July 21, 1899, in Oak Park, Illinois. His father, Clarence Hemingway, was the owner of a prosperous real estate business . His father instilled the love of nature in him as well as a strict religious upbringing. He exposed Earnest to hunting, eating small game, as well as making earnest familiar with the natural world. Clarence made sure his children were never idle sitting around reading. It was said that Earnest Hemingway learned to box at a young age. His real influence in his writing was his exposure to the war. His experiences in Europe shaped the writer and legend of who readers now remember. Earnest portrayed the true bittersweet story of war in a way that was believable. A common theme throughout Hemingway's stories is that no matter how hard we fight to live, we end up defeated, but we are here and we must go on. One interesting note was that During World War II, Ernest became a secret agent for the United States. He recommended that he use his boat, the "Pillar", to surprise German submarines and attack them with hidden machine guns. His allure to readers always was the stories of his sudden luxury or option of doing without material things. Hemingway became a hope to the downtrodden as well as a hero or romantic fellows. Ernest Hemingway takes much of the storyline of his novel, A Farewell to Arms, from his personal experiences. The main character of the book, Frederick Henry, often referred to as Tenete, experiences many of the same situations which Hemingway, himself, lived.

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Hemingway in Pamplona

John Affleck

1998

Eugene O'Neill believed in writing about experiences that he himself had seen with his own eyes. Eugene (Gladstone) O'Neill was born in a Broadway hotel room in New York City on October 16, 1888. The first seven years of his life were spent traveling with his father who had given up his career as a Shakespearean actor to tour in a less satisfying but highly profitable play called Monte Cristo. After, O'Neill spent six years in a Catholic boarding school and three years in the Betts Academy at Stamford, Connecticut. His attendance in Princeton was short-lived because of being suspended at the end of his freshmen year. His yearning for gold sent him on a six month journey in 1909 in which he ended with tropical fever. O'Nelill's habit of working various jobs as sailor, dock worker and tending mules on a steamer influenced his style

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