1. For Whom the Bell Tolls
Robert Jordan was a loyalist during the Spanish Civil War, and is sent behind enemy lines to blow up a bridge so a larger attack by the republicans can take place. Jordan meets Pablo the leader of a group of guerillas. The guerillas come to help assist in their mission to blow the bridge, but a snowstorm hits in the mountains. The enemy cavalry can now follow their footprints to the cave where they are hiding. .
Jordan finds out vital information about their enemy, the fascists, and sends a man named Andres to the headquarters of General Golz, hoping that the attack will me cancelled. The report gets to the general too late. Andres finds men in town to help them with the attack because there will be a larger band of men where they are going to blow the bridge. It looks like a suicide mission. .
Robert Jordan, is the main character in this novel. Jordan, as he is referred to in the book, is an American operative that is fighting in the international brigade. He is on the Loyalist side, which he joined because he felt bad for the Spanish people. He didn't believe in the loyalist ideas, which boarder on communism, though. In the beginning of the novel, Robert Jordan meets Pablo. Pablo is the leader of the guerillas, but he is going down hill. He is loosing his will as a leader, but he is extremely smart so he is still a major power. Pablo's wife Pilar held the band of Guerillas together after he lost his will. Pilar takes care of a nineteen-year-old girl named Maria. The second Jordan saw her he fell in love. She was rescued by the Guerillas from a prison train and has been under Pilar's care since. Finally, we meet General Golz. He is the General of the Republican army who makes things more complicated for Jordan during his attack on the bridge. Golz isn't interested in combat he is more interested in the tactics behind combat. He is completely interested in the Spanish well being, and the future of Spain.
Ernest Hemingway wrote from personal experiences, the main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell To Arms, and For Whom The Bell Tolls can all be closely compared to the life Ernest Hemingway lead. ... The third character that relates to Hemingway is Robert Jordan, the main character in Hemingway's novel For Whom The Bell Tolls. ...
Hemingway's next novel, written in 1940, was For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... For Whom the Bell Tolls is another great piece of work, describing three days in the life of a man in the Spanish Civil War. ... Friendship, love, and courage are the themes of For Whom the Bell Tolls, Hemingway expresses these very well through Robert Jordan. ...
The word "bells" is repeated seven times in this and other stanzas. ... Finally in the last stanza, the happiness, and tension give way to death. 70 Hear the tolling of the bells-- 71 Iron bells! ... (Napierkowski 50) These bells, the poet explains, are being rung by the ghosts, and the king of ghouls who are happy about the deceased that they will be taking charge of: 88 They are ghouls-- 89 And their king it is who tolls:-- 90 And he rolls, rolls, rolls, 91 Rolls 92 A paean from the bells! ... "The Bells" begins with a happy thought, but ends with a sad one. ...
This point is evident in some of his most famous works that helped him to gain acclaimed success: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... An overview of The Sun Also Rises describes Barnes as having "a calculated view of the events in the story and is sure to relate, minutia, such as how much things cost, who owes whom, how to bait the hook, and what is in the packed lunch" (Literature Resource Center 5). ... "A Farewell to Arms" and "for whom the bell tolls" show that Hemingway's "stories cannot be taken face value," There are hidden deeper meanings"(Sa...
'A man can be destroyed but not defeated' (The Old Man and The Sea 103) solidifies a personal method of characterization exercised by Ernest Hemingway. Not only does this quote apply to the book, but it also applies to Hemingway's life. In fact, he may be one of modern-day's most influential and pro...