Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

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Ernest Hemingway was a great man, changing literacy as we know it today. He had his ups and downs in his life, but they were all inspirations to his writing. Hemingway did not settle for an ordinary life. He went hunting on his free time, traveled, and married quite a few times in his life. Extraordinary life with extraordinary stories. Ernest Hemingway first opened his eyes on July 21, 1899, in Cicero Illinois, as we know it today as Oaks parks (Biography.com). Hemingway’s parents had a cabin in Northern Michigan. “It was there that the future sportsman learned how to hunt, fish and appreciate the outdoors” ( Biography.com). This was the beginning of Ernest Hemingway of becoming a sportsman and his love for writing about sports. As a …show more content…

He served as an ambulance driver in the Italian Army (Biography.com). He was badly wounded, however, he did not heal himself until the other soldiers were attended to. For his service and bravery Hemingway was awarded the Italian Silver Medal of Bravery, but soon sustained injuries that landed him in a hospital in Milan. Furthermore, when Hemingway went to the hospital he met a nurse, Agnes Von Kurowsky, who accepts his marriage proposal. Unfortunately, she falls in love with another man and leaves Ernest and never gets married. Since Agnes was Hemingway's first love, the tragic event inspired him to his writing, as the very famous “ A Farewell to Arms”. Soon after, “ he returns to the United States and spent time in Northern Michigan before taking a job at the Toronto Star,” (Biography.com). Toronto Star is a Canadian newspaper, that is still running today.Then he met Hadley Richardson that became his first wife. The Couple soon moves to Paris and still worked for the …show more content…

“Hemingway soon became a key part of what Gertrude Stein would famously call ‘The Lost Generation.’ With Stein as his mentor, Hemingway made the acquaintance of many of the great writer and artist of his generation, such as F.Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso and James Joyce,” (Biography.com). Ernest knowing just one person that had many connections was very useful to him and helpful. During their period in France, the couple had a son and joined a group of British and American Expatriates. This would later provide Hemingway's novel “The Sun Also Rises”. “ The novel is widely considered Hemingway’s greatest works, artfully examining postwar disillusionment of his generation,”

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