One reoccurring theme in many Ernest Hemingway writings lies in his portrayal of the battle between the hunter and the hunted. Hemingway has a true respect and admiration for the beasts he writes about, and at times represents himself as the animals in his works.
             Ernest Miller Hemingway was born at eight o'clock in the morning on July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. 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 not only serious literary critics but the average man as well.
             Born in the family home at 439 North Oak Park Avenue, a house built by his widowed grandfather Ernest Hall, Hemingway was the second of Dr. Clarence and Grace Hall Hemingway's six children; he had four sisters and one brother. He was named after his maternal grandfather Ernest Hall and his great uncle Miller Hall.
             Oak Park was a mainly Protestant, upper middle-class suburb of. Only ten miles from the big city, Oak Park was really much farther away philosophically. It was basically a conservative town that tried to isolate itself from Chicago's liberal seediness. Hemingway was raised with the conservative midwestern values of strong religion, hard work, physical fitness and self-determination; if one adhered to these parameters, he was taught, he would be ensured of success in whatever field he chose.
             The Hemingway's had a summer house called Windermere on Walloon Lake in northern Michigan, and the family would spend the summer months there trying to stay cool it was there, that as a boy Hemingway was taught by his father, to hunt and fish. Hemingway would either fish the different streams that ran into the lake, or would take the rowboat out to do some fishing there. He would also go squirrel hunting in the woods near the summerhouse, discovering early in life the serenity to be found while alone in the forest or wa...