Ernets Hemingway
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Ernest Hemingway
I. Introduction to Ernest Hemingway
II. Life and Times
A. Early Life
1. Birth
2. Parents
3. Influences
4. Siblings
5. Hobbies
B. Adulthood
1. War
2. Influences
3. Marriage and Children
4. Tragedies/Illnesses
5. Death
III. Literary Style
A. Unique
B. Very Influential
IV. Famous Works
A. Novels
1. Three Stories and Ten Poems
2. A Farewell to Arms
3. The Old Man and the Sea
B. Short stories
1. “Men Without Women”
2. “The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories”
V. Conclusion
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American novelist and short-story writer, whose style was characterized by crisp, laconic dialogue, and emotional understatements. Hemingway’s writing and his personal life extended a profound influence on American writers of his time. Many of his works are regarded as classics of American literature and some have been made into motion pictures.
Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. His parents were Dr. Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. Ernest was the second child of six. His father was an accomplished physician and his mother was enthusiastic musician. Ernest Hemingway loved to accompany his father on outdoor activities such as hunting or fishing, although his mother would have preferred her son to be more influenced by music. His love for the outdoors would later show up in his writing as an accomplished author. He loved to play with his brothers and sister although most of them were younger then him. He had four sisters and one brother. He played football and boxed on a regular basis. Hemingway’s interest in energetic activities carried on through his high ...
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...In 1952 Ernest Hemingway published the book that is widely acknowledged as his masterpiece, The Old Man and the Sea, redeeming his literary reputation after the critical attacks which had greeted his first post-war novel. Hemingway also wrote renowned short stories. “Men Without Women” (1927) was Ernest Hemingway's second major collection of short stories. Most of which are somehow related to a war, World War I, to be exact. “The Fifth Column and the First Forty-nine Stories” (1938) collected all of the short stories Ernest Hemingway had published up to that date and his only full-length play, The Fifth Column.
Ernest Hemingway was a magnificent author. He incorporated his life in his works. His life was full of tragedy but was also filled with glee. In my opinion he is one of the greatest authors in American Literature.
Works Cited
“Biography of Ernest Hemingway.” ClassicNotes: Ernest Hemingway. 2004. GradeSaver. 23 March 2004
“Ernest Hemingway.” The Language of Literature – American Literature. Dallas: McDougal Litell, 2000.
“Ernest Hemingway.” Wikipedia. 2004. MediaWiki. 23 Mar 2004
“Hemingway, Ernest (Miller) 1899-1961.” 2000 A & E Television Networks. 23 March 2004.
In this essay, the author
- Introduces ernest hemingwayii, life and timesa, birth, parents, siblings, and adulthood.
- Describes the elements of war, influences, marriage and children, and death.
- Explains that ernest miller hemingway was an american novelist and short-story writer whose style was characterized by crisp, laconic dialogue, and emotional understatements.
- Explains that ernest hemingway was born july 21, 1899 in oak park, illinois. his father was an accomplished physician and his mother was enthusiastic musician.
- Narrates how ernest hemingway participated in world war i as a voluntary ambulance driver for the red cross after repeatedly being rejected because of his damaged eye, caused by his boxing. he was severely injured on the austro-italian front and hospitalized in milan.
- Explains that hemingway's most popular and critically acclaimed novels were a farewell to arms and for whom the bell tolls.
- Describes ernest hemingway's bad luck, including sprained shoulder, arm, and leg, concussion, paralysis, burns, a bushfire accident and paranoia and depression. he tried to end his life unsuccessfully in 1961.
- Analyzes how hemingway's writing style rocked the literary scene when it first arrived. he provided unconnected descriptions of action, used very simple vocabulary to describe his scenes precisely, and provided the reader with the raw material of an experience.
- Explains that ernest hemingway was a talented and accomplished author. his first book, three stories and ten poems, was published in paris in 1923. a farewell to arms was his second full-length novel.
- Opines that ernest hemingway is one of the greatest authors in american literature. he incorporated his life into his works.
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- Analyzes how ernest hemingway, a modernist writer, has changed how people view the world and what they bring into it.
- Explains that hemingway was born in cicero, illinois, and grew up in a protestant conservative middle-class suburb.
- Analyzes how hemingway's encounters with the "lost generation" of f. scott fitzgerald, thorton wilder, sherwood anderson, and ezra pound influenced his career choices.
- Analyzes how hemingway was inspired by fitzgerald's novel the great gatsby to write larger texts. his marriage began to deteriorate after he blamed his wife for his suitcase containing all of his works getting stolen on the train.
- Analyzes how hemingway portrays fatalistic tendencies when he kills catherine barkley at the end during childbirth.
- Analyzes how hemingway traveled to east africa, spain, cuba, and cuba to work as a war correspondent. his new wife, martha gellhorn, gave him inspiration to write his pulitzer prize-winning novel, for whom the bell tolls.
- Explains that hemingway served as a correspondent during world war ii and was present during the d-day landing. he broke the geneva convention by leading an armed group of military resistors.
- Explains that hemingway's adolescence was the basis for his writing as an adult. he began his service in world war i with the ambulance corps and received the italian silver medal of bravery.
2038 wordsRead More - The Life and Death of Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayThe Life and Death of Hemingway In novels or other literary works many authors write about things they dream about. Many write about what stories they have heard from fellow companions. None have written about such vivid, yet traumatic experiences as the twentieth century writer, Ernest Hemingway. That is why Hemingway's tend to concur to his real life experiences. To start, consider that he was raised in an extremely strict household.
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- Explains that ernest hemingway's vivid, yet traumatic experiences concur with his real life experiences.
- Narrates how he was raised in an extremely strict household. he had an equitably happy, upper middle class childhood and became interested in literature.
- Analyzes how hemingway's most acclaimed novella, the old man and the sea, is the one that mostly compares, in short, to his life.
- Explains that hemingway committed suicide on july 2, 1961, in ketchum, idaho. he had undergone shock therapy for saying that the fbi was following him, but couldn't convince anyone that they were.
- Describes ernest hemingway's the old man and the sea.
842 wordsRead More - The Life of Ernest Miller Hemingwayanalytical essayThe Life of Ernest Miller Hemingway There were several writers in the twentieth century, and among them was Ernest Miller Hemingway. Hemingway had a interesting, but strange life. By analyzing and exploring the literature and biographies of Ernest Hemingway, one will be able to understand the life of Ernest Hemingway and see the major contributions he had to literature. He was born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois.
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- Explains that ernest miller hemingway had an interesting, but strange life. by analyzing and exploring the literature and biographies of ernest, one can understand his life and see his major contributions to literature.
- Explains that hemingway was born in a conservative area of illinois. he was raised with strong values of hard work, physical fitness, and self-discipline.
- Explains that ernest liked nature and lived in cities like chicago, toronto, and paris, but chose isolated places like key west, cuba, or ketchum, idaho. his mother taught him about music and gave voice and music lessons to local children.
- Explains that hemingway went to school in the oak park public school system, played football, swimming, water basketball, and worked on the high school newspaper called the trapeze, where he wrote his first articles.
- Narrates how ernest hemingway tried to enlist in the army, but was turned away because of poor vision. the red cross accepted him and he went to europe.
- Analyzes how ernest lied about the explosion and how he carried another injured soldier back to the first aid station. he met his first love, agnes hannah von kurowsky, in the hospital.
- Analyzes how ernest liked agnes since he first saw her and it seemed like she liked him too, but that's not what she said in a letter to him.
- Explains that hemingway wanted to marry her, but she said because of the age difference she thought he wasn't mature enough. ernest left the hospital and wrote letters to her.
- Analyzes how hemingway's wounding along the piave river in italy and his recovery at a hospital in milan, including the relationship with his nurse agnes von kurowsky, all inspired his great novel a farewell to arms.
- Narrates how hemingway felt bad when he came home from italy in 1919 because people didn't know what happened in war.
- Narrates how hemingway's last public appearance was important to harriett connable, the wife of a woolworths executive in toronto, who noticed the differences between him and her son.
- Narrates how ernest was beginning to make a name for himself when he found out that hadley was pregnant with their first child. they left paris in 1923 and moved to toronto. hemingway edited the transatlantic review.
- Explains that hemingway produced some of the most important works of 20th century fiction, including "in our time", "men without women" and "a farewell to arms."
- Narrates how ernest divorced his first wife hadley in 1927 and married pauline pfeiffer in the same year. they lived in key west, florida for about twelve years, and ernest's father committed suicide.
- Analyzes how hemingway's bullfighting book, death in the afternoon, was interesting enough for people who didn't care to read it.
- Analyzes how ernest started writing fiction again in 1933 and published "winner take nothing." hemingway's books were like the opposite of "the snows of kilimanjaro."
- Narrates how ernest hemingway went to spain to cover the spanish civil war for the north american newspaper alliance (griffin 41). they had a secret affair for four years before ernest divorced pauline. the loyalist movement failed and franco led rebels won the war.
- Narrates how hemingway worked on islands in the stream and the garden of eden during the 1940's. he returned to america in 1946 and wrote across the river and into the trees.
- Narrates how hemingway won the pulitzer prize for fiction in 1953 and traveled to europe and africa.
- Narrates how hemingway wrote a short article about two of spain's best matadors for life magazine. he became an alcoholic after the article was published.
- Explains that ernest hemingway's death was tragically ended by suicide, but this was something commn in his family.
3837 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway's Style Essayanalytical essayErnest Hemingway is a world renowned writer who is known for his short and to-the-point yet unique style. While being greatly praised for his style he is also greatly criticized for it as well. His body of work includes numerous poems, short stories, and various novels as well. He even won the Nobel Prize in Literature for his story “The Old Man and the Sea.” The panelists awarded him for his overall mastery of the English language and for his modern unique way of narrating.
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- Explains that ernest hemingway is a world-renowned writer who is known for his short and to-the-point yet unique style.
- Explains that hemingway represented the "lost generation", a congregation of young writers who contributed to the great collection of modern literature today.
- Explains that hemingway was a part of world war ii, and his lack of mother-son bond affected his writing. he was also an alcoholic.
- Explains that hemingway was an adventurous man and craftsman who wanted to get the most out of his life. he was quick to anger and had a dark ominous cloud of fear of death and failure hanging over him.
- Explains that hemingway is famous for his short and undetailed style, his way of using rhythm, and the way he repeats certain words in his works. ezra pound greatly influenced his style.
- Explains that hemingway's unconventional writing is one of the many reasons why he is praised worldwide.
- Analyzes how hemingway steers clear of portraying most of the human emotions that are very deep and thoughtful. he goes for the more simple emotions like eating, sleeping, drinking, meaningless sexual encounters, etc.
- Analyzes hemingway's use of simple everyday actions and emotions in his short stories, such as "the killers" and "hills like white elephants."
- Analyzes how hemingway's unique style is seen when he uses very short sentences to get his point across. a typical sentence might be short and emphasize one specific thing while the following sentence will be a lot longer.
- Analyzes how hemingway starts most stories with a short informative paragraph that briefly describes the setting.
- Analyzes how uses detail in "hills like white elephants" to allow the reader to create his own image in his mind.
- Analyzes hemingway's use of repetition to add more meaning to certain words and to emphasize the deeper meaning or lesson.
- Analyzes hemingway's use of metaphors in "another country." he looks down on the idea that america has all the power over machines when they really don't.
- Analyzes how metaphors are used in "hills like white elephants", where a couple is deciding whether or not to get an abortion.
- Opines that hemingway's work is a great representation of himself and his past experiences. his style permits him to write only about what knows or has experienced and creating characters related to real life stories.
- Analyzes how hemingway wrote about everyday experiences, war, alcoholism, fishing, boxing, and hunting. this sense of closeness between his real life and his ‘fiction’ life gave his work an irresistible attractiveness.
- Opines that hemingway followed a new and unheard of path in his style of writing. he was an innovator and one of the most important writers of his time.
1610 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway: Twentieth-Century American Literatureexplanatory essayErnest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was an important figure in the twentieth-century American literature, who received both critical and popular recognition for his novels, stories, and poems. Sometimes, his public image seemed to overshadow his reputation as a serious writer. However, all of his life experience as a big game hunter, a bullfight aficionado, and as a deep-sea fisherman served greatly to enhance his overall work because he reflected deeply on these experiences in his writing.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that ernest hemingway was an important figure in twentieth-century american literature, who received both critical and popular recognition for his novels, stories, and poems.
- Explains that hemingway was born on july 21, 1899 in oak park, illinois. he worked as a journalist for the kansas city star, but left in 1918 to serve as an ambulance driver in italy during world war i.
- Narrates how hemingway was a correspondent and reporter when the united states entered world war ii in 1941. he settled in havana, cuba, where he was inspired to write his most popular novel "the old man and the sea".
- Explains that ernest hemingway had won the nobel prize in literature, but sadly at the top of his career, he started suffering from depression. he committed suicide in his home in 1961.
331 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway Masculinityanalytical essayErnest Hemingway was influenced by his father who taught him how to fish, hunt, and love nature/wilderness. In addition, he did not like his mother and his distrust and dislike for women show up in his works. The wars he was in shaped him because he saw many people die and he was injured himself in World War One. He worked for various newspapers after World War One, moved to Paris and started working with Gertrude Stein, and had many affairs. He did not like the life of a journalist, so he decided to be a writer. In that respect, his writing resembles the journalist style. As a journalist, he had to omit adjectives and get right to the point of the event. In his stories, he leaves adjectives out and just reports the events, so the real meaning shines through without the “Victorian style” adjectives to make it sound better than it actually is.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that ernest hemingway represents an enigma of masculinity that easily captures the imagination. he was born july 21, 1899 in oak park, illinois.
- Explains that ernest hemingway was influenced by his father, who taught him how to fish, hunt, and love nature/wilderness. he didn't like his mother and distrust and dislike for women, so he decided to be a writer.
- Analyzes how jake barnes and his friends live in paris, france, where they work, but spend the rest of their time arguing, partying, and drinking. robert cohn is also in love with lady brett ashley—as well as everyone else.
- Analyzes how lady brett ashley and jake barnes are in love, but she will not commit to him.
- Analyzes the aimlessness of the lost generation, a group of people who have experienced war, love, and lost. they don't rely on traditional beliefs, but try to fill their empty souls with alcohol and sexual promiscuity.
- Analyzes ernest hemingway's portrayal of pedro romero in a positive light and his writing about love, war, and lost.
- Narrates the story of the old man and the sea in havana, cuba.
- Analyzes how santiago, the old man, is trying to catch the marlin, but he can't pull it in because it is eighteen feet. the fishing line serves as a symbol of the connection santiago feels with the fish.
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway explores religion in a positive light, which is different because he did not believe in jesus or god.
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway continues with his journalistic style of writing in the sun also rises and the old man and the sea.
- Analyzes how nick adams and marjorie are frustrated and annoyed by one another in "the end of something". nick tells her that being in a relationship with her is not fun anymore and she leaves without saying goodbye.
- Analyzes how the town that they row past during the first part of the story is described as having passed its peak years ago, and it is now very worn-out and broken-looking.
- Opines that both ernest hemingway's books reflect him and his life. he created his own view of what a man should be.
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway's view of life is one-sided. he believes that life and bullfighters go hand in hand. his experiences in spain and traveling shaped his works.
1971 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingwayanalytical essayErnest Hemingway was one of the greatest writers of the century. He was born at the close of the old century but was able to see the Disorders of the new century. Hemingway was marvelous in bringing about his pictorial effects for his readers even in his drunken state. Hemingway was skilled in the way he presented the “real” and “concrete” to be the first essentials in his writing. He put life back on the page so that we could see the grim reality of the truth. Hemingway’s style brought minute details to the surface so that the readers would understand his meanings. In the stories that I have chosen the critics have analyzed the story. In this paper I intend to prove that Ernest Hemingways writing in “Soldiers Home” and “Hills Like White Elephants” influenced American writing styles through Symbols, Themes and writing techniques.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that ernest hemingway was one of the greatest writers of this century. he was skilled in presenting the "real" and "concrete" to be the first essentials in his writing.
- Analyzes how hemingway's use of symbolism is a contribution to the richness of his characters.
- Analyzes how "hills like white elephants" has many different symbols that relate to people's lives.
- Analyzes how hemingway's story deals with the sterility and vacuity of the modern world.
- Analyzes how hemingway's narrative technique, sentence structure, dialogue, and the use of symbols create a marriage between form and content in the story.
- Analyzes how hemingway's err was that kerbs was a soldier who had enlisted in the marines in 1917. the editor felt this was how he wanted the story to be.
- Analyzes how hemingway uses symbols to display the emotion of the characters in "soldiers home".
- Analyzes how ernest hemingway uses a single word, 'anise', to convey his greatness. he was clever in using symbols to bring his characters to life.
2060 wordsRead More - A Clean, Well-Lighted Placeargumentative essayErnest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois July 21, 1898. He died in 1961 at the age of 63. Hemingway is known to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He has written more than one hundred short fiction stories, many of them are well known around the world. Some of these short stories have had just as powerful an impact as his novels. As a young man, Hemingway left his hometown in Illinois to go to Europe, where he worked for the Red Cross during World War I. His time spent there inspired him to write some of his most famous novels, most of which spoke of the horrors of the war.
In this essay, the author
- Describes ernest miller hemingway as one of the most influential writers of twentieth century. he was born in 1898 in oak park, illinois, and died in 1961 at the age of 63.
- Analyzes ernest hemingway's "a clean, well-lighted place," a short story that focuses on three different age groups and their varying views on life.
- Explains that ernest hemingway had a different style of writing than the other authors of his time.
- Concludes that hemingway shows us the different opinions people have based on their age and experiences, through the eyes of the three waiters.
- Describes the cliffs notes on hemingway’s the sun also rises lincoln nebraska 1968.
661 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway Research Paperanalytical essayErnest Hemingway once wrote, “Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.” Hemingway lived up to his opinion by distinguishing himself with unique life details. Challenges in the life of Ernest Hemingway, which included myriad unhealthy relationships, military service in World War I, and acting as a journalist in the Spanish-American War, not only resulted in unsuccessfully treated mental health issues and suicide, but ironically, in award winning and significant literary works.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that ernest hemingway lived up to his opinion by distinguishing himself with unique life details, including unhealthy relationships, military service in world war i, and acting as a journalist in the spanish-american war.
- Explains that ernest hemingway's birth had a large impact on all future personal relationships.
- Explains that hemingway's father, who was a physician, began to push his son to enter his profession. he refused to even attend college and entered the war instead.
- Analyzes how hemingway's family relationships impacted his ability to have a healthy romantic relationship. his medley of relationships started during the war, when he fell in love with agnes von kurowsky.
- Analyzes how hemingway's break up with von kurowsky began his timeline of unhealthy relationships. he met a wealthy businesswoman named elizabeth hadley richardson and they soon married despite their eight year age difference.
- Analyzes how hemingway and hadley divorced in 1927 and married pfeiffer, who had two sons, patrick and gregory (harmon). his time reporting on the spanish-american war strained the marriage, and he split his time between cuba and key west.
- Explains that hemingway married gellhorn two weeks later and they divorced in 1945. he met mary welch noel before his divorce and he met adriana ivancich.
- Explains that hemingway's military career started with a failed physical and enlisted with the red cross to be an ambulance driver.
- Describes how hemingway was injured by austrian mortar fire in june 1918. he received the silver medal of valor for his bravery and was one of the first americans to be honored.
- Explains that hemingway had a special kind of involvement in the spanish civil war. in the 1920s, he experienced his first bullfight and festivals in pamplona.
- Explains that hemingway was antifascist and first encountered fascism when he interviewed benito mussolini in the 1920s. he reported for the north american newspaper alliance as a correspondent in spain at the beginning of the civil war.
- Explains that hemingway's greatest achievements were winning the nobel and pulitzer prizes. the swedish academy praised his "powerful, style-making mastery of modern narration."
- Analyzes how hemingway won the pulitzer prize in 1953 for old man and the sea, but the award was interpreted as a nod to his entire writing career.
- Explains that ernest hemingway was no stranger to challenges. his mental health, substance abuse, and psychosis were just part of his everyday life.
- Analyzes how hemingway suffered from substance abuse. he tended to self-medicate with alcohol and seek adrenaline highs, which explains his aggressive, risk-taking sportsmanship.
- Analyzes how hemingway's psychosis worsened with age. it was most likely related to alcoholism and traumatic brain injury. his paranoia was one of the largest issues.
- Explains that hemingway was checked into the mayo clinic after mary found him trying to attempt suicide. he received electroshock therapy and took his own life three months later.
- Opines that hemingway's writing style is one of the most memorable things, and that his spare dialogue and predilection for understatement are also remembered.
- Opines that ernest hemingway led an intriguing life, from his unhealthy relationships to his extensive travel. his award-winning novels and lasting legacy are at odds with many unfortunate events in his life.
1472 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway Themesanalytical essayAs it can clearly be seen, Earnest Hemingway has reflected his life throughout his works. This outlet of expression has proven to be worth the time and effort he had put forward in crafting these stories. It is unfortunate that factors such as human suffering as well as intimate harm were present in Hemingway's life, but it is thanks to those themes that such great works came about. In the short stories "Indian Camp," "The Old Man at the Bridge," and "Hills Like White Elephants," Hemingway has proven that he was indeed the voice of his generation and has crafted a path for future authors and writers to write in a similar manner and style.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that earnest hemingway's short stories were a means of expression that gave him an outlet to show the world how impactful his life was on his works.
- Explains that hemingway's writing was so highly acclaimed that he was considered the voice of his generation.
- Analyzes how hemingway's story, "indian camp," is written from the third-person perspective.
- Analyzes how "the old man at the bridge" can be tied into hemingway's time served with the military.
- Analyzes how hemingway's "hills like white elephants" hits a sensitive chord with its complex third-person narration.
- Analyzes how the american's constant reminder of her inevitable abortion has her torn on the subject. the theme of human suffering can be applied to both the girl and the unborn baby.
- Analyzes how earnest hemingway has reflected his life through his works, highlighting the themes of human suffering and intimate harm.
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