Ernest Hemingway Argumentative Essay

Calvin Krauss

Ernest Hemingway Argumentative Essay

English 11

12/12/14

Many have wondered how to tell what type of writer a person is. How do you tell? How can you be sure? One famous writer to focus on is Ernest Hemingway. Does he write because of his life experiences or does he write for other reasons? The claim reviewed in this essay is his writings are based off his life’s experiences. During Ernest’s childhood he spent time with both parents (Ernest Hemingway). He would go hunting and fishing with his father at his summer home in northern Michigan(Ernest Hemingway). With his mother he learned about the finer things in life such as music(Ernest Hemingway). He grew up in an upper-middle class suburb in Chicago. In high school he wrote for the high school newspaper, after he graduated he wrote for the local paper “Kansas City Star” instead of going to college(Ernest Hemingway). This means he started writing before he had anything to major happen. So could it be just because he liked to write or because he had something more deep inside to make him feel the need to start writing.

The day he arrived in Milan a munition factory exploded and so he had to carry mutilated bodies and body parts to a makeshift morgue ( Ernest Hemingway Biography > World War I). On July 8th, 1918 a mortar shell exploded and he had over two hundred pieces of shrapnel implanted in his legs(Ernest Hemingway Biography > World War I). In 1919 he wrote “Soldier’s Home” which is about his current life and his past