A Farewell to Arms1

             The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest
             Hemingway is about the love story of a nurse and a war
             ridden soldier. The story starts as Frederick Henry is
             serving in the Italian Army. He meets his future love in
             the hospital that he gets put in for various reasons. I
             thought that A Farewell to Arms was a good book because of
             the symbolism, the plot, and the constant moving of the main
             The symbolism in A Farewell to Arms is very much
             apparent. To the main character in novels, nights have
             always been a sign of death, or something negative to
             happen. Another one of the symbolism's in A Farewell to
             Arms is when Henry tries to escape from the Italian army by
             jumping off one of the ships the army was traveling on and
             running away from the army. This water symbolized new,
             clean life that he was going to live from now on. At this
             time, Henry goes off and finds his wife to be.
             The plot in A Farewell to Arms was always active. They were
             never staying in one place too long. It had a very good
             story line, which was a love story that ended up in a
             tragedy. The main character's wife got pregnant and she was off to have her baby when problems started occurring.
             They had to have a cesarean, and the baby dies, and when the
             mother of the child starts to hemorrhage Henry knows that it
             was over for his wife and he was right.
             From the beginning of the book untill the end, the
             action was up. Ever since the front page Henry was
             traveling around to different towns so it was not boring for
             the reader. That made it very interesting for the reader
             because it was always a new town coming up so you were being
             introduced in the new characters quite often. As the story
             goes on , the writer is not introducing as many new people,
             but they are still traveling around quite a bit. I felt
             that the author's planning of these types of events in this
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