Outside Reading Assignment

My book, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemmingway has been all right for me. It hasn't been drop dead boring, but it has been kind of slow and hard to get into. The book didn't really grab my attention until he was hit by a bomb, then things started to pick up a little but. It is a romance story, so it has to explain alot in the beginning, that I understand. I just want it to become a little bit more interesting right now, it hasn't grabbbed me yet. There isn't as much action as I expected.

There isn't one dominant literary element from the list yet. The two that stick out the most though are imagery and irony, which makes sense because there is a lot of imagery and irony in war. The author is using these literarty elements to show us in a word picture what is happening during the war, and what is happening during his time in the hospital. Imagery gives us the best pictures of what is happening. He uses irony to put a whimsical twist to the book, so it is kind of a funny romance.

The tone of the book is whimsically dramatically informative. the tone does not shift from chapter to chapter because I think that the author is trying to make a point out of the constant tone. This is unsure, but it is what I have observed so far.

If anyone that has read this book has had the same feelings I do toward the book, tell so in a comment about it. It would be appreciated.

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Reading

Starting a new book is like stepping off aboat onto the sands of adventure. Sometimes it is rough, and other times it is your map, always with you. But like most explorers, when I step into a book, just like they step onto a new land, I don't give up by the look of the first few steps. I keep going. If the book doesn't get better in a few chapters and I don't have to read it, it usually ends up in a lonely corner, or back on the library bookshelf. Whatever the case, I try to keep my mind open about the book and keep reading.

When my life is on the hectic side and I can't find a spot to read, I tell myself to deal with it. This is to my dismay though, because I will go to the page I had left off at and it will look like a foreign country to me. Why do I do this? I have an assignment to finish or I am dug deep in a book. Either that or I am too stubborn, or lazy, to ask if the noisemaker could keep it down a little. The truth is that I read the best when it is quiet and I can keep my thoughts to myself.

I have different reading styles, it depends on the mood I am in. The most common reading styles I read are ones that make me motivated, like an amazing war story or great sports comeback. The style is flowing, because it is hard for me to read a book that is in bits and peices. I like really serious writing or really comical writing, but like I said, it depends on the day.

I read fiction because I like to be suprised, astonished, and questioned in a book. What is the fun of reading if you don't care about it? I thoroughly enjoy fiction and nothings better than a book on the couch with a snack. Fiction is the outlook through a window to a whole nother world, it is very exciting. That is why I read fiction, to stimulate my imagination.

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