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A 6 page paper which discusses the quest for a deeper sense of self as depicted in three novels: Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell To Arms, Timothy Findley's The Wars, and Joy Kogawa's Obasan. The paper observes that while a major life crisis is not necessary in order to spur on this important personal journey, it is nonetheless true that most of us go through life without doing any particular self analysis until a crisis strikes -- and then self analysis becomes necessary for psychic survival. Bibliography lists three sources.
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File: D0_Warnovel.doc
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a crisis strikes -- and then self-analysis becomes necessary for psychic survival. In each of the three novels discussed in this paper -- Ernest Hemingways A Farewell To Arms, Timothy
Findleys The Wars, and Joy Kogawas Obasan -- the pivotal crisis is a war. At the beginning of A Farewell To Arms, Frederick Henry is a disillusioned man looking for
something to believe in. "I had gone to no place where the roads were frozen and hard as iron, where it was clear cold and dry and the peasants took
off their hats and called you Lord, and there was good hunting. I had gone to no such place, but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room
whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement
of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring
in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring" (Hemingway, 1929). This rambling passage perfectly captures the endless monotony of the young soldiers drinking
and womanizing, punctuated only by bouts of warfare. It would be inaccurate to say that Frederick really believed in the war at any point in this novel, but in
the first half of the novel he certainly believed in the ideals of manhood that the war supposedly typified. So how do we explain his desertion? A fair assessment would
be that he realized -- after his love affair with Catherine -- that the playing field on which manhood is displayed at its best and brightest is not necessarily the
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