infected with gangrene.
Both ?A Farewell to Arms? and ?In Another Country? takes place in Milan during
World War I and II. All the main characters are at the health centers either working or
recuperating.
?The Killers? took place in an American city around the 1920?s.
?The Old Man and the Sea? takes place off the coast of Cuba where Santiago
catches the Marlin. Santiago is from a small fishing town that doesn?t have much to offer.
Most of the people around there fish for a living. With Santiago going eighty-four days
without catching any fish it is hard for him to survive. If it wasn?t for Manolin he would
have nothing to eat and no way of buying fishing bait.
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
In A Farewell To Arms the novel follows the classic romance formula until
Hemingway alters the last chapter. The classic romance formula to many would be: man
meets woman, man loses woman, man gets women back. The man in this novel is
Frederick Henry, one of the central characters and the narrator. Catherine Barkley is the
other central character.
Frederick is a young American ambulance driver with the Italian army in World
War I. The Italians are fighting in the Austrian War. While working on the front lines
Frederick meets a beautiful Red Cross nurse named Catherine Barkley, whose fiancee has
already been killed at the battle of the Somme. Henry is immediately attracted to her and
at first tries to seduce her as if it was a game to him.
Henry becomes wounded by a trench mortar shell and is taken to a hospital in
Milan to recuperate, there he meets up with Catherine again who is working at the
hospital. Henry and Catherine begin a passionate affair but he has to leave Catherine when
he has recovered to return to the war front.
The Italian forces are defeated by the Austrians and Germans and have to retreat
hastily. The Italian forces become disordered and chaotic. Henry is forced to shoot an
engineer sergeant under his command. In the confusion he is arrested by the Italian
Military police and charged with the crime of not being an Italian.
Henry , knowing he faces death, dives into the river and escapes. He swims to
safety and boards a train to Stresa. He reunites with Catherine, who is then pregnant with
his child.
With the help of an Italian bartender, they escape to Switzerland, a neutral country
war. In Switzerland they forget the past and Henry?s troubles. The two of them live
happily and plan to marry after the baby is born.
When Catherine goes into labor, however, things have an unexpectable turn, a turn
for the worse. The doctor announced that her pelvic was too narrow to deliver the baby.
He attempts an unsuccessful Cesarean section, and Catherine dies in childbirth. ?To
Henry, her dead body is like a statue; he walks back to his hotel without finding a way to
say good-bye? (Hemingway 329).
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