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Seminar paper from the yr 2006 within the topic American reviews - Literature, grade: 1,3, collage of Bayreuth, path: playstation Representations of warfare in American tradition, language: English, summary: the 2 novels A Farewell to hands by way of Ernest Hemingway and Slaughterhouse-Five by means of Kurt Vonnegut have much in universal at the beginning sight. either are books approximately wars in Europe written by means of American authors, and even supposing the protagonists in either novels event issues which are in part similar to their authors’ reports, not one of the novels is an autobiography, e.g. Hemingway’s tale ends approximately months ahead of he went to Europe (Cooper, 33). either one of the novels deal not just with struggle tales yet roam round different genres, be it a technological know-how fiction tale in Vonnegut’s case or a love tale in Hemingway’s. either authors had direct and critical studies with struggle. regardless of of all similarities we additionally locate very mammoth variations within the depiction of conflict and how the 2 authors focus on their stunning reports. either one of the authors use a really personal and subjective depiction of conflict of their novels and we discover significant ameliorations within the approach they describe struggle. This essay will take a more in-depth glance on how the 2 novels depict conflict in numerous methods and the messages that we will be able to draw from their works.

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