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    The Most Interesting Man In The World The author I have chosen is Ernest Hemingway, who is one of the most celebrated authors of the 20th century. He was an American novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Hemingway wrote a variety of novels. My favorites are For Whom the Bell Tolls, written in 1940, A Farewell to Arms, written in 1929, and The Sun Also Rises, written in 1926. Most of Hemingway’s works are often criticized and considered sexist, but I believe that they give us a glimpse from

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    Ernest Hemongway His Life in his Works F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote in a letter to Maxwell Perkins, ‘This is to tell you about a young man named Ernest Hemingway, who lives in Paris (an American)... I’d look him up right away. He’s the real thing.’ This is perhaps the most prophetic statement Fitzgerald ever made in his lifetime, because Ernest Hemingway was indeed ‘the real thing’. Only months after that letter was written, Hemingway’s first book of short stories, In Our Time,

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    Ernest Hemingway 's third novel a Farewell to arms was being created with his early experience with war. Just out of High school, E.Hemingway tried volunteering to fight in World War 1 but he was rejected by the U.S. military because of his poor eyesight. Instead he voluntarily enlisted in the Italian ambulance corps on the Italian front where he was injured by a mortar shell. While E.Hemingway was recovering he started to fall in love with a nurse named Agnes Von Kurowsky. She however

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    Among the writers, there was Earnest Hemingway. Married four times, he was one of the many writers known to use his life experiences as a plot to his fictional work. With the many different women he had in his life he was able to use his experiences with them and create simplicity masterpieces. Hemingway’s “Hills like White Elephants” was one of many short stories that amplified the lost generation living styles in a very simple writing style. Ernest Hemingway was born in 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois

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    Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1889. He raised in the small town of Oak Park in Illinois. His mother was a musician and growing up forced young Ernest to take several hours of music lessons, but he hated it, this caused Hemingway to hate his mother for most of this life. While his father on the other hand, would take him fishing and hunting in Northern Michigan. After High school he became a journalist at The Kansas City Star and discovered his love of writing. When WWI came around

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    Biography of Ernest Hemingway "Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. You will meet them doing various things with resolve, but their interest rarely holds because after the other thing ordinary life is as flat as the taste of wine when the taste buds have been burned off your tongue." ('On the Blue Water' in Esquire, April 1936) A legendary novelist, short-story

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    Ernest Hemingway defined a hero as, “A man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.” It is blatantly apparent that Henry, the protagonist of A Farewell to Arms, did not exemplify any of these traits at all in the beginning of the novel. However, as the book progressed, Henry gradually learned how to be a “Hemingway Hero”, and he eventually progressed to the point where he completely embodied

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    The Themes and Styles of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway was regarded as one of the greatest American novelists and short story writers, winning both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. His best-known works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. He is also famous for his “terse dialogue and understatement.” (Frohock 1) His themes tend to be of courage, gender, emotions, and image. Hemingway’s history as a soldier and world traveler is what

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    Although Ernest Hemingway incurred a public image of a carefree veteran-of-war turned writer, he was a man suffering under the sickness of having been present in the face of death; in the photograph of Hemingway, the set of his shoulders, position of his knees, and the gun in front of his eye all reveal that despite his misnomered facade, he was a sick person. At first glance, one can see Hemingway holding a gun in front of his face, with his shoulders closed off to the photographer. A person usually

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    Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway gives different viewpoints about Hemingway’s life and marriage. Hemingway gives the character Harry, who gets an infection in his leg and is suffering from great pain, a different outlook on his life when death gets involved. When describing such themes as death, infection and the small and unimportant values of life, we see a different kind of Harry come out of the story. A bashful, unkind, and shameful Harry is brought into our imagination with such imagery

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