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    A Farewell to Arms show’s Hemingway’s at war experience. As similar to the same character in the book the main character is Frederick Henry have the same experience in common. Hemingway’s was rejected from the us army for having poor sight. He didn't have really good sight due to boxing. When in battle he was wounded and hit by an Austrian mortar shell. Besides the wound he also managed to carry an italian soldier to the nearby command post. However, machine gun fire struck him in his foot and knee. Then he was sent to the hospital in Italy. Also there is a similar injury to henry in the novel.Frederick is a young man who is an ambulance driver for the italian army during World War I. This book goes through Fredericks experience in life and…

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    A Farewell To Arms Essay

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    Ernest Hemmingway favors the topic of war in many of his works, and A Farewell to Arms is no exception to this. The setting is masterfully used to portray the conflict’s intense violence and sense of disbelief, frailty and loss that come with war. Hemmingway also makes great use of symbolism in the novel, using conflict between the plains and the mountains to represent danger versus safety, as well as the rain suggesting impending doom. Frederic Henry, the main character, leaves the war a…

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    Love In A Farewell To Arms

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    In Hemingway’s novels, love and war is a common theme as it shows readers love in a different situation; one of danger and jeopardy. A Farewell to Arms is a widely known novel featuring this as Fredric Henry and Catherine Barkley share a romance during WWI. During war there are many hardships that come along with a relationship. There are unpredictable events such as ambushes, fatalities on the battle field, and many more. These things can get in the way of a relationship as with so much going…

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    The simplistic and transparent writing of Ernest Hemingway is distinctly shown in his novel, A Farewell To Arms. In chapter one, Hemingway uses coherent and distinct rhetorical devices such as polysyndeton, imagery, syntax, and diction in order to inaugurate the mood and tone of the novel. Syntactical imitations such as polysyndeton and anaphora by Hemingway give the novel a monotonous feel for the reader. The imagery shown in the first chapter establishes a somber and dim feeling for the…

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    Theme Of Heroism In A Farewell To Arms

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    as, “A man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor, courage and endurance in a world that is sometimes chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.” It is blatantly apparent that Henry, the protagonist of A Farewell to Arms, did not exemplify any of these traits at all in the beginning of the novel. However, as the book progressed, Henry gradually learned how to be a “Hemingway Hero”, and he eventually progressed to the point where he completely embodied all that is expected of such.…

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    throughout the book, it changes. In the beginning of the novel I felt that Henry neither had a positive or negative reaction to the war until his injury. Towards the end of the novel, Henry no longer wants to participate in the war and is no longer interested in receiving a medal for recognition of being injured simply because at the time of the injury he was not engaging in a heroic act. Henry takes the “nothing is worse than war” side of the argument in Chapter IX. I believe that Hemingway…

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    Ernest Hemingway’s “Farewell to arms” shows great change in the main characters life throughout the story and how the war can be hard on the characters and be a big affect on their life events and choices. There are millions of people serving our country fighting for our freedom. The people that do are very brave but sometimes don’t come back themselves. They end up with PTSD and that changes their lives forever it so funny how going to war could change someone physicaly and emotionaly. In…

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    In his novel A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway tells the story of an American ex-lieutenant Frederick Henry looking back on his life and relationship with Catherine Barkley. The lovers first meet outside a villa-turned-hospital and almost immediately begin playing, as writer Ernest Lockridge wrote, a “game of cat-and-mouse” with one another (Hemingway 18, Lockridge 72). Lockridge argued that because of this game, it appears as if Hemingway wrote Frederick to be an ignorant, naive lover, and…

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    In the novels A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway and All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Remarque the different possibilities of the effects war have on an individual are displayed distinctively. In A Farewell to Arms Henry realizes he is losing himself in the war and tries to find an escape through love. In All Quiet on the Western Front the way Paul views himself changes and puts a perspective not only on the present but on his past and his future too. In these two novels the…

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    The Line Between Courage and Exaltation In Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms, bravery is displayed in a unique way as characters live their lives during world war one. Life during a time of war can be stressful and make tensions run high. Hemingway manages to create heroic characters without glorifying war. The main character, Henry, has one goal; he has to stay alive long enough to make it back to the love of his life, Catherine. Henry does not believe in himself and ends up contradicting…

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