Ernest Hemingway’s Writings and Wartime Experiences

Hemingway’s Writings and Wartime Experiences

Oak Park, Illinois greatly influenced the writing world on July 12,1899. For on that day Grace Hemingway, the wife of Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, gave forth to the writing world a baby boy by the name of Ernest Miller Hemingway (Young 82). He would, later in his life, compose the most powerful literary impact upon the new generation of American writers with his plain, factual, but evocative style (Morris 863). No one in America would ever influence the writing world like Hemingway.

At a very young age it was apparent to those around him that Hemingway really was something special. Many marveled at how he was able to create such a dynamic story. Not many knew at the time that the majority of his ideas for his writings were coming from his own personal experiences. For example, he always wrote of death by violence in his writings, and this came to him through the hunting trips with his father (The Cycle of American Literature 200). The violence he witnessed out there in the fields with his father influenced him enough to write a detailed story of such conduct. The events to transpire throughout Hemingway’s life would allow him to write short stories unimaginable to the average person.

Throughout Ernest’s life, one of the most influential aspects was his wartime experiences. They included World War I, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, and a hostile confrontation with Fidel Castro. Because of his involvement in these numerous wars, Hemingway endured more scars than any other man in or out of uniform (Rusche 1). In World War I, he chose the American Ambulance corps for his wartime experience. Despite his life threatening injury, which occurred in World Wa...

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