Ernest Hemingway Accomplishments

Doesn’t it seem like every successful author has been through what ordinary people could never understand? Ernest Hemingway, the elite writer of the 1920s, was one of them. Ever since he was a child, he struggled to distinguish himself as a scholar and athlete under the influence of his father’s traumatic suicide. Although destiny gave him a harsh, rough childhood, Hemingway did not know how to lose motivation in life. In 1917, the first bloodiest war has been brought to mankind - World War I. This chance to serve the country pleased Hemingway so well that he was so depressed when he was rejected to serve in the infantry and put in the Red Cross Medical Service. This turn of his original desire actually helped him gain fame. “He was badly wounded in the knee yet carried a wounded man on his back a considerable distance to the aid station. After having over two hundred shell fragments (parts of bullets) removed from his …show more content…
It was said that those years of learning were his happiest moments in life. Starting 1923, Hemingway published his poems and stories one by one. They were of fabulous writing, of course, but lacked what Americans wanted. It was not until the birth of For Whom the Bell Tolls that gave Hemingway the peak he wanted. It was his most ambitious novel written during that time, but was followed by a decade of literacy silence. During the World War II, Hemingway found his fourth love of his life, Mary Welsh, and together they purchased a house near Cuba. Writers of literacy can be so emotional and full of life, and yet so heartless and distant. This cruel image of the downs in life was depicted so well in his last work during the 1950s - Old Man and the Sea. “[It was] a tale about honest pride and the courage of an indomitable spirit. In 1958, the book was made into a highly acclaimed motion picture” (Encyclopedia