1). Generation of people that reached 18 during and right after World war I
2). He wrote the rising sun which talked a lot about the lost generation.
3). He tutored Ernest Hemingway and created a new way of writing.
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5).To send into exile.
10 Facts About Ernest Hemingway
- Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois.
- Hemingway met J.D Sallinger during World War II. Salinger was fighting with the 12th Infantry Regiment.
- Hemingway’s memoir A Moveable Feast, about his life in Paris in the 1920s, was not published until 1964.
- Hemingway was awarded a Bronze Star for his bravery under-fire in World War II when he was a war correspondent.
- Hemingway left trunks of material in the Paris Ritz in 1928 and did not recover them until 1957.
- Hemingway’s sister and brother, and also his father committed suicide as well.
- Ernest Hemingway and his fourth wife Mary are buried in Ketchum’s town cemetery in Idaho.
- Wanted to go to war in World War I, but he had wretched eye sight. However, he convinced the military to make him an ambulance driver. Unfortunately, during the war he was wounded from mortar fire.
- After World War II, he was accused of War Crimes by Geneva surrounding an event where Ernest lead a group of French Militia against the Nazis. He was not convicted.
- Hemingway was checked in to the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota under the name Saviers, and the press believed he was being treated for hypertension.
Transcendentalism
QUOTE
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
SONG
White Snake – Here I Go Again
RELATION
I chose this song because it talks about being on your own. This quote also talks about being on your own and finding different paths for you. They talk about doing things on your own and they both talk about the same thing but with what you may face. On the song it talks about doing it again and again without giving up, on your own. The quote says it is not necessary to do the things that your companions are doing. You must be on your own. You must get used to live on your own.
QUOTE
I wanted to live deep and suck out the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if proved to mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meaness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
SONG
Valencia – The Closest I Am To Living Life On The Edge
RELATION
This songs talks about how hard deciscions were as a grown man. It also says how she wished to be young again and made her deciscions better. All this to live a life in a happier way and in a better way. The quote talks about living your life to the limit. Living your life to the limit should mean to do whatever makes you happy and whatever makes you feel better. Live your life with emotions, adventures and passion. Live your life with love and friendship.
Walt Whitman
10 Facts:
- Walt Whitman ate four raw eggs for breakfast every day for the last 20 years of his life.
- Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 — March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, journalist, and humanist.
- His work was very controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sexuality.
- Born on Long Island, Whitman worked as a journalist, a teacher, a government clerk, and a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War in addition to publishing his poetry.
- Whitman’s major work, Leaves of Grass, was first published in 1855 with his own money.
- Though biographers continue to debate his sexuality, he is usually described as either homosexual or bisexual in his feelings and attractions.
- Walter Whitman Sr. named three of his seven sons after American leaders: Andrew Jackson, George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson.
- He was the second of nine children and was immediately nicknamed “Walt” to distinguish him from his father.
- After a stroke towards the end of his life, he moved to Camden, New Jersey where his health further declined. He died at age 72 and his funeral became a public spectacle.
- Walter Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, Town of Huntington, Long Island, to parents with interest in Quaker thought, Walter and Louisa Van Velsor Whitman.
Harold Bloom
He was influenced by Walt Whitman, he was an American literary critic and a Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He has written more than 20 books of literary criticism. He wrote as the indroduction for the 150th aniversary of leaves of grass. Leaves of Grass was written by Walt Whitman.
Roderick and Madeline Usher
1). Roderick was the head of the house, Madeline didn’t even speak.
2). Roderick got ugly and Madeline too.
3). Both were crazy.
4). They are both unstable.
5). Madeline had a ghostlike appearance and Roderick got ugly because of his crazyness.
6). They were both creepy.
7). They looked sick.
Their descriptions are similar to the house’s because they described the house ugly and old.
Edgar Allan Poe
1). Poe’s early childhood was very difficult and sad for him and his brothers. They where abandoned by their father and their mother died while they were still young. While the oldest brother went to live with his grandparents, the 2 younger ones where adopted by different families. Edgar was adopted by Mrs. & Mr. Allan.
2). His dad left his family,his mother died, he fell in love but her letters were intercepted by his foster parents and he never replied to his special one so she got engaged with another man, his foster mother died, he had a drinking problem and a drug problem, his wife died.
3). Philadelphia
New York
4). First major american writer, invented the detective story, pioneer from the science fiction.
How does your environment influence you?
My environment influences me in the way that we are free in the way of going out but we are surrounded by danger because of our violent country.
My environment influences me in the way I am because I was taught to be a gentleman because of the people and men of my family that surround me every day.
My environment influences me to love my country because we are pretty much free, plus we get to admire beautiful landscapes and cultures that are in Guatemala.
My environment influences me to protect women because I was taught that they are very important and mean a lot to us, plus is a part of being a gentleman and is a sign of sexism in our country.
My environment influences, us, men to be sexist because of our culture and our customs which where influenced by how we were raised.
My environment has influenced me to want to go outside with my friends to socialize because my sister and my older cousins are very social and we want to follow their steps.
My environment influences us to behave in better ways or to be more discreet because people like to gossip a lot.
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