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    has been no American writer like Ernest Hemingway. A member of the World War I “lost generation,” Hemingway was in many ways his own best character. Whether as his childhood nickname of “Champ” or as the older “Papa,” Ernest Hemingway became a legend of his own lifetime. Although the drama and romance of his life sometimes seem to overshadow the quality of his work, Hemingway was first and foremost a literary scholar, a writer and reader of books. Hemingway enjoyed being famous, and delighted in playing

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    by Ernest Hemingway is a novel that captures the prevailing of love in WWI because of the protagonist's philosophy of “Carpe Diem.” Lieutenant Henry can be viewed as a “Hemingway Hero” because he rejected traditional beliefs and he lived every day without thinking about yesterday or worrying about tomorrow. As a result of the experiences of war, the living of life becomes the highlight amongst the main characters, the three individuals that exude this mantra are Lieutenant Henry,

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    Sea” by Ernest Hemingway that agree with Hemingway’s interpretation of a hero. In many of his books, he uses a style that includes the hero being a “Code Hero” that is not ever successful in their journey and is not the most commonly known hero as many people would think. While “The Old Man and the Sea” follows it very closely, “The Great Gatsby” was not written to perfectly follow this style. When you think about the plot of “The Great Gatsby”, who do you think of as the hero most? Many see

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    Hemingway is a Hero Authorship of highly refined products, grants the ability to display the best version of a product. Artist perfect their masterpiece, movie producers rework scenes, and authors edit their writing. In 1929, writer Ernest Hemingway published “A Farewell to Arms” with the main character, Fredrick Henry mirroring many of Hemingway’s own experiences and characteristics. As his closest work to a biography with a heavy hand of fiction, Hemingway was able to refine the public perception

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    reader through the use of various literary devices. These literary devices have the themes that the author wants to convey embedded in them. In Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea, he uses devices to display what he calls the code hero. One ideal of the code hero is endurance. Endurance is a necessary part of life that everyone will have an experience with. While some may endure lots and other little, everyone has issues they must endure through. In “The Veldt”, Bradbury uses literary devices

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    meet the requirements of a Hemingway code hero. Though this character may seem to fit into the category of “code hero” because of his moral code, in reality he is too frail and emotional, he has no desire to free himself from society’s constraints, and he has not endured through his struggles. Firstly, Holden is often overwhelmed by his emotions and feelings, to the point where they cause him a mental breakdown and he is admitted to a mental institution. Ernest Hemingway writes his heroes as men capable

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    Jig Code Hero

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    Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway is based on code hero. The hero who follows this code must show displays of courage, pride, endurance, and not complaining about an issue. After Ernest Hemingway’s mother dominated his father, he killed himself, Hemingway developed an issue with women making them the cruel people of his stories and the men the heroes. Most of the short stories that Hemingway wrote were based off men following the code, but in this short story, the woman named Jig follows the code. The girl, Jig

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    Doubt in a Farewell to Arms by Hemingway

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    men dead of the 65 million men who fought in World War I (Harden). Frederic Henry is the driving code hero in A Farewell to Arms through the war as he shows much courage through the warzone, powers courageously through a struggle to validate himself, and acts in a realistic manner through his struggle with Catherine. Through his injuries from the blast, Frederic Henry shows that he is the main code hero as he exhibits courage by being eager to rush out of the hospital. After being hit by the blast

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    A Code Hero in Hemingway's Books Essay

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    A Code Hero in Hemingway's Books Robert Jordan has been defined as a Hemingway code hero. In Hemingway’s books, a code hero is usually male, as Hemingway’s books seem to have a similarity to Hemingway himself. These code heroes may have been previously wounded or gone through some sort of an ordeal, and so they could have a drinking problem, or a problem sleeping. They seem to be disillusioned, and/or self-oriented, and are not usually loyal to a large cause, but rather a small group of people

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    How is a code hero illustrated throughout literature? There are various traits that code hero’s express. Hemingway and Fitzgerald convey their code heroes through The Old Man and the Sea and The Great Gatsby. These authors illustrate their code hero’s through their personality traits. Santiago and Gatsby display the characteristics of a code hero through bravery, perseverance, and moral victory even when phasing physical and emotional pain within the two novels. First, bravery is shown by the old

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