A New Kind Of War

S: Ernest Hemingway who is located in Madrid during the time of the war where American troops were fighting.

O: The Occasion is during the war fought in the Guadalajara Front when Hemingway was stationed in Spain. Hemingway focuses the story on how the bombshells are nearby, areas where death isn’t considered as horrid, and his connection with a wounded man.

A: The audience are war veterans, military men involved, or any other people interested the war.

P: The purpose of the text is to portray the mood of the war. The war is described as a “strange new kind of war where you learn just as much as you are to believe” which means there are plenty of different sides to take and you have to choose for yourself in what to believe.

S: war; but is also about the characteristics of war and its affects on an individual.

Tone: Serious and straightforward. Hemingway describes the death and destruction of the war in a serious tone. Then he chooses to illustrate the events that take place.

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D: The diction he chooses has a connotation that relates to the themes and tones of war, For example, he used piercing words such as acrid, piercing, and suffered.

I: Hemingway uses imagery to describe the everyday bombings where death seems normal. He illustrates with details that allow the reader to visualize the scene.

D: The details portray the evident war and current events happening. The portrayal of the story is also filled with many descriptions covering an area where death and destruction is normal, which tells a lot about the nature of the event.

L: The story is written in a way a common man would talk. The way the story is written allows for understanding from different audiences.

S: There is a mixture of complex and simple sentences, which he uses for dialogue in the writing.