Ernest Hemingway Essay On War

The story, A Soldiers Home, is about a man in conflict with the past and present events in his life. The young man’s name is Harold Krebs. He recently returned from World War 1 to find everything almost exactly the same as when he left. He moved back into his parents house, where he found the same car sitting in the same drive way. He also found the girls looking the same, except now they all had short hair. When he returned to his home town in Oklahoma the hysteria of the soldiers coming home was all over. The other soldiers had come home years before Krebs had so everyone was over the excitement. When he first returned home he didn’t want to talk about the war at all. Then, when he suddenly felt the urge and need to talk about it no one

Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War is a novel that is a personal view of the Vietnam War from the perspective of a Vietnamese soldier. Like the American novel “The things they carried”, this novel brings about the effects of war on people, and especially how it defeats the human capacity for things such as love and hope. Bao Ninh offers this realistic picture of the Vietnam War’s impact on the individual Vietnamese soldier through use of a series of reminiscences or flashbacks, jumping backwards and forwards in time between the events most salient in memory, events which take on a different theme each time they are examined. His main protagonist Kien, who is basically Bao himself, looks back not just at his ten years at

Coming back from war is dramatic. War causes PTSD. PTSD is a disease which causes you to freak out and be anxious a lot because of what you've seen in the past. "The train went on up the track out of sight, around one of the hills of burnt timber" (77) The word to emphasize on is burnt. If you look further into the word it'll take you into nicks world. When Nick came home there was almost a part of death inside him, dragging him on. He went through some much. "In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half light, the fishing would be tragic."(198) Thinking about going to the swamp is like thinking about war. He tries so hard to not go to the swamp, because it made him think about his awful times. He's lonely in the woods but it's a good type of lonely. His brain is foggy. Stepping off that train step brought him

As a young man coming back from the war, Krebs expected things to be the same when he got home and they were, except one. Sure the town looked older and all the girls had matured into beautiful women, Krebs had never expected that he would be the one to change. The horrific experiences of the first World War had alienated and removed those he had cared about, including his family, who stood naïve to the realities and consequences only those who live it first hand would comprehend.

A “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemmingway is an intriguing story about a man by the name of Krebs who enlists in the Marine Corps during his attendance at a Methodist college in Kansas. After serving for two years at the Rhine, he returned with the second division in 1919 but Krebs wasn’t in the same state of mind as before he left. The reason why Krebs was so distraught when he returned home was not because of the fact that no one wanted to listen to his war stories but because him and other soldiers were without any real benefits such as medical, education, extra remuneration, or anything to help him get back into the real world. This reason stated is the reason that Krebs and soldiers alike came home from war with nothing to show for

In Big Two Hearted River, Ernest Hemingway used his own experiences he had during the war and the issues he had when injured in the war. As soon as Nick stepped off the train the reader could feel the disappointment that Nick had and the understanding that he was a troubled soul. At the same time this was Nick’s way to treat himself by staying close to nature and the simpler things in life. No matter how happy Nick would get he would continue to have flashbacks of things he has done and friends he has lost along the way. Throughout the short story by Hemingway, Nick will continue to move through his problems from the war by camping and catch his food from the river and the reader will be able to see Nicks pain and happiness.

Nick has mastered what Hemingway later calls the greatest gift a soldier can acquire, the ability to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present minute with no before and no after” (Vernon). However, as the story progresses, Nick’s thoughts begin to increase in length and depth. For instance, as he draws closer to the swamp towards the conclusion of the story, it states, “He felt a reaction against deep wading with the water deepening up under his

This is an essay on the short story “Soldier’s Home” by Hemingway. Will the life of a soldier ever be the same after returning from war? Many generations of young adults have gone from their homes with tranquil settings to experience war and come home to a different world. Many have witnessed the devastations and atrocities that occur with war. Harold Krebs, a young man from a small town with a loving family is no different from those before him and those to follow. The anguish of what war is however cannot dispel the thoughts and memories of what many young men come home to face in the real world. Many have trouble coping in the new world known as home.

In lines 52-54 he says “I know the voices dying with a dying fall Beneath the music from a farther room. So how should I presume?”. J. Alfred Prufrock was over thinking the situation, and now someone else moved in and is talking with the woman he loves. Nick Adams is also facing internal struggles which caused by the war, and much like J. Alfred Prufrock, his fears are greatly affecting his life. Small things in Nick Adams’ life are causing him great anxiety and fear, and this is expressed is the story when Hemingway wrote “Nick’s hand was shaky.

Nick Adams’ father, a doctor, is one of the first characters Hemingway introduces who behaves in an exaggerated way to assert his authority. In “Indian Camp”, we see Nick’s father perform an emergency caesarean section on an Indian woman who had been in labor for several days with a breached baby. In this story, the Doctor is shown as the brave, masculine “hero”. The woman’s screams do not bother him, and he does not notice how gruesome and traumatizing this scene is to his young son. In fact, he finds the experience rather thrilling. Post-operating, it says the doctor “…was feeling exalted and talkative as football players

Krebs returned home, but the war never left him, it became who he was; thus, Ernest Hemingway refers to Harold by his last name in “Soldier’s Life.” In the military soldiers are referred to by their last name rather than their first name. Hemingway calls Harold by his last name because it shows how war has changed who he is, how he sees himself, and how others see him. Harold was gone once he joined the military and is replaced by Krebs. Helen calls her brother Hare, which is an illusion to one of Aesop’s Fables “The Tortoise and the Hare.” In the fable Hare is challenged to a race by Tortoise and decides to take a nap because he is far ahead and when he wakes up Tortoise has won the race. Kerbs is the Hare because he rushes off to war

It is unclear to the extent of which, Hemingway incorporates his audience, but the novel is undoubtedly ideal for people finding solace with themselves, or wanting to seek a new understanding of life. The author seems to be speaking directly people who have experienced loss. Hemingway delivers this message by depicting that even in the most despicable times, there is beauty. When one thinks of war, one ponders about the horrors of it, or what was happening. Hemingway reveals the gracefulness of war by exposing the joy in another’s company. The dichotomy of war and peace becomes one. Hemingway explores the beauty in war by taking a more personal angle on For Whom the Bell Tolls. If he had wanted to, he could have written a book about the anti-fascist

The disillusionment of the war caused many who fought to feel lost because they no longer held onto traditional American beliefs about war and fighting. Edgar Johnson notes that the brave fought in the war, but "they never understood" (Johnson 88). Jake, more than any of his friends, has suffered the worst injury of the war--one with which he struggles throughout the entire course of the novel. This struggle makes Jake the most complex character of the novel. In fact, his struggle and insecurity caused us to reconsider the definition of manhood. Robert Penn Warren claims that the "shadow of the ruin is behind the typical Hemingway situation" (Warren 35). However, the typical Hemingway character manages to salvage something from his or her situation. Warren also observes that this type of situation is what brings us to Hemingway 's "special interest in

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially,” -Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms. World War I was the most brutal war of its time, and it shaped the values of its era. Hemingway represents these values in his novel “A Farewell to Arms” by writing about how the war ended up capitalizing on disillusionment and detachment, and created a lost generation. A generation that embodied the reality of war opposed to the war’s romanticized version. A generation that represents the loss of its traditional values. A generation that indulges in pleasurable acts in hopes of abandoning reality, if for only a few hours. Frederic Henry is the protagonist of the novel and is the true antithesis of a romanticized hero. The hero depicted in George Peele’s poem “A Farewell to Arms” fought for his queen and only saw glory in battle. The contrast between the chivalrous ideals of the knight and Frederic’s pessimistic realizations illustrates the diminished values during the World War I era.

Throughout the twentieth century, many poets have written about war. They have protested against it, created propaganda in support, celebrated conflict, and questioned it. War in general tends to evoke emotion in everyone, whether it is pride in a country, grief of losing a loved one, fear of the unknown, or even happiness because of a victory. On page one of Philippa Lyon’s “Twentieth Century War Poetry”, she writes,“…much poetry has been written by individuals (both male and female) who were not necessarily in the thick of battle.” She is saying that a lot of them poems were written by individuals with a different point of view of the war than the soldiers. Not all of war poetry was written by soldier-poets, who offer a first-hand account of what it was like and their experiences. Lyons then continues and writes, “…the poetry poses direct questions about motivation, intent and fairness; that is to say, about the nature, morality and politics of war.” The individuals had many questions about the war and they present those questions through poetry. It is not always seen as an individual’s hardship and struggles turned into art. Amy Lowell’s “September 1918” and Carl Sandburg’s “Grass” both describe a common theme of war, which evokes a spectrum of emotions.