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    events and characters into play. This is particularly true with the authors William Faulkner and Earnest Hemingway. Their writing styles are exponentially different, but both authors use their differing styles to their advantage. In both The Sun Also Rises by Earnest Hemingway and As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, characters face issues such as feeling alienated and lost. The characters in As I Lay Dying deal with their issues through more complex thoughts and irrational actions, which is illustrated

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    George Orwell wrote the novel 1984 in 1950. He wrote 1984 as a warning to future generations. The story is a scary violent warning about the dangers of a totalitarian state. A totalitarian government consists of a powerful and total authority government over all its citizens in public and private life. George Orwell used 1984 to warn future generations of severe consequences that a totalitarian or controlling government could have on society. In 1950, George Orwell wrote the novel 1984 to warn succeeding

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    The Role of Minorities in Society within “Still I Rise” and Of Mice and Men The structural perspective of the poem “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou describes the varied perspectives of suppressed minority groups through her own experiences as seen in Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men centers on the friendship between George and Lennie as well as the general loneliness accompanying characters throughout the book. Steinbeck addresses minorities such as Crooks[black], Curly’s Wife [female]

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    Sun Also Rises

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    The title of a novel can be one of the most powerful aspects of a book. For instance, when a reader reads the title The Sun Also Rises, written by Ernest Hemingway, the reader is able to understand that the title of the novel is connected directly to the message that the author is attempting to convey. The title later brings forth much more significance towards the very end of the novel when the reader pauses and contemplates Hemingway’s motives. The title The Sun Also Rises has the ability to

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    The Great Gatsby developed into an autobiographical novel by including events and plot similar to Fitzgerald’s own life. While hints of Fitzgerald’s life and personality showed through multiple characters, the essence of the author was captured most prominently in the tragic main character Jay Gatsby. By mirroring events in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s life during the early twentieth century in the life of Jay Gatsby, including experiences with love, rise to money, and unknowingly to Fitzgerald, death, The

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    Ernest Hemingway’s book, The Sun Also Rises, can be analyzed and understood as a hidden autobiography of his troubling and painful life. Why would Ernest Hemingway disguise himself as Mr. Jake Barnes instead of being open and telling exactly his story and how it happened? Ernest Hemingway was married when he fell in love with another woman who was not emotionally available for anything but occasional pleasure. If Hemingway had written the book as an obvious autobiography, his reputation would be

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    Emotional Disconnection in The Sun Also Rises The Sun Also Rises is a novel that narrates the life of a group of friends after World War I. It communicates both the physical and emotional tolls that war has on both humans and society. War changes people usually for the worse. In my analysis I will delve into many of the characters pasts with major focus on Lady Brett’s. Lady Brett’s past acts as a catalyst for her lack of emotional connections in The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. World War I affected

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    Burrough quotes in his novel that “many bank robbers were desperate, unemployed men” (Burrough 16), and implying that the crime wave’s beginning was due to the Great Depression having just begun, leaving unemployed people in desperate need of money to provide for themselves and

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    becomes a wealthy man and obtains a place in society who is controlled by inheritors born rich only to reach to Daisy. Throughout the character we could see how this idea of the “American Dream” becomes more real and where anyone that work as hard could rise as rich as Gatsby did. And we will, analyze, what is the “American Dream,” and how this theme is developed throughout the plot and how the characters relate their stories of their lives to the “American Dream.” What is “The American Dream,” is an idea

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    served in World War I. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army. He wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises in Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway argues that the Lost Generation suffered immensely after World War I because of severe problems with masculinity, alcohol, and love. Masculinity creates a strong tension amongst the male characters in The Sun Also Rises. The clearest example is the impotency of the main character Jake Barnes. Jake explains to Georgette how he was

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