Ernest Hemingway Background.

1) Publish 10 interesting facts about him and his work.

1. His mom was quite stubborn. Many believe his mother wanted another girl, and so until Ernest was four his mother dressed him up like a girl. Ernest’s hair was as long as his sisters’ hair. 

2. He wanted to fight in World War I, but was denied due to his wretched eye sight.

3. There’s a popular tale circulating about Hemingway betting fellow writers that he could write a short story in just six words. 4. Ernest once examined F. Scott Fitzgerald’s… gentleman parts in a cafe bathroom and informed him it was “of normal size.”

5. On the topic of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scott wrote Hemingway a ten-page letter where he advised that he should end A Farewell to Arms with the passage: “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure that it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” Hemingway wrote him three words back: “Kiss my ass.”

6. Ernest stole a urinal from his favorite bar claiming that he had “pissed away” enough money into it that, as a result, he should own it. He ended up sticking the urinal in his house.

7. Ernest Hemingway once published a recipe for apple pie in his column. 

8. In the 1940′s, Hemingway worked closely with the Soviet KGB. He went under the cover name “Argo.” Edgar Hoover and many FBI officials spied on him for much of his later life. 

9. After World War II, he was accused of War Crimes by Geneva surrounding an event where Ernest lead a group of French Militia against the Nazis. He was not convicted.

10.He had a six-toed cat named Key West.

A Movable Feast-The Lost Generation

1) What is the “Lost Generation”?                                                                                                                                                       Was the generation that came throughout the time of the World War 1.

2) What role did Hemingway play in popularizing this term?                                                                                                                     He used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel, “The Sun Also Rises.” In that volume Hemingway credits the phrase to Gertrude Stein, who was then his mentor and patron.

3) Why was Gertrude Stein so important in the art world?                                                                                                           Gertrude Stein  was an American writer who spent most of her life in France, and who became a catalyst in the development of modern art and literature. Her life was marked by two primary relationships, the first with her brother Leo Stein, from 1874-1914, and the second with Alice B.

4) Describe Stein´s salón at 27 rue de Fleurus. (include an image)                                                                                                        Toklas, from 1907 until Stein’s death in 1946. Stein shared her salon at 27 rue de Fleurus, Paris, first with Leo and then with Alice. Throughout her lifetime, Stein cultivated significant tertiary relationships with well-known members of the avant garde artistic and literary world. 

5) Define expatriate: A person who lives outside their native country.

The Great Gatsby Background

1)Post 10 interesting facts about F. Scott Fitzgerald

1. He started his education in a Catholic school in 1903.                                                                                                                      2. He died of a massive heart attack on December 21st.                                                                                                                        3. 1920’s was the most influential decade for him.                                                                                                                                     4. He left the university in 1917 to join the army in WW1.                                                                                                                      5. He went to Princeton University.                                                                                                                                                         6. He wrote a lot of short stories for Princeton Tiger, a humored magazine from Princeton University.                                                                                                                          7. He moved to New York City after his discharge in the army.                                                                                                             8. His first publication The Mystery of the Raymond Mortgage was a detective story issued in school’s newspaper at the age of 13.                                                                                                                                                                                                         9. Ernest Hemingway was a really close friend of Scott.                                                                                                                      10. The sore point of this friendship was that Hemingway never approved selling of Scott’s stories and novels to Hollywood studios.

2) In your own words define the “American Dream.”                                                                                                                          The life that everyone want in America. They want perfect equality, democracy, and material prosperity. Social ideas that all people want to their lives.  

3) Do you think the American Dream is still valid?                                                                                                                               Yes

4) Post 1 image of F. Scott Fitzgerald