A Farewell to Arms
Have you ever loved someone and then lost them? Ernest Hemingway shows us a novel with a war background and a love between two people that eventually end. The author’s work in the novel helps provide the literary critique. Since the time period is between to major wars there is plenty of information to help provide the history and background for the novel. Through the author’s personal life a best seller was born.Ernest Hemingway joined the Italian army as an ambulance driver during World War I. This led to the great detail of the war scenes. A shell shrieked over and exploded. It scattered shrapnel in all directions and threw Hemingway causing shrapnel to get into his legs. He carried a solider over his shoulder as he looked for medical help. At the hospital, he met Agnes a nurse. They eventually fell in love with each other. This gave him the idea for A Farewell to Arms. She ended up transferring to another hospital and they wrote for a while. Eventually he went home leaving behind his love. He received a letter from her saying she had fallen in love with another officer. This signifently hurt him giving him this quote from A Farewell to Arms. “You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn.
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Approximate Word count = 2140
Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)
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