Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

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HEMINGWAY’S LIFE

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois in 1899, he started to work as a writer at a very young age and became one of the most recognized authors of fiction in the world. For his talented writing he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Throughout his life he experienced many events that influenced his writing style such as, his travels, personal experiences and personal affairs.

1. HEMINGWAY’S TRAVEL:

Hemingway traveled for different reasons to many countries mostly due to his occupation as a reporter and editor. According to the article Tracing the Literary Travel of Ernest Hemingway, the countries where Hemingway traveled were: • Italy where he served in the World War I as an ambulance driver
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• Chicago in United States but still presenting his articles to Toronto Star.
• Spain where we worked as a journalist of the Spanish Civil war, Ernest Hemmingway was a person who loved Spain, but more than Spain he really loved San Fermin Festival, a spectacle of bullfighting accompanied of drinks and friends. The festival is celebrated in a small city located in Pamplona capital of Navarra in Spain, due to his trips to Spain he wrote his famous novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’, this novel is known as a “Fiesta book” in commemoration of San Fermin Festivals. A known writer “Mr. John Aldridge refers to these two novels The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arm as primarily descriptions of a society that had lost the possibility of belief. They were dominated by an atmosphere of gothic ruin, boredom, sterility and decay.’” 2
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1 & 2 Based on article about Ernest Hemingway in Poetry Foundation
• Africa where he enjoyed the safaris and the local culture, inspiration of some of his works.
• Cuba where he lived with his third wife Martha who he married about fifteen days after getting divorce of Pauline
• Idaho where he commits suicide.

2. PERSONAL
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Hemingway had lived with his parents until the age of seventeen and they were very strict and educate their six children under an exaggerated sense of morality according to Hemingway. The author represented this critic in his work In Our Time, 1924 that was rejected for many older readers including his parents. An important writer, “Earl Rovit noted: ‘More often than not, Hemingway's fictions seem rooted in his journeys into himself much more clearly and obsessively than is usually the case with major fiction writers.... His writing was his way of approaching his identity—of discovering himself in the projected metaphors of his experience. He believed that if he could see himself clear and whole, his vision might be useful to others who also lived in this world.’” His experiences provided him inspiration for his novels. It is good to mention an important stage of Hemmingway’s life when he was a child, because he adopted his father activities such as hunting, fishing, and camping and based on these activities he likes being in areas where he was alone. It was part of the outdoors activities that his father taught him. His time living in Cuba made Hemmingway to be inspired in his book “The Old Man and the Sea” the loneliness can be seen in the protagonist of this story,

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