In the story The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, he wrote the words: "Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon. The moon runs away." Hemingway was the only writer who could use a word picture like this; this book was his Nobel.
To write a story, Hemingway would take a journey, and then he would make a book. The Green Hills of Africa was about his big game hunt. For Whom the Bell Tolls was a story about the Spanish Civil War. Hemingway was a war reporter in the 1930s. The short stories of Hemingway were published in not famous magazines. Later a book was made called, In Our Time. His short stories are about things like Indian camps, fathers and sons, and love.
When you read his stories you can know they are by a young man and about the young. These young go out to explore the world and live the life of wonder and adventure. Hemingway started to write at a newspaper called the Kansas City Star in the year of 1918. He stayed there writing for just a few months before he went on his first big adventure. A lot of people think it is here at the Star where Hemingway met the man who was so much like the 'manly' men of his stories, his friend, playwright Emmet Crozier. Hemingway tried to be like this man. Emmet was a drinker, beat up his women and traveled a lot.
Hemingway listened to his teacher and practiced what he was taught. Emmet told him that he would must experience what he wrote about and use a minimum of description in his writing. Shortly after, Hemingway and another friend went on his first big adventure. They traveled to Italy to be a part of World War I. They were in the ambulance unit of the Italian army. He was shot while serving in the unit. After he left, he wrote a novel about the experience The Torrents of Spring. What had made a beginning with Three Stories and Ten Poems, was the career of one of the 20th century's greatest American writers.
Much of the details in Hemingwa...