Outside reading

A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway is not a book that immediately grabs your attention and it is slightly hard to get into but after six or seven chapters it is easier to read. I found it difficult to get into because the first chapter and a half was nothing but description of where the man is living and the scenery. I am enjoying it for the most part but there is not a lot happening so far.

The dominate literary element seems to be imagery. In the book there is a lot of description and some interesting word choice but it is in normal diction so it is nothing too out of the ordinary. I will be able to tell better later on in the book after i have seen more of the literary elements. This element may have been used to give a better understanding for the place the war is going on and how even in a beautiful place a horrid thing, such as war, can go on and peoples lives can be lost so quickly. I believe that Hemingway wrote in this manner to show more detail in the way people in the war handled it and their views towards it.

The tone switches from chapter to chapter and sometimes in the middle of one. One moment everything is good and some what happy where people are going to get food to share and then the next moment the same people are running into cover to save their lives. Even when the men are going into a battle zone they are still happy and looking into the scenery with wonder and the tone of the writing is calm. It changes to a dramatic tone of war fighting in mere sentences and then back to a clam state where he talks of being in love in the next paragraph. It goes through all the ups and downs of the war and its effect on the men with the tone and word choice.