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    from conditions such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and or disillusionment after seeing so much death and experiencing traumatic situations during the war. This is shown in characters such as Jake, Mike, Brett and Bill from The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway is able to portray these characters as lost by making them wander aimlessly from place to place and also by filling the empty voids in their lives with alcohol and other meaningless activities to block out the outside…

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    transpiring between order and the disorder of the world. This created a distinction in society between an insider and an outsider. After World War I had ended, there was a great shift between pre war life, to post war life. In The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway, the protagonist Jake Barnes was a soldier in the war. He struggles with his masculinity after the war as he is surrounded by those who he believes are manlier than he is. With this constant struggle, he defines himself as the…

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    “A man who lives correctly, following the ideals of honor. Courage and endurance in a world that is sometime chaotic, often stressful, and always painful.” is the definition that Ernest Hemingway gives for a code hero. This quote is one that can apply to many different situations and people. You can find it almost anywhere. The main character in the novel The Old Man and the Sea and the movie Finding Forrester represent this in both their qualities and their relationship with a young boy.…

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    Ernest Hemingway the author of the old man and the sea says it's his best work of writing. It is about an unfortunate old man named Santiago. The old man and the sea and the art of mental training are two very helpful books when it comes to helping you prepare for tough challenges. Having mental toughness is very important for tough events in real life. Santiago shows many traits that resemble toughness. One of them that he shows he is confident in many things. “I am not good for many more turns…

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    Generally speaking, there are two types of people. There are those who are content with their lives, and there are those who are not. Ernest Hemingway delves into a common reason behind many people’s discontent in his short story, “A Clean, Well – Lighted Place.” The story follows an older waiter as he and his younger counterpart serve an old man in the middle of the night. The younger waiter wishes to go home early, but the elder does not mind the time. Time spent at work is nothing to those…

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    he deserves. Moreover, his way of living his own life is influenced by the actual events that surrounded DiMaggio’s career and life: Another case in point is an indirect revelation of actual historical events that we must know about if we are to appreciate fully the symbolic parallels between Santiago and Joe DiMaggio, and the role of the champion in nature and society that these important parallels help define. (Sylvester 246) The issue presented by Sylvester is to be found in Hemingway’s…

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    ” “Love you? I simply turn all to jelly when you touch me.” “Isn’t there anything we can do about it?”. In this quote the author, Ernest Hemingway, has having two people have a conversation about their love for eachother. He is then causing us to think about who is saying what and what they’re talking about by using gaps and fissures. In The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway uses a modernist characteristic called Gaps and Fissures. Gaps and Fissures are when the author doesn’t give enough…

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    1. The novel tells the reader about the lives of Frederic Henry and Catherine Barkley before they come to Italy and what they are doing there. First of all, Frederic Henry was studying to be an architect before the war. Catherine was getting ready to marry her later dead fiancé. Second, they are in the Italian army to help the wounded. Catherine is a nurse and Frederic is an ambulance driver for the Red Cross. Lastly, when asked why he joined the army as an American, Frederic responded in an…

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    In Earnest Hemingway’s memoir ‘A Movable Feast’, Earnest displays a very colorful personality. His personality ranges from being a disrespectful homophobic person to an aspiring feminine gay writer in a café to becoming a caring and loving friend to F. Scott Fitzgerald despite him being unreliable and immature. Earnest personality is biased depending on how much he respects a writer and will see past writer’s faults, as long as they are male or masculine. His colorful biased personality is best…

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    Hemingway characterized the Code Hero as "a man who lives effectively, taking after the goals of honor, boldness and continuance in a world that is at times confused, frequently upsetting, and constantly agonizing."The Code Hero measures himself by how well he handles the troublesome circumstances that life tosses at him. He confronts these encounters of existence with effortlessness. At last the Code Hero will lose on the grounds that we are all mortal, yet the genuine measure is the manner by…

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