Tuesday 28 January 2020

Spanish Civil War

Ernest Hemingway: For Whom the Bell
Tolls
Amir:

For Whom the Bell Tolls

● Plot
● Characters
● Conflict
● Outside world within

The plot is the civil war and the main character is Robert Jordan. The conflict is the civil war
because that is the time the story is set in, and in more details the plot is Robert Jordan
being sent to make contact with a guerrilla band and blow up a bridge to advance the
Loyalist offensive. This is roughly the details of the plot.

1. What is the author trying to tell you?

He is trying to tell us about the spanish civil war and the life of Robert Jordan, who might of
been real.

2. Why is the author telling you that?

Because that is the theme and point of his book.

3. Does the author express it clearly?

Yes.
4. How could the author have expressed his theme(s) clearly?
Through the use of proper language.

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Laurie Lee:

Laurie Lee was born on the 26th of June, 1914 and met his death on the 13th of May, 1997.
He was an english poet and prose writer best known for ​Cider with Rosie​, which is a memoir
of his boyhood in the Cotswold countryside. He was educated in his home village nearby
Stroud. He would eventually move out towards London and then travel to Spain in the mid
1930s. Upon him returning to England, he became a film script writer from 1940 to 1943 and
as the editor of the Ministry of Information from 1944 to 1945. He published in the 1940s and
50s several volumes of poetry. He achieved little recognition on these poems, but when his
autobiography ​Cider with Rosie​ was published by Leonard Woolf in 1959, he achieved a lot
of recognition as that book became an instant classic and was being read widely in British
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schools. He ends up writing two more volumes of what becomes an autobiographical trilogy,
and it includes ​As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning a ​ nd ​A moment of War.
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Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway was born July 21, 1899 in Cicero, Illinois, U.S. and died on July 2, 1961,
Ketchum, Idaho. He was an American Novelist who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for
Literature in 1954. His writing was very well known for being very adventurous like his highly
publicized life. His style of writing has had a big impact and influence on American and
British fiction in the 20th century.

What background information did Ernest Hemingway use in his book?

He used the Spanish Civil War as the basis for the events in the book. ​For Whom the Bell
Tolls​ expresses Hemingway’s strong feelings about the war, both a critique of the
Republicans’ leadership and a lament over the Fascists’ destruction of the earthy way of life
of the Spanish peasantry. The novel is set in the spring of ​1937​, at a time when the war had
come to a standstill, a month after German troops razed the Spanish town of Guernica. For
Whom the Bell Tolls explores themes of wartime individuality, the effects of war on its
combatants, and the military bureaucracy’s impersonal indifference to human life. Most
important, the novel addresses the question of whether an idealistic view of the world
justifies violence.
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The leader Juan Negrin:

He was a leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party and served as finance minister.
He was born in february 3 189 And died 12 november 1956.
He was President of the Council of Ministers of the second spanish republic
he was the last Loyalist premier of Spain.

Laurie lee:

History:
He was born on june 26 1914 and died may 13 1997.He was an english poet and prose
writer, he was the one who wrote “Cider with Rosie”, that is a memoir of the author’s
boyhood in the cotswold countryside.

Bibliography:
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ernest-Hemingway

https://www.britannica.com/topic/For-Whom-the-Bell-Tolls-novel-by-Hemingway

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Laurie-Lee

https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/belltolls/context/