ERNEST HEMINGWAY LIFE AND LOST GENERATION Mgr Petr

ERNEST HEMINGWAY: LIFE AND LOST GENERATION Mgr. Petr Kalus

Gymnázium a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Svitavy ANOTACE • Kód DUMu: VY_32_INOVACE_4. AJ. 19 • Číslo projektu: CZ. 1. 07/1. 5. 00/34. 0114 • Vytvořeno: Prosinec 2013 - Leden 2014 • Ročník: 3. ročník a 4. ročník – čtyřleté gymnázium (RVP-G), Septima a Oktáva – osmileté gymnázium (RVP-G) • Vzdělávací oblast Jazyk a jazyková komunikace Vzdělávací obor Anglický jazyk Tematický okruh ERNEST HEMINGWAY: LIFE Anotace: Tento materiál byl vytvořen jako osnova pro maturitní okruh: ERNEST HEMINGWAY na Gymnáziu a JŠ Svitavy na několik tematicky propojených hodin (pro výklad i opakování – shrnutí učiva). Obsahuje přehled základní informací životě daného autora. Osvojení učiva je ověřováno pomocí cvičení vyžadujícího doplnění chybějících části textu. Materiál je primárně zaměřen na dva poslední ročníky gymnázia, i přesto se dá využít i v nižších ročnících osmiletého i čtyřletého studia vcelku nebo jeho jednotlivé části. Pomůcky: interaktivní tabule, Internet

Ernest Hemingway • born on July 22 in 1899 in Illinois • raised by his parents Clarence and Grace Hemingway • lived together in the suburb of Chicago (rather conservative at that time) • spent a lot of time in a cabin situated in Northern Michigan, where he learnt how to hunt and fish and his great love of wildlife was born • during his high school studies, he worked on school newspapers called Trapeze and Tabula, where he was primarily interested in sports 1

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Army experience • during the WWI Hemingway joined the Italian army as a volunteer • served as an ambulance driver • soon after joining the army he was seriously wounded • he was transported to hospital in Milan, where he had a romantic affair with Agnes von Kurowsky • she agreed to get married to him but later left him for another man, which deeply hurt his feelings • inspiration for his great novel A Farewell to Arms

3 Recovering from injuries in the Milan hospital

Coming home • he came back from the war at the age of 19 • the horrors of the war considerably influenced his way of thinking and conception of the world • his parents failed to understand the evil he went through during the war and wanted him to get a job or go to college • they had idealized images of war and war heroes

Paris and the Lost Generation • after his return home, he started working for Toronto Star Weekly • married his first wife Hadley Richardson and moved to Paris in 1921 • it was in Paris that he became a member of the so-called Lost Generation • worked as an European correspondent for Toronto Star Daily

Lost Generation • a term introduced/coined by Gertrude Stein • a community of expatriate writers and artists living in post-war Paris • a group of people whose early adulthood was profoundly shaped by their war experience • dealt with post-war disillusionment and the loss of ideals, hope and traditions • explored the possibilities of modernist writing • The Lost Generation included writers and artists such as Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and John Dos Passos or Francis Scott Fitzgerald • inspiration for his first novel The Sun Also Rises

Later life • in 1937 he went to work as a reporter in the Spanish Civil War • gained inspiration for his another novel For Whom the Bells Toll, which as an instant success • he moved to Havana in Cuba • in 1953 Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for his influential novel The Old Man and the Sea and in 1954 the Nobel Prize for Literature

A great author and his last years • Hemingway became addicted to alcohol • his heavy drinking habit worsened his mental and physical health • suffered from severe depression and mood swings • was treated with electric shocks • in the morning of July 2 in 1961, he woke up early and committed suicide

Timeline Significant dates in the authorʼs life

Video biography Watch the biography and answer the questnions below. 1. How was his style distinctively different from other writers of his era? 2. How did Fitzgerald help Hemingway in his literary career? 3. What can you say about Hemingway and women? 4. How many times was he married? 5. As an alcohol addict, did he continue writing novels?

Gymnázium a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Svitavy Obrázky 1. ARNOLD, Lloyd. Wikimedia Commons [online]. [cit. 2. 8. 2013]. Dostupný na WWW: http: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Ernest. Hemingway. jpg 2. AUTOR NEUVEDEN. Wikimedia Commons [online]. [cit. 2. 8. 2013]. Dostupný na WWW: http: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Ernest_Hemingwa y_on_safari, _1934. jpg 3. AUTOR NEUVEDEN. Wikimedia Commons [online]. [cit. 2. 8. 2013]. Dostupný na WWW: http: //commons. wikimedia. org/wiki/File: Ernest_Hemingwa y_recuperates_from_wounds_in_Mil Materiál je určen pro bezplatné používání pro potřeby výuky a vzdělávání na všech typech škol a školských zařízeních. Jakékoliv další využití podléhá autorskému zákonu.

Gymnázium a Jazyková škola s právem státní jazykové zkoušky Svitavy Zdroje a literatura 1. AUTOR NEUVEDEN. ERNEST HEMINGWAY BIOGRAPHY [online]. [cit. 2. 8. 2013]. Dostupný na WWW: http: //www. egs. edu/library/ernest-hemingway/biography/ 2. SPARKNOTES EDITORS. Spark. Note on The Sun Also Rises. [online]. [cit. 2. 8. 2013]. Dostupný na WWW: http: //www. sparknotes. com/lit/sun/context. html 3. AUTOR NEUVEDEN. Ernest Hemingway biography [online]. [cit. 2. 8. 2013]. Dostupný na WWW: http: //www. biography. com/people/ernest-hemingway 9334498? page=1 Veškeré hypertextové odkazy jsou platné ke dni vytvoření díla. Materiál je určen pro bezplatné používání pro potřeby výuky a vzdělávání na všech typech škol a školských zařízeních. Jakékoliv další využití podléhá autorskému zákonu.