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This is the first 1,000 characters of 2402 words (9.61 pages) in the essay titled For Whom the Bell Tolls1 For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel loosely based on Ernest Hemingway s own experiences in the Spanish Civil War in the 1930 s. Before I delve into the book itself, I thought it would be best to give some background information on Ernest Hemingway and on the Spanish Civil war and the circumstances surrounding it.Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, and the second of six children. His father, Clarence Hemingway, was a physician and his mother was a devoutly religious woman with a talent for music. When he was young, Ernest acquired the nickname champ, which he relished and felt it showed his rowdy, hard-nosed outdoor sense of adventure. He had garnered his father s passion for hunting and fishing in the north woods of Michigan, a period of his childhood which left important impressions later reflected in several of his short stories such as Up in Michigan and Big Two Hearted River. In high school, Ernest edited the school newspaper, excelled in football and boxing, and ran away from home twice. Upon his graduation, seventeen year old Hemingway headed to Kansas City to enlist in World War I, in outright defiance of his parents objections. However the army rejected Hemingway, despite his repeated efforts, due to permanent eye damage incurred from his years of boxing. Yielding finally to the army s rejections, he added a year to his age and was hired as a reporter for the Kansas City Star, a national newspaper. While working at the Star, H... |
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Keywords: ernest hemingway, clarence hemingway, kansas city star, spanish civil war, vivid, boxing, experiences, army, bell tolls, italian infantry, fishing in the north woods, painful recuperation, cross ambulance, father clarence, religious woman, eye damage, kneecap