Saturday, October 25, 2014

Hemingway

     Ernest Hemingway was a fascinating, amazing, and very inspiring man who lived an interesting life. He achieved Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, worldwide respect, and sold over a million books in his nearly 62 year life. In my opinion, Hemingway's character and life was just as fascinating as any of his writings. Hemingway may have left the world sooner than he was supposed to, but he left everyone with something to remember him by. If you simply open the cover of any one of his books, you will become completely immersed in the world as Hemingway saw it. One of my favorite quotes from Hemingway is " Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguishes on man from another." In my opinion, through illness, accidents, and natural disasters, the world tried to destroy Ernest Hemingway, and maybe it did to an extent. But in the end, the only person who could actually destroy Hemingway was himself