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Analysis Of A Farewell To Arms Essay

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A Farewell to Arms is a war novel that follows an American Frederic Henry who is a ambulance driver in Italy. Quick question, what do you generally associate with Italy? Well, if you 're like most people, it’s good food, beautiful sights, pleasant weather, romance and their funny accents. However, a very important detail is that Frederic is a volunteering in a war, and that war is World War One. What do most people associate with world war one? Brutal trench warfare, soulless killing machines and horrifying diseases and injuries.It seems as though it would be impossible to have both in one novel, and yet, here we have it, a book with both the beauty of Italy and the horrors of World War One.

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And yet, he still enjoys proper, if not lower quality, italian food, as he does not have to face the possibility of getting shot, or shooting somebody else, every single day. When the inevitable happens, and he is hit by a shell, Catherine Barkley is moved over to be with him. Ironically, getting into immense pain and losing the ability to walk, is actually the happiest days of his life, represented by quality food.
But he is not out of the war, he is simply on leave. Eventually, one must return to the front, and so he has a final dinner with Barkley. A rushed reservation means a small, lower quality hotel. It’s nice enough, but, it 's only good enough without being incredibly cheap. Soon enough, Fredric returns to the front.

Quickly visualise a scene in Italy. Is the sun shining? It’s a clear day and there are beautiful mountains or a beach, right?
Now quick, visualise World War One. What do you see? Mud, Trenches, puddles of nasty water and dead bodies, rats and trees.
Quite the contrast right? Well, the author sure has beauty, and more often than not, the sun is also shining. Very rarely, does it rain in Italy, (at least according to the book), but when it does, does it have dramatic timing. Lucky for us (me), the author never mentions the weather, making us able to assume that it’s simple sunshine or maybe some clouds, but when it rains, it’s miserable.
There are three notable times when it rains. The first

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