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    <title>The Soldier's Home Group at eNotes</title>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Krebs first returns home, he "(does) not want to talk about the war...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Krebs first returns home, he "(does) not want to talk about the war at all".  After awhile, however, he finds he has a "need to talk but no one want(s) to hear about it".  To this end, it would seem that he makes some attempt at socializing, going to the pool room, and talking to old acquaintances "in the dressing room at a dance".  Very quickly, though, Krebs discovers that people are "not thrilled with his stories", and he retreats...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:11:33 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Describe the ways Krebs spends his days in "Soldier's Home".]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Describe the ways Krebs spends his days in "Soldier's Home".]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:02:16 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hemingway, the author of this short story, contributed the modern...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hemingway, the author of this short story, contributed the modern American hero to American Literature.  One of the key characteristics of this hero is that he is thoroughly disillusioned with life, especially with the American dream, partly what makes him an anti-hero.
Krebs does not want to be a hero, yet he is the main character in the story.  He obviously fought bravely in WWI, but his family cannot get past the fact that he has...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:16:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Certainly one of the topics that come to mind and stand out resonate in...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Certainly one of the topics that come to mind and stand out resonate in the story's title as they do in our own lives: adaptation. Here is a  man who has gone through a life-changing event and has allegedly experienced a series of consequences caused by his own choices. As a result, he has to choose how to re-adapt himself to understanding a life, as he knew it, all over again.
With understanding life again comes a re-birth of mind and...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 17:36:56 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The primary theme in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The primary theme in Ernest Hemingway's short story "Soldier's Home" is Krebs' inability to relate to his mother and to home life after his return to Oklahoma following World War I. After witnessing death and destruction while participating in some of the war's most bloody battles, Krebs returns home where his parents try to coax him to return to his old routine. But his view of the world has been altered permanently, and attending ball games...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:51:50 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the story "Soldier's Home," what is the theme?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the story "Soldier's Home," what is the theme?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 14:39:10 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Krebs' experiences overseas have hardened him in such a way that the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Krebs' experiences overseas have hardened him in such a way that the simple things of his old life--such as prayer, ball games and dating--are now unacceptable acts to him. The bloody battles in which he participated at Belleau Wood and in the Argonnes have changed his way of looking at the world, and he finds it impossible to adjust to post-war life when he returns to his hometown in Oklahoma. The terrible horrors of war have made Krebs...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:12:49 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Why can’t Krebs pray with his mother?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Why can’t Krebs pray with his mother?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 4 Oct 2009 14:21:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Hemingway is known for his concise, blunt diction; so "Soldier's Home"...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hemingway is known for his concise, blunt diction; so "Soldier's Home" easily fits into the minimalist category.  The opening sentence of the story,

"Krebs went to the war from a Methodist college in Kansas"

sets the tone and style of the story.  Hemingway employs very few transitions between his sentences and paragraphs, and he chooses simple, forceful syntax rather than flowery, complex structure.  This style precisely fits the subject...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 19:13:41 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How does "Soldier's Home" demonstrate minimalism?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[How does "Soldier's Home" demonstrate minimalism?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 3 Oct 2009 15:18:09 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Kreb's reading is one of the few elements in the story which causes him...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Kreb's reading is one of the few elements in the story which causes him to have any type of reaction.  When he returns home from the war, his family and community do not understand him.  They fail to realize that the war has irrevocably changed their soldier.  Thus, when Krebs reads the historical accounts of his battles, he receives confirmation that what he did overseas is not only real but that it was also important enough to make a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:43:54 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "Soldier's Home," what is Kreb's reaction to reading a history of the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "Soldier's Home," what is Kreb's reaction to reading a history of the battles in which he fought?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:11:08 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Krebs is actually encouraged by reading the history of his war. ...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Krebs is actually encouraged by reading the history of his war.  Hemingway writes Krebs
"sat there on the porch reading a book on the war. It was a history and he was reading about all the engagements he had been in. It was the most interesting reading he had ever done. He wished there were more maps. He looked forward with a good feeling to reading all the really good histories when they would come out with good detail maps. Now he was...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:02:20 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[When Harold Krebs comes home from the war, he is a far different person...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[When Harold Krebs comes home from the war, he is a far different person from the boy who went away to fight. We can only imagine the horrors he must have seen because his experiences have affected him deeply. He finds it difficult to hear those in his small hometown glorify the war, showing their lack of understanding of its real nature as Harold has known it. Harold has come home, but home is a place where he no longer belongs. He spends a...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:26:01 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Soldier's Home," why can't Krebs pray, and how does his war...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In "The Soldier's Home," why can't Krebs pray, and how does his war experience connect to his inability to pray?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:25:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The story develops two primary conflicts, Harold's internal conflict and...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The story develops two primary conflicts, Harold's internal conflict and his external conflict with his mother. After Harold returns home from the war, he tries initially to resume his old life in his home town, but he soon finds that he longer fits in. He struggles to reconcile his feelings about the war with how others at home perceive the war to have been. He tries for a while to tell them what they want to hear, but he cannot continue in...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:59:27 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In "The Soldier's Home," what is the conlict?]]></title>
        <link>http://www.enotes.com/soldier-home/q-and-a/what-conlict-story-soilders-home-87747</link>
        <description><![CDATA[In "The Soldier's Home," what is the conlict?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 5 Jun 2009 15:56:23 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This story, "Soldier's Home," is told from the third-person narrator...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[This story, "Soldier's Home," is told from the third-person narrator point of view.  As a former journalist, Hemingway was well accustomed to this objective point of view.  Here, in this story he makes great use of the detached journalistic style to demonstrate the detachment of Krebs from his hometown, a detachment effected by the experience of World War I which places him in a different state of mind from his mother who still exists in the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:49:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What point of view is used in "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What point of view is used in "Soldier's Home" by Ernest Hemingway?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 20:22:34 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Harold has an easy relationship with his sister Helen. He calls her "his...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Harold has an easy relationship with his sister Helen. He calls her "his best sister" and says he likes her. Helen is warm and affectionate with Harold; she teases him, makes no difficult demands on him, and does not judge him or his behavior once he has come home. She accepts him as he is and is simply glad for his company. Harold's mother and father, however, watch his every move and treat him as the boy he once was. Harold will be allowed...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 2 May 2009 16:16:54 PST</pubDate>
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