In Our Time Ernest Hemingway Essay

Ernest Hemingway lived his life as he wanted. His writing touched the hearts of millions. His sentences were short and to the point but his novels strong and unforgettable. He wrote about what he felt like writing about. On July 21, 1899, Ernest Hemingway was born. He was created by Dr. Clarence Edmonds and Grace Hall Hemingway. His hometown was a small town named Oak Park. Oak Park was in Illinois. His father was a practicing doctor, and later taught him how to hunt and fish. His mother on the other hand had wished that he would become a professional musician. Hemingway did not like his mother and when he grew up he would call her “the old bitch”. He grew up in a somewhat religious environment. He went to Oak Park and River Forest High School, which is where he realized his writing gift. Besides writing, other activities that he loved included swimming, and boxing. When he was18 years old he had an important decision to make he could either move to Kansas city, which was growing more and more every day, or he could go to collage. His final choice was that he would move to Kansas City. In Kansas City he got a job as a cub reporter on the Kansas City Star. At the train station his father, who latter on in Ernest’s life would commit suicide which would totally disgust Ernest, kissed his son goodbye with tears in his eyes. This exact moment in time would be the soul purpose for a book he wrote called “For Whom the Bell Tolls”. One of the reasons why he wrote that book is because he felt so much older than his father at that time that he could hardly bear it any longer. While he was at Kansas City he was quite and did not stand out much. He stayed to himself. He went through a little culture shock due to the fact that Kansas City was a lot more complex than Oak Hill was. His writing style was first introduced by the Star. His writing was brief, and to the point. His writing had to be like that at the time because he was a news writer, but he would carry that style over to fiction when the time came. In May of 1918, Hemingway wanted to join the Army but could not due to a defective left eye which he inherited from his mother. Instead of joining the Army he joined the Red Cross. Later on in his Red Cross years he became Second Lieutenant of the Red Cross. While he was overseas he was sneaking smokes and chocolate into the soldiers he was hit in the leg by an Austrian machine gun. He also got over a hundred pieces of metal stuck in his body. Even though he was in extreme pain he managed to carry a wounded soldier to safety which was a hundred yards away. For his courageous action he won the Italian Medal of Valor. He spent all of his recovery time at the Ospedale Croce Rossa American, in Milan. His stay in Italy was the perfect place for his novel A farewell to arms. He was allowed to go home after his stay at the American Hospital in Italy. He returned to Oak Hill without any complaints. He lived with his mom until he refused to get a job was kicked out of the house. After that he moved to Chicago and got a job writing for the Toronto Star and was a sparring partner for boxers. It was in Chicago that he met a very pretty lady named Elizabeth Hadly Richerdson. Hemingway badly wanted to marry her but money was a problem so they moved to Paris. Because he had a child on the way and no real publications, he decided to move back to Canada. It was there that John Hadly Hemingway was born in 1923. His nick name was Bumby, that was also the name he preferred to be called by.When he was in the Spanish was he fought the way he wanted to fight, he attended dinner parties in London. The parties were way away from the fighting lines (D-Day had already passed by now). After a drunken party where he babbled on about hunting, fishing, and bull fighting he was in an extremely bad car accident. He was hospitalized for having serious head trama. Well when Martha got there she did not comfort him with kind words she laughed at his sad state as he lay in the hospital. In a flash he got rid of her.Well after that he got a Nobel Peace prize for a new book called “The Old Man and the Sea”. During a plane trip, the plane crashed leaving him with a concussion, paralysis of the sphincter, first degree burns in his face, arm and head, a sprained right arm and shoulder, a crushed vertebra, and a ruptured liver, spleen and kidney. He was in continuos pain for quite a while. He was latter committed to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Before he went to Minnesota he had a big birthday party that took 2 months to plan. There was champaign from pairs, Chinese food from London, codfish from Madrid. There was a shooting booth, fireworks specialist, flamenco dancers, waiters, barmen, and cooks from all over the world. This party lasted 24 hours from noon of July 21st to noon July 22nd. There were guests from allover. Guest that where invited where General C. T. Lanham from Washington, Ernest’s old pals from Paris, Italian Royalty and the Maharajah of Behar. When it was allover Ernest said “What I enjoyed most about the party is that these old friends still care enough to come so far. The thing about old friends now s that there are so few of them” There where a couple shocks in his life. One of them was the death of one of his closest friend which died of cancer. Another shock was when he was forced to move out of his only true home during the Cuban revolution came there, and the last shock was when his black lab died, he was his one true companion. He would lie at Ernest’s feet when he was writing. On April 23rd 1961, Ernest tried to kill himself by putting a gun to his head. At about 7:30 a.m. on July 2, 1961, Mary Hemingway, his wife at the time, heard a gun go off in the other room. She hurried towards the sound of the gunshot. Down stairs by the gun rack she saw Ernest with his favorite 12 gauge shot gin whish was laid with silver. That shotgun had been made just for him. After Mary’s shock was over she went over to her neighbors house and told then to call the press. When the press arrived she made an announcement: “Mr. Hemingway accidently shot himself while cleaning a gun yesterday morning at 7:30 a.m. No time has been set for the funeral services, which will be private.” After that announcement had been made, his son John said the following:”Mary made a mistake in saying that he was cleaning a shotgun, I mean, somebody said ‘What was he doing?!’ and she said ‘Cleaning a shotgun.’ There also was a big point made that the hunting season was over but, hell, they used to shoot clay birds outside in the block all the time. Not only that, but if you have guns or anything else you like very much, that you pick it up you should be very careful with them, no matter what anybody may feel. There is doubt.”Ernest Hemingway was buried July 6, 1961 beneath the way cool scape of the Sawtooth Mountains. Only about 50 people mostly Idaho neighbors gathered in a small Katchum cemetery near a federal highway. They all gathered around his rose covered coffin. During his service Mary and Hemingway’s 3 sons asked the priest to read Hemingway’s favorite passage from Ecclesiastes. However the priest did not understand the meaning of their request, so he read only the first line which was in different wording from its original version. He read from the Roman Catholic Douay version. One of the things that he said during the ceremony is, “Oh Lord, grant thy servant Earnest the remission of his sins. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord.”Latter that day John said ” we where awfully disappointed. But the priest just plain didn’t realize.”The first line that the priest did say that was wrong was “one generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth standeth forever” And of corse the most famous line of all:”The sun also rises”