An Evaluation of "A Farewell to Arms" By Joseph R Knupp.

... An Evaluation of "A Farewell to Arms" By Joseph R Knupp "A Farewell to Arms" by Ernest Hemmingway is an excellent novel of love and loss. Set in Italy during the First World War, Hemmingway paints a vivid picture of the ferocity and weariness inherent in warfare. You feel as if you were there in the mountains of Italy watching the world fall apart around you. His descriptions of quaint little villages give you a feeling for the Italian countryside. He gives you a sense of an Italian fall when he says, "When the rain came the leaves all fell from the chestnut trees and the branches were bare and the trunks black with rain" (4). Also he describes the soldiers when he says "The troops were muddy and wet in their capes; their rifles were wet and under their capes the two leather cartridge boxes on the front of their

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