War has always been a terrible thing. At times though there are always some people who become ignorant about what war really is. Otto Von Bismarck once said, "Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war." Otto Von Bismarck is trying to show that war is gruesome and that you do not want to live through it. This quote applies to Frederic very well. In the beginning of the novel Frederic thinks war is nothing and that if he joins nothing would happen to him. Later on in the novel, all he wants to do is just finish the war soon. Finally toward the end, he does not want to even think about it. Frederic's situation throughout the story relates to this quote because of his changing views of war, from being ignorant about what would happen, to starting to realize what is going on, and finally by actually seeing how foolish and horrible war can be.
             When war starts, most people think that nothing serious can happen. First time soldiers, like Frederic, think that they can join the war and that nothing can happen to them. He thinks to himself that since his school is closed he can join the army as an ambulance driver and live through the war problem free. "Well, I knew I would not be killed. Not in this war. It did not have anything to do with me. It seemed no more dangerous to me myself than war in the movies" (Hemingway 37). Frederic believed war was not dangerous and that his live would not be in jeopardy at all during his time as an ambulance driver. He thought that as long as he was not at the front he could not get injured. There are some people who actually know what really is going on during war, and want to flee from it. Unfortunately Frederic is blind to war at first and even jokes about war to the people who actually want to leave the war. "You get out and fall by the road and get a bump on your head and I&...