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Ernest Hemingway Influences

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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Cicero, now called Oak Park, Illinois, (1899-1961). His parents Grace (a religiously puritanical woman) and Clarence Hemingway (a country physician) raised him in Chicago. However, they spent a significant part of their lives in northern Michigan where Ernest H. learned to fish, hunt and experienced the outdoors with his father. Hemingway discovered his father's cowardice which is reflected in the short story “The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife”. Later his father committed suicide and that left him with an emotional scar. I believe that Hemingway in his writings wanted to show the effects some situations have on people, in this case, War.

However, Hemingway loved his life and the outdoors activities he was involved, Hemingway was also a very popular boy in high school and an athlete, although, Hemingway tried to escape from home several times with no success. After working for a while for Kansas City Star, where he learned to use short sentences and short paragraphs, “Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. I've never forgotten them" (Hemingway), he worked in the Red …show more content…

“To Have and Have Not” (1937) in response to the 1930s depression. “The Fifth Column” (1936; produced in New York in 1940). A year and a half after the war ended, Hemingway completed “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (1940) his most ambitious novel. Following the big success of this last novel Hemingway got into a literary silence for a full decade because of the activities during World War II. He came back in 1952 with the extraordinary novella “The Old Man and the Sea”, after that huge success in 1954 Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for

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Hemingway created a false image of himself to be some kind of war hero, so in an attempt to “soothe his conscience”, he wrote about an unhappy soldier that just returned from war that was later turned into Krebs. ” The relative unhappiness of his personal life in 1924 was instrumental in causing

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His writing causes mistrust between his narrators and readers because it is distinctly one sided. In Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, the book is centered around World War I which was from 1914 to 1918,

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Similarly, Hemingway also talks about the gruesomeness and merciless aspects of war. As mentioned before, he focuses in on how deaths in the battlefield occur to emphasize the point of war being horrible. He sheds negative light on the military by showing how young most men are when they fight. Hemingway makes sure to also point out that there is nothing graceful or good about war and how everyone dies in the end eventually, either physically or mentally. "That was what you did.

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As the war dragged on, the author embarked on many kinds of projects that he had never attempted before”. Showing how much Hemingway had dedicated himself to the politics and issues surrounded by it. Not only did Hemingway have knowledge of the war before writing For Whom the Bell Tolls, he was actually very involved in showing his political

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Ernest Hemingway’s characters are frequently tested in their faith, beliefs, and ideas. To Hemingway’s characters, things that appear to be grounded in reality and unmovable facts frequently are not, revealing themselves to be hollow, personal mythologies. Hemingway shakes his characters out of their comfortable ignorance through traumatic events that usually cause a certain sense of disillusionment with characters mythologies, moving them to change their way of life. His characters usually, after becoming disillusioned, respond with depression, suicide, and nihilism. However, this is not always the case.

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Hemingway grew up learning to fish swim and hunt from his father and his mother singing in the church choir and playing the cello. Hemingway spent most of his childhood and adolescence repressing the feminine influence his mother had over him and nurturing the masculine impact his father had over Hemingway. After being the favorite athlete in high school, World War I become a reality, Hemingway then joined the infantry but was later released due to having poor eyesight. Hemingway then wrote for the Kansas City Star, then enlisted to be a medical driver for the Italian’s in WWI, where he became injured and was a decorated hero by the end of the war. After the war, Hemingway began his literary career by publishing serval works such as For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises, and Farwell to Arms.

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Many Americans affected American literature in so many ways but one that had a great impact was Ernest Hemingway. Ernest was born on July 21, 1899 in Cicero, Illinois. During his lifetime he was a writer, an ambulance driver and also a reporter.(Ernest Hemingway biography) He also lived in many different places such as: Illinois, Kansas, Toronto, Florida, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Europe, Cuba and Idaho. In his lifetime Ernest had four wives and three children.

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That’s why he created a great amount of memorable works where he tells stories about uncountable frontlines. Ernest Hemingway is remembered for his early work as a journalist, as a volunteer ambulance driver during World War I, and as the most prominent envoy of the “lost generation.” First, Hemingway started off as a journalist

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Heroes are not important! Heroes are people who supposedly keep people safe. We don’t need heroes because they killed too many people. Also there not always there when we need them in dangerous problems.

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Introduction American author and journalist Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899. In his late teens, after leaving high school, Hemingway began the onset of his writing career as a journalist for The Kansas City Star newspaper. Several months later, upon the United States’ (USA) involvement in World War 1 (WW1), Hemingway agreed to Red Cross recruitment offer, serving as an ambulance driver in the Italian army at the front. The following few years of his life were highlighted by various experiences which served as a motive and background for many of his novels. At the front, he was wounded by a mortar shell, suffered injuries in both legs, hospitalized for six months, and met his wife Agnes during that period.

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Hemingway’s alternate endings give insight into what he was thinking and what words were the right ones. He was conscientious with how he wanted the message to be embodied and articulated. Critics argue that A Farewell to Arms should have ended another way, with a happy ending perhaps that captures another side of the author’s writing. The truth is that there was no better way to capture Hemingway’s true personality through the characters if he did not write it himself. In the New York Times article, “A Farewell to Arms with Hemingway’s Alternate Ending” Patrick Hemingway himself said that “but it is absolutely true that no matter how much you analyze a classic bit of writing, you can never really figure out what makes talent work.”

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He displays how when people are faced with death, some let fate control their destiny, which is applicable to real world situations. In the real world, one will make the choice whether to expect or avoid fate, which will lead to certain consequences. Hemingway’s writings were based on experiences and obstacles he overcame. People should invest more time to reading Hemingway’s stories, which can prompt action, and change some life decisions of the reader. His strong messages should get through to readers, to prompt better decisions.

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The horrors and losses of World War I greatly affected the generation to come. The young people who fought in the war and the writers and artists of the era experienced a detachment from the classical society, morals, beliefs, and traditions. Referenced at the beginning of Hemingway’s novel is a quote from fellow modern author Gertrude Stein, who, in conversation, called these people “a lost generation.” Other writers of the time, such as Ernest Hemingway, embraced this theme of the lost generation, and explored it in their writing, relating their characters to themselves and their peers. In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway shows the detachment and loss of direction the Lost Generation experienced through the main characters in the novel.

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