"Hemingway's experience at the front had a very hard impact on him, not that he hated it, but it was something very different from what I think he expected. He was taking some post-cards and chocolates to the Italian soldiers when a bomb exploded a few feet away from him, killing a soldier, wounding another and blasting his own knees off..."
(written in first person)
A few days ago I was eating at the front with a few of my friend soldiers, when a bomb exploded just a few feet away from me. It killed Sargeant Manera and seriously wounded Tenente Passini. and myself. It felt like I was dead. I slowly floated out of my body hearing the screams of Passini, machine guns firing, the meeting with pure flesh of speeding bullets.
Hemingway uses real, sharp feelings of a man in this dramatic situation to create a harsh and scary feeling of death.
- Giulio C.
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