Ernest Hemingway s Arms And The Sun Also Rises - 2140 Words

Hemingway is one of the greatest American writers of the twentieth century. In his works A Farewell to Arms and The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway uses damaged soldiers to reveal war in its real nature and how it effects people. He tries to show to people that war is not made out how it looks in movies, posters, etc. He also feels that war is unproductive by nature and that most goals in war are mostly pointless. He also shows readers that military conflict often causes people to have shallow values and to hide their pain. One big factor in Hemingway’s works is the loss of innocences in a time of war. Not just with soldiers but with innocent bystanders in a time of war. Henry a innocent young man sets up the disillusionment. He†¦show more content†¦He constantly says that Henry is a hero even though Henry was hit by an artillery while eating rich food. Also Rinaldi keeps praising Henery, saying that his â€Å"heroic actions gives him the privilege of earning medals. T hen in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Robert Jordan shares that he feels that his actions are important to the war effort. He calls his heroic action of blowing up a bridge a turning point for Spanish Civil War and the human race. He is very selfish and thinks only of his valor and convinces himself to forget other thoughts when it crosses his mind. â€Å"Robert Jordan pays†¦ in order to assure the success of a Loyalist offensive, although he already knows that the offensive will be a failure† (Cowley ). This shows that soldiers live very mundane lives than what people believe that they have. They do not experience the heroism in war like most people believe that it is. Hemingway is not writing his works to be a anti-war view. He has experience of war he had parts in both the First and Second World War. His works are helping people to see the truth about war. One way a reader can see the truth is in A Farewell to Arms where Henry experiences the damage that it causes, thr ough the artillery strike that destroys his knee. The injury affects him throughout the rest of the war/story. By the end of this story he losses his primary distraction from the war, Catherine. He is alone and scarred. The major tells Henry that it has