Ernest Hemingways Life and Image :: History

Ernest Hemingways Life and ImageErnest Hemingway was born on a July morning in 1899. Born at home in Oak Park, he was raised a conservative with strong values. magic spell his father taught him to hunt and fish, his mother taught him music, her former profession. Though his mothers music lessons helped him throughout his life, he didnt particularly enjoy the lessons and spent as much time in the woods as he could manage.Nature became Hemingways world, the place where he could go and pull from it the essence of his writing. No matter what happened in his life he could always find refuge in a quiet hayfield or a lulling forest. Inspired by nature, Hemingway used it to form a force that became both a backing and almost a character in his books, that would speak to a reader and tell them that a story wasnt over, simply because it never truly ends.People look back at Hemingways life as if it was one of his novels. He is not seen as a writer but as a personage of writing. At a raw age of 18, in 1917, Hemingway enlisted as an ambulance driver in World War I, after quitting his job at the Kansas City Star. Hemingway didnt make it three weeks into his service. While in Schio, Italy, he was injured by an exploding mortar, perforating his legs with shrapnel. In spite of this, it is said that he carried a wounded Italian to a first aid seat this earned him an Italian Silver Medal. For the next year, Hemingway used his insurance from the war to avoid work. He would spend his time at the library or intercommunicate about the war. Eventually he met Harriett Connable while speaking, who saw Hemingways confidence and control. Connable asked him to tutor her son. He accepted, as her husband introduced Hemingway to the editor of the Toronto Star Weekly, who he wrote for sluice when he moved to Paris. While in Paris he covered the Geneva Conference, and the Greco-Turkish War. Hemingway and his first wife Hadley moved back to Toronto though, when she became pregnant. In 1925, two age after his son John was born, Hemingway wrote In Our Time, and a year later The Sun Also Rises. These two novels were great successes, and led to his Farewell to Arms, which is considered by many another(prenominal) a paramount to all World War I novels.