Tuesday, April 20, 2010

A Farewell to Arms 2

To get better, Henry is located to the hospital in Milan. At the same time, Catherine is moved to the same hospital too. There, he spends fine days with Catherine (nurse) and he gets surgery for his leg because it was badly injured. They go dinner talk in Henry's room at night or go to racing and wins. They pretend to be married and talk about kids. He eventually gets well and goes back to the war front, separating with Catherine.
I like the time in Milan because it's peaceful and delightful. Part by part, I see the shadow of the war but it is better than the warfront. The last chapter's last was dreadful and painful. I hope Rinaldi is okay because he is the best guy you want to have as a friend in the world. Rinaldi and Henry is the best friends and their conversation is funny. Mostly Rinaldi teases Henry.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

The setting is in Italy during the WW1. The protagonist of the story is Lieutenant Frederic Henry and the story goes from his view. He is a driver of the ambulance on the front and the headquarter. He meets a British woman named Catherine a nurse (not real one but does the same duty as they do) and gets along with her. She lost her love during the war and (I believe) still loves him. One time, she kissed Henry seeing him as her lost love. But Henry doesn't mind that and he thinks it is some kind of love game. Henry and Catherine gets along well though as friends. Their life is surrounded by the war and the imagery or the scene is full of guns and helmets and sand smoke the tank makes on the road.
Henry is not so passionate about anything particular but feels lonely and hollow when he doesn't see Catherine.
I like how Henry speaks in the novel. It's made up of easy words, sometimes confusing(because there are too much "and" and I forget what the description was before that and feel like running on sentence) but like the style better than Fitzgerald's.