Agnès Varda

adjectives like “statuesque” or “judicious”. It never has to “look” smart, but its content must be smart. He always told me to just keep it simple and get straight to the point. If I had never taken his class, I would have never have been admitted into Agnes Scott College. I am blessed to have had a leader like him to be have been one of my mentors and my family friend.

Ernest Hemingway’s novel of A Farewell to Arms depicts the harsh veracities of World War 1, based on Hemingway’s personal accounts. His novel, written with simplicity and sensory detail, develops a zealous affair between an injured ambulance driver and his nurse. Hemingway’s illustration of lovers amidst a war allows readers to create their own interpretation of how the story evolves. His writing entails the reader to examine the chaotic circumstances throughout the novel. For example, on page 172

A Farewell to A Romantic War In the eyes of America war is a romantic, necessary tool to gain domination. During World War I, soldiers were brain washed into the notion that they could become a hero and have a great, fulfilling life ahead of them. Plenty, of young, naïve soldiers fell for this devious trick, only to find out they were being cheated. Fast forward, to today, where war is yet to be untwisted from so many knots. The average person cannot even imagine the true pain and struggle one

In horrible situations people will do anything to cope with the pain, fear, and hopelessness they experience. In a Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, a young man named fredrick Henry is working as an ambulance driver in the Italian army. Fredrick is thrown into the horrors of war on a daily basis, and does what he can to deal with his emotions. Frederick Henry uses many different techniques in order to find some kind of inner peace and escape the horror of war. One of the most prominent coping

Gender roles exist all throughout history and prevail in present day. In Farewell to Arms, Hemingway brings to light to society's standards of men and during World War I through the character, Frederick Henry. He is an American soldier touring over in Italy. He follows the typical stereotype of a man, fitting into the war through fighting for his country. He changes his internal ways after a tragic incident happens to a loved one. Hemingway reveals this sexism through the death of Catherine

Forces such as love and religion are incapable of compensating for the ominous realities of life. Frederic Henry says farewell to the battle arms and weaponry used in the war and to the arms of his lover, Catherine Barkley throughout the course of the novel. Thesis: The novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway uses imagery to illuminate the emotional, physical, mental scars the world inflicts on all individuals. Paragraph One: Stick: emotional scar on her heart War doesn’t merely leave physical

In “A Farewell to Arms,” each character has a different understanding of love. Love has a means of overcoming fear, pain and grief. Henry’s initial conversations with Catherine makes it clear that everyone is desperate for an antidote to the numbing effects of war. People would prefer to think any other thoughts or to feel any other emotions. Catherine and Henry play a seductively distracting game in which they pretend to love and care for each other, Rinaldi pretends to love every beautiful woman

Hannah White 2-27-17 Period 1 Characterization in A Farewell to Arms Ernest Hemingway gives a vivid picture of the characters and how they fit into the war. Book One has introduced to us a few characters, these including Frederick Henry, Rinaldi, the priest, and Catherine Barkley. The narrator is introduced to us as a soldier in the war. We soon discover that his name is Frederick Henry. Henry is an American ambulance driver in the Italian army. It is revealed that he really has no interest in

Due to the extreme levels of male camaraderie shown throughout the book, a counterbalance of estrogen was created and served to enhance the recurring theme of death. In Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms, Catherine’s starch and stereotypical feminine traits (such as her loyalty and intelligence) are explored by Hemingway through devices like foreshadowing and symbolism to solidify the morbidity of this work. Because Catherine exists due to male ideology, she is described as conventionally beautiful

1/15 In A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway presents a love story that takes place on the Italian front during World War I. The love story is situated in the most unlikely of places, in the middle of a violent war. Frederic Henry was an American who was assigned to drive an ambulance for the Italian army. Henry was not fighting in the war; therefore, he believed that he was fairly safe. Catherine Barkley, an English nurse, was stationed at a British hospital in Gorizia. The hospital was not far