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3.58 AVERAGE
3.58 AVERAGE
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
There is a lot of death in A Farewell to Arms and none of it is sensible. There are no glorious sacrifices, justice is not enacted with righteous violence, nobody finds honor or God or wisdom in death. People die for no reason and then they are gone.
Here, Hemingway writes some of his most evocative prose. Rendering the Italian front of World War 1 in efficient detail. There is spectacle here and excitement and danger, but also romance and even humor at times.
It is a book about a time of unparalleled death and destruction. A war unlike any which had come before it. Nobody knew how to fight this war for there was no honor in it. No glory to be found for a young man desperate to feel strong and valuable. Nobody knew the rules of this war and not a single person was prepared for the scale of carnage which it wrought.
Yet despite this, there are flashes of bright joy in the book. Love and pleasure and comfort. But as we are quick to forget in our own moments of comfort, these things are fleeting. And while their ephemerality can make them all the sweeter while we exist within that contentment, they cannot, at the end, make death any less senseless.
At once a bitter refutation of the supposed glory promised to many young soldiers, a meditation on the inevitability of death and the folly of seeking meaning in dying, and also a joyous exultation of love and its power to, for at least a short while, keep us afloat in the worst storms of our lives.
Here, Hemingway writes some of his most evocative prose. Rendering the Italian front of World War 1 in efficient detail. There is spectacle here and excitement and danger, but also romance and even humor at times.
It is a book about a time of unparalleled death and destruction. A war unlike any which had come before it. Nobody knew how to fight this war for there was no honor in it. No glory to be found for a young man desperate to feel strong and valuable. Nobody knew the rules of this war and not a single person was prepared for the scale of carnage which it wrought.
Yet despite this, there are flashes of bright joy in the book. Love and pleasure and comfort. But as we are quick to forget in our own moments of comfort, these things are fleeting. And while their ephemerality can make them all the sweeter while we exist within that contentment, they cannot, at the end, make death any less senseless.
At once a bitter refutation of the supposed glory promised to many young soldiers, a meditation on the inevitability of death and the folly of seeking meaning in dying, and also a joyous exultation of love and its power to, for at least a short while, keep us afloat in the worst storms of our lives.
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
hopeful
informative
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I think that this was a good book and was somewhat easy to understand due to Hemingway's style of writing. I think the ending was an easy way out. Anyway, this is a classic that may be an easier one to start out with.