Here is a story writen by Ernest Hemingway about an old fisherman.

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We have compared the first part of this book with the movie:

• This is the same script, the text is respected but the dialogue's order has been changed. This story is writen like a tale, the rythm is slow and it supposed it is gonna give a moral.It looks like a universial story.
• The description of the characters is not realy respected. The ficherman who is supposed to be cuban doesn't seem to at all because of his complexion in the movie. The boy is described as being a teenager whereas he is a children in the movie. It has probably changed for the movie to be more touching.
• There is a melancholic music, it is slow and it doesn't look like the real life.

This opening scene correspond to the "anticipation stage". Christopher booker describe indeed although the old man hasn't caught a fish for 84 days now, he still believes he'll manage to cach a fish, and a big one! He is ready for a new journey. he feels time has come. He is all the more confident than the boy trusts him.

Here is a novel about a road trip across the USA written by Jack Kerouac. It has been adapted in a movie last year. 

Here is the link to the movie's trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZhM-AcCzNU

 I'm going to talk about a short story by William Somerset, called "Mabel"

• At the beginning,The scene takes place at Pagan, in Burma.
  

• The characters are the narrator, George, a friend of George and Mabel.

• Basic situation : Goerge and Mabel are engaged, they are going to get married in 6 months (from line 22 p.18 to line 24 p.18).                                                                  

• Rising situation : There are a lot of problems which delayed the wedding (Mabel's father died), Goerge had to live. (from line 25 to line 32 p.18).                                                                              

• Climax of this story : Goerge, who hadn't seen Mabel for 7 years, is afraid to get married with a stranger. ( = Anticipation Stage ) . He arrived at Singapore , where he thought he will be safe ( = Dream Stage ) . Each times, he arrived in one place (all over the world), a telegram from Mabel was waiting for him, saying she wanted to join him. Goerge tried to stay apart from her. ( = Frustration Stage ). (from line 1 p.29 to line 17 p.24).                                                                      

• Resolution : She managed to find him , Goerge was petrified ( = Nightmare Stage ). But, They spoke each other, and, back to step one, they got married. (from line 17 p.24 to line 10 p.26)

Nothing has changed in the fact that they eventualy get married. However, Goerge has understood that he really loves Mabel. At first, love was linked to difficulties (death, war), whereas, at the end, they lived happy. He learns that you can't escape your problems  by travelling all around the world, you must face your problems and you can solve them.    

Here is a link to the pattern written by Christopher Booker about "Voyage and return" stories.

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Here is a little biography about this famous american writer.

We'll first see why we use to qualify him as an outdoors man. He practices many sports very diferents. he was a boxer, a fisher man, a hunter, he enjoyed coridas and safaris. He was atracted by action, fight ...

He was although a war reporter. He got a nobel price as a reporter. His career started in high school where he has been published several times, then he went to the front and started writing about it in some of his books which talks about the recover, or the action of the war. He has been a correspondant in Spain during the civil war and was although in France during the "libération".

Hemingway was an eternal lover. Indeed, he fell in love the first time when he was 19. It was in 1918 while he was seriously injured in the Italian Front of the World War I, he met an americain nurse, Agnes Von Kurowsky. Although she was 8 years old more than him, he was bewitched by this woman and she inspired the character of Catherine Barkley in his book Farewell to Arms; but she didn't share his love and turned him down. The War ended and Hemingway came back to USA, a little bit desperate by his firt love disappointment. In 1920, he married Hadley Richardson and they had a children, John, however the couple divorced in 1927. A short time later, he married Pauline Pfeifer, a reporter whit whom he had two sons, Patrick and Gregory, but he went to Spanish and began an affair with Martha Gellhorn. He divorced in 1940 and three weeks later, he married Gellhorn. She was also a war reporter and that's why the life was difficult, since she was often away from his husband, and little by little, their relationship deteriorated, so they were married until 1945. In march 1946, he married another woman, the last : Mary Welsh, also reporter. So, his life with woman was turbulent whith joyful and sadness, but Hemingway loved the love and his many wifes shows it.

He was also a great traveler as we can see if we make a map with all his travels. He moved essentially for the work but for the pleasure too. He’s first travel was in 1918 to go to the Italian Front. He lived the most in USA and at Cuba, he also visit France, Spain, Italy and Africa. His travels inspired him for the stories which we can find in his books. During those trips he fits into groups to listen their stories, he takes notes, come back and write.