Ernest Hemingway: Questions & Links

Questions:

  1. What was most interesting about Hemingway in Cuba?
  2. Hemingway was an intense admirer of the Hispanic culture. Are you an intense admirer of another culture? Which?
  3. Using numbers 1-10, rank in order the following identities of Hemingway that interest you the most:
deep sea fisher big game hunter
journalist bullfight aficionado
world traveler ambulance driver
fiction writer soldier
submarine spotter spectator at the running of the bulls

4. Websearch: Use the links below to write a summary of Hemingway's activities in the Caribbean during the World War II period.

Links:

Virtual Tour of the Hemingway Museum/Finca Vigía

Homing to the Stream

The Finca Vigía

Gregorio Fuentes — the Old Man and the Sea

People Who Knew Hemingway in Cuba

Michael Palin's Hemingway Adventure — PBS

 

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