The Importance of Being Ernest

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. His father’s name was Clarence Edmonds Hemingway who was a physician, and his mother names Grace Hall Hemingway, was a performer/musician. Ernest took part in many activities before he actually was in the career of becoming a writer, author, and inspiration. He was interested and ended up playing activities such as boxing, track and field, water polo, and football. When Ernest found the time he was the track team manager, and writing for the school newspaper. ”Ernest used a fake name while writing for his school’s newspaper.” (lostgeneration.com) Ernest’s academic life were mostly used through music and writing. Ernest’s family was close knit and took many trips that involved everyone. He was raised up in a strong Christian home, which involved going to church every week and reading of the bible. His family took summer trips to Michigan where the mother sang music and his father taught the boys to fish and hunt.

After several setbacks Hemingway found a way to join WW1 and share his experiences. He struggled getting into WW1 due to an eye injury from a boxing match in his past. He was disappointed in not being able to fight for his country. So with not being able to join the war, he moved to Italy. While in Italy Ernest became an ambulance driver for the army. His duty was to drive dead or injured soldiers back to the hospital as fast as possible. He loved hanging around the hospital with the nurses and not being in danger. PERSONAL LIFE

Ernest fell in love with a nurse during the WW1 names Agnes von Kurowsky W. One day he was called out to the front line to bring chocolate and cigarettes, which then caused him to wound both of his legs. This wound caused him ...

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Works Cited

Internet:

• "The life, major works, and accomplishments of ernest hemingway"StudyMode.com. 09 2013. 2013. 09 2013 .

• www.onlineinformation.org/hemingway

• www.biographyonline.com

• http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/hemngway/intro.htm

• http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio

Books:

• Ernest Hemingway, et al, The Only Thing That Counts: The Ernest Hemingway-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence, University of South Carolina Press, 1999, 335.

• Ernest Hemingway," The Story and Its Writer, ed. Ann Charters, Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999, 652.

• nest Hemingway, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro," The Short Stories (Scribner, 1995), 60.

• The Short Stories, 213.

• The Short Stories, unnumbered page.