Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Freiburg, course: 20th Century American Short Story, language: English, abstract: Death is a major theme in Ernest Hemingways short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro and it appears in several different forms, directly and indirectly. In this research paper, I am going to show the various aspects of the theme of death in the short story.