Use of Personal Experience by 3 Authors

The main character in Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms shares much in common with the author, who used his own World War I experiences as an ambulance driver in telling the story of Frederick Henry and his love affair with Catherine Barkley. Many of the themes apparent in the works of Ernest Hemingway can be related to events and attitudes in his own life. Hemingway grew up in Michigan, in a family that placed an emphasis on outdoor activities. As a boy, Ernest was strong and strong-willed, with physical capabilities that would hold him in good stead until the latter days of his life (Hardy and Cull 10-11). Ernest became a reporter rather than going to college as his father wanted, and he became interested in the war raging in Europe (World War I) and decided to go there to see it for himself. All this was part of his att

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h. Over the years, he would vacillate between illness and the euphoria that came over tuberculosis patients when the disease would withdraw (McCarthy 10-20). There is a concern with death and its inevitability in the works of Camus, and The Stranger is one such novel that involves a character faced with an ethical dilemma in the face of his realization that life is absurd and that it has no purpose. The issue of moral responsibility is a difficult one in the universe of the Absurd, since there is no God, no caring or concerned universe, and ultimately no meaning beyond death. For Camus, though, there is a responsibility placed on every individual for making this world more livable, and this is the moral responsibility that man should respond to in life. Camus's characters do not always follow this precept, however, for the absurdity of life overwhelms their moral sense. Meursault is the protagonist of The Stranger, He is an intelligent and thoughtful man who has examined life and who sees through the artifice by which others live to the underlying truth. Society sees him as rebellious, particularly after he kills the Arab. Yet, Meursault is rebellious from the beginning. The novel opens with his mother's death, and he d
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Approximate Word count = 2035
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page)

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