World War One. The first great tragedy of humanity. That is of course excluding love and life. Combine all three and you find one of the most masterfully written novels about life, love, and war that could only be written by Ernest Hemingway. Born July 21, 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, a sub...

In any kind of story there are always symbols that represent something, wheather it has a major or a minor part in the story. Symbols are objects in stories that represent something else like a related theme in the story. Some examples of symbols in stories are a bird representing freedom, the col...

Is Plausibility a good word for A Farewell to Arms? Many fiction novels have events that can be linked with experiences the author has gone through in their life, no matter how unclear from the author's experience it may be, marks of their lives can often be seen in many of their novels. The...

Ernest Hemingway's life in his novels "Write about what you know." A famous quote by little known author Rob Stevens holds true now and has held true in earlier times as well. When trying to write a novel, the author cannot simply create work from nothing; intense work, deep levels of feeling, a...

Characters are fictional representations of real people. In litterature, different cahracters react with each other in different ways. In Bel Canto by Ann Patchett, there are several characters that react in different ways according to the events that occur during ht novel. One main character of t...