The Art of Bull Fighting: The Dangerous Summer by Ernest Hemingway

“The Dangerous Summer” by Ernest Hemingway is about a summer of bull fighting in Spain.

“Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o’clock in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois” (Welcome 1). “In the nearly sixty two years of his life that followed he forged a literary reputation unsurpassed in the twentieth century and created a mythological hero in himself that captivated (and at times confounded) not only serious literary critics but the average man as well…in a word, he was a star” (Welcome 1).

“Hemingway received his formal schooling in the Oak Park public school system” where he enjoyed working on the high school newspaper called the Trapeze (Welcome 2). He “graduated in the spring of 1917 and instead of going to college the following fall like his parents expected, he took a job as a cub reporter for the Kansas City Star” where he learned “some stylistic lessons that would later influence his fiction” (Welcome 2).

“When Hemingway turned eighteen he tried to enlist in the army, but was deferred because of poor vision” (Welcome 2). “When he heard the Red Cross was taking volunteers as ambulance drivers he quickly signed up. He was accepted in December of 1917, left his job at the paper in April of 1918, and sailed for Europe in May” (Welcome 2).

Due to the help he gave wounded soldiers after he was wounded, he was awarded the Italian Silver Star for Valor (Welcome 2). “Hemingway’s wounding along the Piave River in Italy and his subsequent recovery at a hospital in Milan, including the relationship with his nurse Agnes von Kurowsky, all inspired his great novel A Farewell to Arms” (Welcome 3).