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Summary Of Soldier's Home By Ernest Hemingway

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Have you ever noticed how setting plays a role in the story? In Ernest Hemingway story “ Soldier 's Home”, The author creates a distant feeling by using setting to portray Krebs disconnection toward the world and lack of setting details. “By the time Krebs return to his hometown in Oklahoma.” In the third paragraph it talks about Krebs returning to his hometown in Oklahoma, showing that he grew up in a small state shows how going to war was most likely a whole new scenery for him. This adds to him coming back from war, but being disconnected from his life at home because he has only known the war and the peaceful life he is reentering is much different to life on the battlefield. Kreb’s got himself into a routine of reading a book on the front
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