Blog Entry # 5: Personal Review

Overall, I had fairly positive feelings about this novel. I thought that Hemmingway’s use of rhetoric, syntax, and diction added an effective tone to the piece. These concepts allowed me to feel like I was actually involved in the plot with his use of imagery in describing scenes and events. The concept of emotion and how it was developed by rhetoric provided a clear insight to what the characters were feeling while they were enthralled in love and war. Although I felt strongly about the success of this novel, I also believed that it did have a few weak points and perhaps a somewhat poorly structured syntax at times. There was an overabundance of dialogue that made reading fairly tedious at times and made it hard to follow who was speaking, but all in all, the good outweighed the bad. The most effective aspect of this book that stood out to me was Hemmingway’s use of imagery in setting the scene for events. It is not often that one reads a novel that is as descriptive as this one and I thought that this novel was made unique by it’s imaginative tone. This novel is clearly one of great description that effectively conveys the plot to the reader.