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Imagining your history characters

PART 2 - CHARACTER CONSTRUCTION Imagine how worried we would be for a protagonist who decides that the Path he is traveling is very dangerous and hides to let things be solved alone. Or how much we would worry about the repentant gunman who hangs up his revolvers and swears he will not use them again, but at the first sign of trouble, he puts on his guns and reassumes his old behavior. It is the fight of the character, man or woman, full virtues and defects, which catches the audience and makes you worry about the development of the story. Multimedia Production Handbook In the movies, the protagonist almost always has the main role, the most interesting, and is the character that is most on screen, for the simple reason that it is the destiny of that person that we are following. Writers often name their films with the name of the protagonist: Erin Brockovich, Donnie Brasco, Michael Collins, Citizen Kane, Ninotchka, Tootsie - the list is endless. F...

From the war to the typewriter

Ernest Hemingway Biography  Ernesto "Ernie" Miller Hemingway, born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899, was an American writer who conquered the world with his concise prose and adventurous lifestyle. More than just a novelist, Hemingway was an inveterate globetrotter, a passionate hunter, an intrepid war correspondent, and an unrepentant drinker.  **From war to the typewriter**  His youth was marked by the First World War, where he served as an ambulance driver in Italy. This traumatic experience would leave a deep mark on his work, imbuing it with a melancholic tone and a disenchanted view of the world. After the war, Hemingway moved to Paris, where he immersed himself in the vibrant literary scene of the time, rubbing shoulders with figures such as Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Ezra Pound. **The birth of a literary icon**  In 1925, Hemingway published his first novel, **"Party"**, which portrayed the "Lost ...