Ernest Hemingway

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Ernest Hemingway

• Life and Works

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In Our Time, 1925

• Short stories dealing with
• Trout fishing in Michigan
• World War I, Italy
• Nick Adams
• Facing the harsh realities of life, love and war

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The Sun Also Rises, 1926

• Breakthrough novel dealing with
• Life among the expatriates, the Lost Generation,
  in 1920s Paris
• Fiesta in Spain, the running of the bulls in
  Pamplona, the bullfights
• The disillusionment of WWI vets and the modern
  generation

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A Farewell to Arms, 1929

• Another successful novel dealing with
• World War I in Italy
• Love affair between an American ambulance driver
  and his American nurse (In Love and War)

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For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940

• His best novel (I think)
• Spanish Civil War, 1937
• Love affair between an American guerilla and a
  Spanish refugee
• Return to belief in humanity without losing the
  clear vision of experience

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The Old Man and the Sea,1952

• The favorite of some people
• Life on the islands
• Deep sea fishing
• Dealing with age and failure
• A man can be destroyed but not defeated

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Topics

• Trout fishing in Michigan
• World War I in Italy
• Paris in 1920s
• Bullfighting and civil war in Spain
• Deep sea fishing off Cuba and Key West
• Big game hunting in Africa

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Themes

• Disillusionment Life breaks everybody. The
  lucky ones grow back stronger in the broken
  places.
• Grace under pressure, the Hemingway hero
• Living life to the fullest
• Love

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Style

• Minimalism leaving out as much as possible
• Writing truthfully in direct prose
• Stream-of-consciousness
• Cumulative sentence, built with participles and
  absolutes