Ernest Hemingway: a Farewell to Arms: Research Essay

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William Tester Dr. Butler English III Honors 19 May, @014 Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms: Research Essay Ernest Hemingway is considered one of the best American authors to have ever lived. With his greatest work A Farewell to Arms Hemingway was able to insert vague details of his own life experiences in World War I. Another aspect of A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s ability to portray the graphic details of war and yet maintain a deep romance between the two main characters, Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley. Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is the greatest representation of his life and experiences in World War I. Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is a direct representation of his life during World War I. In the novel there are great similarities between his life and the events in the book during the time of World War I. Many of the events in A Farewell to Arms is direct from Hemingway’s life only minor changes such as names and events that were a little graphic and hard to explain in the novel. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway uses autobiography to represent his life in the novel. An autobiography is a telling of one’s own life in any form of media. There is also the element of romance in the novel. A romance is a relationship that more often than not is between two main characters and or protagonist. In 1918, Hemingway joined the Red Cross in Kansas City. When he signed up he was stationed as an ambulance driver in Italy. In A Farewell to Arms the protagonist, Frederic Henry, is the representation of Hemingway. Hemingway embarked on his experience of war from New York in May. He later arrived in Paris while the entire city was being assaulted by the German artillery forces. In Hemingway’s novel Frederic is introduced, in Book One, within a French city that is under fire and being advanced upon by German forces. After Hemingway was stationed in Paris

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