After graduating from high school, Hemingway fled to Kansas City and obtained a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star newspaper (CNN 2). Here Hemingway covered all types of stories ranging from violence to strikes. "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English, not forgetting to strive for smoothness. Be positive, not negative." The emphasis was on clear writing. "Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing," Hemingway declared. "I've never forgotten them. No man with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides with them." "On the Star you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. That's useful to anyone."(JFK 2)

While be hospitalized, Hemingway met Agnes von Kurowsky, an American which was a major flirt and 7 1/2 years older than Hemingway. Hemingway fell in love with Agnes (Baker 47). She inspired the character Catherine Barkley in his novel "A Farewell to Arms." In 1919 Agnes wrote a letter to Hemingway stating that their relationship could never work out and that the age difference was overwhelming (JFK 4).

Hemingway decided to work as a volunteer in World War I, but do to bad eyesight he was rejected (CNN 2). Instead, he took on the role of an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. While in Italy Hemingway suffered a severe injury, he was saving a soldiers life when a mortar shell exploded near him and injured both of his legs, but he still managed to save the life of the soldier and himself. (JFK 3)

In 1936, Hemingway met Martha Gellhorn, a journalist and novelist from St Louis, Louisiana. Later, he had an affair with her and divorced Pauline and married Martha in 1940. At this time, the Hemingway's lived in Cuba and covered the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway published "For Whom the Bell Tolls," which spoke of an American fighting for a foreign country(CNN 10).

He began shock treatments in 1960, which were very severe and caused memory loss. At the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, Hemingway attempted suicide twice. Hemingway began to loose weight and his shock treatments continued and his stress level began to rise (J

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