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=Ernest Miller Hemingway by Justin Airk Jordan=

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It is hard to understand one such as Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway was fond of saying that he wanted no biography written while he was alive, and preferably not for a hundred years after he was dead. In another mood, he remarked that if he were ever to be mounted, he would prefer to have the job done by Jonas Brothers of Yonkers, New York, the finest taxidermists in the land. Of these three wishes, he got only the first, which is probably just as well. Had it been possible to write his biography during his lifetime it would have been impossible to tell what has been told about his life and work. If the preparation of a biography had been put off for a century, much valuable information would have been inevitably been lost or destroyed. Even the best of taxidermists could not have preserved the complex and many sided man and artist.======

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Hemingway was a romantic activist, the center and in many ways the originator of his own universe. He was a pragmatic moralist whose leading aim was to find out how to live in life. No biography can portray a man as he actually was. In 1899, the man known as Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in the town of Oak Park, Illinois. Immediately after high school he decided to skip college and began his incredible journey to become an incredible writer. His journey was halted shortly after due to World War I, but the experiences were priceless and Hemingway later uses these experiences in his works. He was a red cross Ambulance driver in Italy and was also on the western front of the Italian Arditi during the first World War. After the war he continued his journey to become one of the most well known authors of the time. He received the Nobel prize for literature in 1954 and was quoted afterwards saying, “For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try something that no others have done or that others have tried and failed, then sometimes with good luck he will succeed.” “Every author should try to accomplish this,” said Michael Reynolds, “His writing is so incredible because he tried to show what had happened to him in his life and in his times.”(Amidan 326) He would take elements from his life and put them into writing.======

In the short story “Soldier’s Home” the character known as Krebs has just come back from “The Great War” (World War One), and is having a difficult time dealing with what he saw and experienced. He found that to even talk about what had happened he had to lie about it and after his second time of doing this he decided that it wasn’t worth it. He tried so hard to keep his life from being complicated. He wanted no more consequences ever again. He simply wanted to live a simple life by himself away from all even his mother. Kreb’s mother babied him in everything that he did. When he went to war he got a taste of the real world. When he came back he loved nothing, he wanted only to be left alone and to lead a simple life. When Krebs came back from the war he would think about how he would like to have a girl and to live a simple life for the rest of his days. His mother did not want him to live out the rest of his life in the small town and she wanted him to go on to bigger and better things. He did not care any more and his love for her turned into hate, much like Grace Hemingway’s love for her son turned to jealousy and hatred. Grace Hemingway was the power of the Hemingway household in that she controlled everything that they did. Ernest was the most loved out of all her children. His mother paid so much attention to him and cared for him so much more then she did his siblings, making them feel worthless. It may have been this that eventually led to the suicides of his sister Ursula and of his brother Leicester.

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But as he grew older and began to act on his own, primarily after the war, and especially after he coupled that natural desire for independence with an interest in girls and a natural, almost consuming, gift for writing his mother’s love turned to hatred and jealousy.======

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Hemingway loved to hunt big game. He was an extraordinarily good hunter and enjoyed all of the little excursions he took to far away places like Siberia and African Game trails. They reminded him of his days in Michigan with his father.======

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Hemingways father was a tall, solid physician, a taciturn man’s man who spent as much of his time as he could hunting and fishing and walking in the woods, or locked in his own attic turret with his collection of pickled specimens ranged along the walls-snakes, salamanders, toads, and a human fetus, all bleached white by alcohol.======

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The short story “Big Two Hearted River” is a perfect example of Hemingway putting his family into his work,” said writer Geoffrey C. Ward. He portrayed his father perfectly in this story to the utmost detail, carefree and only worried about hunting. After his father’s death, which he mostly blamed on his mother, he continued to support his mother and even tried to remember to praise her and send her a card on birthdays and Mother’s days.======

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In his last few years of life he could not enjoy what he called the finer things in life, “…partying, entertainment, being healthy and going to bed with the women you loved.” (Gerogiannis) He was extremely sick the last few years but that may not be why he committed suicide. He had thought about it well before his father died but he had thought about it greatly after, when his father died it only made him feel more alone in the world and when he learned of the suicide of his siblings it only sent him into a deeper madness. Some even feel that the story “The Old Man and the Sea” is a cry for help because he is saying that he was being pulled by something for so long and is now lost. When one looks at the life that he led it is not hard to imagine why he committed suicide at the age of 62.======

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“Never send for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee,” was Hemingway’s moral on life. In 1940 he published For Whom the Bell Tolls, a novel set in Spain during the Spanish civil war (1936-39). The book was a love story and an adventure. It was also a description of the evils of fascism, as practiced in Spain with help from Germany. Many Americans regarded the book as a call to arms in the war against fascism. The title, taken from a meditation by English poet John Donne, contained Hemingway's moral.======

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It truly is hard to understand one such as Ernest Hemingway, who was loved by many, hated by a small town called Piggott, known to the world, and yet locked up in his own little universe of fiction, reality, and romanticism. Through the tortures of his life emerged an allusive and abstract author who has become one of the greatest of our time.======

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In Stephen Amidan's article about Ernest Hemingway's //The Sun Also Rises// within __American Writers: Classics Volume I__ gives a great amount of analytical information about //The Sun Also Rises// and a fair amount of insight on Hemingway's other novels while explaining and critiquing Hemingway's writing style. This particular book offers analytical information on other author's literature as well as Hemingway's. Amidan gives a brief overview of Hemingway's chronological information, but otherwise strictly writes about Hemingway's recurring themes and ideas. The information written is very helpful and easy to apply into other works. Pictures would have been a healthy addition, but because the article is strictly analytical of Hemingway's writings, relevant pictures may be hard to come by. I recommend this article to any student wanting to go deeper into the mind of Ernest Hemingway, for this article greatly helped me understand themes and ideas brought about in his writings.======

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The book __Literary Lifelines__ offers much biographical information on many authors in many volumes. The presentation of the information is very straightforward and direct. The actual information is detailed, yet brief. I would have liked the biography to have been more in-depth with more pictures of Hemingway within the work. The book was somewhat helpful, as I did use bits and pieces of the information to piece together my paper. I would only recommend this particular book to those only looking for a brief overview of the life of Ernest Hemingway.======

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The October 1961 edition of the periodical Literary Cavalcade provides a handy feature on the literary genius that is Ernest Hemingway, as well as other superb authors. This specific article praises and critiques Hemingway's plain and direct writing style. The article also explains some recurring themes within Hemingway's literature, making this article superb for those analyzing Hemingway's works or researching a deeper initiative within Hemingway. I recommend this to any bright student that wishes to learn about and admire literary geniuses, such as Ernest Hemingway.======

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Gerogiannis, Nicholas. "Ernest Hemingway." //DISCovering Authors//. Online ed. Detroit: Gale, 2003. //Student Resource Center - Gold//. Gale. Fuquay Varina High School/WCPS/. 26 May. 2008 <[|http://www.galenet.com/servlet/srcx>.]======

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Nicholas Gerogiannis' critical essay of Ernest Hemingway from the //DISCovering Authors// series contains a wide variety of information about Ernest Hemingway. Nicholas starts with a brief overview of Hemingway's significance to American Literature, which leads to an in-depth biography pertaining to all of Hemingway's life and noting important events that have significantly influenced his writings. This essay is very useful and its presentation is very easy to read and understand. I have found it to be the most helpful of all my resources. I suggest this essay to anyone and everyone wanting to learn and respect a literary genius.======