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What Is The Theme Of In Another Country By Ernest Hemingway

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From July 28th, 1914 to November 11th, 1918 World War One, also known as "The Great War," was fought. Over 19.7 million soldiers were injured. The youngest person to join the war was a 12-year-old British boy. Both In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway and Told by the Schoolmaster by John Galsworthy have to do with World War One. In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway is about wounded soldiers receiving a type of physical therapy, the narrator describes how he does not think of himself as a "Hunting-Hawk" like he thinks of the other soldiers. The narrator tells the Major that once the war is over, he will travel to the United States to marry; the Major tells him not to, it is later revealed that the Major's wife recently died. However, in Told by the Schoolmaster by John Galsworthy a boy, named Joe, falsifies his age, both to join the army and to marry a woman, named Betty. Later, it is discovered that Betty is pregnant and Joe comes back; it is also found out the he has deserted the war; he is then brought back and shot by his own side for deserting. Both stories are different because of their themes, have similarities with their setting, and have differences with their styles.

First of all, both stories are different because of their themes. The theme in In …show more content…

In other words, if they were the first to use the machines, there would not be photos of wounds before and after using the machines. But, in Told by the Schoolmaster by John Galsworthy the irony is about Joe going to war. In the beginning, the narrator is talking to Joe, "'Joining up? But, my dear boy, you're two years under age, at least.' He grinned. 'I'm sixteen this month, but I bet I can make out to be eighteen. They ain't particular, I'm told'" (Galsworthy 803). In other words, a sixteen-year-old would usually not be thinking about joining the war, but Joe is. Both of the stories have irony, but it is used

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