Ernest Hemingway Research Paper

Ernest Hemingway born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. He was one of America's most influential writers of his time. Hemingway heavily influence the 20th century through his prose type writing style. Before becoming a known American novelist, Hemingway was first a journalist as well as a short story writer. “Hills Like White Elephants” is one of Hemingway’s most popular short stories and is now used in many different English classes around the world to teach symbolism. Before his death in 1961 Hemingway published The Old Man and the Sea, a short novel that became his most famous work. Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea is created around a prose writing style that involves lots of symbolism and allusions in order to weave together the persistent

He is known for creating a new writing style, colloquial writing, usually referred to as prose writing. Ernest Hemingway was able to master this type of writing after years of practicing it as a journalist. As a journalist, Hemingway had to serve as a energetic reporter. In order to do so, Hemingway avoided the use of flashy adjectives and common use of short sentences and paragraphs. Of Hemingway works The Old Man and the Sea was the most typical to his writing style. It is simple, natural, and also direct to its point. Hemingway’s short sentences are filled with the tension that keeps the reader at the edge of his seat. Within his prose type writing, Hemingway also excludes parts of what a normal dialogue would consist of. In order to make the conversation more realistic, Hemingway avoids saying the phrases “he said” but instead has direct dialogue between the characters. Another fascinating trait that Hemingway has, is his ability to use facts. His writing style however is not as simple as it may seem or sound. Hemingway is not simply telling us how to fish and bring in to shore a fish that fights back. He is showing us a deeper meaning of love, endurance, patience, humbleness, respect etc. He writes the story so that we can all perceive it differently without imagination. Hemingways language in The Old Man and the Sea is very natural and simplistic but underneath the surface it is deliberate. Hemingway's writing is not emotional, but he instead controls it. Hemingway's style is now used to refer to prose type writing style that is direct, simple and