The Life and Works of Ernest Hemingway
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Ernest Miller Hemingway was born into the hand of his father, who was a physician, July 21 1899 in Oak Park Illinois. His father, Dr. Clarence Hemingway had a great interest in literature and history as well as outdoor activities such as fishing and hunting. The second of six children Ernest greatly partook in the activities and interests of his father. His mother,Hemingway was the daughter of an english immigrant. She was more the domineering type who wanted a daughter, instead of a son, and continuously dressed Ernest up as a girl and called him Ernestine. She was also very abusive to Clarence (Ernest’s father) who also suffered from diabetes. Dr. Hemingway committed suicide as a result. (Shelokhonov)
After Graduating from high school he began his long writing career as a reporter for The Kansas City Star. He quickly adopted the iconic minimalist style, using short sentences and short paragraphs. Only six months after becoming a reporter he joined the Ambulance Corps in World War 1 and worked as an ambulance driver on the Italian front. In July of 1918 Hemingway was wounded by a mortar shell, that left shrapnel in both legs that caused him pain the rest of his life. (Shelokhonov)
When he returned to America he began working for The Toronto Star and met Hadley Richardson whom he married in 1921. The Toronto Star made him a reporter in Paris in 1921, where he published his first books “Three Stories and Ten Poems” in 1923, and “In Our Time” in 1924. He also wrote “The Sun Also Rises” in 1926, “A Farewell To Arms” in 1929, and a brilliant collection of 49 stories. (Shelokhonov)
On the advice of John Dos Passos, Ernests friend in Paris and a fellow member of “Lost Generation”, Hemingway decided to visit Key West. On the way to Key W...
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...on there luck. Hemingway started a trend in all authors. Today countless authors use Hemingway’s short, simple, and to the point writing style in all of their works. He has left behind a brilliant new style of writing along with an unsatisfiable hunger for adventure, truth, and simplicity.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that ernest miller hemingway was born into the hand of his father, who was a physician, july 21 1899 in oak park illinois.
- Describes how hemingway began his long writing career as a reporter for the kansas city star. he joined the ambulance corps in world war 1 and worked as an ambulance driver on the italian front.
- Narrates how shelokhonov began working for the toronto star and married hadley richardson in 1921. he published "three stories and ten poems" and "in our time."
- Narrates how hemingway visited key west on the advice of john dos passos, a parisian friend of the "lost generation".
- Explains that hemingway participated in the spanish civil war and took part in d-day landings during the invasion of france during world war two. he was awarded the bronze star for his efforts and his actions.
- Describes how hemingway settled in cuba with his third wife martha gellhorn and wrote "the old man and the sea", which gave him the pulitzer prize he had long been denied.
- Narrates how hemingway's life was affected by two plane crashes, countless war wounds, several affairs, and four marriages. he was an alcoholic, suffered from biabetias and contracted mental issues such as bipolar disorder.
- Analyzes how hemingway left a lot of stuff behind for all of us to enjoy, study, and learn from. he used his own style of short paragraphs and straight to the point sentences without filling the readers with useless stuff.
- Explains that hemingway's simple down-to-earth style of writing was highly regarded by many americans. his stories were always "possible", meaning that they were all real life.
- Analyzes how an old weathered fisherman is joined by a young kid who wants to help the old man fish.
- Opines that people can connect to a book in more ways than one. not everyone is fisherman on bad luck streak but most people know what it's like to get something they've fought hard for only to have no choice.
- Explains that during hemingway's lifetime many historically significant things were happening, including the spanish civil war and the beginning of the cold war between the u.s.
- Concludes that ernest hemingway is an iconic american author. his writing has touched and influenced many from war veterans, to people a little down on their luck.
- Explains that ernest hemingway's biography is available at ibmb.
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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.
In this essay, the author
- 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 - Earnest Hemingwayanalytical essayErnest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, to Dr. Clarence Hemingway and Grace Hall Hemingway. Oak Park was a mainly Protestant, upper middle-class suburb of Chicago that Hemingway would later refer to as a “town of wide lawns and narrow minds" (Gerogiannis 188). The second among six children, Ernest spent the first two years of his life dressed as a girl by his mother. She called him “Ernestine” and fantasized that he was the twin of his older sister, as she dressed them both in matching dresses and gave them similar hairstyles (Rozkis 233) As he grew older, however, his father stepped in and insisted that Ernest be “raised like a man,” teaching Ernest how to behave and introducing him at a young age to hunting, fishing, and boxing, all activities in which he would stay interested for the rest of his life (Gerogiannis) It is perhaps this early start at questioning his manliness and his father’s attempts to drive any femininity out of him that instilled his characteristic obsession with proving his masculinity throughout his life.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes hemingway's change from writer to actual character in one of his own works, taking issue with his blustery tone, particularly when criticizing writers.
- Explains that hemingway traveled to spain in 1937 to cover the spanish civil war for the north american newspaper alliance. the civil war caused a marital war in his household as well.
- Explains that ernest hemingway is one of the 20th century's most important and influential writers. his recognizable prose style and innovative "iceberg theory" have gained him an immovable place in american literature.
- Describes ernest hemingway's life and works.
- Describes gerogiannis, nicholas, and ernest hemingway's dictionary of literary biography.
- Analyzes how ernest miller hemingway's writings reflected his trouble with relating to women and his tendency to treat them as objects.
- Narrates how hemingway's staccato writing style was planted after he resigned from the star and attempted to enlist in the army, but was rejected because of poor vision.
- Analyzes how hemingway exaggerated his heroism in retelling the events of the war, and how he became a close literary friend with fitzgerald.
- Narrates how the hemingways returned to the united states briefly in 1923 so they could resume concentrating on his writing and reconstruct the works he had lost. they met pauline pfeiffer, a fashion editor for vogue magazine.
- Narrates how hemingway divorced hadley and married pauline in 1928. after his father killed himself, he published his 1932 spanish bullfighting dissertation, death in the afternoon.
- Narrates how hemingway met martha gellhorn in key west, where they had a secret affair, before the franco-led rebels won the war, and he wrote for whom the bell tolls.
- Narrates how hemingway's story, the old man in the sea, won him the pulitzer prize.
- Narrates how hemingway and mary vacationed in east africa in 1954. the plane crashed and he broke through the door to escape. he was unable to attend the ceremonies in sweden.
- Cites nelson, raymond s. ernest hemingway: life, work, and criticism.
3008 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway Influenceexplanatory essayHemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21st, 1899 to his parents, Clarence and Grace Hemingway. His family was wealthy, and would eventually move to a much bigger house with a music studio and a medical office to accommodate their occupational needs. His relationship with his mother was rocky at best, and he complained of her persistence in making him play the cello. In a book written by his sister, she reported that Grace had been obsessed with having twin girls, and had gone as far to dress young Ernest in girl’s clothing and call him “Ernestine”. This went on until he was six years old, and may explain his continuous focus on appearing masculine later in life. His relationship with his mother would set the tone for his future interactions women. He was brought up a man’s man, his father teaching him to hunt, camp, and fish from the very young age of four years old. These summer retreats would take place at his family’s summer home on Lake Walloon in Michigan. Spending much of his time outdoors as a boy instilled in him a great affinity for nature and sporting. At Oak Park and River Forest High School, he was very involved in sports and did w...
In this essay, the author
- 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 - 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.
In this essay, the author
- 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 - 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.
In this essay, the author
- 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 Hemingway And A Farewell To Armsanalytical essayMohamad Abikenari Ms.Sedghi EL 4 Period: 2, 3 May 16, 2014 Hemingway, War and A Farewell to Arms Hemingway’s childhood and teenage years prompted him to enlist in the army and to go to World War I. His experience in World War I inspired him to write A Farewell to Arms, which depicts the real-life experience of the dangerous adventure of an ambulance driver who falls in love with the beauty of a woman who is a nurse during the war. Hemingway’s style of writing attracted millions of readers to purchase A Farewell to Arms. His ability of mixing fact and fiction made his works more unique and fascinating. His masterpiece became a symbol of hard life during war and it remains as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
In this essay, the author
- 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.
1557 wordsRead More - Ernest Hemingway's Life and Imageanalytical essayErnest Hemingway's Life and Image Ernest Hemingway was born on a July morning in 1899. Born at home in Oak Park, he was raised a conservative with strong values. While his father taught him to hunt and fish, his mother taught him music, her former profession. Though his mother’s music lessons helped him throughout his life, he didn’t particularly enjoy the lessons and spent as much time in the woods as he could manage. Nature became Hemingway’s world, the place where he could go and pull from it the essence of his writing.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that ernest hemingway was born in 1899 and was raised a conservative with strong values. though his father taught him to hunt and fish, his mother's music lessons helped him throughout his life, but he didn't enjoy the lessons.
- Explains that nature became hemingway's world, the place where he could go and pull from it the essence of his writing.
- Analyzes how hemingway's life is viewed as a personage of writing. he enlisted as an ambulance driver in world war i after quitting his job at the kansas city star.
- Explains that hemingway didn't make it three weeks into his service. he was injured by an exploding mortar, perforating his legs with shrapnel.
- Describes how hemingway used his insurance from the war to avoid work. he met harriett connable while speaking, who saw his confidence and control.
- Narrates how hemingway divorced hadley and remarried to pauline pfeiffer in 1927. they left paris for key west, where they lived happily for 12 years, until his father committed suicide.
- Narrates how hemingway didn't publish any new works for ten years, and married his fourth wife, mary welsh. the old man and the sea was sold out and earned him the pulitzer prize for fiction.
- Explains that hemingway was a true man of action determined to act and not to do. while others watched and read, he became an idea and legend.
695 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.
In this essay, the author
- 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 - 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 - 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.
In this essay, the author
- 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.
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