ADay27swait(Unit6)2Warming-up Activities How much do you know about the writer of the passage ---- Ernest Hemingway? Can you tell us some of his works? Have you ever been faced with death or danger of life before? If yes, what’s your attitude towards it?3Ernest Hemingway Hemingway (1899-1961), American novelist and short-story writer, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He was noted both for the intense masculinity of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life. His succinct and lucid prose style exerted a powerful influence on the American and British fiction in the 20th century.Background Information ■41899~1961Life TimeAmericanNationalityOak Park, IllinoisPlace of BirthPersonal Experiences5Personal Experiences—1.Serving as a volunteer ambulance driver in World War I. 2. Working as a journalist and correspondent 3. Serving as a journalist in the Spanish Civil War4. Bullfighting, hunting, skiing 6The Sun Also Rises (1926)WorksA Farewell to Arms (1929)For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940)7The Old Man and the Sea (1952)Worksthe Nobel Prize for Literature (1954)Honor8Simplicity, naturalness, directness, clarity, freshnessWriting StyleDeath and courageTheme“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”Famous SayingFor a true writer, each book should be a moving beginning or he tried again for something beyond payment. He should always try for something that has never been done or what the others tried and failed. And sometimes with good luck he’ll succeed.Views on Writing9In general, it refers to the post-World War I generation, but specifically a group of the U.S. writers who came of age during the war and established their literary reputations in the 1920s. The term stems from ...
