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    Gene explains, “Finny had deliberately set out to wreck my studies. That explained blitzball, that explained the nightly meetings of the Super Suicide Society, that explained that I share all his diversions. The way I believed that you’re-my-best-friend blabber!” (53). Gene has discovered that his best friend is not a friend at all because in his mind, Finny is the enemy. The idea that Finny is the…

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    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 Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms” (Armstrong, 79). This proves to be true – however, not a…

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    Within Ernest Hemingway’s semi-autobiographical fiction A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway’s ironic devices and tone maintain a particular consistency throughout the novel. Hemingway’s writing style is very straightforward, constantly leaning away from being ambiguous, though there is still a sense of situational irony, coupled with a straightforward tone constantly found within the story’s plotline. Painstakingly simple and general, Hemingway does little to embellish and cover-up the brutalities of…

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    slipping from him is the reason for featuring death in his works and creating characters with a need to possess courage ("Hemingway's Short Stories." Ernest Hemingway Biography Web). His first heartbreak inspired the character Catherine Berkley in A Farewell to Arms, a novel Hemingway would later write based on his time in Italy during World War I. Majority of Hemingway’s novels and short stories are based on his own life (Yannuzzi 27). After the war, Ernest felt lost and moved to Paris along…

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    James D. Houston are the authors of Farewell to Manzanar. Woody is the third and the oldest son of Wakatsuki family and he has a strong character in this novel, Woody was born in California, Which simply means that everyone will be harmed during a war; even if someone is innocent, After the attack to the Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Air force, USA government decided to intern Japanese-American people to keep them in a camp, we know that as Manzanar. The book Farewell To Manzanar by Jeanne D.…

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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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    There are many elements within the book Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury that you have to read closely to catch. While he is more widely known for his science fiction and dystopian novels, Bradbury can write a very detailed realistic fiction. Therefore, we will have to dig deeper to find the true meaning of Bradbury's words. The certain elements that I will explore include character, themes, style, plot, and setting. The characters in Dandelion Wine are crucial to the plot of the book,…

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    The goal of this document is the analytical breakdown of Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s book titled Farewell to Manzanar. The book is a recollection of her time at an internment camp called ‘Manzanar’ when she was a child along with a few excerpts to give depth to some of the events that took place. As noted in the p.s before the book begins, she and her husband decided to write the story of what life was like in the internment camps and not focussing on the overall scheme of how “an injustice was…

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    Cara ErnstHistory 1302 3A1Mrs. Celeste12 October 2017Book Critique on Farewell to ManzanarThe book “Farewell to Manzanar” by Jeanne Wakatsuki & James D. Houston is a detailed story of a young Asian girl going through tough times. It is clear in the book the young girl who narrates it does not comprehend the seriousness of what is going on she says “I didn’t understand this. Hadn’t we arrived” (17)? This little Japanese girl and her family were sent to an internment camp in the dessert of…

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    Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier’s Home” is about a young soldier who just recently returned from serving in World War I. Unfortunately, the young soldier has a difficult time readjusting to everyday life at home. While he shows no physical side effects, he internally struggles with motivating himself to start a life of his own, restoring to a disinterest in girls and living the daily routine he has made for himself. Organization plays a role in the short story, providing enough information about…

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