![]() As the group attempts escape, Jordan is seriously injured, and Maria, having been told by Jordan that he will always be with her, leaves with the survivors while Jordan remains behind, waiting for death. For Whom the Bell Tolls is a novel by Ernest Hemingway published in 1940. Jordan blows the bridge, and Anselmo is killed by flying steel. Knowing that the fascists are aware of the offensive, Jordan sends a message to General Golz, hoping the offensive will be canceled, but the message arrives too late. Pablo, aware that Jordan's mission will invite fascist forces, refuses at first to participate, but relents, returning with additional men and horses shortly before the mission begins. Robert Jordan, a Spanish professor from Montana serving with Loyalist guerrilla forces during the Spanish Civil War, is guided by the old man Anselmo to Pablo's guerrilla band in the mountains above a bridge which Jordan must blow up when the Loyalist offensive begins. And there he finds Maria who has escaped from Franco’s rebels There he finds the intense comradeship of war. LitCharts assigns a color and icon to each theme in For Whom the Bell Tolls, which you can use to track the themes throughout the work. ![]() Robert Jordan, a young American, has been sent to handle the dynamiting. High in the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow up a vital bridge. ![]()
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