...Module 4 Essay - 1900-1945 Fiction Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author during the 20th Century, and many of his writings are a staple of American literature. Hemingway's was such a successful author because the characters he created in his work seemed real to the reader and could be related to. Among his works he published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; also three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published after his death. (Nobel Prize) During his lifetime, he was awarded with, Silver Medal of Military Valor in World War I, Pulitzer Prize in 1953 (for The Old Man and the Sea) Nobel Prize in literature in 1954 (also partly for The Old Man and the Sea) In 2001, two of his books, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, would be named to the list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century by the editorial board of the American Modern Library. (Noble Prize) Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on July 21, 1899. (Belasco, 976) His father was a physician, and Ernest was the second of six children born to Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. His mother with considerable music talent hoped that her son would develop an interest in music. Instead, Hemingway acquired his father's enthusiasm for guns and for fishing trips in the north woods of Michigan. (Belasco, 976) Hemingway writes in a deceptively simple...
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...Ernest Hemingway The author's life: * Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. His father was a physician, and his mother, was a musician. * Beginning his career as a journalist for the Kansas City Star, Hemingway chose the newspaper instead of pursuing a college career, and although he only stayed with the Star for a mere six months, he used the newspaper’s style guide as a foundation for his writing. Later, The Star named Hemingway its top reporter for the last hundred years. * Unable to pass the physical examination due to poor vision, Hemingway could not join the United States Army as his father had hoped. Instead, he chose the Red Cross Ambulance Corps and served on the Italian front. One of his first short stories entitled, A Natural History of the Dead was written after witnessing the brutalities of war. After a war injury, a romantic relationship with one of his nurses spurred the writing of A Farewell to Arms and A Very Short Story. * After the war, Hemingway returned to newspaper work with the Toronto Star. In 1921, he married his first wife and they eventually moved to Paris and then to Canada. During this time period, Hemingway wrote some of his greats such as The Sun Also Rises, A Moveable Feast, and In Our Time. * In 1927 Hemingway divorced Hadley Richardson and married Pauline Pfeiffer. * The rest of his life contained triumphs such as For Whom the Bell Tolls, the Pulitzer Prize in...
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...Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat. Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith...
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...Literary Biography December 13, 2013 Ernest Hemingway led a life one can only imagine in stories, but started from a rather boring town called Oak Park in Illinois. This life began on July 21, 1899. Perhaps his own stories are a place you can get an idea of this author’s life. Many critics say that he mirrored a lot of stories from his own life, and knowing a little about his real life, you can draw the parallels from fact to fiction. Hemingway spent his summers in Michigan, in a small cabin in the woods next to the Ojibway Indians, whom he was very good friends with. His father, Clarence, taught him the way of nature, including how to identify plants, hunt and fish, among other things. Ernest liked his father, who committed suicide in his mid-fifties. Two of his siblings also committed suicide (he was one of six). His mother was “cold and domineering,” and some say she emasculated his father. In his adult life, he was married four times, but “When I saw my wife again standing at the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.” This quote, which I think gives a testament to how beautifully he could write, is speaking of his first wife, Hadley, whom he met and married within a year. They had a son together, but after Hadley was at fault in getting his collection of stories stolen, their relationship wouldn’t recover. When in high school, Hemingway’s love for writing started to show. He wrote for...
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...Cribbs 1 Dustin Cribbs Professor O’Neal Composition 2 16 April 2015 A biography of the life of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father was a doctor and his mother was a musician. He went to Oak Park and River Forest High School and played many sports, but was very well known as a boxer. He did excellent in his English classes throughout school. Hemingway started writing pieces for his school’s newspaper, The Trapeze, he would later become the editor of the newspaper and his schools yearbook. He primarily wrote about different sporting events in the newspaper. After graduating high school Hemingway went to work for The Kansas City Star. This is said to be where he picked up his distinct writing style because the Star had a style guide by which to write. After his short time at The Kansas City Star he went to war as an ambulance driver for the Italian army. When he first went to war he arrived in Paris, France while it was under artillery fire from the Germans. While serving the war Hemingway was seriously injured by a mortar shell and was sent to the hospital, this is where he met a women by the name of Agnes von Kurowsky. He would propose to her later when they went back to America, but she would leave him for another man before they could ever get married sadly. “This devastated the young writer but provided information for his works "A Very Short Story" and, more famously, A Farewell to Arms” (biography)...
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...Influence Ernest Hemingway was one of the greatest authors of his time. His writing style seems very straightforward, yet complexities are strung throughout it. Ernest Hemingway’s parental issues impacted his marriage, writing, and ultimately his death. Hemingway’s childhood consisted of mostly neglect. Ernest was born on July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois (“Biography” 1). Oak Park, according to Hemingway was “full of wide lawns and narrow minds” (McDowell 11). He was the second child of six (McDowell 13). His mother was the “man” of the house while his father was an underpaid doctor. Grace Hemingway, once an aspiring opera singer, bullied and humiliated Ernest (“Oak” 3). It was believed she drove him to depression and eventually...
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...Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway Summary “Cat in the Rain” is a short story written by Ernest Hemingway. The story takes place in Italy, which we know because some persons in the story speak Italian. The main character’s name remained unknown but in the short story she was called “The American wife”. She lived at a hotel with her husband, George. One day the wife stood at the window looking out and spotted a crouched cat under a dripping table at a café across the square. When she saw the poor cat, she decided to go down and get it. On her way downstairs she met the hotel owner, who stoop up and bowed to her as she passed the office. The wife liked him. She liked every single bit of him. She even liked his old, heavy face and his big hands. When the wife went outside the table was there, washed bright green in the rain, but the cat was gone. She returned back to their hotel room, where George was reading a book. She told him how badly she wanted this cat without knowing why. Afterwards she began criticizing herself and told her husband that she wanted long hair, new clothes, she wanted it to be spring and most importantly she wanted a kitty. Her husband did not seem to take her seriously, as he only told her to shut up and get something to read. Suddenly someone knocked at the door, and the friendly maid held a big tortoiseshell cat pressed tight against her and swung down against her body. She had brought the cat for The American wife. Characterization of The American...
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...Mini essay about Ernest Hemingway’s ”Mr and Mrs Elliot” Ernest Hemingway’s typical style of writing is called “minimalism”. The style is also used in this story. A plot defines the genre with few persons, few adjectives, which make the story less describing, and a short story. All these things are shown in this story. Even though the narrator is all knowing, he doesn’t use a psychological describing of the persons, but instead shows their personality through action and dialogue. For example you don’t get to know much about Mr and Mrs Elliot’s past. But if you want the whole and true story you have to read between the lines. Questions is coming up like is she really lesbian? Who do we have to feel sorry for? In the start of the story you may be confused, because he describes a bullfight. But if you read the whole story you can see that the bullfight is a synonym for what Mr Elliot goes threw. In the introduction a boy is hidden away under the cape, just like Mr Elliot is hidden away in his own room at the end of the story. The story have a very dynamic mood all the way threw and even though it’s the man who is left alone in a room in the end and the women who lays in bed with her girlfriend, you still get the feeling that it’s the lady who is miserable. All along she has been living in this illusion of a perfect life; Her having a baby with a young, talent man that apparently only have loved her. She tries to escape her real identity; that she’s a lesbian and that she’s way...
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...Hope is a four letter word that has a thousand meanings. Hope can be expressed in many different ways. Google.com describes hope to be a feeling of excitement while waiting for something significant to occur. Every person experiences hope at least once a day. In the Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, Santiago was desperately trying to catch a marlin. This marlin represents hope. The marlin represents hope because it is the one thing that Santiago will not let go, it gives Santiago strength, and in the end, is mostly lost. The marlin, which represents hope, is one thing that Santiago will not let go. When the tug loosens on the fishing line Santiago exclaims, “‘He can’t be gone’ he said, ‘Christ knows he can’t have gone’” (Hemingway 42). Santiago keeps holding the marlin for strength and will not give up. He was so hopeful that the fish was there that there was no way in his mind that he could give up. “You work now, fish...I’ll take you at the turn” (Hemingway 89). Santiago will not let go of this fish. The marlin is everything to him and once that is gone he is left with nothing but himself. He has calculated every move so that he will catch the fish. Nothing is able to stop him. When Santiago does have the marlin on his line, than he is filled with both hope and strength. The marlin that Santiago is trying to catch...
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...Ernest Hemingway vs. William Faulkner Unlike any other author the style of writing Ernest Hemingway uses in his stories are short and long sentences, but when a sentence is long it is joined with conjunctions such as and’s, but’s, and because. For example, “In the day time the street was dusty, but at night the dew settled the dust and the old man liked to sit because he was deaf and now at night it was quiet and he felt the difference.” (Hemingway, pg 165) Hemingway’s stories are like reading a speech. In addition, Hemingway does not use any emotions into his writing; his stories are simply and have little meaning to it. His writing is similar to life because in life, you often find yourself given little information and must read between the lines to understand something to figure out what to do next. William Faulkner writing is very different from Hemingway’s way of writing; he uses longer complex sentences in his stories. For example, He could not see the table where the justice sat and before which his father and his father’s enemy (our enemy he thought in that despair: ourn! mine and hisn both! He’s my father) stood, but he could not hear them, the two of them that is, because his father had said no word yet.” (Faulkner, pg 169) Additionally, Faulkner’s sentences interrupts with parenthesis. Unlike Hemingway, Faulkner uses emotions in his writing. A writer might learn from Faulkner’s writing because it has sentence...
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...Cat in the Rain by Ernest Hemingway | Summary The short story "Cat in the Rain" was written by Ernest Hemingway in the 1920´s. It is about an American couple that spends their holidays in an Italian hotel. It is a rainy day and the American woman sees a cat in the rain, which she wants to protect from the raindrops. When she goes out of the hotel, which is kept by an old Italian who really seems to do everything to please that woman, and wants to get the cat, it is gone. After returning to the hotel room, she starts a conversation with her husband George, who is reading all the time, telling him how much she wants to have a cat and other things, for instance her own silver to eat with. Her husband seems to be annoyed by that and not interested at all. At the end of the story there is a knock on the door and the maid stands there holding a cat for the American woman in her hands.Peculiarities of the introduction The first thing that caught my eyes was the long description at the beginning. First there is a description of the environment in good weather, which means spring or summer, then a description of the momentary situation in the rain. This description creates an atmosphere that is sad, cold and unfriendly. To create this atmosphere Hemingway uses words such as "empty" or "the motorcars were gone". Later on, by looking at the relationship of the two Americans, you can see that this description was a foreshadowing of the state of the couple´s relationship: First it was...
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...Analysis of ”Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway, Oktober 24, 2011 Analysis of “Indian Camp” by Ernest Hemingway ”Indian camp” is a short story by Ernest Hemingway written in 1921. It’s about the young boy Nick who accompanies his father, who is a doctor, to an Indian camp where an Indian woman has been in labour for a few days. His uncle George is also going with them to the camp but in another boat. They arrive at the camp where Nick’s father is going help the woman have her baby. The woman is lying on a bunk inside one of the shanties. Her husband, who has hurt his foot, is lying in the upper bunk. Nick’s father has to do a caesarean and Nick watches while his father is preforming the operation. When the baby is born Nick’s father turns to the Indian woman’s husband to see how he’s doing but it turns out that the husband has committed suicide by cutting his throat whit a razor. Then Nick and his father sails back, while Nick is asking a lot of questions. Setting The story takes place in an Indian camp - and on a lake, a meadow and in a wood on the way to and from the camp in northern Michigan (I assume it’s in Michigan, because a nurse will come from St. Ignace (page 15, line 17), witch is a city in northern Michigan). It probably takes place around 1910 based on the fact that Hemingway himself was a child at that time and his own father also was a doctor, who also paid doctor’s calls among Indians in Michigan. Also what is going on in the short story corresponds...
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...F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway were American writers of the 20th century with different trademarks in their writing styles such as unadorned prose or using a plethora of adjectives to create a vivid image. Even with the different styles, their stories had similar points of view with the shaping of similar characters. Through The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” by Ernest Hemingway, the theme of isolation and struggle to deal with despair are conveyed through the passing of time, the understanding of defeat, and the keeping of the company of others. Throughout The Great Gatsby, the reality of isolation and the loom of loneliness in the air consumes the lives of the majority of the characters. One...
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...Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the most influential authors of the 20th century. ered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century. He was best known for his novels and short stories, but he was also an accomplished journalist and war correspondent. Hemingway's trademark prose style, simple and spare, influenced a generation of writers. His writing is still impacting literature and writers to this day. His distinct writing style is still recognized everyday. New writers are still being inspired by his work. He was fearless as a war correspondent, and courageous as a writer. His writings were blunt and removed any “fluff” around the cold true details. He invented a radical modern approach to the formation of sentences...
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...Short stories often tend to be sending an embedded message to the reader. “Once more to the lake” by E.B. White, and “The Indian camp” by Ernest Hemingway convey the message of perceiving reality through the eyes of people from different backgrounds and ages. “Once more to the lake” and “The Indian camp” use different perceptions in order to reflect reality of life and death, through different imagery, themes, and symbolism. Firstly, imagery found in both stories help enroot the perception of reality intended by the authors. This strategy helps the reader in perceiving reality through the text. For instance, imagery is used in the Indian camp to visualize how Indians normally live in their reserves. This helps convey the message of which reflects the vivid reality the Indians are living during that time. In addition, imagery also helps in making the reader sense what the author is saying. For instance, hearing” the sound of the...
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