susan beegle?ye think hemmingway's mother had a profound influence on him and we will hear a little more about this in upcoming scholarship, but i think as i mentioned before, grace was a composer, a very fine musician, studied as an opera singer. she trained all of her children in music and particularly trained him to play the cello, got him interested in classical music and i think she was one of really his first great m mentor. his style involves brilliant use of repetition and very musical use of repetition, probably is as much connected to his mother's early training in music as it is to working with people, for instance, like stein and ezra pound in paris. she also told her kids about the arts that, if you don't tell me you love to write, don't tell me you love to play the cello. work is love. and if you love it, you will do it. and she, herself, was a very disciplined artist, put her art before her family, which was sometimes difficult in the home, but she taught him to do that, too. to be a

susan beegle? >> hemingway was interested in race, but he didn't really write about it a great deal. i think what's really interested about his african experience is his sympathy for the indigenous cultures there. if you look at "true at first light" which takes place in the 1950's, he was actually interested in becoming a part of the tribe and entering into that and understanding more about african indigenous culture. he wasn't really part of the civil rights movement that began here in the 1950's. he wasn't really that involved in american culture. he was living in cuba at the time. i think his early interest is expressed in his stories about boxing where black fighters were pushing the race envelope and took a great interest in the joe louis fight where we had a black american fighter up against a blond aryan nazi from jer jer moon knee. the superior race was joe louis. >> yet in 1926 when "the sun also rises" came out, it contains the "n" word. how do students react? >> they react negatively. i