O: Hello everyone! Welcome back to the Oprah show. W were just in the middle of our interview with writer Earnest Hemingway!E: Hey (waves)
O: So Earnest lets get back to your book, A Farewell to Arms. This story has reade
rs all over the world unable to put down your book because of the highly detailed images that are portrayed to your readers.E: Yeah, I really put a lot of effort in to bringing the readers into the shoes of Lt. Henry by bringing you into his mind where you experience his non-stop train of thought and observation of his surrounding environment. I try to make it as realistic as possible to how the real human mind thinks. Uh, even the dialogue is very realsistic, there are pauses of thought and moments of digression that are so common when you have everyday conversations.
O: Absolutely. I think we all find Lt. Henry as real as anyone can get. What do you try and portray through him?
E: Well, I wanted everyone to see that its not just the soldiers out there. There's priests, nurses, doctors, cooks, everything. And they too get thrown into the mix of war, and they get effected by this. War effects everything and everyone around it.
O: Very well said. I'm afraid that's all the time we have today folks. Thank you so much Earnest for coming on the show
E: It was my pleasure.
O: And everyone out there you can purchase A Farewell to Arms at any bookstore to you, and everyone here at the audience to day will receive a free copy since it is my book of the month! See you all next time.
Brain -- Thanks for getting this to me... Good start here. Nice points about war, certainly, and who gets pulled into the mix of war. I would like to see a bit more focus on VOICE... you mention descriptions -- do they ramble one and one or are they short and very precise with their diction? Consider these elements as well as tone -- Is Hemingway super sad and dramatic about war? What about Love?
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