Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

Hemingway experienced war firsthand and in 20th century he wrote a lot about war, no other American writer wrote more about war than Hemingway. He worked as a journalist and served in World War I before he published his book called ‘In Our Time.’ In 1951, Hemingway wrote ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ it became his most famous book and he won the Pulitzer Prize in 1952. In 20th century Hemingway was the most significant American author, his novels have left a mark on literary production around the world including the United States. He was also a journalist in 1954 he was awarded the Novel Prize in Literature. Hemingway is also known for his persona he was an adventurous and sometimes “manly” person. He became an active member of a community of expatriates …show more content…
He was mostly known for his way of writing. His writing was widely imitated by other writers. It’s said that his writing was “a plain, forceful prose style it was simple sentences and few adjectives or adverbs. He wrote in exact descriptions of place and things.” His most famous novels were his early works ‘The Sun also Rises’ and ‘A Farewell to Arms.’ He received the Nobel Prize in 1954 for his literature. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the novel ‘The Old Man and The Sea’ in 1952. “Hemingway was famous for his colorful life style and his extreme concern with presenting a tough masculine imagine in his novels.” (LLC, 2007) “After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.” (Hemingway, 1954) For the novel ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ Hemingway used his experience as a reporter in the civil war in Spain as the background. His greatest work pieces were ‘The Sun also Rises’, ‘Death in the Afternoon’, ‘The Green Hills of Africa’ and ‘To Have and Have Not’. He used his experiences in life as inspirations for his books, one of Hemingway’s high school classmate said “In school Hemingway penned stories that are now forgettable but show raw talent his themes were almost always read aloud in class as examples of what they should strive for.” He published seven novels and six short stories he made his own …show more content…
His childhood was not easy he was born during a change in America he was born in a period where there was collision between old world and new world possibilities. He was the second child of Grace Hall and Clarence Edmonds Hemingway he had four sisters and two brothers. Hemingway had a troubled childhood it was evident and nurtured. His father was a doctor and his mother taught music, both parents were involved in church they gave their children a strong foundation in religion, values and morals. "He really grew up with a rich environment of culture, religion and the sciences," says Griffin. (Hemingway E., Cable News Network, 2000) He started writing short stories in school; he had a raw talent at writing. He took fiction to many levels he took Americans around the world with his style of fiction. He was a scholar and he didn’t care about what people said about him he provoked responses from people around him. People said Hemingway had an affect on people some said he could be a bully at times some loved and others hated him there was no in between. Ever since Hemingway was a child he liked exploring he would go for hikes or fishing with pals. At the age of eight-teen he tried to go to the army but was denied because he had poor vision on his left eye, he later signed up for the Red Cross which accepted him in December 1917. Hemingway was married four times