Searching for the Truth in A Farewell to Arms If The Sun Also Rises was one of the best books I've ever read, then A Farewell to Arms is the truth. I simply can't believe these books have existed this long without me knowing how great they are. I consider myself a person who reads constantly, more than almost anyone I know, and here in less than a month I've read two books that are easily among the best I've ever encountered. When I finished A Farewell to Arms I was obviously stunned by the deaths of Catherine and the baby and Henry's sudden loneliness. "What happens now?" I felt, as I often do when I finish a book, that I want to go on forever. This is infinitely more difficult with a book that has no conclusion, and A Farewell to Arms leaves the reader not only emotionally exhausted but also as lonely as Henry and with nowhere to go. The whole work was aware of where it was going and what was coming next, and so to stop like that was unfair. Now, I read enough essays while deciding what the topic for my class presentation would be that I know many people see that the unfairness of life and the insignificance of our free will are apparently the most important themes of the book, but I do not know. I don't agree. I also don't agree on whether it's a war story or a love story. What exactly it is, however, is not clear to me. Can't art exist without being nothing? "There isn't always an explanation for everything." War and love are obviously important themes in the book, and the relationship between the two is explored by Hemingway and, to a certain extent, by Henry. In the first two books we are at war and the war is overwhelming. In the last two books we are in love. And, just as the first two Books are infused with love in a time of war, the last two Books are tinged with war in a time of love. GIVE A SPECIFIC EXAMPLE OF “PEPPING” AND “TINGING”. WHAT EFFECT DO “PEPPERING” AND “TINGING” HAVE ON THE NOVEL? THE CHARACTERS?The third book is the bridge between the two 'stories' and it is not surprising that it focuses on escape.