Background  Born in Oak Park, IL.  Began writing while working on high school newspaper.  Worked as a reporter for the Kansas City Star.  WWI began and Hem. Joined the Red Cross as an ambulance driver and was seriously wounded.  Moved to Paris after the war.

Life in Paris  Sherwood Anderson introduced him to all the important people.  Met Gertrude Stein who coined the term “lost generation” to refer to anyone who was lost in the war or affected by loss in the war. An entire generation destroyed.  Published first book in  In Our Time1925. Known as the Nick Adams stories.

Major Works  The Sun Also Rises1926  A Farewell To Arms1929  For Whom the Bell Tolls1939  The Old Man and the Sea1952  Died in Ketcham, Idaho in 1961 of a self- inflicted gunshot wound.

The Code Hero  The Hemingway Code Hero  Appealed strongly to people in the 1920s  This hero is a man’s man: hard-drinking, bullfighting, fishing, boxing, big game hunting, etc…  He does not believe in talking about things but in doing.  A man of action rather than theory.

 It was based on the disillusionment after WWI. Before you could count on God, Tradition, and Country, not any more, they did not keep us out of war. And it was a terrible war.  Old values did not prevent war, so we need to find new values.  There was a need for principles that would endure in any situation.  The key to the code hero is his concept of death.

Coping With the Nada  When you are dead, you are dead and nothing more. Nada concept.  The emphasis is on doing something in this life.  Physical things are the rewards in this life, not material items  The code hero constantly chooses to confront death.  The key…Grace under pressure

 A man must act in a way that is acceptable when faced with death.  Never cowardly.  If a man wishes to live, he live most intensely in contact with death.  The man who never encounters death has never been tested and therefore cannot be trusted.  The most important quality is self-discipline.

 Strength and courage increase with the difficulty of the task. MJ  No dignity in shared suffering, only increased pain. NO Complaining.  If your dignity falters, you are living dead.  Hemingway code-hero does not sleep well because it is too much like death.

 This is different than a code hero but something worth knowing.  An atypical hero. Someone who acts in a heroic manner but lacks traditional attributes associated with a hero: intelligence, strength, courage, wit, etc…  Forrest Gump is an anti hero.