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The Desperate Coping Mechanisms of War and its Parasitic Aftermath
... of exposure to conditions that require the resilience to bury the emotions stirred by perceiving not only the gruesome reality of war but also the realities ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Hemmingway's Connections Between War and Culture
... enough to divert their minds from the reality of war. Even Lt. Henry has a way to get ... of it all, their nights full of merrymaking only serve to provide alleviation from the reality they face every day. Depicting the damages of war, Hemingway shows that war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway: a 3 point thesis on Hemingway's characters' attitudes towards war, includes quotes
... to admit to the harsh realities of war. Gino believes that all great acts are done strictly out of the goodness in people's ... Arms takes place in Italy in World War I. The novel tells of the conflicts of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
A comparision between the main characters of Hemmingways:farewell to arms and Charlies Harrisions: Generals Die in Bed
... Henry has seen many of his troops killed, as an ambulance driver, he has seen the grim realities of war but with his ... the grim realities of war but with his relationship with Catherine is the only escape from the shelled and bullet holed landscape of his ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
Stylistic Analysis of Tim O'Brien's Writing
... acclaimed Vietnam War novelist. His depictions of the war are both gruesome and disturbing. O'Brien achieves such reality in ... of mentally escaping the facts of war that he cannot confront (Rollyson 2413). The journey is also of arriving back at the war ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
"The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway; discusses aimlessness caused in lives of characters by WWI
... Most of Jake's friends are alcoholics. To these people, drinking is a way to escape the harshness and reality of the war. It ... the "Lost Generation," a generation of broken dreams and destroyed naivete emerged from the World War I with an outlook blemished ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
"Echoes of the Great Song" by David Gemmell.
... of a new threat though, petty revolts become forgotten and war a reality. The mystics' predictions of two moons in the sky come true. The meaning of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Biography of William Faulkner
... of the novel suggests, real intimacy and tenderness are close to impossible in the Bundren family. Work and the realities of poverty darken all aspects of ... Armistice was signed. The only "war injury" he received was the result of getting drunk and partying ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
The Mask, an essay on the war aspect of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell To Arms."
... blinder of the mask, and resort to drastic and sometime painful methods to be spared the reality of the front. Frederic meets one of ... what war is actually like. A crucial part of the mask is the rigid structure of the army; it affects the lives of those ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway
Research paper on Kurt Vonnegut's use of satirical atrocities in his novels
... addition to the influences of his adolescence, Vonnegut faced the brutality of war. In 1944, ... of Trafalmadore and allow reality to regain control (Mustazza 115). The reader, therefore, remains somewhat perplexed about what is reality and what is a figment of ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors