“War brings out mans best to do mans worst”
I will start this report out with a quote from Plato, “Only the dead have seen the end of war.” I use this quote, for the reason a man will come out of war alive however his mind will never leave the battle ground. In these pages I will show how Ernest Hemingway was influenced by the tragedies that he witnessed during his experience in World War One. Through two short stories, “The Sun Also Rises,” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls” I will make it apparent that Hemingway used his creative writing to expel or redirect his feelings that were stimulated during his time of battle. Even Hemingway has written other books that have certain references to war, but I feel these two books are good examples. To get a complete erudition to Hemingway’s reasons for including his feelings of war into these two stories, I must share some information about his formative years.
Ernest Hemingway was born 21st of July 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. This is a prosperous suburb located in Chicago. Hemingway was the third of six children and the oldest boy in the Hemingway family. His father Clarence taught Ernest to hunt and fish and to have a love for the outdoors. Hemingway wrote highly of his times about life growing up, in “Up in Michigan.” In 1928 Clarence his father committed suicide. After graduating at the age of 17, Hemingway left Oak Park and decided to try being a reporter for The Kansas City Star newspaper. A brief time afterwards Hemingway made a decision that I feel changed his perspective on the look of everyday life around him. Hemingway enlisted in a Red Cross ambulance corps. The corps was stationed on the Austrian front in Italy during the last year of Wo ...