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streets of London, Hemingway was involved in a car accident, which left him with a severe concussion, and in the hospital for five days. ” Ernest and Martha’s marriage was in serious trouble during the time they were both covering the war in Europe”. (Workbook) They were eventually divorced in December of 1945. Not surprised, Hemingway was remarried a short time later. Her name was Mary Welch. They had met through a mutual friend and though both were married at the time, they continued to see each other many times after. Hemingway would only write two more novels that were published in his lifetime. The first being Across the River and into the Trees, published in 1950, and the second, The Old Man and the Sea, published in 1952. ” On the evening of May 4 1953, on board

Pilar anchored inside the reef near Paraiso, Cuba, after a days fishing with Mary, Ernest, listening to the news on the radio from Miami”, he heard ” he `d been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for 1952″. (Workbook) Hemingway was astonished; ” he and Mary celebrated that night with a can of Oxtail soup and extra rations of cheese”. (Workbook) One month later, Hemingway and his wife left for an East African Safari, the trip was underwritten by Look Magazine. The itinerary included stops through Key West, New York, Paris, Spain, Madrid and then to Mombassa, Kenya. As Christmas neared, Hemingway was going to surprise Mary with an Air Safari. An American pilot named Roy Marsh was to fly the couple from Nairobi across the Serengeti Plain to Lake Victoria and on down

the Congo River to Stanlyville. The trip was to take place in Roy `s Cessna ` 180 `. A few days into the trip, the plane struck an old telegraph pole, and made a crash landing. All three walked away, but were beaten up in the crash. Early the next morning a charter boat coming down the Victoria Nile river spotted the trio, and brought them to the nearest village of Butiaba, Uganda. As the boat was coming into dock, it was spotted by a bush pilot named Reggie Cartright. Reggie had been out looking for Roy `s downed plane. Hoping that Roy and the passengers were aboard the boat, he landed his plane in a plowed over field near the village. Since there were no hotels in Butiaba, Reggie agreed to fly the trio to near by Entebbe. During takeoff Cartright lost control of his BI-wing

airplane, and crashed. The plane was engulfed in flames. Cartright and Mary escaped through a small window in the forward cockpit, Hemingway being too large to fit through the window, used his head to break open the rear cargo door, and he and Roy climbed out to safety. The toll of two plane crashes in as many days was starting to weigh heavy. The couple finally made their way back to Nairobi. After the plane crashes, Hemingway was in poor physical condition and a mere fraction of his normally adventurous self. He would never fully recover. In the Fall of 1956, Mary became ill. The doctor who examined her took one look at Hemingway and admitted him into the hospital also. ” The result was Blood pressure 210/105, a cholesterol count of 380 (220 being normal), a badly functioning

liver, and worst of all, a fluoroscope showed an area of inflammation around the aorta”. (Workbook) The Hemingway’s would eventually return to Cuba. The summers were long and hot. For Hemingway they seemed to go on forever. He grew home sick for the clean western mountain air that he used to know as a younger man. In October of 1958, Ernest and Mary moved to a small town in Idaho near the Sun Valley Ski Resort, called Ketchum. During the next three years Hemingway would be treated for high blood pressure, liver disease, diabetes, and depression. Several trips to the Mayo Clinic, and two attempted suicides, Hemingway’s sanity was slowly slipping away. On the morning of July 2, 1961,while Mary still lie sleeping. ” Ernest awoke, padded softly down the stairway, selected his

favorite double-barreled Boss shotgun with a tight choke, slipped in two shells, lowered the gun butt carefully to the floor, leaned forward, pressed the two barrels against his forehead, just above the eyebrows, tripped both triggers”. (Workbook) ” Hemingway drew heavily on his experiences as an avid fisherman, hunter and bullfighter enthusiast in his writing. His adventurous life brought him close to death several times ” (Encarta 98) The greatest lesson Hemingway has taught the world is that its ok to live life on your own terms. He is considered one of the foremost authors of his generation. 369