Nobody ever lives their life all the way up...
Nobody ever knows anything...

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 CAPE Study Guide
 Folder to store papers
 An Attitude to Learn!

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Born July 21, 1899 in Illinois to Grace and Clarence
Hemingway.
Mother was a failed singer, father a doctor.
In 1928 father committed suicide.
Ernest left home in 1917 to work at The Kansas City
Star paper.
Was not accepted into the army during WWI because of poor vision.
Volunteered as an ambulance driver.
Injured while on one of his first drives to the frontline.
Fell in love with his Italian nurse. ( A farewell to arms )

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Went back home after war.
In 1920 became foreign correspondent for th e
Toronto Star.
Married Hadley Richards in 1921 and moved to
Paris.
Met author Sherwood Anderson who introduced him to other great literary writers including Gertrude
Stein.
The 1926 ‘The Sun Also Rises’ brought him true fame.
Married four times after divorcing Hadley in 1927.
Travelled widely across Europe, America, Africa.
Lived in Cuba until Fidel Castro overthrew the government there around 1959.

 Continued to travel, loved fishing and hunting in
Africa.
 Continued his job as a correspondent during the
Spanish Civil War. (1936)
 Started boxing as a method of stress release.
 Became an abusive alcoholic.
 Used his personal life as the basis for his writings.
 Won the Pulitzer prize in 1953 and the Nobel Prize in 1954.
 Aged as an alcoholic.
 Committed suicide in 1961

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Genre – modernist novel, travelogue; novel of disillusionment.
Narrator – first person; Jake Barnes
 Tone; sombre, detached, ironic, nostalgic
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Tense; past
Setting (time); 1920’s
 Setting (place) Novel begins in Paris,
France, moves to Pamplona, Spain and concludes in Madrid, Spain.
 Protagonist; Jake

 The aimlessness of the Lost Generation
 Male Insecurity
 The destructiveness of sex
 Motif
 The failure of Communication
 Excessive drinking
 False friendships

 Symbols
 Bullfighting
 The behaviour of the bulls foreshadows the actions of the people in the novel.

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Jake Barnes
Lady Brett Ashley
Robert Cohn
Bill Gorton
Mike Campbell
Pedro Romero
Montoya
Frances Clyne
Count Mippipopolous
Wilson-Harris
Georgette
Belmonte
Harvey Stone

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Novel, novella, short story
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