Many critics believe he had an abusive childhood and that is what most influenced his writing. It may have physiologically damaged him also. The truth is that he had no abuse during childhood from family or friends. During infancy, his father, Dr. Clarence Edmonds Hemingway, and mother, Grace Hall Hemingway, provided for him perfectly. They did many outdoor activity in his childhood days such as hunting, fishing, and camping. "There must be no killing for killing sake," was told to Hemingway by his father. This was something he forgot in his adulthood (Burgess 9). Had he not been an adventurous person, he would have been indoors stuck in a popular adventure magazine or be daydreaming about pirates and faraway places (Russell 6). He was not a wimp by any means. In High School, he wrote for the school newspaper. He participated in boxing, which would help him make money

Two days later he found himself in a hospital in Milan undergoing surgery to take out bullets and shrapnel from his legs, knees, and feet. The damage was substantial enough to keep him in the hospital for five months. When he learned from the doctors that he would recover the full use of his legs he wrote home to his parents about the ordeal. During this time he fell in love with a nurse attending him. The book A Farewell to Arms, was based after this. He was awarded The Italian Medal of Valor several years later, and was also the first American soldier to be wounded in Italy. This started a lifetime of fame for Ernest Hemingway. When he returned home he was only 19 and still immature in many ways but he had drastically changed. He wrote home to his parents from Milan in 1918, "Dying is a very simple thing. I have looked at death and really I know." It was from the time of his injury that started his morbid side. This also gave Hemingway the belief that there might be no tomorrow, so should enjoy life as it is. Soon afterwards, he found the liquor. The book "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was written from experiences he reported from the Spanish civil war. He interviewed soldiers and learned a lot. He lived in Spain for a while where he fell in love with the art of bullfighting. He had respect for the matador as well as the bull. He saved another person from dying by helping save an amateur bullfighter. That is where he was influenced for the book "The Sun also Rises." During World War 2, Hemingway went to Cuba used it as his base of operation. He signed on as a war correspondent, and was stationed in England in May 1944. A month later he witnessed the invasion of the beach at Normandy in France. Two months later he participated in the liberation of Paris from the Germans. This was the last war

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