A Farewell To Arms By Ernest Hemingway And Sherman Alexie

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Ernest Hemingway and Sherman Alexie is one of the famous authors. Based on research and my quarter reading book, I read A Farewell to Arms and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a great novel. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway talks about Romantics between Henry who is a Solider of United States of America and Catherine Barkly who is known as the nurse at Henry’s base. This story takes place based on World War One. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie , takes place in 21st century. This story is about a main character Junior, is going struggles with relationship between his friends and family. In my perspective, this novel can be described as his war life and love life. Reason that I can describe as his war life and love life is because, the story is basically describing about what he did and relationship between Catherine Barkly. Ernest Hemingway was on July 21st, 1899 in oak Park Illinois. Ernest Hemingway wrote A Farewell to Arms while he was coming back from Paris to Florida with his third wife. This book is widely known as the American literature that is seeing new edition of the great classic novel because, this book contains various amount of Romantics between two characters. A Farewell to Arms is very similar to Ernest Hemingway’s life. Fredrick Henry, who is known as the main character of the story is very similar to Ernest Hemingway. Ernest Hemingway tried to describe closely based on his experience into Henry.
Before his 19th birthday, Ernest Hemingway started serving as an ambulance driver in Italian army and also, Henry who is the Main Character of the story start as the ambulance driver in Italian Army. The novel starts in the northern mountains of Italy at the beginning of

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