Essay On Ernest Hemingway

There are many authors in this world, but there are also many legends. Legends who changed the face of literature. One of these legends was none other than Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21st, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. He was born to a physician and former opera performer named Clarence and Grace. Hemingway showed a talent in writing when he was in high school. He wrote for the school’s newspaper and yearbook. After he graduated at the age of 17 in 1916, he began his writing career as a reporter for a newspaper called, the Kansas City Star. After he worked as a reporter for six months, he dropped out because he wanted to join the U.S army during World War I. But because he failed the medical test, he joined the American Field Service Ambulance Corps in Italy. Unfortunately, while he was delivering supplies, Hemingway was wounded, which ended his career as an ambulance driver. Because of this, he spent lots of time in hospitals and met a nurse named Agnes von Kurowsky, with whom he fell in love with. Sadly, she didn’t return his feelings so Hemingway was heartbroken. This incident inspired him to write one of his well known books, “A Farewell to Arms”. Like this book, many other of his famous works came to be because of incidents in his past. His pieces of literature started to be known and read worldwide which provided him a route to become one of the most celebrated authors of his time.

Hemingway has had many successes throughout his life, but his greatest success was receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature (Nobelprize.org) for his mega succes the Old Man and the Sea in 1954. He also won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 for the same book. Other literature awards that he received were the American Acade...

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...different writing style. For example, Charles Dickens used long sentences and detailed descriptions to capture the moment. Unlike Hemingway, Dickens used a lot of adjective to describe things like setting, characters, e.t.c.

Hemingway was a man born to change how literature is looked at today. He introduced and showed the world that using simplicity in writing can make the same effect as using descriptive language. I believe that Hemingway is a very creative man and used his technique in different ways, but sometimes authors need to be specific so that the reader can really live in the moment and understand everything from the the character’s thoughts and feelings, to the setting of the story. Sadly, he committed suicide on July 2, 1961 at the age of 61, in Ketchum, Idaho. Even though Ernest Hemingway left this world years ago, his legacy still lives here with us.