Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway lived his life as he wanted. His writing touched the hearts of millions. His sentences were short and to the point but his novels strong and unforgettable. He wrote about what he felt like writing about. On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born. He was created by Dr.
Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway. His hometown was a small town named Oak Park. Oak Park was in Illinois. His father was a practicing doctor, and later taught him how to hunt and fish. His mother on the other hand had wished that he would become a professional musician.
Hemingway did not like his mother and when he grew up he would call her "the old bitch". He grew up in a somewhat religious environment. He went to Oak Park and River Forest High School, which is where he realized his writing gift. Besides writing, other activities that he loved included swimming, and boxing. When he was18 years old he had an important decision to make he could either move to Kansas city, which was growing more and more every day, or he could go to collage. His final choice was that he would move to Kansas City.
In Kansas City he got a job as a cub reporter on the Kansas City Star. At the train station his father, who latter on in Ernest's life would commit suicide which would totally disgust Ernest, kissed his son goodbye with tears in his eyes. This exact moment in time would be the soul purpose for a book he wrote called "For Whom the Bell Tolls". One of the reasons why he wrote that book is because he felt so much older than his father at that time that he could hardly bear it any longer.
While he was at Kansas City he was quite and did not stand out much. He stayed to himself. He went through a little culture shock due to the fact that Kansas City was a lot more complex than Oak Hill was. His writing style was first introduced by the Star. His writing was brief, and to the point. His writing had to be like that at the time because he was a news writer, but he would carry that style over to fiction when the time came.
In May of 1918, Hemingway wanted to join the Army but could not due to a defective left eye which he inherited from his mother.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that ernest hemingway lived his life as he wanted. his writing touched the hearts of millions.
- Describes the life of clarence edmonds and grace hall hemingway in oak park, illinois. his father was a practicing doctor and taught him how to hunt and fish.
- Explains that hemingway didn't like his mother and grew up in a religious environment. he went to oak park and river forest high school, where he realized his writing gift.
- Explains how ernest's father, who would commit suicide, kissed his son goodbye with tears in his eyes. he wrote 'for whom the bell tolls' because he felt older than his father at that time.
- Narrates how he stayed to himself and went through a little culture shock due to kansas city's complex nature. his writing style was brief and to the point.
- Describes how hemingway wanted to join the army but could not due to a defective left eye which he inherited from his mother. he became second lieutenant of the red cross and was hit in the leg by an austrian machine gun.
- Narrates how he won the italian medal of valor and spent all of his recovery time at the ospedale croce rossa american, in milan. he returned to oak hill without any complaints.
- Narrates how hemingway moved to chicago and met elizabeth hadly richerdson, who he wanted to marry, but money was a problem, so they moved back to canada.
- Narrates how after a drunken party where he babbled on about hunting, fishing, and bull fighting, martha was hospitalized for having serious head trama. she laughed at his sad state.
- Describes how a plane crash left him with concussion, paralysis of the sphincter, first degree burns in his face, arm and head. he later committed to the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota.
- Explains that the party lasted 24 hours from noon of july 21st to noon july 22nd. the guests included general c. t. lanham, ernest's old pals from paris, italian royalty and the maharajah of behar.
- Narrates how ernest had a couple shocks in his life, such as the death of his closest friend, the cuban revolution, and his black lab's death.
- Describes how mary hemingway, his wife at the time, heard a gun go off in the other room. she hurried towards the sound of the gunshot and saw ernest with his favorite 12 gauge shot gin.
- Explains that hemingway shot himself while cleaning a shotgun yesterday morning. no time has been set for the funeral services, which will be private.
- Narrates how mary and hemingway's 3 sons asked the priest to read ecclesiastes' favorite passage from the roman catholic douay version. the priest didn't understand the meaning of their request.
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- The Life of Ernest Hemingwaynarrative essayErnest Hemingway “But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated.” (Hemingway, 29). This is one of the lines that Ernest Hemingway uses in one of his books, titled, “The Old Man and The Sea.” It was published in 1952, and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
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- Describes reynolds, michael, and wagner-martin, linda's ernest hemingway: a brief biography.
- Cites mitgang, h., "leicester hemingway, writer and ernest's brother, is suicide." the new york times.
- Explains that ernest hemingway's "the old man and the sea" was the most popular of all his works. his parents, clarence and grace, were well-educated and respected.
- Cites mclain, p., and oliver, charles. hemingway a to z: the essential reference to the life and work.
1185 wordsRead More - Biography of Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayBiography of Ernest Hemingway " Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. You will meet them doing various things with resolve, but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue." ('On the Blue Water' in Esquire, April 1936) A legendary novelist, short-story writer and essayist Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of Chicago.
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- Analyzes ernest hemingway's biographies, stating that "there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care about anything else thereafter."
- Explains that ernest miller hemingway was born on july 21, 1899, in oak park, illinois, close to the prairies and woods west of chicago. he was awarded the 1954 nobel prize for literature.
- Explains that hemingway may have been a homosexual in denial, but his determination to keep up his manhood's "good name" was decoy to hide his true homosexuality.
- Explains that ernest hemingway started his career as a writer in kansas city at the age of seventeen. after the first world war, he joined an ambulance unit in the italian army.
- Narrates how hemingway lived in chicago, where he met sherwood andersen and married hadley richardson in 1921. he covered events on all of europe, interviewed important leaders such as lloyd george, clemenceau, and mussolini.
- Explains that hemingway published 'men without women' in 1927, divorced hadley richardson and married pauline, a fashion editor.
- Analyzes how hemingway's dramatic personal events against the backdrop of a brutal war became the basis of his first widely successful novel 'a farewell to arms'.
- Explains that hemingway traveled to spain as a war correspondent in 1937, the same year as ‘to have and have not’ was written. after his divorce from pauline in 1940, he married martha.
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway surprised critics with his 1952 novel "the old man and the sea". the novel is about an old cuban fisherman's journey, his long, poor and lonely struggle with a fish and sea, and his victory in defeat.
- Explains that "papa" was a legendary celebrity and sensitive writer, and his influence, as well as unseen writings, survived his passing.
- Analyzes how hemingway's life and character are as fascinating as any in his stories. papa was a legendary adventurer who enjoyed his flamboyant lifestyle and celebrity status.
- Analyzes how hemingway and fitzgerald used their keen social observation in writing ‘the sun also rises’ and the great gatsby.
- Analyzes how hemingway, like fitzgerald, explores and critiques the superficiality of his characters' indulgent lifestyles, but touches upon a number of themes, many of which have to do with new notions of masculinity arising after the war.
- Explains that hemingway conceived of the idea for ‘the sun also rises’ while attending the fiesta de san fermin in pamplona, spain, with friends in july, 1925. the real-life conflict spun out to harold loeb and pat guthrie.
- Analyzes how hemingway expanded the story into a novel originally entitled ‘fiesta: a novel’. he shifted the opening to paris and heightened the relationship between brett and the narrator.
- Analyzes how jake barnes represents the worst of the lost generation — irresponsible, aimless, and bitter; his life seems over before it begins.
- Analyzes how brett is the strongest, most conventionally "masculine" character in the novel, dominating her lovers and manipulating them like a bull-fighter.
- Analyzes how robert cohn represents american pre-war romanticism and idealism. he is disliked by everyone in jake's circle, especially mike, who resents him for his fling with brett.
- Analyzes how pedro romero is the only man who seems capable of manipulating brett. his appeal to her is clear through the parallels hemingway draws between bull-fighting and sexuality.
- Analyzes how mike campbell, brett's fiancé, has gone bankrupt through business associations with "false friends" and is possessive of brett. he humiliates cohn for his fling with her and tosses off anti-semitic comments at him.
- Analyzes how bill gorton, jake's writer-friend, wastes his literary talent on witty, ironic quips and drunken socializing. he bonds with jake while they go fishing, opening up to an intimacy unavailable in the city.
- Analyzes how gertrude stein's "the sun also rises" is an impressive document of the people who came to be known as the "lost generation." jake epitomizes the lost generation; he is physically and emotionally wounded from the war, and apathetically drinks his way through his expatriate life.
- Analyzes how hemingway observes the new male psyche, battered by the war and newly domesticated, in the lost generation.
- Analyzes how hemingway draws numerous parallels between bull-fighting and brett's sexuality. romero penetrates with his phallic sword both the bull and the audience.
- Analyzes how hemingway depicts nature as a pastoral paradise uncorrupted by the city or women.
- Analyzes how hemingway's spare, laconic prose was influenced by his early work as a journalist and had the greatest stylistic influence over 20th-century american writers.
- Analyzes hemingway's near-death experience, which is explicit in books such as a farewell to arms and death in the afternoon.
- Analyzes how modern investigations into so-called near-death experiences (nde) have focused on a pattern of empirical knowledge gained on the threshold of death. hemingway was wounded in italy during world war i.
3741 wordsRead More - Essay On Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayHemingway: Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s best authors. He started out writing many articles, and then even novels fro some of his lifetime experiences. Hemingway was a great influence on American society. Although Hemingway had many misfortunes in his life, he was a great writer. Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 to Clarence and Grace Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois.
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- Explains that hemingway was one of america's best writers. he started out writing articles, and then wrote novels based on his lifetime experiences.
- Explains that hemingway's uncle tyler was inspirational to him as a teenager growing up. he was rejected for having poor eyesight, and instead of giving up, he joined the italian army as an ambulance driver.
- Narrates how hemingway moved to toronto, where he met his first wife, hadley richardson, and they were married in 1921. his devotion to writing led to his divorce, but pauline pfeiffer was not affected by this divorce.
- Narrates how hemingway returned to war in 1937 when he took on a job reporting about the spanish american war, divorced pauline pfeiffer, and was part of the d-day invasion.
- Explains that hemingway won the pulitzer prize for the old man and the sea in 1953, and a year later, the nobel prize in literature, as well as the american academy of arts and letters award of merit.
- Explains that hemingway's major influences include the reflection of time, his experience on the battlefield, fishing, bullfighting, and other sports he enjoyed himself.
- Analyzes how agori kroupi makes a connection between fishing and bullfighting with certain symbols in christianity, implying that hemingway did use religion in his work.
- Analyzes how hemingway's obsession with death began when his father committed suicide. he uses the human struggle with love, loss, separation, politics, and isolation in his writings.
- Explains that hemingway's least successful novel was across the river and into the trees, while islands in the stream was posthumously published.
- Analyzes how hemingway had a positive effect on society and people. in soldiers home, he emphasizes the mistreatment of soldiers when they return home from war.
- Opines that although hemingway had many misfortunes in his life, he was a great writer.
1146 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway Influenceexplanatory essayErnest Hemingway is today known as one of the most influential American authors of the 20th century. This man, with immense repute in the worlds of not only literature, but also in sportsmanship, has cast a shadow of control and impact over the works and lifestyles of enumerable modern authors and journalists. To deny his clear mastery over the English language would be a malign comparable to that of discrediting Orwell or Faulkner. The influence of the enigma that is Ernest Hemingway will continue to be shown in works emulating his punctual, blunt writing style for years to come.
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- Opines that ernest hemingway, one of the most influential american authors of 20th century, has cast a shadow of control over the works and lifestyles of enumerable modern authors and journalists.
- Explains that hemingway was born in oak park, illinois on july 21st, 1899 to his parents, clarence and grace. his relationship with his mother was rocky at best, and may explain his focus on appearing masculine later in life.
- Explains that hemingway began working for the kansas city star as a reporter at 18, his uncle managing to arrange the job for him. his hallmarked austere approach to literature has been mimicked by literary giants such as james joyce and brett easton ellis.
- Explains that ernest served as an ambulance driver in italy during world war i. his experiences were used as a blueprint for his acclaimed novel, a farewell to arms.
- Narrates how hemingway fell in love with a red cross nurse, agnes von kurowsky, but they never met again. this made him insecure and detrimental to his relationships.
- Narrates how hemingway went on a fishing and camping trip with friends to michigan's upper peninsula. the trip inspired the short story, big two-hearted river.
676 wordsRead More - A Farewell To Armsanalytical essayErnest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, July21, 1899. He was a very handsome, athletic, adventurous young man. When the United States declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917, Hemingway tried to enlist in the army. He was rejected due to an eye injury that he sustained during his high school football career. Hemingway’s bold, daring, personality and determination landed him a job as a Second Lieutenant ambulance driver of the American Red Cross during World War I.
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- Explains that ernest hemingway's classic novel, a farewell to arms, is one of the greatest love and war stories of all time. the success and authenticity of this tale is a direct result of his world war i involvement.
- Describes ernest hemingway as a handsome, athletic, adventurous young man who tried to enlist in the army but was rejected due to an eye injury he sustained during his high school football career.
- Analyzes how hemingway and his fellow drivers were rudely awakened to the total devastation of the war when they had to remove the parts of dead or severely injured victims of a munition factory explosion.
- Narrates how frederick henry, like hemingway, drove ambulances in italy during world war i. he fell madly in love with an english nurse, catherine barkley.
- Explains that hemingway's world war i experience differs from that of frederick henry. he rode his bicycle, while dodging the austrian’s crossfire, to bring chocolate and cigarettes to his friends in a nearby trench.
- Analyzes how hemingway created frederick henry's character and experiences from his own. the reader is captivated by his detailed, believable story.
507 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway Essayanalytical essayThroughout the 20th century there were many influential pieces of literature that would not only tell a story or teach a lesson, but also let the reader into the author’s world. Allowing the reader to view both the positives and negatives in an author. Ernest Hemingway was one of these influential authors. Suffering through most of his life due to a disturbingly scarring childhood, he expresses his intense mental and emotional insecurities through subtle metaphors that bluntly show problems with commitment to women and proving his masculinity to others.
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- Explains that ernest hemingway was one of these influential authors. he expressed his intense mental and emotional insecurities through subtle metaphors that bluntly showed problems with commitment to women and proving his masculinity to others.
- Explains that ernest hemingway was born on july 21, 1899, in cicero, illinois. he spent most of his young years with his father, where he learned things that are necessary for a "man" to know.
- Analyzes how ernest's mother, grace, treated him as a girl, and made him into man by his father, created an odd hatred/fear of women, especially towards his mother.
- Narrates how ernest's interest in writing and his distinct straight-to-the-point style of writing was first introduced here. becoming known for his talented writing soon got him his first job as a cub reporter
- Narrates how ernest enlists in the army during world war i to serve as an ambulance driver in italy. he married his first love during the war, hadley richardson.
- Analyzes how hemingway's experiences in world war i, his manipulative mother, and scarring childhood influenced his writing. he was embarrassed and angered by his childhood.
- Analyzes how hemingway's fears of women, proving his masculinity, and problems with dedicating himself fully to one person spilled into many of his short stories.
- Analyzes how francis' lack of courage pertains to hemingway's fear of not being able to prove his masculinity.
- Analyzes how hemingway expresses his mind in "up in michigan" about a controversial romantic encounter and the dread that results from it.
- Analyzes how jim and liz play to established gender stereotypes. jim is a blacksmith, while liz is in the kitchen. hemingway gives us his preconceived notions on gender.
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway pushed himself to the brink of depression to prove his masculinity to others, hoping it would one day reverse the effects of his traumatic childhood experience.
1197 wordsRead More - Earnest Hemingwayanalytical essayEarnest Hemingway was well known as a strong writer, but what many readers of his do not know about is the inspiration he gained throughout his life and experiences that made him a very prolific writer. There are events in his life from childhood to adulthood that helped accustom to his very unique style of writing. Hemingway was a different kind of writer than others; he often used reoccurring words of specific diction in order to create an effect on the reader. Every single one of his books were based off of something, as Hemingway was not the type of writer who sat in a log cabin writing all day. Hemingway was a man of great experiences, and his life was full of many inspirations that had helped attribute to his novels and unique writing style. Every idea of his was based off of personal experience, which he found inspiring. This is what makes him such a unique and original writer in my mind, due to his amazing life experiences.
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- Explains that earnest hemingway was a strong writer, but the inspiration he gained through his life and experiences made him prolific. he used reoccurring words of specific diction to create an effect.
- Explains that hemingway's mother was a classically trained musician who paid the mortgage for her and influenced him with his dedication and commitment to writing.
- Analyzes how hemingway's writing style and writing structure came from his parents, his high school education, and his first job as a journalist.
- Analyzes how hemingway's world war 1 experience inspired the whole of a farewell to arms, in which he describes his opinions of war and love open minded while following the character henry.
- Analyzes how hemingway's famous novel, a farewell to arms, is based off of his relationship with a nurse at the red cross hospital that he stayed at.
- Concludes that all hemingway's writing has been derived from nothing else but personal experience. he is the type of person who has many stories to tell.
1334 wordsRead More - The Life of Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayThe Life of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway relied on experiences and the time period that he wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway used symbolism and irony to express his own experiences that he went through after the war, in this novel. Gertrude Stein named the generation of adults that lived during World War I, "The Lost Generation. "People thought the phrase holds true to some people who fought or were involved in the war. Hemingway quotes Stein in passages saying "The world remains and the sun continues to rise and set.
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- Analyzes how ernest hemingway relied on experiences and the time period that he wrote the sun also rises. gertrude stein named the generation of adults that lived during world war i, "the lost generation."
- Analyzes how hemingway's narrator, jake barnes, is the heart and soul of the book. brett, the beautiful, english woman he adores, provides the glamour of his struggle to deal with his injury and their relationship.
- Explains that ernest miller hemingway was born on july 21, 1899, in oak park, illinois, a conservative upper middle-class suburb of chicago.
- Explains that hemingway became the european correspondent for the toronto daily star and moved to paris with his wife in december 1921. he became friends with many prominent writers and artists living in post-war paris.
- Analyzes how hemingway's marriage fell apart and he re-married to a fashion reporter. his father committed suicide in 1928 after developing serious health and financial problems.
- Argues that robert cohn is the character that hemingway would like to be. he is a light drinker and believes in the romantic pre-war ideals of love.
- Analyzes how the characters in the sun also rises wander through endless, drunken procession of parties, cafes, and sexual affairs in a desperate search for meaning in their lives.
1011 wordsRead More - The Old Man In The Cold War Essayexplanatory essayErnest Hemingway was a writer who became the most widely- read authors and also best- known American writers of his era. Hemingway was a writer very passionate about writing. He wanted to learn how to learn how to create writing that was amazing and that is what he did. Beginning as a journalist his career took off. Heming way then began publishing magazines. After publishing a few books, met an editor named Maxwell Perkins. After publishing both The Torrents of Spring and The Sun Also Rises, Ernest reputation as a major new author was secured.(University of
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- Explains that an older man is thought to have more wisdom, or a greater knowledge of the great things and the bad things in life.
- Explains that joe dimaggio was one of the most well-known players of baseball. he was unique in his own way.
- Analyzes how joe dimaggio was out for three critical weeks with pneumonia and missed the first two months of the season with a heel injury. his motivation for baseball shows his unique feature to be able to drive forward no matter the obstacles.
- Explains that the pulitzer prize is a high nationally honored award given to someone who is talented or advanced in newspaper journalism, musical composition, or literary achievements.
- Explains that seymour topping from the pulitzer prizes website stated only four awards in journalism, four in letters and drama, one for education, and four traveling scholarships.
- Explains that the cold war was a decade long struggle for global supremacy that pitted the capitalist united states against the communist soviet union.
- Describes ernest hemingway as a writer who became the most widely-read and best-known american writers of his era.
- Explains that ernest's writing was the greatest challenge for him, but soon he would not live up to his expectations of himself as a quality writer. hemingway used short sentences to give the reader information but without writing elaborately.
- Explains that columbia university awards are made on the recommendation of the pulitzer prize board, composed of judges appointed by the university.
794 wordsRead More - Essay On Ernest Hemingway And A Farewell To Armsanalytical essayErnest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Ernest was a quiet and thoughtful child who had interests in fishing and writing. He played soldier games, and when they asked him what he was afraid of, he exclaimed, ‘’ Afraid of nothing’’ (Yannuzzi 14). During the next seventeen years, Ernest spent his summers at Windermere, where he was able to take fishing lessons, play games and be with his friends. When he turned sixteen, he started writing short stories, but they weren’t much of a success. Ernest was a disappointment to his family, because he didn’t want to go to college and wanted to be independent. His independence from his family made him stronger.
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- Narrates how hemingway met agnes hannah von kurowsky, a twenty-six-year-old american nurse, and they declared their love for each other.
- Analyzes how the analysis of world war i provides an essential framework for our understanding of the entire twentieth century. hemingway put most of his time on writing, reading, fishing and visiting friends.
- Analyzes how hemingway wrote a farewell to arms based on his life experience during world war i.
- Concludes that world destroys the lives of people who are strong, because it makes them stronger. ernest hemingway and frederic henry had a lot in common.
- Analyzes how hemingway demonstrated his emotions through characters and convinced the readers through his writings.
- Explains that hemingway's experience in world war i inspired him to write a farewell to arms, which depicts the real-life experience of an ambulance driver who falls in love with a nurse during the war.
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