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Ernest Hemingway. By CJ LoConte. Background. Born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois Grew a big outdoorsman and journalist for newspapers Served as an ambulance driver in WWI and war journalist in the Spanish Civil War and WWII - Huge influence on his writing Married four times
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Ernest Hemingway By CJ LoConte
Background • Born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois • Grew a big outdoorsman and journalist for newspapers • Served as an ambulance driver in WWI and war journalist in the Spanish Civil War and WWII - Huge influence on his writing • Married four times • Committed suicide on July 2, 1961
Famous Works • The Sun Also Rises (1926) • A Farewell To Arms (1929) • Death in the Afternoon (1932) • The Old Man and the Sea (1952) • The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway (1987)
Code Hero Traits • Death with dignity • Never showing emotion • Individualism • Courage and Bravery • Admitting to "Nada"
Death with Dignity • Know they are going to die, but face it head-on. • Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea • Death in the Afternoon - Bull and the matador
No Emotion • Shows a weakness • Frederic Henry - A Farewell to Arms - does not talk of the war, patriotism, heroism, or faith. • Jake Barnes - The Sun Also Rises -Injured in WWI does not talk about his injury or consequences of it.
Individualism • Never allows something to tie them down to prevent acts of adventure. • Santiago does not fish with other men, just himself • Do not let women in the world tie them down - Jake Barnes and Frederic Henry eventually fall in love, but do not let themselves lose adventure
Courage and Bravery • Where the man proves his worth, describes the conduct of the code hero. • Grace under pressure. • Bullfighters - Death in the Afternoon • War Veterans - Frederic Henry and Jake Barnes • Santiago courage over the sea and its predators
Nada • Nothing, represents meaningless • A common theme in Hemingway's works where the hero would believe in nothing and no afterlife. Displayed by a fear of the night. • "A Clean, Well Lighted Place" - Short story the term "nada" is used to describe the nothingness of the world.
Works Cited Hemingway, Ernest. The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway. New York:Charles Scribner's Son, 1987. Print. - - -. Death in the Afternoon. New York: Charles Scribners Son, 1932. Print. - - -. A Farewell to Arms. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. N. pag. Print. - - -. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Print. - - -. The Sun Also Rises. New York: Scribner's, 1926. Print. "The Hero of the Code." TIME 6 July 1999: n. pag. TIME Magazine. Web. 18 Mar.2013. <http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,27780-3,00.html> Kramer, Victor A. "American Novel: Ernest Hemingway." PBS. Thirteen/WNET New York, Mar. 2007. Web. 18 Mar. 2013. <http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americannovel/timeline/hemingway.html>. www.images.google.com