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A Farewell to Arms Presentation
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WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE!
SUMMARY
CLASS INVOLEMENT?
Synopsis (early in the novel)
Conflicts
Talking Points
Man vs. man - War on the front
Man vs. self - Alcoholism
Man vs. Nature - Physical barriers
Man vs. Death - Multiple encounters with death
~ At the onset of the story we learn that we are following the life of a Lt. Fredric Henry during the First World War
~ He is an ambulance driver for the Italian army
~ His living quarters are in Gorizia
~ His closest friend throughout this story is Maj. Rinaldi
~ He is introduced with Catherine Berkley and Helen Ferguson
~ Their feelings begin to intesify
~ Henry is struck by shrapnel from an enemy mortar and sent to a hospital
Setting
Italian front in World war I
Symbols
Milan
Synopsis (middle of the story)
~ He is shipped to Milan where Catherine comes to nurse him
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Rain- Unhappiness
Alcohol- A Temporary way of blocking out the war
Catherine's Hair- Shelter
Their Love- Strength
The Hotel Rooms- Escape from the war outside
Video
A Farewell to Arms
By: Ernest Hemingway
Presentation by:
Ashley Estes
Krista Jensen
Delaney Urban
Alex Sanchez
Themes
- The grim reality of war
Concerns itself primarily with war and the mainly the process by which Frederic Henry removes himself from it and leaves it all behind.
Characters
- The relationship between love and pain
Henry and Catherine find temporary solace from the things that plague them. The couple’s feelings for each other quickly pass from an amusement that distracts them to the very fuel that sustains them.
Main-Lieutenant Frederic Henry
Love intrest-Catherine Barkley
Henry's Friend-Major Rinaldi & The Priest
Catherine's friend-Helen Ferguson
About the Author
Ernest Hemmingway
July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961
- was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations.
- Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.
- WWI ambulance driver
- In 1918, he was seriously wounded and returned home.
- His wartime experiences formed the basis for his novel A Farewell to Arms.
- Committed suicide in the summer of 1961