Hemingway was not christened until October first at the First Congregational Church. Hemingway spent most of his younger years on the shore at Bear Lake where he caught his first fish at the age of three. At the age of six, Hemingway's grandfather died. The Hemingway family chose to sell the grandfather's house and move to another residence. Hemingway's new household was very strict. Especially in religious cases. Disobedience was punished by lashes by Hemingway's father or a hairbrush from his mother.

While Hemingway's mother taught music and creativity, his father taught his children to love nature. He taught them how to survive in nature and insisted on proper handling of guns, rods, and tackle. He also taught Ernest physical courage and endurance. When Ernest was twelve years old he received a single barrel, twenty gauge shotgun. This present brought many made up stories in which he was always the hero.

Hemingway also sought to be honest and complete about what he saw and wrote. "I was trying to write then, and found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, was to put down what really happened in action: what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced... the real thing, the sequence of motion and fact which made the emotion..." His idea was to describe a series of actions without comment or emotional use of speech. The reader would then visualize the sequence and experience the emotion, which the author had deliberately left out. This is what makes Hemingway a great writer.

"The Killers" is a part of a series about a youth much like Hemingway who grows up in northern Michigan. He comes home but cannot adjust. Much like Hemingway, he also liked to hunt and fish, but had bad dreams because of the horrors he had seen. One such horror is the subject of the novel. The novel's subject is about gangsters who come to murder a Swede that is in such despair that he will do nothing to spare his own life.

Hemingway also wrote poetry and journalism. Some of his more famous volumes of nonfiction are "Death in the Afternoon", "Green Hills of Africa", and the post humorously issued "A Movable Feast". "By-line Ernest Hemingway , a selection of his publicized journalism was issued in 1967. Most of his verse has never seen print."7

Hemingway married for the second time when he was thirty. He wrote his first major publication, "In Our Time" soon after his wedding in 1925. "In Our Time" composed of short stories and imaginary paragraphs. The real style and brutal subject matter, which were both his trademarks, attracted much attention from society. Hemingway's second important publication and first major novel, "The Sun Also Rises", which was written in 1926, depicted in colloquial, vivid terms the aimlessness of the post war "lost generation"4 and gained him a fame at the age of twenty-seven that would last the rest of his life.

After 1945, Hemingway settled in an estate called Finca Vigia near Havana, Cuba. He staid there until the Castro administration forced him out of the country. He then had one more adventure in the bullfight in Spain and then moved to Ketchum, Idaho to live the last of his sad days of life. Ernest soon became sick and suffered from acute depression and loss of memory. He was twice hospitalized at the Mayo Clinic and killed himself with a shotgun at his home in Ketchum right after his second visit on July 2, 1961.

Hemingway produced six novels and more than fifty short stories. Of his novels, "The Sun Also Rises", which was w

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