Ernest Hemingway

1. Hemingway was born in July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. In July 2, 1961 Ernest shot himself. In 1928, Ernest’s father shot himself. Ernest Hemingway

2. World War I1914The Great War • Hemingway wanted to enter into the war but was not permitted to. • Hemingway was allowed to join the ambulance crew in Italy, so he quit his job as a journalists. • Hemingway endured the best and worst of war and lived to write about it.

3. A letter written by Hemingway during the war. • “There was one of those big noises you sometimes hear at the front. I died then. I felt my soul or something coming right out of my body, like you’d pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner. It flew all around and then came back and went away again and I wasn’t dead anymore.”

4. Three soldiers witnessed Hemingway’s near death experience and ran to his aid. Doing so, they were gunned down by ‘Australian Machine Gunners,’ Hemingway went to their aid and was shot once in the leg and once in the arm. He managed to carry one of the soldiers out of the line of fire. Hemingway had no recollection of the event until an officer awarded him the Medal of Valor. Awarded a Medal de Valor

5. Romance • Almost First Wife-Agnes Von Kurwosky • She was a nurse that he worked with. But she felt she was too old for him • First Wife-Elizabeth Hadley Richardson • Married for 4 years, had a son. She left him because of his affair with… • Second Wife-Pauline Pfeiffer • Married for 12 years. They had two boys together. He had an affair, again, with… • Third Wife-Martha Gelhorn • Married for 4 years. Things turned bad between them, and by this time he already knew and loved… • Fourth Wife-Mary Welsh • Married for 15 years. Until his death.

6. Hemingway mainly wrote about events that he encountered during the war. This was easy when he incorporated the feelings that were surging through him at those moments. Some Short Stories “Soldier’s Home” “The Snow of Kilimanjaro” “A Way you’ll Never Be” “A Natural History of the Dead” “Now I Lay Me” “In Another Country” Hemingway’s Literature

7. A Farewell to Arms Three Stories and Ten Poems In Our Time The Sun Also Rises Men Without Women Winner Take Nothing Death in the Afternoon The Green Hills of Africa To Have and Have Not For Whom the Bell Tolls The Old Man and the Sea A Moveable Feast Islands in the Stream True at First Light Some Books

8. A young man, Krebs Harold, came back from war. He explains how the girls in his neighborhood have grown up, and how much he enjoys watching them walk by. He does not want to get emotionally involved with any of them…”I don’t want things to be complicated.” For this same reason , he tells his mother that he loves her, and he loves God…but he does not really. He tells her this because he does not want to upset her. Truth is that he lost the ability to love. “Soldier’s Home”

9. Hemingway and Nick Adams • “In Another Country” • “Now I Lay Me” • “A Way You’ll Never Be” • Most of the stories were collected in1972 book titled, “The Nick Adams Stories.” • Name of Hemingway’s protagonists. • Hemingway lived through these events, thus allowing him to tell his stories.

10. Nick was a young man that was wounded but still wanted to participate in the war. He was to disguise himself as an American Veteran because if someone seen one American, they’d think others were coming. Mostly Hemingway wanted his readers to see how this narrator felt about himself and his wounds. “Damaged Goods.” “Nick was very disappointed that he felt this way, and more disappointed, even, that it was so obvious to Captain Paravicini.” Story was told through the mouth of Nick Adams. “A Way You’ll Never Be”

11. “Now I Lay Me” • A young single man, Nick Adams, went to war. One night when he was going to sleep, their camp was attacked by a bomb. Since that event, he cannot sleep at nights. He explains how he passes the time by; he recalls every event he can remember since he was small, and along the way, prays for everyone he knew. He stayed in the military and never married. • The terrible after shock of the war left all these horrible memories giving him insomnia.

12. “In Another Country” “I Cannot Resign Myself” –Nick Adams “A Clean Well-Lighted Place” This story was written five years after his fathers suicide… Who thinks that this is where Hemingway thought of the plot for this story? Let’s discuss the questions that you answered. This was written during the first and second marriage. Thoughts of suicide ran through his head. He wrote to Pauline that both of them (himself and Pauline) would be better off if he died and went to hell.

13. http://thales.ltc.arizona.edu/~sohara/wrt102/ • http://ernesthemingwaycollection.corplogoware.com/ernesthemingwaycollection/splash.htm • http://www.lostgeneration.com/auctions.htm • http://www.hemingwayhome.com/HTML/main_menu.html • http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0002133/ • http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/virthem.htm • http://www.ehfop.org/hemingway/index.html • http://www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/h/hemingway20.htm • http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ernest_Hemingway/ • http://hemingway.astate.edu/

14. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108596/ 11 hours 14 minutes

15. Interview • Interviewer: Would you admit to there being symbolism in your novels? Hemingway: I suppose there are symbols since critics keep finding them. If you do not mind, I dislike talking about them and being questions about them. It is hard enough to write books and stories without being asked to explain them as well. If five or six more good explainers can keep going why should I interfere with them? Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading. • http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/heming.htm

16. Bibliography • http://www.ernest.hemingway.com/default.htm • http://education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/entry/Hemingwa • http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1954/hemingway-bio.html • http://www.timelesshemingway.com/photos.shtml • http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hemingwa.htm • http://www.lostgeneration.com/hrc.htm • http://www.eduplace.com/kids/hmr/mtai/hemingway.html • http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/heming.htm