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MODULE D - Ernest Hemingway (1899 - 1961) (p.
187)
TASK
Read the text below and fill in the blanks with the words in
the box.
| Ambulance awarded battlefield borders committed correspondent
courage defeated early experiences health heroes horror novelist
settled style themes was went wounded |
Ernest Hemingway was one of the most famous American writers and
was … the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954. He was a reporter,
soldier, short story writer, novelist, playwright, deep-sea fisherman
and big game hunter. His … of writing influenced an entire
generation of writers beyond the … of the United States.
He was born in a small town in Illinois and spent most of his …
life in the Great Lakes region.
In 1918 he volunteered as an … driver on the Italian front
where he was … and decorated by the Italian government. Later
he wrote a novel based on his …, A Farewell to Arms, the most
famous American novel about the First World War.
After the war, Hemingway … to live in Toronto, Canada, where
he worked for the Toronto Star.
From 1921 to 1927 he lived and worked in Europe, mostly in Paris
where he … one of a group of expatriates who came to be known
as 'the lost generation'. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises
in 1926, Hemingway's first major success as a … was established.
Leaving his home in Florida, Hemingway made many journeys, including
several African safaris . He went to Spain in 1936 and 1937 during
the Spanish Civil War as a … for the North American newspaper
Alliance. Then he … in Cuba where he lived until the Castro
Revolution of 1959. From 1951 on his … became steadily worse
and ten years later he … suicide.
Hemingway loved extreme situations where tough men show their qualities
such as …, endurance, comradeship and love of women. These
were the … of his best novels: bull-fighting in Death in the
Afternoon (1932), game hunting in The Green Hills of Africa (1935),
the … of war experienced both in Italy, in Farewell to Arms
(1929), and in the Spanish Civil War, in For Whom the Bell Tolls
(1940) and the struggle against nature in The Old Man and the Sea
(1952). Hemingway thought of life as a … where you must fight
to the end. His … never give up, though knowing that they will
lose, because 'Man is not meant for defeat. A man can be destroyed
but not … .'
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