ked on the school newspaper called theTrapeze. Hemingway graduated in the spring of 1917 and instead of going to college thefollowing fall like his parents expected; he took a job as a reporter for the Kansas CityStar. Hemingway signed up as a volunteer ambulance driver for theRed Cross during WWI. He was accepted in December of 1917, left his job atthe paper in April of 1918, and sailed for Europe in May. When Hemingway returnedhome from Italy in January of 1919 he found Oak Park dull compared to the adventuresof war. With a letter of introduction from Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway met someof Paris' prominent writers and artists and forged quick friendships with them during hisfirst few years. Counted among those friends were Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, SylviaBeach, James Joyce, Max Eastman, Lincoln Steffens and Wyndahm Lewis, and he wasacquainted with the painters Miro and Picasso. Hemingway was inspired to writedifferent works at different times because of the events that occured in his life.Hemingway died July 2, 1961, at his home, as the result of self-inflicted gunshot wounds.Ernest Hemingway had a different style of writing than the other authors in histime. "The Sun Also Rises is the book that established Hemingway as a literary force andit introduced the world to the Lost Generation". The Lost Generation isreferred to as the disillusioned that fought in the war. "Two of the novel's maincharacters, Lady Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes, typify the Lost Generation". "Thisbook has a lot of thematic issues, but the reader really needs to think to be able to pick upon all of them". Friendship, stoicism, and natural grace under pressure are offered asthe values that matter in an otherwise amoral often-senseless world . "His mind is seton writing only". The only thing Hemingway thought about was writing and finishingThe Sun Also Rises. "The writing is as strong and powerful as a swift kick to the head". This quote is referring to Hemingway...
