Central America
Open Question: can you help me please to make this summary please?
A.During the Spanish civil war, Robert Jordan, an American volunteer, joins a band of Republican guerrillas fighting against the Fascists. He falls in love with Maria, one of the group. Jordan’s objective is to blow up a strategic bridge in order to help a coming Republican attack, but he sees that the mission is destined to end in disaster.
B.Hemingway’s fascination with big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of a month-long safari. The book provides a rich description of the beauty and strangeness of the landscape and the writer’s passion for the sport of hunting.
C.This collection of short stories is mostly set among the forest, lakes and rivers of the Great Lakes region of north America. The Central character is a boy called Nick Adams, and many of the stories are concerned with adolescent experiences and the problems of growing from boy into man.
D.In the years after the First World War, a group of disillusioned young American and British expatriates, the %26ldquo;lost generation%26rdquo;, are living in Paris. The journalist Jake Barnes, wounded in the war, is in love with the beautiful Brett Ashley, engaged to marry another man. Tired of dinking, dancing and fighting in Paris cafés the expatriate gang moves down to the Spanish town of Pamplona for week-long fiesta.
E.One of the best books ever written about bullfighting, it reflects Hemingway’s belief that this is more than a sport. He explains the technical aspects of this dangerous ritual, and its %26ldquo;emotional and spiritual intensity%26rdquo;. The book is a fascinating examination of the history and grandeur of bullfighting but also a reflection on the nature of courage and cowardice.
F.The story of the heroic battle of a Cuban fisherman against the sea and his lifelong enemies, the sharks. After a terrible struggle, he manages to catch a giant marlin but the fish is eaten by voracious sharks during the long voyage home.
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