Megan-+Hemingway's+war+experiences+in+comparison+to+Henry's

**Research Paper Outline ** 

Topic: Hemingway’s War Experience - this all looks great so far, Megan. I have some questions about part III. Your thesis is factually based and doesn't seem to have a debatable part - what do you want to tell us about why/how he wrote about his real life experiences in fiction. This is especially interesting, that he wrote in fiction. because he began in nonfiction - journalism!  **Thesis: **  Hemingway served as an ambulance driver during World War I and served as a reporter in the Spanish Civil War; he then incorporated these war experiences in his writing.  **1st Section( paragraphs 1 & 2): WW1 **  · When Hemingway turned 18 he tried to enlist in the army, but he was rejected because of poor vision o he had a bad left eye that he probably inherited from his mother, who also had poor vision. · Hemingway joins WWI as an ambulance driver for the Red Cross · uses his experiences here to write A Farewell to Arms(1929) · During this war he: o "The day he arrived, a munitions factory exploded and he had to carry mutilated bodies and body parts to a makeshift morgue; it was an immediate and powerful initiation into the horrors of war." o he then was injured by a fragments from an Austrian mortar shell...he has 200 shrapnals in his leg o about his injury: ""There was one of those big noises you sometimes hear at the front. I died then. I felt my soul or something coming right out of my body, like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner. It flew all around and then came back and went in again and I wasn't dead anymore." · He said: "But much more vividly I remember living in the book and making up what happened in it every day. Making the country and the people and the things that happened I was happier than I had ever been. . . . The fact that the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life is tragedy and knew it could only have one end. But finding you were able to make something up; to create truly enough so that it made you happy to read it; and to do this every day you worked was something that gave a greater pleasure than any I had ever known. Beside it nothing else mattered." · "For his bravery, he received the Silver Medal of Valor from the Italian government—one of the first Americans so honored." o Uses this to portray bravery in Henry as a character and true hero · reported for the North American Newspaper about the Spanish Civil War in 1937 o this influenced his other famous book: For Whom the Bell Tolls § about: a young American in the International Brigades attached to a communist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War § The novel has three types of characters: those who are purely fictional; those based on real people but fictionalized; and those who were actual figures in the war. § Because of the severity of the Spanish Civil War, the most common theme of this book was death and suicide § Novel takes place in the 2nd year of this war during the siege of Madrid · "According to Seán Hemingway, his grandfather's war dispatches "were written in a new style of reporting that told the public about every facet of the war, especially, and most important, its effects on the common man, woman, and child." o he was able to relate to the "common man" because he used his own experiences, very real-life · Hemingway says, "the writer's standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make of it an absolute truth." o Explaining his technique and reasons behind using his own experiences in his writing. This really answers the question of WHY he used Henry to depict a somewhat war image of himself.
 * he then heard that Red Cross needed volunteers for ambulance drivers, and was accepted in December 1917
 * 2nd Section(Paragraph 3): Spanish Civil War **
 * used events that he experienced and saw in Ronda during one of the most graphic parts of war
 * Later he wrote the Fifth Column, a play, while in Madrid
 * 3rd Section: (Paragraphs 4& 5) Hemingway himself **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">


 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Notes **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">

Hemingway Biography: >>> >> <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">-taken from <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] for general background knowledge Hemingway, -Line: Ernest. "Ernest Hemingway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." //<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia //<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 9 Mar. 2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway>.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">a reporter for the Civil War in Spain
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">born in 1899
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">wrote A Farewell To Arms in 1929 after his experience reporting
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">After the Spanish Civil War, Hemingway was an ambulance driver in WW1, which relates directly to Henry's character
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">June of 1919- stationed at the front in Italy...again a direct experience from the book
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Despite his wounds, Hemingway carried an Italian soldier to safety"
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">bravery like Henry
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hemingway received Italian Silver Medal of Bravery
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Hemingway himself a great sportsman - liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith." <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]
 * **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">GREAT SITE **<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"He experienced it firsthand, wrote dispatches from innumerable frontlines, and used war as a backdrop for many of his most memorable works."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "Then there was a flash, as when a blast-furnace door is swung open, and a roar that started white and went red," he recalled in a letter home---> I can relate this to Henry's injury
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "For his bravery, he received the Silver Medal of Valor from the Italian government—one of the first Americans so honored." --> I can bring about the theme of bravery in this book, and how it applies to his own life.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Hemingway quote about war itself:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Hemingway wrote: "When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"According to Seán Hemingway, his grandfather's war dispatches "were written in a new style of reporting that told the public about every facet of the war, especially, and most important, its effects on the common man, woman, and child."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">he was able to relate to the "common man" because he used his own experiences, very real-life
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"Explaining his technique 20 years later, he wrote, "the writer's standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be. For facts can be observed badly; but when a good writer is creating something, he has time and scope to make of it an absolute truth."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">explaining his technique and reasons behind using his own experiences in his writing. This really answers the question of WHY he used Henry to depict a somewhat war image of himself.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"But much more vividly I remember living in the book and making up what happened in it every day. Making the country and the people and the things that happened I was happier than I had ever been. . . . The fact that the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life is tragedy and knew it could only have one end. But finding you were able to make something up; to create truly enough so that it made you happy to read it; and to do this every day you worked was something that gave a greater pleasure than any I had ever known. Beside it nothing else mattered."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">another great Quote that describes the feeling and thought he put into the book. He says he was LIVING in the book.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">**<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">War Biography **
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">When Hemingway turned 18 he tried to enlist in the army, but he was rejected because of poor vision
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">he had a bad left eye that he probably inherited from his mother, who also had poor vision.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">he then heard that Red Cross needed volunteers for ambulance drivers, and was accepted in December 1917
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">"The day he arrived, a munitions factory exploded and he had to carry mutilated bodies and body parts to a makeshift morgue; it was an immediate and powerful initiation into the horrors of war."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">he then was injured by a fragments from an Austrian mortar shell...he has 200 shrapnals in his leg
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">about his injury: ""There was one of those big noises you sometimes hear at the front. I died then. I felt my soul or something coming right out of my body, like you'd pull a silk handkerchief out of a pocket by one corner. It flew all around and then came back and went in again and I wasn't dead any more."
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">Wrote the Fifth Column, a play, while in Madrid
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">reported for the North American Newspaper about the Spanish Civil War in 1937
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">this influenced his other famous book: __For Whom the Bell Tolls__
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">about: a young American in the International Brigades attached to a communist guerilla unit during the Spanish Civil War
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