A Clean, Well-Lighted Place
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BJTU’s Course Thesis
for
English Fiction Reading
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place – A Social Historical
Reading of Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean,
Well-Lighted Place
| |Institute: |School of LACS | |
| |Major: |English | |
| |Student: |Yubing Luo | |
| |Reg. No. |09321009 | |
| |Tutor: |Dr. Zhang Junxue | |
January 8, 2013
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Ernest Hemingway
Yubing Luo
09321009
School of Languages and Communication Studies
Beijing Jiaotong University
Context
Born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago, Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children. His father, a doctor, loved hunting and fishing and quickly taught these loves to young Hemingway. He gave Hemingway his first gun when he was just ten. When Hemingway finished high school, World War I was raging across Europe, and he wanted to enlist in the army. His father forbade him from enlisting, however, so Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he began to hone his writing skills. Eventually, he grew restless and became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy. After being injured, he recovered at a Milan hospital, where he had an affair with a nurse. He returned home in 1919 but moved to Paris in 1921 to work as a reporter for the Toronto Daily Star. There, he joined a group of expatriate writers and artists who would come to define the “Lost Generation,” men and women whose early adulthood was defined
BJTU’s Course Thesis
for
English Fiction Reading
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place – A Social Historical
Reading of Ernest Hemingway’s A Clean,
Well-Lighted Place
| |Institute: |School of LACS | |
| |Major: |English | |
| |Student: |Yubing Luo | |
| |Reg. No. |09321009 | |
| |Tutor: |Dr. Zhang Junxue | |
January 8, 2013
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place Ernest Hemingway
Yubing Luo
09321009
School of Languages and Communication Studies
Beijing Jiaotong University
Context
Born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, near Chicago, Ernest Hemingway was the second of six children. His father, a doctor, loved hunting and fishing and quickly taught these loves to young Hemingway. He gave Hemingway his first gun when he was just ten. When Hemingway finished high school, World War I was raging across Europe, and he wanted to enlist in the army. His father forbade him from enlisting, however, so Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star, where he began to hone his writing skills. Eventually, he grew restless and became an ambulance driver for the Red Cross in Italy. After being injured, he recovered at a Milan hospital, where he had an affair with a nurse. He returned home in 1919 but moved to Paris in 1921 to work as a reporter for the Toronto Daily Star. There, he joined a group of expatriate writers and artists who would come to define the “Lost Generation,” men and women whose early adulthood was defined
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