Hemingway 英语专业教学课件.ppt

Life: (1)?? born in a small town called Oak Park in Illinois near Chicago (2)?? father: a successful physician, middle class, love fishing and hunting; mother: music teacher (3)?? a happy childhood; a lover of brutal sports, such as boxing and football in middle school (4)?? Though his father hoped him to be a physician, Hemingway refused to enter university. He chose to be a reporter. (5)?? During the WWI, he wanted to join the army but was refused because of his poor eyesight. Then Hemingway came to Italy to work as an ambulance driver. He was seriously wounded in the battlefield. The nightmarish war experience changed his life. (6)?? After the war, he still worked as a reporter. He was sent to Paris and knew Pound, Gertrude Stein, Sherwood Anderson and some other famous writers who encouraged him to write. (7)?? He also worked as a war reporter in the Spanish Civil War and the WWII. (8)?? He is a tough guy with rather masculine manner. In all his life, he loved tough games, such as boxing, hunting, deep-sea fishing, bullfight and so on. He was injured many times. In all the operations, 237 steel fragments were taken out from Hemingway’s body. He also suffered 3 car accidents and 2 air crushes. He was admired as a hero by lots of people and his life style was imitated. (9)?? In 1961, Hemingway shot himself with gun in his home. (Reason? can’t write, can’t enjoy tough games, bad health etc.) The Old Man and The Sea In 1954, Hemingway got the Nobel Prize It is a quite special novel in all his novel Story Symbolism: Santiago--- mankind , sea---nature and environment; marlin---purpose of life; shark--- the evil force which control human’s fate Theme: the importance of life lies in the process of searching and resistance A Farewell to Arms In 1929 he published A Farewell to Arms, arguably the finest novel to emerge from World War I. In four short years he went from being an unknown writer to being the most important writer of his generation, and perhaps the 20th cen