A Farewell to Arms
Ernest Hemingway is a writer who writes from his own experiences in life. He believes that to be a truly great writer, one must feel what he or she writes. He shows this is his novel, A Farewell to Arms. He writes from the pain that he felt from love, family, and life. He writes from his own life and even though his name changes from book to book he is still the main character. His other works include; In Our Time, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea, A Movable Feast, and Islands in the Stream. His writings stretch from 1925 until 1970 and this is what makes Hemingway one of the most brilliant and wonderful writers of our time. In 1917, the United States was involved in World War 1 and the young Hemingway was a part of it all. Even though he was unable fight he entered into the war by becoming an ambulance driver. Once in Italy he was dispensing cigarettes and chocolate to some soldiers when they fell under fire. He was shot in the knee and some other places but he made it to a post and to safety and saving some lives in the process. This is how the plot behind A Farewell to Arms came to be. When the young Frederic Henry entered into the war as a volunteer ambulance
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