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Ernest Hemingway 4.
Mgr. Helena Slaninová
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2. Ernest Hemingway
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3. Answer the questions 1. ) What was his nationality?
2. ) What was his profession?
a.) b.) c.) d.)
3. ) What kind of literature did he write?
a.) b.) c.) d.)
4.) What kind or prizes did he win in 1953 and 1954?
5. ) What do you know about his personal life?
a.) family b.) permanent residences c.) cause of death
6.) What do you know about the Lost Generation?
7.) Which countries did he live in Europe?
a.) b.) c.)

4. Answer the questions
8.) What was his job during the Spanish Civil War?
9.) What happened to him in 1952 when he went on safari to Africa?
10.) Who is the main character in „The Old Man and the Sea“?
11.) What does the battle between the man and the giant marlin represent?
11.) What happens to the giant marlin in the end?
12.) What is your opinion about „The Old Man and the Sea“?
13.) Can you name 3 other works by Ernest Hemingway?
14.) Why do you think he is still so popular nowadays?
15.) Can you name 1 book you read and express your opinion about it?

5. Answers 1. ) What was his nationality? - American
2. ) What was his profession?
a.) author b.) journalist c.) reporter d.) ambulance driver (e.) foreign correspondent
3. ) What kind of literature did he write?
a.) novels b.) fiction c.) short stories d.) non-fiction
4.) What kind or prizes did he win in 1953 and 1954?
1953 – Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
1954 – Nobel Prize in Literature
5. ) What do you know about his personal life?
a.) family – married 4 times b.) permanent residences – Florida, Cuba
c.) cause of death – committed suicide in 1961

6. Answers 6.) What do you know about the Lost Generation?
It´s a post World War 1 generation of especially US writers, the moral values before the WW1 were no longer applicable after the WW1. Many young men went to war and died, or returned home either physically or mentally wounded therefore their faith in the moral values which used to give them hope, were no longer valid and they were „lost“.
7.) Which countries did he live in in Europe?
a.) Italy b.) Spain c.) France
8.) What was his job during the Spanish Civil War? – a foreign correspondent
9.) What happened to him in 1952 when he went on safari to Africa?
He was almost killed in a plane crash.
10.) Who is the main character in „The Old Man and the Sea“?
An aging Cuban fisherman called Santiago.

7. Answers
11.) What does the battle between the man and the giant marlin represent?
It is an epic battle between a man and fish, a man and nature.
11.) What happens to the giant marlin in the end?
The marlin gets almost eaten by sharks.
12.) What is your opinion about „The Old Man and the Sea“?
Students´own answers
13. ) Can you name 3 other works by Ernest Hemingway?
A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Sun Also Rises…
14.) Why do you think he is still so popular nowadays?
Students´own answers.
15.) Can you name 1 book you read and express your opinion about it?

8. Použité zdroje
AUTOR NEUVEDEN. obit-mag.com [online]. [cit ]. Dostupný na WWW:
AUTOR NEUVEDEN. Ernest Hemingway [online]. [cit ]. Dostupný na WWW:
Text – autorka DUMu Mgr. Helena Slaninová