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    When he was finished with his service and recovery in Italy, he was supposed to marry a nurse that he had loved for six years named Agnes von Kurowsky. When he wrote to her from America, she responded by saying she was not moving back to America with him and that she had fallen in love with another Italian soldier. In In Another Country, the older, wiser general who is also injured, reviled the American soldier when marriage came up in a conversation "the more a fool you are,… A man must not marry” (Hemingway 3) he said. He then later apologized for his tone and explained how he lost his wife and was heartbroken, which can relate to how Hemingway felt after Agnes von Kurowsky had fallen out of love with him. Ernest Hemingway also liked to prove his masculinity in both his stories and his real life. He was an excellent football player in high school. The American soldier in the short story also told the doctor he played football and was promised a full recovery so he could play again. Ernest Hemingway and the American Soldier have an astounding amount of the same…

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    ocean where he hoped to find fish. The old man knew he was going far out and he left the smell of the land behind.” *. Simply venturing out to an isolated section of the sea shows the character Santiago as independent, a key element of transcendentalism. The other elements, self-reliance and nature are also very prevalent in the novel. *finish paragraph* Another major component of who Ernest Hemingway was was his ability to accept failure and take pride in overcoming adversity. As a young man,…

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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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    Keep it the Heming-Way “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” - Ernest Hemingway It has been brought to my attention that the English Department is questioning the importance of teaching about Ernest Hemingway, who they say is a “simplistic” writer. A Farewell to Arms is an example of a novel Hemingway wrote which mirrors his life and many of his own experiences during the time he spent in World War I. He is familiar with the settings of his novels…

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    1) The novel gives a brief description of the lives of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley before they come to Italy. Frederic used to be a student of architecture back in America. He volunteers to join the Italian army as an ambulance driver. Proof of this is when Catherine asks, “You’re the American in the Italian army” (Hemingway 22). Before Catherine comes to Italy, she had a fiance who had unfortunately passed away. They grew up together for eight years. She is an English woman who is a V.…

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    Finding Style An author 's style is like his or her signature. It stems from their unique combination of literary elements, and how they weave these aspects into their work. Authors ' styles can be near indistinguishable or the complete antithesis of each other, as in the case of William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. However, despite the obvious contrasts in the two author’s writings, there are several similarities in their work. Their short stories, Faulkner 's "A Rose for Emily," and…

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    World War I was very tragic time, and only a few novelist captured the true lives of people who lived during that time. Ernest Hemingway, an english author who was in the Italian first aid during World War I, is one of the novelist who show an aspect of life during World War I in the novel Farewell to Arms. Hemingway tries to show what people had to deal with during those times. A man named Fredi, who is an american in the Italian first aid, meets a woman who he falls in love with. He tries to…

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    The tragedy of losing brothers in arms left and right on the front lines of the goriest war in times past is petrifying and traumatizing. In “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway introduces a lonely soldier’s voyage back to life after returning from World War 1. The lives of the soldiers that fought in the war are overlooked and overseen for what events they have encountered and the pain they suffered internally. Ernest Hemingway is a hero whether he encountered the traumatic stresses of war or…

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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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    Someone once said, “All of us are looking for an escape; usually, we find it in each other.” This proves to be true for both of the main characters in Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley – Frederic’s escape from the war and Catherine’s escape from her fiancé’s death the year prior. In Joel Armstrong’s article, “‘A Powerful Beacon’: Love Illuminating Human Attachment in Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms,” he argues that “love is the centering principle of…

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