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Hemingways life within his works

pg. 1). After Hemingway finished school, he acquired a job working for a local newspaper, but it was nothing to brag about. In 1921, four years after his graduation, he married and relocated to Paris to pursue a writing career. While in Paris Hemingway became friends with such known authors as Ezra Pound and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It was in Paris that Hemingway was introduced to a publisher named Charles Scribner, Jr. (Desnoyers). Through Scribner Publishing Hemingway released The Sun Also Rises, Men Without Women and A Farewell to Arms (thinkquest). In 1922 Hemingway joined the Army and participated in World War One. It would not be fair to the soldiers to actually had to battle on the front lines to say that he fought in the war. He was, however, seriously injured in the line of duty. While driving a truck that was delivering food to the soldiers who were at war and putting their lives on the line, Hemingway was shot (usafa). He severely injured his leg and had to have surgery on it, the operation was successful and Hemingway was awarded an Italian medal of valor, and the local media dubbed him a hero because he was the first American soldier wounded in the war (Desnoyers). And so the legend begins. People claim that Hemingway told them he was a soldier fighting on the front lines in the war and that is how he got shot and why he received a medal. Then there were the people that knew what his role really was in the war and because the rumor that he started spread so quickly, a lot of people did not know which story to believe. This is all attributed to the fact that he is a great story teller and now he has a serious achievement under belt. The mysteries of Hemingways life and Hemingways writings begin to deepen. Which stories actually happened? Which did he invent? Did he come to believe the fiction as many of his family, friends, and admirers did? Hemingway, the ultimate storyteller, was not only telling stories, he ...

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