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Chapter 28Ernest Hemingway Hemingway’s life and works: A legendary hero’s story Born on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois The C. E. Hemingway family circa 1917 The USA ambulance during the W.W.I, and Hemingway was then a driver of such an ambulance. Hemingway was badly injured in the war A bomb exploded in front of him but he fortunately survived. 200 shell fragments He was sent to the aid station, where he fell in love with a nurse. He stayed in Paris after the war and met Gertrude Stein, a woman writer. Gertrude Stein “you are the lost generation.” She encouraged Ernest Hemingway and Thornton Wilder and French artists Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso. Thornton Wilder, (April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes Henri Matisse1869-1954 Pablo Picasso Hemingway’s early works 1926, the Sun also rises. 1929, A Farewell to Arms His first novel: The Sun Also Rises, (1926) The novel reveals the outlooks of the lost generation. Jake Barnes has been castrated in combat during World War I. So he and the woman he loves can never consummate their mutual desire. Jake and Brett and their odd group of friends have various adventures around Europe. In attempt to cope with their despair they turn to alcohol, violence, and sex. The bullfighter Pedro Romero symbolizes the new generation. Madrid, May, 2010. The bullfighter Pedro Romero The novel shows in the end that the lost generation don’t know yet where to go. However, Hemingway felt that the lost generation’s attitude toward life was no way out for the people. He began to observe the new type of heroes in his fiction: those who talked less but act swiftly. They were “Tough guys”. Death in the Afternoon Many of the “tough guys” are bullfighters, who are brave and tough and never give up to their fates. Hemingway went to hunt in Africa in the 1930s. He shot lions and leopards. He wrote The Green Hill is of Africa. Wild lives in Africa Hunter Hem