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Ernest Hemingway: Prepared By: Brenda Ching Wei Flo Lara

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois and began his writing career as a newspaper reporter at age seventeen. During World War I, he joined an Italian ambulance unit and was wounded while serving at the front. After the war, he worked as a reporter in Europe and became part of the American expatriate community in Paris. Some of his most famous works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, which drew from his experiences in war and as a journalist. The Old Man and the Sea told the story of an old fisherman. Hemingway was known for his understated prose style and portrayals of tough, masculine characters confronting modern society

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Ernest Hemingway: Prepared By: Brenda Ching Wei Flo Lara

Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois and began his writing career as a newspaper reporter at age seventeen. During World War I, he joined an Italian ambulance unit and was wounded while serving at the front. After the war, he worked as a reporter in Europe and became part of the American expatriate community in Paris. Some of his most famous works include The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls, which drew from his experiences in war and as a journalist. The Old Man and the Sea told the story of an old fisherman. Hemingway was known for his understated prose style and portrayals of tough, masculine characters confronting modern society

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Ernest Hemingway

Prepared by : Brenda Ching Wei Flo Lara

born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals.

After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution. During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter.

Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

Hemingway - himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

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