Farewell to Manzanar

Sage Young Mr. Rooks English 1A 29 November 2015 Ernest Hemingway After reading Ernest Hemingway’s biography and his famous novels that he wrote, he was an intelligent author, and did other amazing work outside of his career. He was born in Oak Park, Illinois, from 1899 and passed away on 1961. In the beginning of his profession, he started as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at age seventeen. Also when the United States entered the World War 1 era, he wanted to fight in the war,…

Douglas Spaulding, age 12, showcases his magical powers in a short excerpt from Ray Bradbury’s novel Dandelion Wine. Bradbury paints a wizard-like portrait of the young boy by employing mystical diction and equally important comparisons to establish a rampantly magical atmosphere throughout the passage. Bradbury lays the foundation for magic through copious use of magical diction, word choice that reinforces the atmosphere. Lines 35-39 are especially significant because they mention young…

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…

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…

Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell To Arms is a beautiful novel that has a setting that takes place during World War 1. In the very beginning to be quite honest this novel did not capture my interest right off the bat the way I expected it to. I had to continuously force myself to reread the first couple of chapters over and over again until the theme of the story stuck with me. The overall main character or protagonist within this novel happens to go by the name of Frederic Henry. And one…

Novelist Edith Wharton stated that “at every process of his tale the novelist must rely on what may be called the illuminating incident to reveal and emphasize the inner meaning of each situation”. The author of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway, took her words into account as he created many “illuminating moments” for the reader. These instances act as casements to solidify the meaning and theme of the novel. Hemingway tells of an episode like this in which an American driver on the Italian…

express the harsh realities of war.War is presented as a hindrance to life in both Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Walt Whitman’s “Beat! Beat! Drums” in order to demonstrate anti-war attitudes despite having different means of doing so. Both works describe war to halt the ordinary progress of life, although they do so through different approaches. Hemingway uses…

misconception that Ernest Hemingway is a boring writer, that he uses bland language and has no point to his writing. Hemingway is a very creative writer, he uses all of his surroundings and thoughts and feelings to piece together his work. In his novel, A Farewell to Arms, you do not find eloquent sentences, filled with details. Instead there are findings of short snippets and strange dialogue that isn’t written like normal dialogue. Hemingway’s novel is semi-autobiographical so most of what he…

A Not So Dynamic Duo Many characters in the novel, “A Farewell to Arms” by Ernest Hemingway, significantly impact the main character, Frederic Henry. Unfortunately, most of these supporting characters never get the chance to develop fully into their own dynamic role in the novel. These characters, known as static characters, are usually only in the novel to progress the story and support the main character, who in this case, is a very dynamic American soldier fighting in Italy during World War I…

What is the motivation of the main character/narrator, Frederic Henry in A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway? To determine what Henry’s motivation is, we might first want to determine what kind of person he is and what kind of person he becomes throughout the story. After all, this is a story about Fredric Henry falling into love with Cathrine Barkley, and who Henry becomes as a result. Although, what motivates him does seems to change a little, as he learns what things are important to him.…