Thursday, April 24, 2008

Critical essay

the historical significance of this novel is a brilliant one explaining the war and how it affected the character "Henry" in the story. i do think that this book is worthy to study in a literatue class room because it talkes so much about real life experiences of the war and how it effects you especially when dealing with injury because of the war. many critics comments that i have read concerning " A farewell to arms" have been very positive because of the fact that the Author didnt specifically write the book about his life but based upon it. in the Authors life it was in most cases depressing mostly because of the fact that the country was going through the great depression and that is what kind of led to the reason of killing himself.
The book would be a very great book for a literature class becuse of the fact that it has to do with two couples not really into a relationship at first but finally gets serious as they escape Itally together and heads to switzerland not wanting any officials to capture him and send him back to the front. the novel offers powerful descriptions of life during world war I and immediately following world war I.
because of the fact that hemingways novel "A farewell to arms won many numerous awards for his style of writing and the details that allows you to picture just what the Author is saying in the story. the Authors allows the reader to think when reading this novel becuse when henry and catherine get ready to have sex she dosent say what exactly what it is they're about to do the author uses the phrse "lets go to bed " and you kinda get the objective from their instead of using big bold terms when henry and catherine make love to one another.
the critics that i have read concerning their response of this book have said nothing negative which i thinks accounts for the author not really telling his own life story but parts of his life to base the stort upon. the Author ha dput alot of time and effort into making this novel an enjoyable one relating love and war togetherto make a grand novel for anyone and all literature classes to read.

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