The affecting history of life of one the greatest American writers of all times, Ernest Hemingway, reflects in his immortal works. A novelist, two of whose works ended up in the list of top 100 of novels of all times, describes his life and the world around him in the creations of wise and flexible language and reflects the world in them as in the mirror.

"Ernest Miller Hemingway, named for his maternal grandfather and great uncle, was born on July 21 in his maternal grandfather's house in Oak Park (a staid suburb of Chicago), Illinois."(Ernest Hemingway, Peter L. Hays, pg.17). Thus begun the life of one of the best writers in American literature. It is important also to understand the environment that one of the best American writers grew up in, and especially the people that grew him up-his parents. His father was Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, a general practitioner, who worked as physician for the insurance companies in Chicago. But the not important is his job next to his character, which his son Ernest inherited. Even though he was a physician and a good one, inquiring discipline and order in everything he attended, he was even a more dedicated outdoors man. He brought to

Another novel that reflects Hemingway's life in it and is in fact considered a summary of his own life written by Hemingway himself is "Old man and sea". The Old Man and the Sea is the story of a struggle between an old, fisherman and the greatest catch of his life. For eighty-four days, Santiago, a Cuban fisherman, has set out to sea and returned empty-handed. So unlucky is he that the parents of his young helper, Manolin, have forced the boy to leave the old man in order to fish in a more "lucky" boat. Nevertheless, the boy continues to care for the old man upon his return each night. Santiago is confident that his unproductive streak will soon come to an end, and he resolves to sail out farther than usual the following day.

The next morning, a crowd of amazed fishermen gathers around skeleton of fish, which is still tied to the boat. Tourists at a nearby cafe observe the remains of the giant marlin and mistake it for a shark. The boy fetches the old man some coffee and the daily papers with the baseball scores, and watches him sleep. When the old man wakes, the two agree to fish as partners once more. The old man returns to sleep and dreams his usual dream of lions at play on the beaches of Africa. In this amazing novel Hemingway associates himself with the old man. The old man dreams of lions because they represent the time of his life that he was filled with energy and youth. They are days he longs for but can now have only in dreams. He doesn't really regret being old. He has had a good life, and has taught the boy to fish. The boy will carry on his heritage as a fisherman. But in his dreams the old man goes back to his youth. It's his one allowance for escape, and we somehow realize he deserves that respite from life's demands. The sharks represent that inexplicable force of nature that comes round sometimes regardless of one's best laid plans. Hemingway uses sharks as a symbol of difficulties of his life which he doesn't have the control of. There are many important symbols that connect the life of Hemingway with the novel.

Harry knows that he is dying and as he waits he recalls his war experiences where there had been a background of snow. Later he remembers Constantinople and the Bosphorus, Paris as it was in his writing days, women of all types, war and death, his grandfather's house, the Black Forest. He had meant to write it all down but instead he had married Helen and her money. As he grows weaker, he senses the approach of death, which seems to be symbolized by the passing of a hyena, more and bolder. Death comes closer until the dying man can feel its weight on his chest.

Another important novel by Ernest Hemingway is "The snows of Kilimanjaro". Two people are waiting within sight of Kilimanjaro for the arrival of a plane to take them to civilization. The main character, Harry, a dissipated writer, has gangrene in his leg from a thorn scratch to which he didn't pay attention. With him is Helen, his wife, whom he hates but whom he married for money. The price he paid for the money was the sacrifice of his talent as a writer. "There was so much to write. He had seen the world change; not just events; although he had seen many of them and had watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how people were at different times. He had been in it and he had watched it and it was his duty to write of it; but now he never would."(The snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway, pg17). "What about the rest that he had never written?"."(The snows of Kilimanjaro, Ernest Hemingway, pg17)

Frederic gets captured by German's on his way to Udine, but luckily escapes from them by jumping into river and holding on to a log. He finds out that British

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