Ernest Hemingway
By Victoria Bauer
Biography
Influences:
Hemingway was greatly influenced by the events that surrounded him, mainly the two world wars, his travels, and the death of his father. He felt that the best way to write a book was to write straight from own experiences which he did in all of his books. He was motivated by his own life and what he went through.
Conclusion:
Ernest Hemingway grew up in a variety of different eras in American history, from the end of the Gilded Age to the Progressive Era and the Roaring Twenties as well as the Great Depression. The rapidly changing times as well as major parental influences caused Hemingway to become obsessed with his own masculinity something that was prevalent in the majority of his books. As modern America began a temporary downhill slide during the Cold War so did Ernest Hemingway, who unfortunately was not able to recover from it unlike the US.
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed" - Ernest Hemingway
Hemingway during the 21st Century
If I had the specific set of skills Hemingway was blessed with as a writer, I would most likely concentrate my time on becoming a muckraker. Because he was such a blunt author, I feel that investigative journalism would be much more successful.
Historiography
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A Farewell to Arms (1929)
Had this novel been written during a later time period, like the Cold War and Vietnam War, it would have been even more appreciated than it already had bee. During this time the American public was getting sick and tired of having to suffer through more lives being lost and listening to what the next tactic would be. Hemingway's blunt writing style would have kept those who had not experienced the war first hand intrigued as well as allowed the general public to widely accept and agree with what he had to write about.
Ernest Hemingway was widely known for his writing style which included brash vocabulary and understatements. The 1929 novel was no exception. Bluntness was a way that the author was able to show the harsh and grim reality of the war and war efforts. By essentially "keeping it real", Hemingway made everything believable, from his characters to the events that occurred (even though everything was based on Hemingway's own experiences). Hemingway poured all of his emotion into his books which is how the vivid imagery came into play.
Manuscript Pages from Chapter 9
Chapter 27, page 164
Hemingway vs. William Faulkner
Works Cited
"Ernest Hemingway Quote." BrainyQuote. Xplore. Web. 20 Apr. 2015.
Hemingway, Ernest, and Patrick Hemingway. A Farewell to Arms. The Hemingway Library Edition, First Scribner Trade Paperback ed. Scribner, 1929. Print.
"Hemingway Versus Faulkner Writing Styles." Guilford College Writing Manual. Web. 23 Apr. 2015.