week 6: for whom the bell tolls by Ernest Hemingway
im reading for whom the bell tolls. this is a book written by ernest hemingway. in not too far in the book yet but from what i've read i really like the book. when you read the first few pages you get a real taste of how ernest puts imagery into his books. in the first few pages you are put into a military situation with a few soldiers who are looking to blow up a bridge that the enemies are  going to try to cross. the way that ernest descrides the scenery and the way he shows the landscape through his detailed descriptions. the soldiers break off into different ranks and go scouting for the enimies. when a few enines are discovered the plan to blow the bridge gets re-thought. the generals tell the soldires not to blow the bridge until the enimies are actually crossing it that way the soldiers go with the bridge.
i really do like the way he describes his whole book. im less than 100 pages in and i think i might say this is my favorite book so  far. i like the fact that it starts out in a military manner. the book isnt slow either, the book has alot of action and moves quite fast. a few characters are introduced in the first few pages. the first character to be introduced is Anselmo. he is an older gentleman who runs into a younger gentleman in the woods and offers him help. Anselmo helps the young man and discovers that he is part of the army and is having second thoughts about heping the man because he is against the war. the soldiers all go scouting and they find a cave where the stay for a few days and camp out while they wait for the enimies to cross the bridge on the river. over the course of those few days the soldiers lay low and keep to themselves. they tell stories of thier home life and what they plann on doing when the civil war is over.
i highly advise this book to anyone who is looking for a book that they dont wanna put down. when i have down time i read the book and get deeper into the characters and the scenes that they are in. the book is a little longer than all my other books have been but its well worth it. the civil war was a very bloody war and it was a war that was surrounded by death and the loss of loved ones. this book really tells how the war was like. people died in grusome ways and the way ernest describes the deaths and the scenery is un-matched. i read two science fiction books last time that both were fantastic books and both had great imagery but nothing i have read in a while compares to the way ernest puts realism into the way he writes.