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Essay / War and death in Ernest Hemmingway's In Our Time
He seems preoccupied with the subject, which may have a direct connection to his experiences during World War I as an ambulance driver for the American Red Cross . Hemmingway's views at the start of the Great War were delusional and are revealed in his writings "Men at War" where he proclaims: "When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people are killed; you… Then, when you are seriously injured the first time, you lose this illusion and you know that it can happen to you. After being seriously injured two weeks before my nineteenth birthday, I had a bad time until I realized nothing could happen. for me, this had not happened to all the men before me. Whatever I had to do, men had always done it, so I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it. He also wrote about his wartime experiences in "A Farewell to Arms," which highlighted the experiences of a fictional ambulance driver who served in the Italian army. At times, Hemingway seems to attempt to blur the lines between life and death with moments of mental instability. Madness is, in a way, a kind of void between the two worlds. He creates oxymoronic scenes that occur near or at signs of life, which constantly leave the reader hoping for the best, but assuming that the