Farewell To Arms Data Sheet

Name: Brenda Lim.

Major Works Data Sheet This form must be typed. Title of the Work: A Farewell to Arms Author: Ernest Hemingway Date of Publication: 2003 (1929). Genre: Novel Historical information about the Setting: A Farewell to Arms took place during World War I, also known as the Great War. Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire were fighting against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, and the United States. The war began on July 28, 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and ended on November 11, 1918 when the German Empire, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, and the Russian Empire were defeated. Plot summary: Frederic Henry is an American fighting with the Italian army. He is in charge of the ambulances in the army. After taking a break in the winter, Henry comes back to his unit and the war. He has a roommate named Rinaldi, who is a surgeon and also a lieutenant. Rinaldi introduces Henry to two nurses, Catherine Barkley and Helen Ferguson, from Great Britain. Henry and Catherine end up talking about how the war killed her fiancé. When they meet again at the British hospital, they find out their feelings for each other by kissing. While Lieutenant Henry and his peers are avoiding the enemy in a dugout, they decide to eat. While they eat, the Austrians’ bomb attack hurt Henry’s legs and killed one driver. Henry is evacuated to an American hospital located in Milan.

However, he suffered injuries that hospitalized him in a hospital in Milan. At the hospital, he met a nurse, whose name was Agnes von Kurowsky. She accepted his request of marriage; however, she later left him for another man. Kurowsky and the war influenced Hemingway when writing A Farewell to Arms. He also wrote several successful novels, such as The Sun Also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea. Characteristics of the genre Describe the Author’s style: The author uses short syntax, and in contrast he also writes extremely long sentences connected by conjunctions. The short sentences provide straightforward and quick background information.