3. About Ernest Hemingway
* He was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899 .
* He wrote on his High School Paper.
* Became a Journalist after High School.
*Was in World War I and received the Silver Metal of Military
Valor.
* Was a Journalist in the Spanish Civil War and in World War II.
* He married four times and had three children.
* When he wasn't writing, Hemingway spent much of his time
chasing adventure such as big-game hunting in
Africa, bullfighting in Spain and deep-sea fishing in Florida.
* He suffered from depression and alcoholism
* He committed suicide July 2nd, 1961.
4. Writing Style
• * Ernest Hemingway was one of the twentieth century most important
and influential writers.
• * Numerous influences from various people and events from his
personal life had a strong effect on his writing. He drew heavily on his
these experiences for his writing.
• * Ernest Hemingway’s writing is among the most recognizable and
influential prose of the twentieth century.
• * Hemingway’s technique is uncomplicated with plain grammar and
easily accessible language. It is a simple style and straight forward.
• * Hemingway's writing style abstains from using adjectives as much as
possible and is considered a master of dialogue. The words that he uses
in his stories is a unique formula, a stylistic formula that no other writer
has been able to recreate.
5. Hemingway’s Theory of
Omission
Ernest Hemingway Ice burg Principle
“If a writer of prose knows • Ernest Hemingway's theory of
enough about what he is omission is widely referred to as
the "iceberg principle." He
writing about he may omit explains this principle in chapter
things that he knows and the 16 of his 1932 book, Death in the
reader, if the writer is writing Afternoon. Essentially, the
truly enough, will have a principle states that by omitting
feeling of those things as certain parts of a story, a writer
actually strengthens that story.
strongly as though the writer The writer must be conscious of
had stated them. The dignity these omissions and be writing
of movement of an iceberg is true enough in order for the
due to only one-eighth of it reader to sense the omitted
parts. When the reader senses
being above water.” Ernest the omitted parts, a greater
Hemingway perception and understanding for
the story can be achieved.
6. Inspiration
• Ernest Hemingway learned a great deal as a cub reporter for
the Kansas City Star. Throughout his lifetime he used the
guidance of the Star's style guide as a foundation for his
writing style: "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs.
Use vigorous English.
7. He won the Nobel Prize in
literature in 1954
Novels short stories and non fiction written by
Ernest Hemingway
• The Torrents of Spring (1925)
• The Sun Also Rises (1926)
• A Farewell to Arms (1929)
• To Have and Have Not(1937)
• For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)
• Across the River and Into the Trees (1950)
• The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
• Adventures of a Young Man (1962)
• Islands in the Stream (1970)
• The Garden of Eden (1986)
The novel “The Old Man and the Sea” won the Nobel prize.
8. Short Stories and Non fiction
• Short Story Collections • Nonfiction
• Three Stories and Ten Poems • Death in the Afternoon (1932)
(1923) • Green Hills of Africa (1935)
• In Our Time (1925) • The Dangerous Summer
• Men Without Women (1927) (1960)
• The Snows of Kilimanjaro • A Moveable Feast (1964)
(1932)
• Winner Take Nothing (1933)
• The Fifth Column and the First
Forty-Nine Stories (1938)
• The Essential Hemingway
(1947)
• The Hemingway Reader
(1953)
• The Nick Adams Stories
(1972)
9. Many of his books dealt with
good versus evil
• Such as War, hostile tribes or the
conflicts of overcoming war.
• The author is able to convey a realistic
aspect due to his life experiences. He
shows how one adapts and
overcomes the ugly, evil side of man.
10. In his own words
"From things that have happened and from things as they exist
and from all things that you know and all those you cannot
know, you make something through your invention that is not a
representation but a whole new thing truer than anything true
and alive, and you make it alive, and if you make it well
enough, you give it immortality.“ Ernest Hemingway
11. Works Cited
Internet sources
http://grammar.about.com/b/2011/08/22/revision-strategies-
hemingways-iceberg-theory.htm web 03/03/2013
http://www.hemingwaysociety.org/
http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Writing-Style-of-Hemingway&id=70613
web 03/03/2013
http://www.neabigread.org/books/farewelltoarms/teachers/hemingw
ay_handout03.pdf web 03/03/2013
http://www.biography.com/people/ernest-hemingway-9334498 web
03/03/2013
http://sunalsorises.wordpress.com/2010/06/05/hemingways-iceberg-
theory/ web 03/03/2013
Books
Hemingway, Ernest (2003) [1932]. Death in the Afternoon (1st Scribner
trade pbk. ed.). New York, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
