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The point of view in "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway is presented from a “third-person”, focusing primarily on the thoughts and experiences of Harold Krebs.

Third person objectives: simply shows the reader what is immediately observable without explaining or analyzing.

Limited omniscent narrator:the narrator tell every thing of one character.

The story is narrated by an omniscient narrator who provides insight into Krebs' inner thoughts and emotions, but does not seek for the perspectives of other characters.

This can help/ allow the readers:

Gain a deep understanding of Krebs' internal struggles and disillusionment after returning from war.

To be talked about  Krebs' thoughts about his experiences in the war, his difficulty readjusting to civilian life, and his strained relationships with his family and community.

Be able to empathize with Krebs and understand the profound impact that war has had on his psyche.

Krebs finds it challenging to connect with others and share his war experiences, as his town has already moved on from the war and is no longer interested in hearing about it => highlights the theme of alienation and the difficulty of communication (reinforced by the narrator)

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1. Plot:

- Rising action:

To gain attention from the others, Krebs had to tell lies about his experience during wartime. But his story was not thrilled by anyone.

During his day, he was sleeping late in bed, borrowing book from library, having lunch, reading in the porch (later we know that it is a history book about the recent war which tell how great a soldier he was). To sum up, he spent his day merely lazing around the house and his surroundings. Even his family members were non-commital to his story.

Krebs did not have a job nor have a girlfriend. Although he would love to watch the girls from his hometown from afar, he felt that his and their world are different as chalks and cheese as their was too complicated for him.

—> Conflict: internal conflict between what he is interested in (girls from his hometown) and what he actually do (avoid them at his best).

Seeing Kreb’s current life as unbearable, his parents talked over and agreed to allow him to take the car out whenever he wants with a view to propelling him back to the world, courting someone and eventually get a job. However, this suggestion faced his total indifference.

—> Conflict: Person vs person: contrasting views towards how a person should live his life. While his parents urge Krebs to live a life as a normal person doing what a man should be doing, Krebs does not seem to bother about it. From this conflict, may implicit a so-called ‘sub-conflict’ (conflict between person vs the society, in which the standard of the society imposed on everyone may force someone into a limited framework.

The courting between him and his sister indicate a stoppage for his development. He refused to move on to anyone apart from the one he is familiar with.

- Climax (turning point of the story): the conversation between him and his mother which made his mother cried.

- Falling action

- Resolution

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Abstract

Ernest Hemingway's novels embody the tragedies of the Lost Generation. Ernest Hemingway writes about the human condition in modern society, expressing the conflict between personal aspirations and the harsh reality of life. Within the scope of this article, the authors explore and explain the tragedies in Ernest Hemingway's novels

Ernest Hemingway xây dựng hàng loạt những nhân vật mang tâm trạng ấy, họ là những người từng xả thân chiến đấu trong những cuộc chiến tranh khốc liệt và đẫm máu nhưng khi trở về với cuộc sống thời bình họ lại cảm thấy thất bại vì không còn niềm tin đối với cuộc sống. Những thay đổi của xã hội khiến cho họ khó có thể hòa nhập với cuộc sống mới và trở thành những con người thừa. Trước một xã hội hoàn toàn biến đổi sau chiến tranh, người lính trở về mang trên mình những vết thương về thể xác, và tận sâu bên trong là những đớn đau vể tinh thẩn đã không thể nào hòa nhập được vào xã hội của thời bình.Trong chiến tranh họ có thể chiến đấu rất anh dũng, nhưng khi trở về đời thường, trước cảnh lạnh lùng bình lặng trôi của một cuộc sống không súng đạn đối lập hẳn với cuộc sống trước đây thì họ bị vỡ mộng, khác hẳn với tâm trạng háo hức lạc quan đầy tin tưởng trước khi tham chiến, đó chính là dạng thức biểu hiện của cái bi trong tác phẩm của ErnestHemingway, cái bi của sự lẩm lạc, ảo tưởng của con người tạo nên bi kịch vỡ mộng.

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The soldiers suffer alienation as an aftereffect of the war.

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Third person limited/limited omniscient → showing the struggle of the soldier in the most vivid way by describing Krebs’s thoughts, opinions and inner feelings. By the way, using this point of view makes the issue impossible to be resolved because of the lack of sympathy for each other.

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Krebs: Protagonist - Dynamic → Krebs could be considered as a victim of the war because he wasnt able to relate to his family and people around him thereafter. He seemed to lose his ambition and motivation, he didnt have any schedule and lived a useless life. However, at the end of the story, he decided to fin a new job in another city. → the soldier struggled to readjust to life at home following the Wold War I.

Krebs’s mother: Flat - Static → Throughout the whole story, the mother was described as a talkative, emotional person and a woman of faith. Her personalities were quite contrast with Krebs → She is in many ways a foil to Krebs; therefore, the mother was built to accentuate the main character.

Helen: Secondary - Flat - Static → By joining in the baseball competition, Helen represented joyfulness and youth. Since she was the only one to whom Krebs had a positive attitude in this story, Krebs was appealed to those qualities. When Helen said: ““If you loved me, you’d want to come over and watch me play indoor..”, she was so innocent as to equate the signal of love with that small activity. Howerver, at the end of the story, Krebs’s decision to watch his sister’s game showed us that there was hope in his bleak emotional situation.

Krebs’s father: Static → Although the father didnt directly appear in the story, he represented a standard image of a man in that masculine society so that Krebs should have followed his path. His absence also recalled the traditional role of each gender: men should go out to earn money but stay at home.

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Exposition:

Krebs got back to his hometown without a rousing welcome which he deserved and expected to have.

Rising action:

-Krebs felt the need to talk about the war but no one wanted to listen to his stories.

-Krebs decided to tell lies, but after several times, he felt unpleasant and guilty. Finally, he stopped lying about the war. → At first, he was proud of what he had done to contribute to the victory. He defined himself and his role on this world by this way. Howerver, whenever he made up new things which sound more dramatic and strocious than his true war experience, he started losing the memories which help to value himself. That freaked him out.

-Krebs enjoyed looking at the girls in his town. He vagely wanted a girl but he didnt feel the energy or the courage to overcome all difficulties and complexities. → He wanted to have complete control of his life. He was especially vigilant at making a commitment with a girl, which might cause him envolving in the intrigue and the politics.

-Krebs sat down and read a book on the war. “He was reading about all the engagements he had been in.” → Now, he had to use the book - an outside source - to understand what he did and why →sense of disorientation.

-His father changed his mind and offered Kerbs his only car so that he could go out in evening. → His parents facilitated him to integrate into the society.

-Krebs and his sister had a intemate conversation. → He was less opposed to being in a relationship with a girl. (In the past, he even looked down on his fellow because his actions were contradict to what he had boasted beforehand.) However, as a newbie in this field, he was confused by his feeling toward his sister, which was only stop at “like”.

- Krebs and his mother had a serious conversation.

+At first, when Krebs’s mother asked him about his future plans (job, settle down, marriage), Krebs frankly admitted that he had no idea about it. She got nervous and started use religious element (God) to force Krebs to change his mind. Howerver, Krebs has never belived in religion. (Maybe he thought that he should be the person fully controlling his life, not the God)

+Then, Krebs’s mother showed her sympathy to him. She thought she understanded her son but things seemed like she didnt. (Krebs didnt reply her) She continued to mention an epitomy of boys who were becomming a really credit card to the community. → This is the only path that Kerbs had to follow to ease his parents’ worries.

Climax: The mother asked: “Dont you love your mother dear boy?” “No”

She had said that she and his father loved him so that they did everything for his own goods how matter standed beforehand. In other word, they believed that they could do everything for him so that the mother hoped that Krebs shared the same feeling with them. As a result, he should have been changed his mind for them, in order to ease their worries.

Falling action:

-Krebs explained that he didnt love anybody. → He didnt feel any commitment with the others. He just wanted to be himself, not being affected by anything & anyone. What his mom had done for him meant nothing to him. He saw no good in their actions.

-Krebs thought it was worth not telling the true to alliviate his mother.

-Krebs beg his mother to belive in him. But when his mother finally knodded her head and implied that she knew him inside out. → Krebs felt sick and vaguely nauseated. → He was fed up with that pattern of speech of his mother. He knew that she had never really understanded him. She just imposed her thoughts/expectations on him.

Resolution:

-Finally he compromised with his mother: "I'll try and be a good boy for you.”

-Krebs refused to pray → He didnt believe in God. He can’t lie anymore.

-Let his mother pray for him. → She thought it was good for him by praying God so Krebs had no reason to prevent her form doing so.

-Kerbs gave up his ideal life and tended to go far away to find a job there.

*Conflicts:

-Person vs. person: Krebs conflicted with his mother. Their ideal lives were contradictory.

-Internal person vs. External person: Krebs had to lied to attract more attention. He also pretended to be a good boy in his mother’s eyes.

-Person-Society: Krebs wanted to talk about his war experience. He hoped that people would listen to him; would admire him. Howerver, the town had no longer been fascinated to hear about the war.

*Further thought: The differences between “like” and “love” ← Krebs likes his sister but do not love her.

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1. Setting:

Time: 1919 - years after the World War I finished

Place: Krebs came back his hometown - Oklahoma after 2 years serving in the military.

Physical environment: The greeting of heroes was over → the town goes back to its tranquility → Kerbs was kind of disappointed.

Social environment: When the very first soldiers came back to the town, people welcomed elaborately. However, when Krebs went home many years thereafter, people seemed like they no longer cheered for their heroes. They even felt it is ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late. They were fed up with listening to stories telling about the war as well. → The soldiers who had served during the war no longer stayed in the limelight. Krebs had to get used to their disregard and start his new life.

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Time:

Kerb served in the Marines in World War 1 from 1917.

In the summer of 1919, when American vegetarians returned from World War 1.

Place:

Kansas: Before joining the War, Kerb studied at a Methodist college.

World War 1 battlefield: Germany (Rhine)

Kreb's hometown: Oklahoma (US)

Physical Environment:

First picture: The first picture depicts him with his fraternity brothers, who are all wearing the same collars.

Second picture:  The second one portrays him as a soldier in the Rhine (Germany) in World War 1. He is shown in the image with two German girls and another corporal, even though the Rhine itself doesn’t appear in the photo. Both Kreb and his corporal look too big for their uniforms.

Summer: The author introduces the summer setting: "During this time, it was late summer, he was sleeping late in bed,.."

Kreb's father's car: Kreb wasn't allowed to drive this car before the war, though "It was still the same car" after Kreb's return. Krebs's father drives the car to take his customers out and parks it in front of the National Bank Building, where his office is located.

His hometown:

“Nothing was changed in the town except that the young girls had grown up”

“Lived in such a complicated world of already defined alliances and shifting feuds that Krebs did not feel the energy or the courage to break into it.”

==> Irrespective of the insignificant changes in his hometown, Kreb's perception of this place has transformed. His hometown, the people, and his family are now preventing him from reintegrating into society. (or indifferent??)

His house:

The house is the shield protecting him.

“He liked to look at them from the front porch as they walked on the other side of the street"

“Krebs looked at the bacon fat hardening on his plate”

Social environment:

Family:

Kreb studied at a Methodist college, which indicated that he was from a religious and middle-class family.

His sisters look up to him as a hero, whereas his mother strikes to listen to his stories and disregards them. His father doesn't care too much about him.

Neighbours

Returning from the War, Kreb doesn't receive the same elaborate welcome as other soldiers. People think his late return is rather ridiculous.

At first, Kreb doesn't want to talk about his war stories but, later, he does. However, no one wanted to listen anymore. They have heard several atrocities and are bored by “actualities.”

To be recognized, Kreb has to tell lies about his stories

==> This indicates Kreb's futile attempt to adapt to post-war life.

Town girls

The only thing that changes in the town is that the girls have grown up.

Kreb only looks at the girl through the front porch

==> The social settings reflect the post-war experiences and the psychological effects brought on by traumatic incidents. The settings also refers to society's attitude towards vegetarians.

Historical setting:

World War 1: One of the most lethal battles in the World.

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Conflict
Internal conflicts:

Kreb has to fight within himself about telling make-up war stories. He wants to integrate with people, but only using lies can captivate their attention. However, every time he makes up the stories, Kreb feels disgusted and doesn't want to repeat these lies as they have ruined a soldier's beliefs and dignity.

Kreb wants to reintegrate into contemporary society but refuses to interact with people. He notices and wants to get to know the girl but doesn't want to talk or even chase after her. In contrast, he wants to stay away from the girl and then admire her beauty.

Facing the conflict between the expectation and the reality, Kreb detached himself from social relations, love, and religion. He needs to escape from the society that he no longer has faith in. Finally, he decides to go to Kansas City.

External conflict:

Person versus Society:

Person versus Person:

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What makes stories interesting? The main reason readers are attracted to stories is the conflict which results from the difficult situation the main character tries to get out of. Conflict drives the plot, and no story will be interesting without it. "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway is a story about Harold Krebs, a young man, who faces inability to adjust to post-war life. As he struggles to find a balance between the expected and the reality, the conflict intensifies, and it gives a reader a sense of being part of the story. The conflict in "Soldier's Home" is caused by various circumstances of the protagonist's life. However, there are three factors that played a central role in the story's conflict: the "small-town" society that fails to welcome its hero; the Krebs' parents who do not understand their son's struggles and sufferings; and Krebs himself who struggles to fit back into the society.
The community plays a very important role in the story's conflict. The people of the town find it strange that Harold returns from the war so much later than the other men. Harold doesn't receive welcome from his town since he arrives too late for heroes welcome. Therefore, he feels betrayed by the society that sent him to what could have been his death. People don't want to hear true stories about the war so Harold distances himself from others. Harold is not accepted by the community as he refuses to conform to town's norms that dictate he should find a job, get married and settle down.
Harold's family is another factor that plays a significant role in "Soldier's Home" conflict . Harold returns to his family but he feels he no longer belongs there. His mother cannot comprehend her son's struggles and pain caused by the war. She tries to convince Harold that he should find a job and be more like the other man . Harold has lost his belief in God - the thing his mother holds so dear, and he doesn't know how to deal with this. Harold's father doesn't support his son's actions and, as a result, Harold doesn't have much of a relationship with his father. The only way Harold communicates with his father is through his mother. Harold's relationship with his sister is his best with anyone in the family. She still remembers how Harold taught her how to pitch in a baseball game, and she is the only one who treats him like a hero.
Harold Krebs and his action play, perhaps, the essential role in the conflict. Harold's believes and values have dramatically changed after his war experience. The war has taken away the feelings of life he had before: he lost his faith in God, and his ability to love. Harold struggles to conform to traditional values. He wants to live a life that is free from complications and consequences. Harold chooses isolation and ignores any norms set by the society.
Throughout the story Harold faces various obstacles as he tries to reintegrate into a post war society. Upon his arrival, Harold's home town demands for conformity . Harold's parents are unable to understand why he cannot resume a "normal" life. Faced with the conflict between the expected and the reality Harold detaches himself from social relations, love and religion. He needs to escape from the society that he no longer believes in. So Harold decides to go to Kansas City where he can be free from a complicated life.

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The story happened in 1919 (one year after the end of WWI) in the city of Oklahoma. The main character, Kreb, returned to his hometown from the fight he had taken part in. Rather than being welcomed as a national hero, Kreb faced alienation from his townspeople as well as a feeling of disconnection from the world surrounding him due to his late return. This setting reveals how the United States neglected its veterans after service as neither psychological nor financial support was given to them.

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Ernest Hemingway, in full Ernest Miller Hemingway, (born July 21, 1899, Cicero [now in Oak Park], Illinois, U.S.—died July 2, 1961, Ketchum, Idaho), American novelist and short-story writer, awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954.

Noted both for the intense MASCULINITY of his writing and for his adventurous and widely publicized life

Hemingway’s characters plainly embody his own values and view of life. The main characters of The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls are young men whose strength and self-confidence nevertheless coexist with a sensitivity that leaves them deeply scarred by their wartime experiences.

All of his life Hemingway was fascinated by war

War was for Hemingway a potent symbol of the world, which he viewed as complex, filled with moral ambiguities, and offering almost unavoidable pain, hurt, and destruction.