfights because of the poor horses. I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing truly what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced. In writing for a newspaper you told what happened and, with one trick and another, you communicated the emotion aided by the element of timeliness which gives a certain emotion to any account of something that has happened on that day; but the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion and which would be as valid in a year or in ten years or, with luck and if you stated it purely enough, always, was beyond me and I was working very hard to try to get it. The only place where you could see life and death, i.e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bullring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death. It has none of the complications of death by disease, or so-called natural death, or the death of a friend or some one you have loved or have hated, but it is death nevertheless, one of the subjects that a man may write of. I had read many books in which, when the author tried to convey it, he only produced a blur, and I decide","cbCaitHWoD2pIWM7","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitHWoD2pIWM7","pdf",3025811,265,"English","# Chapter One\n## First impressions and moral controversy\n## Writing the reality of violent death\n## Going to Spain to study bullfighting","[{\"question\":\"What is the book Death in the Afternoon mainly about?\",\"answer\":\"It explores the ceremonies and traditions of Spanish bullfighting, including Hemingway’s view of its magnificence and what it reveals about fear and courage.\"},{\"question\":\"How does Hemingway approach the ethical controversy of bullfighting?\",\"answer\":\"He acknowledges the controversy, noting that from a modern moral and Christian perspective the bullfight is indefensible due to cruelty, danger, and death.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does Chapter One focus so much on writing and the depiction of violent death?\",\"answer\":\"Hemingway explains that conveying emotion requires recording the true sequence of motion and fact, which he found difficult and later sought to study directly in bullfighting.\"}]","Death in the Afternoon - Chapter One - Bullfighting, fear, and courage | PDF",1789989003,408]