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    Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises has his male characters struggling with what it means to be a man in the post-war world. With this struggle one the major themes in the novel emits, masculine identity. Many of these “Lost Generation” men returned from that war in dissatisfaction with their life, the main characters of Hemingway’s novel are found among them. His main characters find themselves drifting, roaming around France and Spain, at a loss for something meaningful in their lives. The characters

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    Leslie Richardson ENGL 2342 26 February 2017 The Style of Ernest Hemingway According to critic Robert McCrum, associate literary editor of The Observer, and writer of six novels (theguardian.com) The Sun also Rises ranks number 53 on the list of the 100 best novels of 20th century American Literature. Why does The Sun Also Rises is respected as landmark in the world of words? One of the reasons is about the writing style of Hemingway, which transformed the path of American and English literature.

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    they are they want to connect with the characters on a whole new level. Authors use foils to represent the main character in a better way, they utilize another character that has opposing traits than the main character to do this. In the novels, The Sun Also Rises and Heart of Darkness, the authors Ernest Hemingway

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    was a man among men. He painted his life through written words. In his life Hemingway experienced events that would change him and shape the man that he was. Hemingway wrote about his time he spent in World War I in his first novel, The Sun Also Rises, and in his last novel, The Old Man and the Sea, he writes about his fishing exploits, both of which Hemingway experienced himself. By comparing these two works that he has written, a reader can perceive his linguistic style and the reflection on himself

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    again? To go back to no homework and go outside all day pulling pranks and play pretend with your friends? In the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain the main character Huck begins just wanting to be a kid. He doesn’t want the society to conform him into what they want him to be. He wants to be free from school, religion, and rules. Throughout this picaresque adventure novel Huck discoverers the true meaning of friendship and growing up. Huck runs into Jim, who is a slave from Miss

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    isn’t it- look at things and try new drinks?” (Hemingway 476). In Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, the characters could also claim that this was their lives. At any point in the story they are essentially doing nothing but looking at things and trying new drinks. Critics are right to say that the novel presents motion that goes nowhere and that it is a novel of stasis and despair. The characters in The Sun Also Rises often go to new places, such as new bars with friends, or even to foreign countries

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    Two particular philosophers come to mind when one mentions the novel Lord of the Flies. The pessimistic monarchist Thomas Hobbes, famous for his belief in the shade within humanity, and the liberal optimist John Locke. While both of their ideologies are present within the novel, one is proven to be correct as the novel approaches its climax. While initially one might believe a functioning society may form as the central characters adjust to life on their deserted island. However, the societal doctrine

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    the society that we live in (Zipes). Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 predicts real life in America’s future as opposed to the mid-1950’s society of the novel. It is important to look at this aspect of the text because so much of what has been predicted has become true already, and our country’s weaknesses are clearly exposed. The society of the novel is different yet similar to the society of present day America. Many of the things Bradbury predicted have already

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    explaining objects, events, etc. McCloud then goes on to explain that it is expected for children to graduate from books with mostly pictures to novels with no pictures at all as they mature with time. This is attributed to the cultural perception of comic books. According to Stephen Weiner in his book Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: The Rise of the Graphic Novel, “newspaper comic strips were always recognized as something read by everyone, but from the beginning of the

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    The San Fermin Festival is a central point to The Sun Also Rises because it is where the climax is reached in determining the maturation of Jake Barnes. The San Fermin Festival takes part every year in Pamplona, Spain and consists of parties and bullfighting for a week. T. Peter Hays article, “Hunting Ritual in The Sun Also Rises,” shows Hays’ belief The Sun Also Rises, and the San Fermin Festival in the book, shows religious virtues instilled in the character of Jake Barnes. Although the San Fermin

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