Read the excerpt from hemingway’s a farewell to arms.

we parked the cars beyond the brickyard. the ovens and some deep holes had been equipped as dressing stations. there were three doctors that i knew. i talked with the major and learned that when it should start and our cars should be loaded we would drive them back along the screened road and up to the main road along the ridge where there would be a post and other cars to clear them.

which best describes hemingway’s style of writing in the excerpt?

a. straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader
b. long-winded and offering far too much information to the reader
c. overly complicated, making it difficult to interpret and understand the text
d. effortless and uncomplicated, with little meaning for the reader to interpret

A. Straightforward and simple, while still relating a lot of information to the reader.

Further Explanation:

Hemmingway’s narrative style is simple, lucid and not overly complicated. He does not make use of unnecessary compound sentences together to overcomplicate his novel and does not bombard the reader with facts that are entirely irrelevant to the context.  

His narrative and writing style is powerful, packed with a lot of powerful images that make a clear picture in the reader’s mind, thereby helping him or her to interpret the events correctly. This might be due to the journalistic backgrounds of Hemmingway, who also provides a lot of sensory experiences that convey to the readers as if the characters are speaking to them in a first-person narrative. Throughout the novel, there is a conveyed sense of urgency, the urgency to love, to fight, to take decisions, and to commit violence. The reactions of the characters are lively, and this helps in their development in the novel. The immediacy of the atmosphere in the novel helps the reader to perceive and appreciate the small little joys of everyday life, and understand where a person’s real happiness lies, not in the exalted images of patriotism, but in the proximity of a loved one, the warmth of fire, the comfort of a house and the fullness of a meal.  

Ernest Hemmingway’s depiction of the events of the war do not conceal their horrors or sugarcoat their importance, rather it helps the readers to understand the moral development of the characters. For example, Henry learns to appreciate the tangible things in life, after seeing how the ideals of war such as patriotism were really shallow, and no nation would care for the lives of humans over their political and diplomatic concerns. Hemmingway uses Henry’s character to convey the sense of war as the result of the political designs of nations, in which millions of lives are uprooted. However, he does not seem to outright diminish the importance of war. He creates the imagery of war by creating a complex structure of scenes, depicted by using a number of clauses within the sentence

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2. What happens when the quantity of a good supplied at a given price is greater than the quantity demanded?

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Ernest Hemingway, ‘A Farewell to Arms’

Subject: Literature

Keywords:

Simple lucid style, urgency, first-person narrative, development of characters, journalistic style, tangibility, imagery.

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