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Ernest Hemingway 's The Sun

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Ernest Hemingway lived a fairly normal childhood. He was born on July 21st, 1899 to Grace and Clarence Hemingway in Oak Park, Illinois. He was heavily influenced by nature as a young man and would take summer trips to Walloon Lake in Michigan (Ernest 1). During his stay, he would participate in hunting and fishing. His passion for nature influenced many parts in his works, such as the fishing trip in his novel, The Sun Also Rises. Hemingway grew up in a well educated and rather wealthy household, living in a seven bedroom house with his father, a doctor, and his mother, a musician. As a teenager, he attended River Forest High school where, unlike many authors, was very popular and excelled in his classes (Wikipedia 2). In addition to his popularity and overall success in high school, he was very athletic as he was involved in many sports such as track and field, boxing, and football. He was greatly affected by the masculinity of his father and, in return, learned to hate his mother. Perhaps this was the root of his rejection of femininity that influenced his seemingly misogynistic views portrayed in his works. As a junior in high school, Hemingway joined a journalism class that sparked his love for writing. He wrote for the school paper The Trapeze, as well as the yearbook, The Tabula. His style of writing seemed to imitate that of a sports writer (Wikipedia 2). Hemingway’s writing was often inspired by the post World War 1 Generation. As a young man, he responded to a

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