Hemmingway

             This paper is to inform you of the similarities and the differences in Ernest Hemmingway's stories, "In Another Country", and "A Soldiers Home". Ernest Hemmingway was an author during the forties and fifties, whose writing style and sentence structure, which you will hear about later, earned him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1954. .
             "A Soldiers Home" is about a young man who comes back from WWI later than the other soldiers and he is very upset that he did not get a parade like all the others. He feels unappreciated and unwanted. The war has made him lose all feelings for his family and every other thing so he secludes himself.
             "Another Country" is, again, about a soldier but he is still signed up in the Italian army. He gets injured on the front lines almost immediately after going to fight. He now is in a hospital where he is using "machines" to make his leg better so he can play football once again. He does have a couple of friends, who are also injured, and they all have medals, but he feels he doesn't deserve his.
             Both of the stories deal with WWI in almost the same manners. Both of the stories show the consequences of the war and the conditions the soldiers had to deal with. There may be different aspects of the consequences, but the stories do show them. It gives a good example of why WWI was called "the lost generation" and how it affected everyone.
             Hemmingway uses lies a lot in his stories to poison every aspect of an experience. In the two stories we have read they are used to make people feel better and get their hopes up. In "Another Country" he uses them coming from the doctor to the patient saying everything will be better, even though he knows it won't. "A Soldiers Home" uses lies coming from Krebs to his mother telling her he loves her after saying he didn't.
             The detachment the war produced is shown in both selections, but in greater amounts in "A Soldiers Home". Krebs wanted to be totally secluded from other people and felt that people were now evil while the "nameless soldier" in "Another Country" was secluded, but only to a select few and death did not bother him anymore.