The topic of the presentation is “E. Hemingway – the writer of the iceberg principle “. We tried our utmost to study, analyze this topic and do the presentation fluen tly. In fact, there are many things that arise in the process of making this present ation. Indeed, thi s presentation has brought me many experience and the knowledge about Literature in particular. As a member of our group, I together with two other friends began to prepare for this presentation few week ago and if time came back, I wish we could do b etter than that . As I said above, the topic of the presentation is “E. Hemingway – the writer of the iceberg principle”.
To be honest, I was little nervous when our group was given this topic due to his “hard -boiler” but “terse, limpid, vigorous, compressed prose” style.We decided to do this presentation in a n easy way that anyone seeing it can understand what we intend to say. The first thing we do was embarking the main parts of our presentation. After many discussion, there were two significant areas presen ted, which is the Biography of Hemingway and his I ce ber g principle in “The Old Man a nd The Sea”. As instruction of teachers , it will take 25 -30 minutes for each group to prese nt. Thus, we decided to divide our pre sentation into three parts.
Biography, the Iceberg Principle and the Iceberg principle in “The Old Man a nd The Sea ” after reading reference. Generally, all of members together completed the work in best way except for some problem of our slide that we forgot stating the objects. I was in charges o f the second part. During the process of searching, it is difficult for me to find the document exactly and useful on the Internet. Besides, it is sometime hard to understand the author’s language and what he meant. If there were once more chance, 2 I would try my best to spend more time finding other source such as books, magazines, radios, etc and studyin g them more care fully .
As a result, I was not confident in my part of the presentation and something happened. It appeared to me that it was disappointed p erformance due to the bad preparation . During prese nting, I forgot some main point and hardly use any body languages. In addition, I failed in engaging the audience. According to University of Leicester, attracting the audience’s interest by fully consider their needs would help present er more confident in presenting and successful in goal . Indeed, my performance was not good as I expected. Although I described slides in the most understandable way, audiences see med not very interested because of my lack of confidence.
Hence I realized that confidence is one of the most essential factors in addition to preparation. Planning a presentation carefully made the presenter more confident and that confidence made the presenter shorten the way to success. If only I had realized this and done better. However, chances were hard to come again . Therefore, instead of complaining about the weakness, I would overcome them. Since the presentation, I had waited for feedback from the teacher to evaluate my performance more clearly. Indeed, the feedback of my teacher was what exac tly I think about the performance of our group in general and mine in particular.
It seemed to me that this feedback was very useful for me to improve my skills. In addition to weakness I mentio ned above, the teacher showed me the poor use of stress and intonation. As a language student, it is essential for me to surmount this weakness. This presentation made a chance for me to explore my weak ness clearly and receive valuable experience .
Apart fr om experience, I had learned a lot about Literature from making this presentation. As I said above, the topic about Ernest Hemingway drove me nervous at first but then reading materials made me understand more about the c ontext and 3 “Iceberg Principle”. He was a strong influence on English fiction in 20 th century and had started his writing s since high school . In my opinion, an event that marked a milestone in his life was the Word War I . In 1918, he became a n ambulance driver to server Europe Red Cross and got a hard leg injury in Italy ; He was healing in Milan then he got a chance to acquaint to a nurse of American Red Cross named Agnes; They plant to marry but unfortunately that wedding did not take place. At that time he was severely i njured in both mental and physical health . He began to recognize the negative effects of war and started becoming a writer. This also affected a lot on his novel meaning s. Referring to Heming way, people will refer to short simple -language novels that have a hidden meaning and do not forget the “Iceberg principle “.
According to this principle, you can see only one part floating on the surface of th e iceberg, while the other part s are under the water – the hidden meaning is not, but you have to self -contempla te. If you do not have enough knowledge or experience, you will feel the novel boring and non -meaning. In fact, Hemi ngway always used simple structure , short dia logue and hardly described characters directly in his novels. On behalf of the “Iceberg Principle” is the novel “The Old Man and The Sea”. Through the image of the old fisherman chasing the swordfish, Hemingway draw the beauty and power of human in a hardship journey to make any difficult come true.
Likewise, every thin gs in our life has two side: once on the water and once under the water . It is essential that we app ly this principle on many aspects of real lif e. After the presentation. I also understood more about this principle that it brought many meaningful feature s for the story of the novel although I felt it wa s hard to be interested in it at first. Overall, t o reflect all the process, o ne thing that I learned is that preparation plays a significant role, influenced throughout the process. If time came back, I wo uld try my 4 utmost to prepare my reference carefully and my performance would become perfect. Great experience and knowledge from this module as well as the presentation about “Iceberg Principle of E. Hemingway” help me complete my skills .
