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    Within Hemingway’s first novel, The Sun Also Rises, he includes many characters that are very similar to his life. The narrator of The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes shares many parallels to Hemingway’s life. Like Hemingway, Barnes participated in World War 1 and was grievously injured while serving on the Italian front. As he narrates he intentionally talks around what happened, but it can be inferred that he lost something that makes him a man. While hospitalized he meets a field nurse, who he then

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    Ernest Hemingway’s first novel The Sun Also Rises is regarded as the quintessential novel of the Lost Generation. Published in 1926, within the decade after the First World War, The Sun Also Rises embodies exactly what the Lost Generation is. The term “Lost Generation” was created by Gertrude Stein and is referred to today as a vast amount of American intellectuals, writers, poets, and artiest, who were born around the beginning of the 20th Century and served in World War One, this generation pursued

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    exhilarated by new ideas , intoxicated by the romance of unusual.” (Ernest Hemingway). Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises demonstrates just that. Hemingway portrays love and relationship, the lost generation and the New Women in his novel. Hemingway portrays these themes through each of the characters in novel. Hemingway portrays those themes through character Brett. In Hemingway's novel The Sun Also Rises, the character Brett symbolizes the ideal New Women and freedom for women by her actions, personality

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    Heming(NO)way In this universe, there exists innumerable examples of literature that merit the title of an AP book but for some reason are not taught in AP courses. Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises exemplifies this idea. Although Hemingway is not the most popular author, his outlook on the roaring twenties and expatriate community in Paris reflect themes such as projected masculinity and action-reaction in a post-WWI environment pose serious artistic value written in descriptive yet clipped

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    novel that “ You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There's nothing to it.” Cohn, like the other characters in the story wanted to find a place of self satisfaction and wordley value. In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, Struggle, pain, and worthlessness, are evident throughout the novel, that the characters can not escape. Based in the early 1990’s, not long after the war, everyone has seen more than they wish to, and long to see and feel calm, and peace with

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    The Sun Also Rises was written almost twenty years before On the Road but Ernest Hemingway’s novel is more progressive than that of Kerouac. For Jake, the idea of being old-fashioned and comfortable seems out of place in The Sun Also Rises as the women he loves and the friends he hangs out with seem to contradict the life Jake is searching for. In On the Road, Sal faces a similar dilemma as he is pursuing a free-living, no-root-planting lifestyle but everything he encounters is contrary to what he

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    Monica Lackey ENG 1113 Cristie Hooker 21 November 2014 THE SUN ALSO RISES a. In The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway, there are two main settings: France and Spain. The novel begins in Paris, France with the narrator and protagonist, Jake Barnes lives and immerses himself in his journalism. Paris is known to be a place of great beauty, and was a common place for many writers to reside in the 1920’s. This initial setting of Paris served to contrast the excitement and beauty yet corruption and

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    The Sun Also Rises is a novel by Ernest Hemingway, which explores the post-World War I life of a group of American and British expatriates. The story follows these expatriates as they journey from Paris to Pamplona for the Festival of San Fermin. The group indulges in wild nightlife, which includes drinking, dancing, and watching bullfights. This lifestyle takes the characters through the emotions of anger, fear, and regret. The lone female character of the group, Lady Brett Ashley, is an attractive

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    One of the main themes in “The Sun Also Rises” centers around masculinity and what it means to be a man. WWI was vastly different than previous wars because of revolutionary advancements in weaponry. Because of this, the brave soldier with a face of stoicism, willing to run head first into battle was reduced to an almost cowardice child forced to huddle in trenches with men in the same position relying luck rather than skill or valor to survive. Hemingway, a man who fought in WWI, was forced by the

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    Many who read Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Sun also Rises, will feel some form of sympathy for the main character as I did. The Sun Also Rises is a post war novel that follows a group of people affected by the First World War. The Narrator and main character is Jake Barnes. As the story goes on we learn details about Jake such as the fact that he is impotent and that he once loved Brett. Jake was the character I sympathized the most for because his participation in World War I caused him to

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