Ernest Hemingway by Maria Bjerner Rathsack 2u https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl Profil en-us 2018-01-23 09:23:58 UTC 2023-03-28 05:46:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Personal life & family maria_bjerner_rathsack https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl/wish/223683401 Ernest Hemmingway was born in 1899 and grew up in Oak Park, Chicago. He had 5 siblings - so life was busy. His mother was strict but his relationship to his father was well. They spent much quality time together. He was a role model to Ernest; until he at the age of 33 killed himself.]]> 2018-01-23 09:26:01 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl/wish/223683401 Important life events maria_bjerner_rathsack https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl/wish/223683853 Hemingway worked for a newspaper after graduating from high school. Afterwards, he became an Ambulance driver for the American red cross during Word War 1. When 19, his legs got wounded.  He fell in love and proposed to a nurse who then turned him down. He went to America. In 1920 he went to Paris with his new wife Hadley and began writing seriously.  In 1928 they got divorced. He moved to Florida. He married Pauline and had a son in 1931. He began to write for the American Newspaper Alliance during the Spanish Civil war. Here he enlightened the opposition to Franco and fascism. Pauline's views were different and they got divorced. He married Martha and relocated to Cuba for writing. In 1944 they got divorced; and Ernest married Mary. In 1959 they moved to Idaho, USA, after the Castro Cuban revolution. Ernest shot himself in 1921; 3 weeks before he turned 62. He was affected by the mixture of depression, ill health and alcohol abuse.]]> 2018-01-23 09:27:22 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl/wish/223683853 Style of writing https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl/wish/223688435
  • Ernest hemingway thought that the writers role was to tell the truth. And when he was having difficulty writing, he said to himself "Just write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know"                
  • Ernest wrote by this philosophy and therefore you could see a lot of his own personal life in his writing.
  • His style was simple and precise. And he was known for his terse, economical prose style, where he used short and simple sentences. 

    • ]]>     2018-01-23 09:42:45 UTC https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl/wish/223688435     Important works https://padlet.com/maria_bjerner_rathsack/agxogr9ntpgl/wish/223691090 1926 - First major work - The Sun Also Rises - About bohemian Americans living in a post-World War 1 Europe.
     
    1929 - His second major novel - Farewell To Arms -  He drew on his World War 1 experiences and his wartime romance in Italy.
     
    1940 - He published For Whom The Bells Toll - It was based on his experiences in Spain
     
    1952 - His final major work - The Old Man and the Sea.
    Won a Nobel Prize.
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    In 1921 Hemingway moved to paris to work as a foreign corresponding. Here he fell under the influence of modernist writers and artist of the 1920. 
    in 1926 he published his first novel “The Sun Also Rises” which had great success. 
    In the mid 1930’s Hemingway covered the Spanish Civil war for the American Newspaper Alliance, where he in his writing showed a clear opposition to Franco and Fascism. His experiences in Spain let to the writing og his book “For Whom The Bell Tolls”
    In 1952 he published his final major work “The Old Man and the Sea” for which he won the nobel prize. 
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    His perception of the world was a world lacking traditionel values and truths. Instead, it was marked by disillousionment and morbidity, because of his experiences from the first world war. He often wrote about war-times, and used his own experiences as inspiraiton. 
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