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The Characteristics Of Transducer In Hemingway's Code Hero

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“The positive, unifying response of output found in the code is vastly different from the potentially disruptive negative stimulus or input of the world... the Hemingway hero, who acts as a miraculous, mysterious transducer supplying enough order and meaning to change a negative force into a positive one.” (Hand 871). Hemingway’s code hero is defined as a man who takes in the negative and chaotic world around him and in turn tries to leave a positive force on those in his life. Another term for this would be a transducer, one that takes in an input, and produces an output. For the case of a code hero, they take in the negativity or mundane nature of the world, and in their own way change it to a positive outcome, or at the very least a less negative one. Often described as stoic, loyal, honorable, and courageous, the code hero understands what he is meant to do and the choices he must make, no matter how difficult. The code hero is typically wounded by the world they are brought up in, and because of this choose to make their own path. They follow these paths without showing excessive emotions or allowing sentimentalism to affect them. They often start off as individuals who don’t want to be affected by the ways of mainstream society, leading them to go on their own and escape the ideals of others. After they do make this transition however, they are shown to greatly evolve to accept the code hero mantra discussed in many forms of literature. To put it in other terms, code

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