Ernest Miller Hemingway was born on July 21, 1899, in suburban Oak Park, IL. He was the second of six children to be raised in the quiet suburban town where his father was a physician and his mother was a musician. He loved the outdoors and would always go with his father on hunting and fishing trips. His aptitude for physical challenge stayed with him through high school where he p

layed football and boxed. Because of the sports he chose, he had permanent eye damage which was the cause of him being rejected from service in WWI. Hemingway also edited his high school newspaper and reported for the Kansas City Star after he graduated form high school in 1917 (Nagel 91-99). Scott Donaldson said that:" His limited diction represents a rebellion against a high-minded but essentially empty rhetoric he had been brought up in (178)." Finally, he was able to participate in WWI as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross. He was wounded on the Italian front and was given two decorations by the Italian government. This proves how his football and boxing background really made him a strong warrior with a will in stay alive. His experiences in life led to some great plots to many of his stories and novels. For example; For Whom the Bell Tolls and A Farewell to Arms are two of his works that are based on war (Donaldson 175-180).

The novel To Have and Have Not has a plot of social realism. This is because Harry is a good man in the story and is being forced to work with tourists, but he also is a fisherman. And when he gets into trouble, he has to face life and figure out he cannot win, yet he still needs to survive. In the story, Harry has to realize the social aspect of things that he gets into and the choices he makes (Lewis 1960). Harry Morgan was being forced to work as a guide for rich, ignorant tourists. So, when times got hard, he would run liquor on the Caribbean. Under the pressures of corrupt and immoral local officials, he moved beyond the law into a series of dangerous and illegal voyages that eventually lead to his death. Those were some of the decisions he made and instead of him dealing with the decisions, they finally dealt with him ("Ernest Hemingway" 1374-1376). Thus proving that social realism was the plot of his book.

Throughout his life, Ernest Hemingway was very adventurous and liked to travel. He had been all over the world, and because he traveled, he had several instances where he was seriously hurt. He was wounded on the Italian front by mortar and machine gun fire. While he was recovering from the Italian front incident, Hemingway picked 227 metal fragments out of his right leg. He was also seriously injured while he was in Africa where he was traveling on a plane. Sometime during the flight the plane crashed, and he became hospitalized with severe head wounds, and cuts and bruises all over, especially on his hands. Then the last severe wounding he faced would be his last. Hemingway moved to Ketchum, Idaho, where he was hospitalized for high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, and depression. There he died on July 2, 1961, because of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He was buried in Ketchum, Idaho (Donaldson 170-180). It i

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