Topic: Ernest Hemingway; Soldier Home - Essay Example

When the author does that, he/she will be able to bring the real societal happenings into fiction, which in turn could be transferred to reel ‘life’ by some other person. Normally, human’s lives are composed of situations and incidents which sounds interesting, inspirational, innovative, ‘injuring’ etc, etc. And, writers’ job is to bring these situations and incidents into a written form, using the realistic or fictionalized version of the real life happenings as the base. Ernest Hemmingway was one such author who wrote many of his novels including Soldier’s Home, basing it on his “time period”.

So, this paper will analyze how Ernest Hemingway identifies himself with Harold Krebs, the protagonist of the Soldier’s Home. That is, Hemingway shows part of his own life in the story Soldier’s Home. Hemmingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois, started ‘gathering’ experiences as soon as he finished his graduation. That is, after graduating in 1917, he became a reporter for the newspaper, Kansas City Star and during that stint he became exposed to various social, political issues and conditions, extending different geographical locations.

Kansas being the hotspot of many social and political events gave Hemmingway a lot of things to mull over and form opinions. His experiences in Kansas only stayed with him till and got outputted in his works. “Upon his graduation in 1917, he took a junior reporter position on the Kansas City Star, covering the police and hospital beats and writing feature stories. In his journalism, Hemingway demonstrated a proclivity for powerful yet utterly objective stories of violence, despair, and emotional unrest, concerns that dominated his fiction” (Schafer).

After gaining immense experiences, he quit his job to serve as a volunteer ambulance driver in Italy during World War I. That set off a series of adventures, which clearly outputted in his works later in his life. Even though, he was badly