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Beatriz Quintanilla
Prof. McCarthy
ENG 1100C
Spring 2019
Research Paper
Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bells Tolls
Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero (now Oak Park),
Illinois, his parents were Clarence and Grace Hemingway. Hemingway was raised in a
conservative suburb of Chicago, but the family also spent a great deal of time in northern
Michigan, where they had a cabin.
“Ernest Hemingway served in World War I and worked in journalism before publishing
his story collection In Our Time
. He was renowned for novels like The Sun Also Rises
,
A Farewell to Arms
,For Whom the Bell Tolls
, and The Old Man and the Sea
, which
won the 1953 Pulitzer. In 1954, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize. He committed
suicide on July 2, 1961, in Ketchum, Idaho.”
(https://www.biography.com/writer/ernest-hemingway)
In 1954, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. Even at this peak of his literary career, though,
the burly Hemingway’s body and mind were beginning to betray him. Recovering from various
old injuries in Cuba, Hemingway suffered from depression and was treated for numerous
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conditions such as high blood pressure and liver disease. On July 21, 1899 Ernest Hemingway
committed suicide, his life story is now told through his books. Ernest Hemingway used a lot
from his real life experiences in order to write his novels.
Ernest Hemingway wrote “For Whom the Bell Tolls”
, the story of an American soldier
fighting in the Spanish Civil War, a few years after his own experiences as an American
journalist reporting on the Spanish Civil War. Ernest Hemingway’s Novel, “For Whom the Bell
Tolls
” is all about love in the woods and death everywhere during the Spanish Civil War.
Europe was not peaceful during the two World Wars. Spain was ravaged by war from 1936 to
1939 between the nationalists who were supported by the Nazis and the Republicans who were
