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    Catherine Barkley better exemplifies a Code Hero through her independence, values, and bravery in the face of death. Whereas Frederic is passionate about the love of his life, even declaring Catherine as his religion, Catherine never truly commits to the idea of marriage, stalwartly defending her independence. Henry views a formal marriage as a necessary action to solidify his relationship with Catherine, although she believes that they are already personally married. Catherine claims that “there’s

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    Santiago Code Hero

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    In The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway uses Santiago to demonstrate some of the qualities of a Hemingway Code Hero. Throughout the novel, Santiago encounters many trials and tribulations that test his role as a code hero. While reading the novel one will see that Santiago endures many of the rules of a code hero. However, the ones he encounters the most are misfortune, honor, and courage. Hemingway uses these rules in his novel in such a way that one can fully understand the life of Santiago

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    characters. He develops their actions and motivations through a code hero, symbolism, and allusion. Richard Wilson is a man’s man, and embodies Hemingway’s fascination with living life on the edge. The “white hunter,” Wilson, lives the life according to Hemingway values. Hemingway believes in the importance of physical activities and outdoorsmanship. Wilson has an attractive ruggedness, and embodies many of Hemingway’s code hero traits. Hemingway uses an allusion to a famous Shakespeare line to strengthen

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    Throughout the novel A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Frederic Henry’s actions and attitudes towards the people he meets and the experiences he encounters reflect his development as a Hemingway Code Hero. The Hemingway Hero is a very distant person who goes through life unattached. He is physically there, but emotionally uninvolved. Frederic Henry possesses these traits over the course of the book. He develops as a Hemingway Hero because no matter where he goes or what he experiences, he is

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    Ernest Hemingway. Critics have spent countless hours studying his writing in order to gain insight into his world of manly delights, including his views on sex, war, and sport. His views can be seen through his characters, his themes and even his style of writing. The characters in Hemingway’s stories reveal much about how he feels about men and the role they should play in society. Most of Hemingway’s male characters can be split into one of two groups. The first of which is the “Code” Hero. This

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    Ernest Hemingway created a “Code Hero” who personifies Friendship. Santiago shows friendship throughout the story a great example of his friendship is when “The old man had taught the boy to fish and the boy loved him.” What this quote means, is that Santiago taught him how

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    In Ernest Hemingway’s novel, The Old Man and the Sea, Santiago demonstrates the traits of the code hero. The Hemingway’s code hero covers the principal ideals of honor, courage, and endurance in a misfortune life. Throughout the novel, Santiago shows a contrast between opposite attitudes and values which associate his behavior with the guidelines of the code. In this case, the depiction of conflicting values, such as dignity despite humility, perseverance despite despair, and victory despite defeat

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    Ernest Hemingway. Critics have spent countless hours studying his writing in order to gain insight into his world of manly delights, including his views on sex, war, and sport. His views can be seen through his characters, his themes and even his style of writing. The characters in Hemingway’s stories reveal much about how he feels about men and the role they should play in society. Most of Hemingway’s male characters can be split into one of two groups. The first of which is the “Code” Hero

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    A Hemingway Code Hero is a trait that almost every main character of Ernest Hemingway’s novels possesses. According to Hemingway, a Code Hero is a man (or woman) who lives correctly and demonstrates respect for honor and courage during a chaotic and stressful world. There is a particular pattern to how a Code Hero conducts his or her life on a day to day basis. In the novel A Farewell to Arms, Frederic Henry is the Code Hero because fate is a determining role in his life’s events, he lives in the

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    Frederick Henry Discovered Essay

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    Arms, Ernest Hemingway uses his idea of the code hero to introduce us to an amazing character. Hemingway takes his own ideas and conveys them through Frederic Henry. During World War I Frederic Henry proves to us that war and lost love can change a strong and willing man. Most men are not willing to change and Frederic Henry realized that in order for him to survive the many problems he was faced with, he would have to become a more mature man, love and solider. Hemingway’s code hero is portrayed

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