Assignment #5

#1
On chapters thirty-four through forty-three, Robert Jordan is mad that Pablo left the group with some of he explosives. He chilled out after he was with Maria, but he was still a little angry about it. While the camp is thinking of a new way to destroy the bridge using the little people and explosives they have, Andres is making his way to General Golz to tell him about what hd happened with Pablo. The hard part about it, though, it that he keeps being stopped by people that are on his side. They think that he is a facsist, even thought he clearly isn't. WHile he is trying to do that, Pablo returns to the camp with the people he took, but no explosives. He threw them in to the river so they were still kind of screwed. Andres is taken prisoner by Andre Marty, a memeber of the Republic. Andres is then released thanks to Karkov, and he gets to Genreal Golz. By the time he arrives and tell Golz all about the stuff that's happened and Golz realizes that the mission will fail, it is to late and the mission has begun. Robert Jordan, Anselmo, and Agustin leave Pilar and Maria. They manage to destroy the bridge, but Anselmo died, and so did Agustin. Pablo is the only one who survives from his group and is then accused of killing his men. The book ends with Robert Jordan hugging Maria, and him getting ready to shoot some more senteries on the ground.

#2
I thought the book was pretty good, a little hard to get into, but good in general. I think it's amazing how Ernest  Hemingway was able to write a Forty-three chapter book that takes place in like, what? A week? A few days? The onlny thing I wasn't all that thrilled about was all the sex in it. A little too much for my taste, but I guess it was necessary to get the point through about Maria and Robert Jordan being "one". My favorite part is when Andres is trying to get to General Golz but kept getting stopped by his own people. Just thinking how ironic it is that he's able to get through faster when his on the enmey side than his side. They were so paranoid and skeptic about everything, geez. I would recommend this book, but only to people who I'm sure wouldn't have a problem or a just a slight problem reading this book. To be honest, this book was a little hard to read because of all the symbolisms you had to get. And then there were all the sudden changes in setting of Spain, and the spanish words and the old english like, thou, thy, thee, and also all the sex.