Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

Terry Miller

Professor Kendrick

Survey of American literature

3-19-18

Ernest Hemmingway’s Life and What His Critics Have to Say

Biographical Sketch of Ernest Hemmingway Part 2

In Ernest Hemmingway a Biography, Mary V. Dearborn goes through Ernest Hemmingway’s entire life and she is the first girl to ever do so. Ernest Miller Hemmingway was born on July 21st, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, was a physician, and his mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, was a musician. He was one of four siblings Marcelline Doris came first, then Ernest, Ursula, and Madelaine. (18) Grace Hemmingway was extremely involved in the young life of Ernest she created five baby books from when he was born until he turned seventeen. She

It was latter know that Ernest ended up disliking his mother and blaming her for his father’s suicide. (26) Despite all of this Ernest was an avid outdoorsman, he was into hunting and fishing and how to survive in the wilderness. By the time he was ten he was a wing shot being able to shoot birds from the sky. (21) His mother wrote that he was “Fraid of Nothing.” As Ernest got older and attended high school at Oak Park and River Forest High School he had plans to be a doctor but changed when he started taking English classes and a creative writing class. Ernest was inspired by many writes from a young age from Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Kipling, and Robert Louis Stevenson. He took part in a number of sports—boxing, track and field, water polo, and football. After high school Ernest went and worked for The Kansas City Star, as an apprentice for a little over six months.

From, IN THE BEGINNING: HEMINGWAY'S 'INDIAN CAMP' by Kenneth G. Johnston the article goes into detail about the original version of “Indian Camp,” That Ernest Hemmingway originally wrote eight extra pages and called it “Three Shots,” where Nick Adams is in the camp but is afraid of the dark. Nick is watching his father and uncle’s shadow while they are by the fire. The deleted section is a flashback of events that happened the night before and in the morning Nicks father and uncle are headed out fishing and they tell him to fire three shots if he is distressed or in danger. Nick is left alone in camp and gets undressed in the tent and then Nick is all of a sudden afraid of dying and fires three shots calling his father and uncle back to camp. They return and Nick lied about an animal being outside his tent. His father assured him that nothing was in the woods that could hurt him, not even