... . He was wounded seriously on July 8, 1918. Fighting on the Italian front inspired the plot of, A Farewell to Arms in 1929. Indeed, war itself is a major theme in Hemingway's works (Bloom, novelists, 10). Upon returning briefly to the United States after the World War one, Hemingway, as well as working for the Toronto Star, lived for a short time in Chicago. There, he met ... , where he was hospitalized for uncontrolled high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes and depression. On July,1961, Hemingway used a shotgun to commit suicide at his home in Ketchum, Idaho (Bloom, novelists, 12)....

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... of Ernest Hemingway "He [Ernest Hemingway] wrote only about things he had experienced, mostly outdoors, as a doctor's son in northern Michigan and as a self-possessed young tramp in Europe" (Time Magazine). The experience I've had with Ernest Hemingway's writing is almost parallel to that of this writer. Ernest Hemingway wrote from personal experiences, the main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, and ... For Whom The Bell Tolls can all be closely compared to the life Ernest Hemingway lead. Although I haven't read any about a doctor's son in Michigan ... , all three bo...

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