FAREWELL TO ARMS - a brilliant story of love and war(WWI)
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS -WWII
THE SUN ALSO RISES,TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT,THE GREEN HILLS OF
AFRICA,A MOVEABLE FEAST,THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA,short stories;
his style is described as"clean,fresh,vigorous,spare and concise"
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA - the story,based on fact ,is about an old Cuban fisherman who ,after a period of bad luck,ventures far into the Gulfstream and hooks a giant marlin.He fights it for two days and nights before bringing it alongside,and then the sharks,which he fought until he had nothing left to fight with,eat all but the skeleton,which he tows home.This is an impressive hymn of human courage and boldness of spirit.The most famous lines of this Noble prize winner :"But man is not made for defeat.A MAN CAN BE DESTROYED BUT NOT DEFEATED"
FAREWELL TO ARMS - the violence and hypocrisy of war,the beauty of true love and an escape from the horror of war in nature and love.Lieutenant Henry deserts with his nurse lover CATHERINE,they live happily away from the fire of war,but she dies in childbirth.Excerpts from the novel about the war and Henry and Catherine's love:
"How you like this goddam war? - Rotten. I say it's rotten.Jesus Christ,it's rotten"
'They were all mechanics and they hated the war.' We think.We read.We are not peasants.We are mechanics.But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war.Everybody hates this war."
'There is a class that controls a country that is stupid and does not realise anything and never can.That is why we have this war. ' Also they make money out of it.'
' When I saw her I was in love with her.Everything turned over inside of me.'
' There isn't any me.I'm you.Don't make up a separate me.'
'Always isn't a pretty word.'(Catherine) 'We really are the same one and we mustn't misunderstand on purpose.' - We won't." - 'But people do.They love each other and they misunderstand on purpose and they fight and then suddenly they aren't the same one.' - 'We won't fight.' - 'We mustn't. Because there's only us two and in the world there's all the rest of them.If anything comes between us we're gone and then they have us.' - 'They won't get us' ,I said.'Because you are too brave.Nothing ever happens to the brave''They die of course' - 'But only once.'
'I don't know.Who said that?' - 'The coward dies a thousand deaths,the brave but one." - 'Who said it? ' - 'I don't know.'
'He was probably a coward.'she said.'He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave.The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent.He simply doesn't mention them.'
'That night at the hotel,in our room with the long empty hall outside and our shoes outside the door,a thick carpet on the floor of the room,outside the windows the rain falling and in the room light and pleasant and cheerful,then the light out and it exciting with smooth sheets and the bed comfortable,feeling that we had come home,feeling no longer alone,waking in the night to find the other one there ,and not gone away;all other things were unreal.We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone.Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other,but I can truly say we never felt that.We could feel alone when we were together,alone against the others.It has only happened to me like that once. I have been alone while I was with many girls and that is the way that you can be most lonely.But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.I know that the night is not the same as the day:that all things are different,that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day,because they do not then exist,and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no difference in the night except that it was an even better time.If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them,so of course it kills them.The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.But those that will not break it kills.It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
"No man is an island entire of itself;every man is a piece of the continent,a part of the main; any man's death diminishes me,because I am involved in mankind;And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;It tolls for thee." JOHN DONNE - This is put as a motto and gave the title of the novel of Hemingway "For whom the bell tolls"
TO HAVE AND TO HAVE NOT - 'But women have a bad time really.The better you treat a man and the more you show him you love him the quicker he gets tired of you.'
' I suppose we all end up as bitches but whose fault is it? The bitches have the most fun but you have to be awfully stupid really to be a good one.Stupid and well-intentioned and really selfish to be a good one.Probably I'm one already.They say you can't tell and that you always think you are not .
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