An author flinches as a memory begins to resurface. Recalling the painful experience as if it were happening again, he transcribes it onto paper with each agonizing keystroke. When examining Ernest Hemingway’s works compared to his life experiences, the correlation between them is obvious. Hemingway found his inspiration in the most unlikely of places: from a lake in Michigan where he spent his summers as a boy to the medical wards during World War I. However, his experiences brought him to the conclusion that permitting emotion was the root of life’s disasters, and this idea became the epitome of his novels (Pidgeon 91). Life commonly sends painful experiences to hinder us. Consequently, these obstacles and unlikely inspirations are what caused
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Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 as the first son to Clarence and Grace Hemingway (Young). In high school he took part in wrestling which would eventually influence the types of metaphors he would use later as an author. He even became a reporter for his high school’s newspaper, The Trapeze, and had stories published in the Tabula, the high school’s literary magazine. After Ernest graduated from high school with strong academic standing, Clarence Hemingway called the Kansas City Star to inquire about a possible position for his oldest son as a reporter. When Hemingway arrived in Kansas City, he was taught how to write sentences that contained few words, no clichés or useless adjectives, but …show more content…
According to CliffsNotes, “That same year [1954], Hemingway received the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Prize in literature, ‘for his powerful style forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most recently evidenced in The Old Man and the Sea.’” Ernest Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea one year before he got the Nobel Prize (Young). In 1961, he his dream was to live his life and work the way he used to do, but he became subject to high blood pressure, anxiety, and clinical depression (CliffsNotes). These horrid disorders resulted in him being hospitalized two times in Rochester, Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic. Sadly, two days after he arrived back home in Idaho, he took his own life with a shotgun
Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 as the first son to Clarence and Grace Hemingway (Young). In high school he took part in wrestling which would eventually influence the types of metaphors he would use later as an author. He even became a reporter for his high school’s newspaper, The Trapeze, and had stories published in the Tabula, the high school’s literary magazine. After Ernest graduated from high school with strong academic standing, Clarence Hemingway called the Kansas City Star to inquire about a possible position for his oldest son as a reporter. When Hemingway arrived in Kansas City, he was taught how to write sentences that contained few words, no clichés or useless adjectives, but …show more content…
According to CliffsNotes, “That same year [1954], Hemingway received the Swedish Academy’s Nobel Prize in literature, ‘for his powerful style forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most recently evidenced in The Old Man and the Sea.’” Ernest Hemingway received the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea one year before he got the Nobel Prize (Young). In 1961, he his dream was to live his life and work the way he used to do, but he became subject to high blood pressure, anxiety, and clinical depression (CliffsNotes). These horrid disorders resulted in him being hospitalized two times in Rochester, Minnesota at the Mayo Clinic. Sadly, two days after he arrived back home in Idaho, he took his own life with a shotgun