9Modernism andhemingway专用课件.pptVIP

American Literature Motto: 1. One can be diminished but can’t be defeated. 2. grace under pressure --------by Hemingway 1. Hemingway’s life (1) born in a small town called Oak Park in Illinois near Chicago (2) father: a successful physician, middle class, love fishing and hunting; (3) a happy childhood; a lover of brutal sports, such as boxing and football in middle school. He did run away from home twice and observed once that the best training for a writer is an unhappy boyhood. (4) Though his father hoped him to be a physician, Hemingway refused to enter university. He chose to be a reporter. (5) During the WWI, he wanted to join the army but was refused because of his poor eyesight. Then Hemingway came to Italy to work as an ambulance driver. He was seriously wounded in the battlefield. The nightmarish war experience changed his life. (6) After the war, he still worked as a reporter. He was sent to Paris and knew Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson and some other famous writers who encouraged him to write. (7) He also worked as a war reporter in the Spanish Civil War and the WWII. (8) He is a tough guy with rather masculine manner. In all his life, he loved tough games, such as boxing, hunting, deep-sea fishing, bullfight and so on. He was injured many times. He suffered at least a dozen injuries to the brain, and survived three bad automobile accidents and two air crashes. In all the operations, 237 steel fragments were taken out from Hemingway’s body. He was admired as a hero by lots of people and his life style was imitated. (9) In 1961, Hemingway shot himself with gun in his home. (Reason? can’t write, can’t enjoy tough games, bad health etc.) Thought-provoking question: Do you think it a paradox between his life view and his way of death? 2. Major Works (1) “The Sun Also Rises” 1926. (Disillusion of the whole generation after the WWI; the characters indulged themselves in depraved lif