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Ernest Hemingway A Miss Sees Says Presentation

Preview of Things To Come... Who Is Ernest Hemingway? Hemingway’s Personal Life (1) Hemingway’s Personal Life (2) Hemingway’s Personal Life (3) Hemingway’s Professional Life (1)

Hemingway’s Professional Life (2) Miss Sees Says

Who Is Ernest Hemingway? Born into a strict, Protestant family

Famous and well accomplished author (49 short stories and over 10 novels) Nobel Peace Prize winner

Avid hunter and fisher Considered a hero of WWI Died in 1961

Used the experiences of his life to create literary masterpieces during the Modernism Era

Hemingway’s Personal Life Born Ernest Miller Hemingway on July 21st, 1899 Grew up in Oak Park, Illinois – upper middle class

Father was a doctor and mother was a singer He had four sisters and one brother The community had a large Protestant population

Hemingway said about his community: “Wide lawns and narrow minds.” Enjoyed hunting and fishing (inspiration for many stories/novels) with his father when his mother wasn’t introducing him to music and literature

Hemingway’s Personal Life The Hemingway family owned a house called Windemere on Michigan’s Walloon Lake and often spent summers vacationing there. Early outdoor experiences instilled in Hemingway a lifelong ion for adventure and for living in remote or isolated places. Hemingway attended Oak Park and River Forest Park High School from September 1913 until his graduation in June 1917. He excelled academically and athletically. He boxed, played football and displayed particular talent in English. His first writing experience came from his submissions to the school newspaper and the literary magazine. He did not attend college, instead he wrote for The Kansas City Star. Although he worked at the newspaper for only six months, throughout his lifetime he used the guidance of the Star’s style guide as a foundation for his writing style. (short, direct sentences)

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Hemingway’s Personal Life Rumored that his mother often dressed him in female clothes. Maybe she wanted a girl.

 Worked as a reporter for the Kansas City

Star (1917)  WWI Ambulance Driver (1918)  Celebrated as a war hero upon his return

home  Reporter for Toronto Star (1920)  Married Hadley Richardson and moved to

Paris, (1921)  Father died in 1929. Hemingway dies in

1961.

Hemingway’s Professional Life Wrote forty-nine short stories and published six best-selling novels: The Sun Also Rises A Farewell To Arms For Whom The Bell Tolls The Old Man and The Sea To Have and Have Not A Moveable Feast

Hemingway’s Professional Life Popular characters in his works: soldiers, hunters, bullfighters, and primitive people. Themes of his work: Courageous and honest people losing hope in a modern, hectic society Possibly reflects his own outlook concerning his place in the world

His writing is very dry and descriptive with little plot – draws heavily from past experience

Miss Sees Says Ernest Hemingway’s writing is unique just as Edgar Allan Poe. It seems logical to speak about him next just because his voice is so distinct. He includes good morals at the end of the story. He writes about topics that I would never consider. Once reading his stories, however, I think about them in a different kind of way.

We will be reading: •

The controversial Six Word Story

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Hills Like White Elephants

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The Old Man at the Bridge