For Whom The Bell Tolls Fact-Matching Game

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- Set during the Spanish Civil War.
- Published in 1940.
- The protagonist, Robert Jordan, is an American volunteer fighting with the Republican side.
- Robert Jordan is an explosives expert.
- The novel explores themes of love, sacrifice, and the brutality of war.
- Takes place over a period of three days.
- Robert Jordan is assigned to blow up a bridge as part of a guerrilla mission.
- The story is influenced by Hemingway's own experiences as a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War.
- Hemingway wrote the novel while living in Cuba.
- The title is taken from a line by the English poet John Donne.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls is considered one of Hemingway's greatest works.
- Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1941 for this novel.
- The novel's characters are based on real-life individuals Hemingway encountered during the war.
- Hemingway's writing style in this novel is characterized by its sparse and direct prose.
- The book is divided into four sections.
- Hemingway's portrayal of war in the novel is often seen as realistic and harrowing.
- The novel explores the psychological effects of war on the characters.
- For Whom the Bell Tolls was adapted into a film in 1943, starring Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman.
- The novel received both critical acclaim and controversy for its portrayal of political ideologies.
- The last line of the novel is: "The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."