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Ernest Hemingway is the greatest American novelist and short story writer of our day who " who captured the imagination of the world." He was a temper inclined both to adventure and to a profound meditation, "obsessively concerned with himself and with his own experience. " Hemingway was born in the family of a small town at Oak Park,Illinois,on July 21 in 1899.Hemingway made many trips including several safaris to Africa and because of these African trips he wrote The Green Hills of Africa(1935) and two of his best short stories, The Snows of Kilimanjaro(1936) and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber(1938). Hemingway expected to accomplish two major focuses in his works: " to discover truth in daily life " and in the same time " to convey it to mankind by mens of symbols " using his own comprehension about life and also about people in an artistic language. …show more content…

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