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Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms

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Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms

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    1. Ernest Hemingway and A Farewell to Arms

    2. Background of the Author Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois He was the second of six children and had four sisters and one brother His father was a doctor and also an avid hunter and outdoorsman

    3. In High School, Hemingway played football and learned to wrestle During this time he also incurred permanent eye damage. This caused him to be rejected by the Army during WWI Hemingway was also the editor of his high school newspaper, The Trapeze

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    5. Hemingway after high school After graduating, Hemingway went to Kansas City and became a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star In 1918, Hemingway joined the Red Cross and was an ambulance driver in Italy during World War I This experience provided background for the book A Farewell to Arms While serving on the Italian front, Hemingway was seriously wounded The war experiences (the cruelty and endurance it requires) forms a major part of Hemingway’s writing.

    7. After the war After the war, Hemingway settled in Paris, the literary capital of the world He worked as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star. During this time, he became acquainted with Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and Sherwood Anderson, all American expatriates. Hemingway soon became a spokesman for the Lost Generation writers and other artists disillusioned by the war. From 1944-1945, he was a war correspondent on the Western Front during World War II

    9. Literary Awards Hemingway’s novel The Old Man and the Sea, published in 1952 won him a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize

    10. Personal Life Hemingway was married four times. Elizabeth Hadley Richardson was the first, and eight years older than Hemingway Pauline Marie Pfeiffer was a well-educated, devout Catholic with a huge trust fund Martha Ellis Gellhorn who was the only of his wives to leave him Mary Welsh was his fourth wife, a journalist from Minnesota, who married him in 1946 and was with him until his death

    11. Hemingway moved from one exotic locale to another including; Spain, Cuba, Africa, and Key West, Florida He cultivated a reputation as a tough, hard-drinking man’s man

    12. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway died of a self-inflicted gun shot wound in Ketchum, Ohio It is said that in the last few years of his life, Hemingway was a very troubled man. He even received rounds of electro-shock therapy shortly before he killed himself

    13. Hemingway’s Heroes Hemingway’s heroes live adventure-filled lives that are driven by courage and limited by fear They hide a sensitive heart under a tough exterior “Grace under pressure” is their motto His heroes are hemmed in by forces beyond their control

    14. Hemingway’s Style Simplicity is the key to Hemingway’s style Short sentences, carefully selected words, and realistic dialog are all Hemingway trademarks For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed. Hemingway upon receiving the Nobel Prize in literature, 1954

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