Ernest Hemingway was born on July 21st 1899, in the home of Clarence and Grace Hemingway (JFK 1). Their home was in a Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Illinois. His father, a family doctor and his mother an opera singer, decided not to take it as a career, but instead she decided to get marry and have six children. Ernest's parents were very religious, he grew up in a mainly around a protestant family (CNN1). As a youngster, Hemingway enjoyed hunting and fishing.
             After graduating from high school, Hemingway fled to Kansas City and obtained a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star newspaper (CNN 2). Here Hemingway covered all types of stories ranging from violence to strikes. "Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English, not forgetting to strive for smoothness. Be positive, not negative." The emphasis was on clear writing. "Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing," Hemingway declared. "I've never forgotten them. No man with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides with them." "On the Star you were forced to learn to write a simple declarative sentence. That's useful to anyone."(JFK 2)
             In 1918, Hemingway decided to work as a volunteer in World War I, but do to bad eyesight he was rejected (CNN 2). Instead, he took on the role of an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. While in Italy Hemingway suffered a severe injury, he was saving a soldiers life when a mortar shell exploded near him and injured both of his legs, but he still managed to save the life of the soldier and himself. (JFK 3)
             After this incident Hemingway was treated, and later looked upon as a hero. He received a medal of valor form the Italian army and was noticed as the first American wounded in Italy (JFK 3).
             While be hospitalized, Hemingway met Agnes von Kurowsky, an American which was a major flirt and 7 ½ years olde...