sted in rifle marksmanship (Burgess 13 -14). He considered high school to be extremely dull and wanted to find more excitement and freedom outside of Oak Park. He even ran away from home twice because he was so frustrated with school and his parents (Lynn 24 - 29).
             After high school graduation in the spring of 1917, Hemingway was eager to fight in WWI (L. Hemingway 44). Although his father strongly opposed because of his young age, Hemingway enlisted anyway. However, he was deferred because of his poor vision; he had a defective left eye that was supposedly inherited from his mother (Wilson I). Hemingway then decided to go live with his Uncle Tyler (Ty) in Kansas City and pursue a career in journalism. His uncle, although completely unaware of his writing ability, liked his nephew and wanted to see him working on the Kansas City Star; therefore, he set his nephew up with a job (L. Hemingway 44). At the short time that Hemingway worked for the Star, he was taught some stylistic lessons which later proved to influence his fictions. The newspaper promoted short sentences, active verbs, authenticity, compression, clarity, and immediacy. Hemingway once said, "Those were the best rules I ever learned for writing. I've never forgotten t!
             During the time that Hemingway graduated, WWI was raging in Europe. When Hemingway heard that the Red Cross was taking volunteers, he immediately signed up and was accepted in December 1917. He then left his job at the Kansas City Star in April 1918 and traveled to Paris (HRC I 2). After receiving his orders, he traveled to Milan in
             early June and joined the ambulance unit. His duty was to go into the mountains and transport wounded soldiers to the distribution point where they were given emergency treatment and assigned to a hospital. Hemingway found this tedious and wanted to get closer to the war. His opportunity came when the chief of his ambulance section asked for volunte...