Examples Of Sacrifice

Sacrifice in the face of death as a result of war abounds throughout the novel. Robert Jordan, Anselmo and others are ready to do as “as all good men should” that is to make the final sacrifice. The most reoccurring embracing gesture reinforces this sense of close companionship in the face of death. An occurrence involving the death of the character Joaquin’s family serves as an example of this theme; having learned of this tragedy, Joaquin’s comrades embrace and comfort him, saying they are now his family. Embracing this love for one’s friends is the love and intimate relationship for the Spanish soil. A love of place, of the senses, and of life itself is represented by the pine needle forest floor both at the start of the novel and emotionally,
Jordan is mutilated when his horse is shot out from under him by a tank. Knowing very well that he would show his comrades down, he bids goodbye to Maria and ensures that she escapes to protection with the surviving members of the guerrillas. He turns down an offer from another fighter to be shot and lies in agony, hopeful to kill an enemy officer and a few soldiers and delay their pursuit of his comrades before dying or being killed (Hemingway, 46). The narration comes to end just before Jordan launches his
It becomes the universal theme beyond the limits of time and space, a timeless story of war period. This universality imparts a significant place to Hemingway’s works in the alienation society, man’s place in this universe and the drastic effects of war are the themes on which he spent a great deal of time as an author. Consequently, he transfers to the paper entirety of his age precisely with no intention to do any mythmaking with regard to war. By ignoring any inconsequential detail in his war novels, he crafts a story with an undercurrent theme of nothingness with the integral theme of war (Hemingway & Ernest, 24).
Violence and death are some of the results of war as seen in the above illustrations. His era was the period of destruction and emotional and spiritual disillusionment. This disillusionment is clearly described with his infinite capacity to capture the cynicism of war in “For Whom the Bell Tolls” (Hemingway, 79). He very enthusiastically states the enthusiasm of his heroes regarding with their participation in the war and how disillusionment do replace their enthusiasm in the gist of all his war