Fiesta-Chronology

Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises

Chronology (1914-1927)

1914 Outbreak of the First World War

1917 Hemingway graduated from Oak Park and River Forest High School. He was hired as a reporter at The Kansas Cite y Star; the Star's writing style is what influenced his own in the years to come.

1918 He joined The Great War on the Italian Front, as a volunteer ambulance driver for the Red Cross. He was wounded in a mortar shell explosion. He was taken to the Red Cross hospital in Milan. During his recovery there he met Agnes von Kurowsky.

1919 End of the First World War.

Hemingway returned home, soon after he moved to Toronto where he began working for the Toronto Star.

1920 Hemingway moved to Chicago. He worked as the associate editor of the monthly journal Co-operative Commonwealth as well as writing stories for the Toronto Star. He met Hadley Richardson here.

1921 Hemingway married Richardson and they moved to Paris, where he became the foreign correspondent to the Toronto Star. Due to Sherwood Anderson, Hemingway was introduced to Gertrude Stein and other writers and artists, who were later referred to as the 'Lost Generation' (which included Hemingway).

1923 Hemingway first visit to Pamplona to see the San Fermin Festival.

1925 Hemingway and a group of his friends, many of them expatriates from Britain and America, went on a fishing trip near Burguete; and then afterwards attended the San Fermin Festival in Pamplona.

1926 Hemingway's first novel, 'Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises', was published.

Hemingway's life plays an important role in the construction of this novel. His being a journalist and a war veteran, who suffered a serious injury during the war, making him part of the 'Lost Generation', influence most of the characters in this book, but namely Jake Barnes himself. Whilst Hemingway's lifestyle reflects Jakes', for example, the life he had in Paris, his regular trip to Spain for the annual San Fermin Fiesta and fishing, are all events the protagonist and his company of friends carry out. Furthermore the character of Brett, although may have been inspired by (and then encouraged many after the publication of this novel) the 'flappers' of the 1920's, portrays a close relation to Agnes von Kurowsky, whom Hemingway met in the hospital during the war and fell in love with, just like Jake meets Brett during the war and is irrevocably in love with her. Thus we see from these dates that this novel has a great bearing on Hemingway's life.

Bibliography

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Hemingway

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sun_Also_Rises

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