Universidade Estadual do Ceará – UECE Faculdade de Educação, Ciências e Letras do Sertão Central –

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NÚCLEO DE LÍNGUASQuixadá

English CourseSemester IV - 2011.2

Teacher: Edinaldo Oliveira.

Old Man at the Bridge

ERNEST HEMINGWAY1938

Ernest Hemingway(1898-1961)

Ernest Miller Hemingway was born in Oak Park - Illinois (USA), in 1898.Starting his writing career as a reporter for the Kansas City Star Newspaper.

During his life as a soldier and correspondent, Hemingway wrote about the war (novels, short stories).

He worked in different countries around the world:

Italy – during World War I.China – Japanese Invasion.England – World War II. Spain – Spanish Civil War.

Silver Medal Valor in World War I.

Pulitzer Prize of Literature in 1953.

Nobel Prize of Literature in 1954.

In 2001, two of his books - The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell Arms – were named to the list of the 100 best English-Literature novels of the 20th Century.

Hemingway was awarded with:

Hemingway was an exceptional writer. Between 1960 and 61 he receiving treatment for depression and paranoia, but this was unable to prevent his suicide on July 2, 1961 – at 5:00 am.

He died as a result of a self-inflected shotgun blast to the head.

Old Man at the BridgeShort story

by

Ernest Hemingway1938

The Symbols in

Hemingway’s short story

ICEBERG THEORY

Hemingwayand the

The Goats

The Cat

The Pigeons

The repetition

Easter Sunday

A Gray Overcast Day

The Old Man

The Bridge

“If we don’t end war, war will end us.”(H.G. Wells)