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Name: Demelza
Class: A5y
Date: 2001-06-03
Author: Hemingway
Title: A farewell to arms
Place of edition: Great Britain
Publisher: Granada
Year of edition:1929
Pages:236
Genre: War

2a) Why did you choose this book ?
We have to choose a book that was given on the stencil. I was in the library to look for a book.
And I choose the nicest one, that most appeals to me.
b) What was your first personal reaction after you read this book?
It was a lovely and a sad book, because 2 people fall in love at the beginning of this book and in the mean while it was war and at the end of the book the woman died with her baby and the man was all alone again.

3a) Summary.
It?s about a man called henry Tenente
He works at an ambulance in the army
One day Rinaldi and Tenente went to miss Barkely, she told them about a friend who died in the war.
Later they went away but the next day henry was meeting miss Barkley at her job in the hospital.
He tried to kiss her.
Then he went back to the villa and henry visited her several times.
Then miss Barkley gave him a necklace called saint Anthony and then she had to go
In the mean while there was a war going on and they waited until it was dark so they could attack
And the bombing started.
Bombs were flying around and Passini was hit and he died right after that
Gordini had a wound on his head and shoulder so they took him and Tenente away.
Tenente was in the dressingroom where they helped him with his leg. A trench mortar shell hit them.
Rinaldi visited him later and was teasing him a little, after that he went to pick up Barkely
Tenente was transferred to the American hospital in Milan.
Once they arrived?
The doctor was looking at his leg and he said that he should wait 6 months to operate his knee safely.
Henry couldn?t wait 6 months so he asked for another surgeon.
Dr valentine operates him early in the morning
Catherine Barkely stayed the whole night with him
Henry en Catherine wanted to get married but they couldn?t because they will send her home and they would be apart until after the war.
A little while later?his knee was almost healed.
In September the war was over
Henry was still in the hospital
Catherine came to visit him and told him she was pregnant for 3 months she told him he was the father of her baby.
She stayed for a little while and then she went away
Henry is now ill for 2 weeks he has jaundice.
A nurse came into his room and found the cognac bottles.(he was drinking in the hospital secretly)so he couldn?t go back to the front.
Finally he goes to the front again and he said goodbye to the hospital.
He went down to the corner where was a wine shop and waited inside looking out the window for Catherine.
They took a walk and he bought a pistol.
They went to a hotel in front of the station.
They had something to eat and drunk a little and then he said goodbye to her. And went into the train.
Once he arrived at his destination?
He went to his room en later Rinaldi came in and he was teasing him for 2 years but he liked it.
Henry, Rinaldi and the priest talked about the war.
The bombing started again and there was an attack, but it was unsuccessful.
Bonelli, Piani and Henry went with the truck to Udine.
Later they were on a road that led to a river.
Along the river bank there was nothing and no one but the wet brush and muddy ground.
Finally they saw the railway bridge.
Few miles away they heard the firing.
A shot was fired at them but the bullet went into the mud of the embankment.
A shot was fired and amino was shot.
They thought it were Germans but now they think that they are Italians
They were questioning and they heard shots en henry ran away and they thought he drowned
He dropped of the train in Milan.
He?s going to the hospital to look for miss Barkley, but she went to Stresa
Henry has been away from the bloody front.
He took the train to Stresa.
Try to find Catherine and Helen Ferguson.
Then he saw them in their hotel eating supper.
Catherine was really happy to see him.
They went to the hotel room without Ferguson.
He told her that he was deserted from the army.
A few days later Emilio came to Tenente and said that he is in trouble because he will be arrested in the morning, because Emilio was out in the town and heard them talking in a cafe.
Catherine and henry packed their bags, and then walked down the hall with the barman (Emilio).
They went to the lake where the barman?s boat lays.
The barman told him how he had to go to Switzerland
Finally arrived in Switzerland they went to get something to eat
And then they went back to the boat and a soldier was standing guard over the boat.
Then the soldier took them with him and they were questioned
And then they went to Locarno and stayed in a hotel nearby Montreux
Barkley is having a baby and they get married when she is thin again.
They have a lovely time together but then she had to go to the hospital because she was going into labour but the baby didn?t come out so they had to do a caesarean operation. But the baby was born dead
And later the women died, because she had bleedings and henry was all alone again.


3b) 1 Style of writing
The book has long sentences and sometimes it is hard to understand.
There are some conversations between 2 people in this book for example: the conversation between Catherine and Henry. They talk to each other and they are saying sweet words too each other so you know that they really love each other.
2 Space
the story took place in1917/1918 in different places. For example: Milan: Tenente was transferred to the american hospital.
Stresa: Catherine was there with Helen Ferguson?later Tenente arrived and tried to find catherine.
Switzerland: they run away to Switzerland with the barman?s boat. And stayed there.
And the story took also place at the front.
This book has an open ending.
There aren?t flashbacks.
3 the characters
The one who plays the big part is Henry Tenente and Catherine Barkley.
There were also minor characters like: Rinaldi (he?s a friend of Tenente in the army).
Helen Ferguson (she?s a friend of Barkley).
Emilio(is the barman)
Bonelli and Piani (friends of Tenente in the army)
4situations
Henry fell in love with Barkley . He is in the army.
Then he had to go to the hospital because he was shot. And Barkley visited him everyday.
A few months later he was better and went back to the front.
But he left the army and went to look for Barkley. When they found each other they went to Switzerland and she had her baby there but the baby was born death, after that Barkley also died.
5 point of view
It?s a first-person narrative.

3c)1 What is the theme? There is a war going on and he fell in love with a woman and then a lot of things happened. At least he was together with the woman but then she died.
2 Which parts and motives are typical for the theme?
· The war
· Love
· Hospital
· Dead
3What is the connection between the tittle and the theme? Barkley was pregnant and henry is going to be father but the baby was born dead and after that, the woman died too.
That?s why the book calls a farewell to arms.
3d) 1 When was this book first issued? First issued in 1929
2 What do you know about the writer?and what about the time he wrote his novels. Hemingway was born in 1899.his father was a doctor and he was the second of 6 childeren.Their home was at Oak Park,a Chicago suburb.
In 1917 Hemingway joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter.
The following year he volunteered to work as an ambulance driver on the italian front where he was badly wounded but twice decorated for his services.He returned to America in 1919 and married in 1921.
In 1922 he reported on the Greco-Turkish war then 2 years later resigned from journalism to devote himself to fiction.
He settled in Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with such fellow-American expatriates as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein.
Their encouragement and criticism were to play a valuable part in the formation of his style.
Hemingway?s first 2 published works were: Three Stories and 10 Poems and In Our Time but it was the satirical novel, The Torrents of Spring, which established his name more widely.
His international reputation was firmly secured by his next 3 books: Fiesta, Men Without Woman and A Farewell to Arms.
He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big game hunting and deep-sea fishing, and his writing reflected this.
He visited Spain during the Civil war and described his experiences in the best-seller, For Whom the Bell Tolls.
His direct and deceptively simple style of writing spawned generations of imitators but no equals.
Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea.
Ernest Hemingway died in 1961.
3 How far is this work typical for the writer? He wrote different sort of books like: novels, stories, drama, general and collected works.

4 Assessment
Which novel elements have a positive operation for you? I read books that touch me and the book must have a theme (story) or else I won?t read that book. If it?s an exciting and touching book, then it?s attractive to me.
2 which part is most attractive to you? The part in the hospital when barkley went into labour, because it has a sad ending.
3which novel elements have a negative operation to you? If it?s a boring book I will not finish it.
4Could you compare this book with other books or a movie? No I don?t think so.
5What do you think about the language? The language of this book was normal, but sometimes difficult.
What is your end opinion of this book? It was a great book, because it was a lovely story and it was very touching (the end of the book) and this story could happen in reality, but sometimes it was difficult to read but most of the time I knew what the book was about.
And I?ll advise this book to somebody else that like emotional books and war/love stories.
I think the people will love it.