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The Sun Also Rises By Ernest Hemingway Essay

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Ernest Hemingway was one of America’s premiere authors during the early 1900’s. He brilliantly wrote a short story or novel in a fashion that was unconventional for the time period. While reading any work by Hemingway the reader has to keep in mind that what is written might be tied to some other part in the story. Hemingway many different writing strategies to keep the reader engaged throughout his stories. Ernest Hemingway is able to keep the readers engaged throughout this novel by incorporating symbolism in his writing such as water for cleansing the soul, color as a sign of purity, and elevation as a reflection of mood. The Sun Also Rises, a novel by Ernest Hemingway. The novel takes place in Europe in the early 1920’s after World War I. The narrator and main character Jake Barnes is a simple quite man; he is a foreign correspondent for a newspaper in the United States. A friend of Jakes is Robert Cohn a Jewish man from the states. Another friend of Jakes is Brett an English woman who by all accounts is pretty, outgoing, and flirtatious. The last of the characters that doesn’t arrive till later in the book is Bill; he is a really good friend of Jakes. The novel starts in Paris with Jake introducing Robert Cohn with his backstory. He was a good boxer and went to college at Princeton. His family was wealthy and lived in New York. He also talked about how Cohn felt out a place being one of the only Jews that went to Princeton. However, after this introduction Cohn enters

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