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A Farewell To Arms: Experiences And Their Influences - Term Papers

A Farewell To Arms: Experiences And Their Influences

Some experiences cannot be accomplished in our own lives but with the help of literature, readers are able to participate in those experiences and expand their understanding of the world and it’s surroundings. Literature also allows the reader to comprehend the thinking, feelings and rationalizations of different types of people. According to critic, Louise Rosenblatt, literature provides “experiences that would not be either possible or wise to introduce into our own lives” and thus enlarging our “knowledge of the world” and “ability to understand and sympathize with others.” I agree with the statement as I have interpreted it and it is supported by the novel A Farewell to Arms by ...

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their understanding of how the world was during times of war. Hemingway ends the first chapter with an understatement that when winter came there was an epidemic of cholera in the army, but “only seven thousand died.” Only. Hemingway’s cruelly flattened language paints a picture of genuine horror. All of this sets the scene for tragic happenings to come and allows the reader to be able to sympathize with the soldiers and with others.
Hemingway also allows his readers to partake in the experiences of World War 1 when the protagonist of the novel, Frederick Henry, is wounded badly when he is on the front. Hemingway uses irony when Frederick says, "Well, I knew I would not be killed or hurt. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me. It seemed no more dangerous to me myself than war in the movies.” The irony takes part when Frederick is wounded by an Austrian motor shell and is sent to an American hospital in Milan. Hemingway shows the reader that misfortunes do ...

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Added: 8/24/2008 10:03:47 PM
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