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A Farewell to Arms The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway
is about the love story of a nurse and a war ridden soldier. The story starts as
Frederick Henry is serving in the Italian Army. He meets his future love in the
hospital that he gets put in for various reasons. I thought that A Farewell to
Arms was a good book because of the symbolism, the plot, and the constant moving
of the main character. The symbolism in A Farewell to Arms is very much
apparent. To the main character in novels, nights have always been a sign of
death, or something negative to happen. Another one of the symbolism’s in A
Farewell to Arms is when Henry tries to escape from the Italian army by jumping
off one of the ships the army was traveling on and running away from the army.
This water symbolized new, clean life that he was going to live from now on. At
this time, Henry goes off and finds his wife to be. The plot in A Farewell to
Arms was always active. They were never staying in one place too long. It had a
very good story line, which was a love story that ended up in a tragedy. The
main character’s wife got pregnant and she was off to have her baby when
problems started occurring. They had to have a cesarean, and the baby dies, and
when the mother of the child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it was over
for his wife and he was right. From the beginning of the book untill the end,
the action was up. Ever since the front page Henry was traveling around to
different towns so it was not boring for the reader. That made it very
interesting for the reader because it was always a new town coming up so you
were being introduced in the new characters quite often. As the story goes on ,
the writer is not introducing as many new people, but they are still traveling
around quite a bit. I felt that the author’s planning of these types of events
in this novel was put together very well! Ernest Hemingway is one of the world’s
best known classic writers. He uses very strong symbolism that you the reader
don’t always pick up. I am sure that I missed some of the symbolism that went on
in the book. I picked up a few though and they were very interesting. I
recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a love story without a happy
ending.
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