A Farewell to Arms

             Death is just part of life, it is everywhere. Wherever you go something or someone is dying. It is truly the one thing as human beings that we cannot stop, even as hard as we try death will come. Eventually, everybody will die, the only question is when will we die. In the book "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemingway, he uses death nonstop, from symbolizing death or through an incident.
             Hemingway symbolizes death through a rain of things. Whenever it is raining it usually is telling that some is dying of thinking of death. For example, Catherine is telling Fredrick why she is so afraid of the rain, " I'm afraid of the rain because sometimes I see me dead in it." Also, "And sometimes I see you dead in it" (126). The rain symbolizes death cause the only thing Catherine can see in the rain is Fredrick and herself in it. To many people in the world rain is brings death, from floodings, hurricanes and sometimes tornadoes. So one can see how she can be afraid of rain. In the beginning if the book autumn brings death cause that is when the war was going on. Another example is when Fredrick says, "At the start of the winter came the permanent rain and with the rain cam the cholera. But it was checked and in the end only seven thousand died of it in the army" (4). As soon as the rain came and people started to die. Although it wasn't people killing people, but a disease killing people. After Fredricks wife and son had died, when he was saying his final good bye to his wife. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain" (332). He walked back in the rain, it just shows that after death it was raining. It was raining and it brought death the Fredricks wife and son. In this book, rain is a very powerful object.
             Hemingway also just tells about different incidents that happen that shows death. Fredrick and a couple of othe
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