Ernest Hemingway and Guy De Maupassant are two of the world’s most renowned and famous writers. Guy de Maupassant was born in France and later served in the Franco-Prussian War. After the war, Maupassant lived in Paris where he met a couple of distinguished writers who would influence him later in life. After quitting his day job as a civil servant, Maupassant published one of his two-hundred or so stories. After getting the syphilis disease that had a negative effect on his brain, he attempts to commit suicide and fails.
Rosa Bonheur was born on May 16th 1822 in Bordeaux, France. Her parents raised her in a unique environment; encouraging her to be artistic at a young age. Her father was an unsuccessful landscape painter and was Bonheur’s first teacher. He encouraged her to draw animals and allowed her to have many pets in order to study them. As a teenager to bring money into the house Bonheur made and sold copies of works of art from the Louvre.
Imagine my dismay, when several months later, I was still in much pain. I had whip-lash and had also been diagnosed, with fibromyalgia, "wide spread, migrating, often debilitating pain" (Fibromyalgia Society of Ontario). I spent much time going to physiotherapy, massage therapy, hydro therapy, gentle touch chiropractic care, acupuncture, nerve blocks, rhizotomies (burning of nerve endings) on my neck and shoulder surgery, as a result of this car accident. Several years later, while not pain free, my pain was controlled, by medication, and had eased. I was trying to cope with a new normal kind of life.
“If something in life hurts you in life, use it in your writing.” This quote is by Ernest Hemingway, and he made this statement apparent when he wrote his book, “A Farewell to Arms.” In this novel there are many similarities between Hemingway and the main character Fredrick Henry. Once Ernest Hemingway enlisted into the war and was deferred because of his poor vision he became an ambulance driver as did Fredrick in the book. While running a mobile canteen he was hit by a mortar fire and was injured from the waist down. Other similarities include how both Hemingway and Fredrick were not close to their family at all, and how they both fell in love with a nurse while in the hospital for their injures. “Farewell to arms” is an exemplification of his love life as well as his war life as an ambulance driver in World War I.
* Critics * This movie explores how the ultimate adventure became the ultimate nightmare Touching the Void is a book by Joe Simpson recounting the true story of Simpson's and Simon Yates' disastrous and near-fatal climb of the 6,344-metre (20,813 foot) Siula Grande in the Peruvian Andes in 1985. Director Kevin Macdonald produced a fantastic movie about Touching the Void, ‘’with his new film Macdonald has achieved, if not physical elevation, then at least spiritual soaring.’’ This movie explores how the ultimate adventure became the ultimate nightmare… As the film opens, the director establishes an enticing sense of adventure for the audience. The cinematography in the film used is phenomenal. Firstly, Macdonald shows us an establishing, very long shot of the snowy mountains with Yates and Simpsons walking; he chose that type of shot to make the climbers look tiny against the enormous landscape. After that, there were many high and low angle shots to emphasize how enormous the area they have to travel through was.
His life in Paris also brought him closer to other painters. For 2 years he stayed in Algeria because he joined the First Regiment of African Light Cavalry, in 1861. He was supposed to stay there for 7 years but his aunt petitioned for him to return after he contacted typhoid. During his studies in university, he met many artists where they all shared their ideas on new, rapid painting techniques. During that time Monet met a young woman, Camille Doncieux.
There have been many people who come home with permanent injuries and have to wait months for a surgery. About 13 percent of America’s homeless veterans. Thousands of veterans have developed stress disorders. They are brave enough to know the many risks that they are taking. They may possibly see other Americans get killed.
in Herrera 18). Kahlo would later owe her “marvelous” (qtd. in Herrera 20) childhood to her father’s influence. As a painter and photographer himself, Guillermo would be the first to spark his daughter’s interest in art. Kahlo accompanied her father to local parks, painting her surroundings in watercolor and sharing in her father’s “curiosity about, and passion for, all manifestations of nature” (Herrera 18).
In The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, there are a lot of people that live difficult lives, with the constant burden of some past hardship. It is in living with these hardships that a story emerges, and the character becomes interesting. Jake perfectly models the quote "the world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong in the broken places," loosing his manhood, and being broken by the world, but then becoming the only one who can stand against Brett's seduction, and the only one who seems to be able to manage their life by the end of the book. Jake served in world war I. this was a common thing to do back then, because this was when war was just tipping off the edge of being civilized, and people were still patriotic and wanting to help serve. Jake was willing to serve his country, and paid for it dearly.
Growing up, she was most widely influenced by her mother and grandmother after her father was killed in a train accident when she was four years old. She attended school until she graduated at the age of 17. In 1870 she married Oscar Chopin and moved with him to New Orleans. However in 1880 when they suffered financial problems and were forced to move in with her father-in-law, where Oscar Chopin took over his father's plantation. Soon after, 1883 Oscar Chopin died, and she had to take over the plantation.