Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and journalist. He was part of the 1920s expatriate community in Paris, as well as the veterans of World War One later known as "the Lost Generation", as described in his posthumous memoir A Moveable Feast. ("'That's what you are. That's what you all are,' Miss Stein said. 'All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.'" Stein had overheard a garage owner use the phrase to criticize a mechanic.) He received thePulitzer Prize in 1953 for The Old Man and the Sea, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
Hemingway's distinctive writing style is characterized by economy and understatement, in contrast to the style of his literary rival William Faulkner. It had a significant influence on the development of twentieth-century fiction writing. His protagonists are typically stoic men who exhibit an ideal described as "grace under pressure." Many of his works are now considered canonical in American literature.
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Dear Mr. Hemingway,
I assume you wrote " Hills like white elephants" to express a expierence you've had with someone or have observed a situation such as this and that the passage you wrote relates to me and anyone who has read it. you expressed in this story about how people can minipulate you into doing things you don't want to do and later paying for the consequences whether if its positive or negative or just in that particular moment. I dont know why your parents dressed you up as a girl-- maybe the mother wanted to fantasize you as her daughter rather than her son. And I dont know why your father treated you and your mother with disrespect. How ever I know this with these bad expierences you've suffered-- the injury after serving wwI and the girl not being with you because of your age difference have made you one of the most revolutionary writers in english literature. The expierences you went through in your life time can have a relation to everyone who has ever read your work. No one is perfect; you used to tell people lies to impress people because you dint want to make yourself look like a fool. I am certain that people to this day has gone through that expierence. Your work is simple and easy to relate-- may you continue to rest in piece.
Thank You
Matthew Kpaka
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