...Introduction In July 2, 1961, our literacy world was surprised when “A man is not made for defeat ... a man can be destroyed but not defeated”, Ernest Hemiway, was suicide by his shotgun. For sixty-two years, being a great journalist, a soldier and a great writer, Hemingway sang the praise of courageous and extoled human values through his visual experience of the Great War. A Farewell to Arms (1929) – The World War I experience For Whom the Bells Toll (1940) – The Spanish Civil War The Oldman and the Sea (1952) – Ernest Hemingway’s war. (Life’s struggle) This paper will focus on three different wars in Ernest Hemingway’s time frame by concentrate his life style and its influence on writing emotion through his way to the Nobel Prize. Body I. Early Life A. Birth Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899 in the family which father is the doctor and mother is a former opera singer. During his childhood, he loved sports, hunting and fishing at the family’s summer house at Walloon Lake, Michigan. He was a talented writer, even when he was teenager, he always kept note fill with his thought and observation about the world around him. Hemingway fear his mother. As Martha Gellhorn, Hemingway’s third wife wrote “Deep in Ernest, due to his mother, going back to the indestructible first memories of childhood, was mistrust and fear of women” (http://www.salon.com/2006/08/12/gellhorn.html) B. Family His father, Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a doctor, and his mother, Grace...
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...The title of the novel “ For Whom The Bell Tolls “ Hemingway took the title of his novel “For Whom The Bell Tolls” from a metaphysical poet John Donne. He was the one that concerned the metaphor of the bell that it was signaling that someone has gone from this life which mean that it was signaling the death of human life. In the famous lines at the beginning of the “For Whom The Bell Tolls” paragraph: “ No man is an lland, intire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a Clod be washed away by the Sea, Europe is the less, as well as a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in menkind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Donne was trying to tell that everything has it end, that if something affects one it can affect them all because everyone like him is involved in menkind, and he realized that when he got ill. It is exactly how it happens with a tree, it starts from the seed, the stem, then comes the flowers that later produces fruits, and in the end one day it is fading. That is how it happens with humans beans, they get born, they grow up, produce and in the end they die just like the trees are fading. We live in fear every day in this world because we know that one day the clock will stop for us just like our heartbeats will stop beating anymore, and then I believe that...
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...selfe; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee." (Donne, J., 1924/1987) I find it ironic that this poem is written in 1924 by a poet who has recently recovered an illness that nearly takes his life, and is again used in the book by Ernest Hemmingway For whom the bell tolls, in which the main Character is a professor at a University who is also an explosions expert on a mission to blow up a bridge. Yet knowing he will not survive his mission uses this poem as a reference to what he is sure will be his own death. However, as I think of this person being a professor would it be an irony that instead of being death it may talk about life as a teacher? For whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee, not to remind us of death but to remind us of our service to Mankinde. Does that bell toll for our students to get to class or does that bell toll to remind us of the commitment we made when we decided to be teachers of those students. Now that I have your attention the following information has been asked of me to be considered as I explain my plan for vocabulary instruction. Considering the fact that Karen Bromley tells us in her article Nine Things a Teacher...
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...John Donne In Modern Culture * Famous lines “Ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” Inspired the title and opening lines of Hemmingway’s For Whom the Bell Tols * His poem “A Fever” mentioned in the novel The Silence of the Lambs * Van Morrison pays Donne tribute in his song “A Rave on John Donne” * A major part of the plot line in “Howl’s Moving Castle” is based off of “Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star”, as is Neil Gaiman’s novel Stardust * “Batter My Heart” is set to song in the opera Dr. Atomic (show clip) I personally think that his poetry and life, really, fit well into the world of opera because his life seems to follow the plot line of an opera. You typically have a subtle opening, setting up of the story. Then, an event comes and drastically changes everything. And then finally, as in every good dramatic opera, he dies. About Dr. Atomic John Adams and Peter Sellars' opera about Robert Oppenheimer, at the Nederlandse Opera in Amsterdam. Which better subject John Adams and Peter Sellars could have chosen to denonciate the fall of the modern world? The atomic bomb and its inventor, Robert Oppenheimer (Gerald Finley), are in the middle of the action of this opera premiered in 2005 at the San Francisco Opera. After him, the world will never be the way it used to be, and is inexorably shifting towards a new era: the nuclear era. And yet, this opera focuses on common and universal problems, including love stories and broken hearts. The...
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...Figure 1: “Pay The Rent” By Richard Bell, 2009, (Pay the rent, 2009 by Richard Bell. n.d. - n.d. - n.d. https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/203.2010.a-b/#bibliography) “Greetings and welcome to my Dreamtime (or should I say nightmare)” (Bell, 2006). As part of my exhibition I have written a speech for you all attending today. I will be taking you all on a journey into the intrinsic meanings and messages embedded in my art, while providing a brief insight into who I am. I was born in Charleville, Queensland, and based in Brisbane, I am a member of the Kamilaroi, Kooma, Jiman, and Gurang communities. “I work with mediums across video, painting, installation, and text” (Bell, 2009). Through my art, I walk on territory that hasn't...
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...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 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954, as well as extreme tragedies in his personal life. Later it was proven that Ernest Hemingway suffered from severe bouts of depression, alcoholism, and manic depressive episodes due to a hereditary disease known as bronze diabetes, in which excessive iron levels concentrate in the blood causing damage to the pancreas as...
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...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. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway...
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...In “The Martyrdom of Robert Jordan” by William T. Moynihan he states that the book highlights “a man willing to die for a cause, from this specific type of character stems the ‘mighty theme’ of For Whom the Bell Tolls, the oneness of mankind” (127). He goes on to state that there are multiple tests and obstacles thrown at Robert Jordan to deter him. Jordan has one goal in mind and must try his hardest to achieve it. Moynihan states that the plot depends on the goal, if the goal is not important, the plot becomes comic. If the goal is serious, the plot tends to become tragic. In the case of For Whom the Bell Tolls, it is a martyrdom plot wherein the hero dies while trying to obtain a serious goal. The book reveals that Jordan did not care...
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...“The route you have travelled through hundreds of miles is marked by the graves of former comrades. From them has been exacted the ultimate sacrifice; blood of many nations—American, British, Canadian, French, Polish and others—has help to gain the victory.” Celebrations of this day were recently performed in Britain. At march 8 2015 cathedrals all over Britain rang in memory of this day. Their sound meant that the celebration was starting and all of those who know about VE Day knew what had been made. Of course bell ringing wasn’t the only thing. At Greenwich, one of the Royal Navy's largest ships sounded its siren. Then, after the last toll of the bells, it was time to party. Many parties and festivals were hosted around the country, with people of all ages getting together to celebrate VE Day. VE Day is an annually celebrated day by plenty of nations in the world, certainly all of those whom were involved in WWII. People make marches, cathedrals ring their bells and there are even parades inspired by this day, the day WWII ended and the Allies defeated de Nazis. Imagine what would have been of the world if this day hadn’t come. Imagine more war, and bombs destroying our planet and killing each other as citizens of this planet earth. Thank god VE Day came, and this is a day we and our future generations must keep celebrating and remembering all of those who made this day possible. ...
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...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. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway...
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...In Spain In Our Hearts, Americans In The Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939, author Adam Hochschild describes the escapades of Americans during the Spanish Civil War. For three years during the 1930's the Spanish Civil War dominated headlines in America and around the world. Volunteers flooded into Spain to help its democratic government fight off a right-wing coup led by Francisco Franco and aided by Hitler and Mussolini. It was a shockingly brutal war, but it was soon overshadowed by the world war that it helped introduce. Today it is remembered through just a few classic accounts: Ernest Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls, George Orwell's memoirs, Robert Capa's photographs. But in Spain...
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...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. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway...
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...are quite the opposite. Just because one particular American has been involved in something bad, means that every American will be or do the same. Some do consider to find a way to help out and saver their country and their people, but others unfortunately do not. Those Americans who consider not helping is mostly because they do not want to deal with the problem and end up looking for easy ways to deal with them, like trying to vanish and hurt others. Like in both of the novels, the Americans have a big role but it is very easy to distinguish their differences. In For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, the American really wants to find resolutions to the problem and shares the love towards the local people while in The Quite America by Graham Greene, the American is the one that is causing the problems towards the local people. Starting with the political role of the American in For Whom the Bell Tolls who name was Robert Jordan, he sees himself as a Republican but truly against fascists because he does not like how the government is being control and ruled by a dictator. While Maria, a republican girl asked Robert Jordan if he was a communist, he states, “No I am an anti-fascist… I have been a Republican for twenty years” (Hemingway, 66). Being a Republican in 1934, when the Spanish Civil War started, surely shows that he wanted to help out the government so they could gain some control of their country. This demonstrates that Robert Jordan was just trying to look up...
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...Ernest Hemingway from film The Famous Authors Series Ernest Hemingway: A Concise Biography 1996 born 1899 Oak Park, Illinois, a wealthy suburb of Chicago died 1961 Ketchum, Idaho (61 years) A. Residences Lived in Illinois, Kansas City, New York, Italy, Paris, Canada, Austria, Spain, China, Key West, Africa, Cuba, Idaho B. Major Works The Torrents of Spring 1926 In Our Time – collection of related stories 1925 The Sun Also Rises 1925 A Farewell to Arms 1928 Winner Take Nothing 1933 “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” The Snows of Kilimanjaro 1935 To Have and to Have Not 1937 The Green Hills of Africa 1938 “The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber” For whom the Bell Tolls 1940 The Old Man and the Sea 1952 awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954 A Moveable Feast 1964 posthumous C. Themes – driven by action expressed through minimalism and realism Fighting against the odds or against difficult forces Struggling against mighty forces Surviving among other humans Competing with other men Falling in love D. Style of Writing Minimalism – clear, terse prose often driven by action, only a sketch presents the story using dialog to furnish characterization and motive readers must fill in the bare essentials by analyzing the setting, characters, and sequence of events as well as the symbols E. Friends and Expatriate Americans who moved...
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...INGRID BERGMAN Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on August 29, 1915. Her mother died when she was only two and her father died when she was 12. Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses. The woman who would be one of the top stars in Hollywood in the 1940s had decided to become an actress after finishing her formal schooling. She had had a taste of acting at age 17 when she played an unaccredited role of a girl standing in line in the Swedish film Landskamp (1932). It would be three more years before she would have another chance at a film. When she did, it was more than just a bit part. The film in question was Munkbrogreven (1935), where she had a speaking part as Elsa Edlund. After several films that year that established her as a class actress, Ingrid appeared in Intermezzo (1936/I) as Anita Hoffman. Luckily for her, American producer David O. Selznick saw it and sent a representative from Selznick International Pictures to gain rights to the story and have Ingrid signed to a contract. Once signed, she came to California and starred in United Artists' 1939 remake of her 1936 film, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939), reprising her original role. The film was a hit and so was Ingrid. Her beauty was unlike anything the movie...
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