A Look into Ernest Hemingway's Childhood
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on the morning of July 21, 1899. He was born in the house of his grandfather, Ernest Hall, on his mother's side. Both of his grandfathers influenced the character of Ernest Hemingway as it developed. Ernest Hall, at the time of little Ernest's birth, was widowed and living in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb about ten miles from Chicago. Hall was a veteran of the Civil War, in which he fought valiantly before he was shot in the leg, but, out of respect and hatred of killing, did not allow anyone to speak of it in his presence. He later tried to commit suicide with a gun he kept under his pillow but was thwarted by Ernest's father who had removed the bullets. According to Jeffrey Meyers, "Ernest, who was six at the time, thought it was a cruel thing for his father to have done." Ernest's other grandfather was Anson Hemingway, who had also fought in the War, and also lived in Oak Park, where Ernest's parents met.
The very nature of Ernest Hemingway can be cleanly divided into the often conflicting influences of his mother and father. Grace Hall Hemingway lived a charmed life and almost achieved success as an opera star, being a fairly gifted vocalist, but quit both because she was proposed to and because the lights of stage bothered her eyes (she had sensitive eyes due to a several month period of blindness set on by scarlet fever). Clarence Edmond Hemingway was a collector of coins, stamps, preserved snakes, and Native-American arrowheads, as well as an avid outdoorsman. He also went to college at Oberlin and became a practicing physician. However, his real passion and a good deal of talent lay in hunting, fishing, and outdoor cooking, and liv...
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...e offers a brief and to-the-point biography of Ernest Hemingway. It has a
list of his published pieces in chronological order, and highlights his life
effectively while offering the author's personal commentaries on a number of more pertinent incidents.
Meyers, Jeffrey. Hemingway: A Biography. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Jeffrey Meyers writes an full biography of Hemingway. The text includes a
number of stories to compliment the factual information.
The Hemingway Resource Center. "Ernest Hemingway Biography > Childhood." 1993-
2003. <http://www.lostgeneration.com/childhood.htm>.
This was the best online resource I found. It offers a good biography as well as
giving a comprehensive bibliography (the above books included). It also harbors photos, and other interesting material from Hemingway's life including links to his works.
Is there a pattern for life? Maybe not, but in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Soldier’s Home”, the main character Harold Krebs finds that he needs to live his life through a series of patterns. In this story, the series of patterns associated to Krebs results in an explanation of his character’s desire for an uncomplicated life. The series of patterns can be found through Krebs’s involvement in college, the Marines, and even in his personal relationships.
In The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Volume II. Edited by Paul Lauter et al. Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1991: 1208-1209. Hemingway, Ernest. A.
Hemingway constantly draws parallels to his life with his characters and stories. One blatant connection is with the short story, “Indian Camp,” in which an Indian baby is born and its father dies. As Nick is Hemingway’s central persona, the story revolves around his journey across a lake to an Indian village. In this story, Nick is a teenager watching his father practice as a doctor in an Indian village near their summer home. In one particularly important moment, Hemingway portrays the father as cool and collected, which is a strong contrast to the Native American “squaw’s” husband, who commits suicide during his wife’s difficult caesarian pregnancy. In the story, which reveals Hemingway’s fascination with suicide, Nick asks his father, “Why did he kill himself, daddy?” Nick’s father responds “I don’t kno...
Since former President Nixon’s declaration on the War on Drugs, imprisonments have been on a continuous rise. Citizens caught with illegal substances have been sentenced to harsh punishments in the form of lengthy detentions. What appears to be a great movement to halt the use of drugs has been counterproductive. “Between 1980 and 1997, the population of drug offender inmates alone increase by 1000%” according to David N Khey, a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisiana and co-author of The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. In Professor Khey’s article “Privatization of Prison”, he correlates the rise of incarcerations to businesses and governments who take advantage of the ever growing prison population (Khey, “Privatization of
The word "war" is always horrible to man especially with who has been exposed to. It is destruction, death, and horrible suffers that has been with all man's life. In the short story "In Another Country", Ernest Hemingway shows us the physical and emotional tolls of the war as well as its long-term consequences on man's life. He also portrays the damaging effects that the war has on the lives of the Italians and even of the Americans.
Is Prohibition (defined as a government decree against the exchange of a good or service) actually successful in reducing recreational drug consumption and drug-related violence? This is the question that will be analyzed in this paper. Drug enforcement officials frequently cite drug-related violence as a reason that drugs must be eliminated from our society. A contrary belief is that the system of drug prohibition actually causes most of the violence. Similar to alcohol prohibition in the 1920s and the rise of organized crime, drug prohibition inspires a dangerous underground market that manifests itself with violent crime throughout the U.S. and, in fact, the world. The illegal nature of drugs has significantly increased the price and the
Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, to Dr. Clarence and Grace Hemingway and the second oldest out of 6 children. Hemingway's childhood pursuits such as hunting and sports fostered the interests that would blossom into literary achievements. In 1918, during World War I, Hemingway served as a Red Cross volunteer in Italy, driving an ambulance and working at a canteen. "After working in Italy for six weeks, he was seriously wounded by a fragm...
When a writer picks up their pen and paper, begins one of the most personal and cathartic experiences in their lives, and forms this creation, this seemingly incoherent sets of words and phrases that, read without any critical thinking, any form of analysis or reflexion, can be easily misconstrued as worthless or empty. When one reads an author’s work, in any shape or form, what floats off of the ink of the paper and implants itself in our minds is the author’s personality, their style. Reading any of the greats, many would be able to spot the minute details that separates each author from another; whether it be their use of dialogue, their complex descriptions, their syntax, or their tone. When reading an excerpt of Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast one could easily dissect the work, pick apart each significant moment from Hemingway’s life and analyze it in order to form their own idea of the author’s voice, of his identity. Ernest Hemingway’s writing immediately comes across as rather familiar in one sense. His vocabulary is not all that complicated, his layout is rather straightforward, and it is presented in a simplistic form. While he may meander into seemingly unnecessary detail, his work can be easily read. It is when one looks deeper into the work, examines the techniques Hemingway uses to create this comfortable aura surrounding his body of work, that one begins to lift much more complex thoughts and ideas. Hemingway’s tone is stark, unsympathetic, his details are precise and explored in depth, and he organizes his thoughts with clarity and focus. All of this is presented in A Moveable Feast with expertise every writer dreams to achieve. While Hemingway’s style may seem simplistic on the surface, what lies below is a layered...
The Methodist Church was created in 1787 by John Wesley in England. The Methodist denomination is a branch of the Protestant religions. When creating the Methodist Church John Wesley was not intending on creating a new denomination because he was a part of the English Church. But he was trying to create a revitalization within the English church with small group meetings for bible study and encouragement in the beliefs. Methodist preachers were always on the move to spread their beliefs with the people. “Wesley is estimated to have travelled more than 250,000 miles by horseback, and to have averaged fifteen sermons per week during his career.”(Vial #2) The practice of travelling and preaching caused the spread of The Methodist Church, that’s why there is 70 million people in 161 countries now that claim the Methodist denomination. In 1771 Wesley started to send preachers to America but at the time they were still British colonies. Because the people of America might have not wanted to join an English church Wesley allowed the Americans to create their own church. That was the start of the United Methodist Church.
Shannon, Elaine. “The War on Drugs: A Losing Battle.” Time.com. Time Magazine, 3 Dec. 2010. Web. 18 Dec. 2011. .
15 Feb. 2003. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/books/1999/hemingway/stories/biography/part1/index.html. Stanford, Judith A. & Co. Responding to Literature: Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2003.
The Cambridge Companion to Ernest Hemingway; edited by Scott Donaldson; Cambridge U. P.; New York, NY; 1996
Earnest Hemingway’s work gives a glimpse of how people deal with their problems in society. He conveys his own characteristics through his simple and “iceberg” writing style, his male characters’ constant urge to prove their masculinity.
Both of the Wesley brothers had transforming religious experiences in May 1738. In the years following, the Wesleys succeeded in leading a lively renewal movement in the Church of England. As the Methodist movement grew, it became apparent that their ministry would spread to the American colonies as some Methodists made the exhausting and hazardous Atlantic voyage to the New World.
...to encourage the church to reexamine a comfortable position in society and take the knowledge of the gospel beyond the upper and middle classes to evangelize among the poor. However, rather than assume the Church of England to carry evangelical religion to the people, he believed the people might perhaps evangelize themselves and ultimately transform the establishments of the church. Wesley wanted to "reform the nation and spread scriptural holiness over the land" (Church, 2014). John Wesley's great ally in this work was his brother Charles, whose influence on Methodism was chiefly in the hymns that he wrote for the new movement. Among populations with low rates of literacy and at a time when books were uncommon, the hymns of Charles Wesley became crucial instruments for the communication of religious ideas as well as a source of inspiration and communal solidarity.