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Journal Entry #1, “Soldier’s Home”, By Ernest Hemingway, p. 187, word count
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The short story “Soldier’s Home” by Ernest Hemingway talk about Krebs’s internal conflict. He is a soldier from Oklahoma who experienced the monstrosities of The Great War. He enlisted in the Marines in 1917 and did not come back home until the summer of 1919. When he came back, though, he was not himself anymore. He does not want to talk to anyone after telling lies to the people and his friends about what happened to him in the war because “His town had heard too many atrocity stories to be thrilled by actualities.” (187). He just reads his book and sits on the porch and watch girls walk down the street. One morning his mother came into his bedroom to

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