("What is the Lost Generation?... For example, when Robert Cohn insults him, he throws a punch- ("Analysis of the Sun Also Rises). ... Linda Wagner, a critic noticed that in Hemingway's novel, The Sun also Rises, his characters relate to the Lost Generation by virtue that they "are usually violent. ... In Hemingway's novel, The Sun also Rises, the main character, Jake Barnes, is an example of someone who would have been caught up in the Lost Generation. ... This was also a very apparent attribute of those who lived in the Lost Generation. ...

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The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway is a classic novel, telling the story of Americans in Europe in the early nineteen-twenties. The characters who are showcased in the this story are part of the Lost Generation, the generation who lived through the horrors of World War I, called the Great War in that time period. Many of them, such as the characters in The Sun Also Rises, developed a cynical attitude towards American life and chose to immigrate to Europe. ... Not unlike most of the characters of The Sun Also Rises, Robert experienced harsh alienation from society, in his case, anti-Semitism. ....

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The novel The Sun Also Rises is written into three parts. ... If the story did not take place during the time of "the lost generation- then the story would not at all be based on the aimlessness of that specific generation. ... Jake is an aimless and bitter man and is a true image of "the lost generation."" ... The Sun Also Rises is a typical Hemingway novel. ... The Sun Also Rises is not an exception. ...

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The title, "the Sun Also Rises" gives a meaning, that everything even the sun must go on, no mater what. ... The fact that Hemingway is a lost generation character, is reflected in the way must of his characters feel. They don't have any future plan, they forget about their families, don't care about the money, or even their jobs; they have no perception of what they really wanted, so all of them were lost. ...

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Lost Generation A group of U.S. writers who came of age during World War I and established their reputations in the 1920s; are called the "Lost Generation Writers". ... His story collection, In Our Time, 1925 was followed by the novel The Sun Also Rises 1926. ... His neck is wrinkled from the sun, and his hands bear the scars of many fishing battles; only his blue eyes remain bright and cheerful. ... The boy is devoted to the old man, bringing him coffee and making sure that he has something to eat; he also helps him with his fishing gear. ... He also prays to God for help several times ...

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One such book/title is The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. ... To a certain degree his whole generation lost something in the war. ... The sun is setting on the lost generation; their best days have passed them by. ... The Sun Also Rises is about cycles. ... Works Cited Hemingway, Ernest The Sun Also Rises. ...

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The Sun Also Rises Lack of Heroes In most novels we see protagonists and antagonists, those that strive for a good common goal, and then those that serve no purpose but to get in the way of that goal. ... But in Ernest Hemmingway's The Sun Also Rises, there appears not to be anyone that rises above the rest. ... Although it is true that Bill has his problems, he still knows when to show people respect and also when to shut his mouth. ... Secondly, he follows Brett around like a lost puppy and because of this, loses a lot of respect an...

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First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises concerns a group of American living in Europe during the 1920s. ... Jake also tells us that he was wounded in World War I, and that his injury has left him in the supremely frustrating condition of being impotent without diminishing his sexual desire. Jake brings the tale into the present night at the Café Napolitan, a popular haunt of the "lost generation" and the avant garde in the Left Bank district of Paris. ...

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The Sun Also Rises was Hemingway's expression of his own life. ... The Sun Also Rises encapsulates the angst of the post-World War I generation, know as the Lost Generation. ... "The Sun Also Rises is the book that established Hemingway as a literary force and it introduced the world to the Lost Generation" (Wilson 5). ... The only thing Hemingway thought about was writing and finishing The Sun Also Rises. ... One of the main themes of The Sun Also Rises is impotence. ...

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Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises captures the roots of his talents and the start of controversy. ... In 1926 Hemingway published his second novel entitled The Sun Also Rises. ... It was in The Sun Also Rises that Hemingway first introduced us to "The Iceberg Principle." ... In The Sun Also Rises he defends Jake well and the reader involuntarily gives him their sympathy. ... In The Sun Also Rises the story ends having gone nowhere. ...

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This point is evident in some of his most famous works that helped him to gain acclaimed success: The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and For Whom the Bell Tolls. ... The Sun Also Rises, one of Hemingway's most celebrated novels, shows why Hemingway stood out among the writers of his time. Jake Barnes, the main character that represents Hemingway in The Sun Also Rises, is both "disillusioned and emasculated as a result of the war" (Schafer 1). ... In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway calls the post World War I generation the "Lost Generation" (The Sun Also Rises??). ... Barnes emotional...

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How do we know the war has destroyed the value system of Jake's generation? In this story the war is not directly labeled as the villain that has cost Jake's generation their moral ethics. ... He exhibits that he has also lost his moral ethics by having an affair with Brett. ... He is also a very shy person. ... They also do not have very much in common. ...

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Jake is especially perplexed about his manhood because he lost a key aspect of it during the war. ... It is also an underlying them of both books. ... Nick and Jake are also similar in that both are not really happy with their lives in terms of employment. ... Representing the common sentiment of the time, both novels depict the manner in which the "Lost Generation" attempts to relieve their restlessness and pain through the consumption of alcohol. ...

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Lady Brett Ashley Lady Brett Ashley is a very unique character in the novel The Sun Also Rises. ... This causes her to lose the one love of her life and spend the rest of it wandering from relationship to relationship searching for true love much as the lost generation searched for their prewar values of love and romance that simply didn't exist when they came back. ... Lady Brett is also blessed with stunning beauty and great charisma. ... Finally, at the end of the novel Jake has given up on te novel and realizes that it is a lost cause. ... The character of Lady Brett Ashley ...

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When Hemingway came back to America from the Italian front after the war was over, America just seemed to be boring and dull (Lost Generation 2). He once described where he grew up after he had come back from the war as "A place where people had wide lawns and narrow minds" (Lost Generation 2). ... Hemingway became close to these authors and after Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway "You are all a lost generation" a new term was coined and they thus were referred to as "The Lost Generation" (Lost Generation 4). All of the writers of the "Lost Generation" were Americans that were somehow disenf...

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Excerpts from The Invincible Man also show how race is defined in American history by showing the stereotype of the black race. Finally, in Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, race defines the division of culture between Americans and Spaniards. ... In Hemingway's, The Sun Also Rises, the American race, represented by Jake, is looking in on itself and seeing that it is like a wasteland with no apparent values. ... Looking at the Spaniard race, Jake realizes that he is representing a lost generation. ...

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Everything from religion, to architecture, to art has been handed down, generation by generation, to us in the present day. ... The first god to do this was Re, the sun-god. He had a steady rise in power beginning in the second dynasty, and by the fifth dynasty Re was considered the chief god of state. ... The Middle Kingdom After Pepi II, central government was completely lost, and anarchy reigned. ... The once-absolute sun god, Re, was replaced by the god Osiris. ...

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I rise I rise I rise." ... Robert Church lost his saloon and nearly lost his life. James Wells lost his job... Stereotypes and subconscious responses to African-Americans have been around since slavery, passed down from generation to generation - or, in a sense, "written down in history with bitter, twisted lies." ... "Out of the huts of history's shame I rise" The "huts of history's shame" in stanza eight also makes an allusion to the oppression that African-American women faced. ...

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They also used Confucianism to maintain order and force the Japanese people to passively accept their rule. ... According to Shintoism the current Emperor is the direct descendent of the Sun Goddess who formed the islands of Japan out of the Ocean in ancient times.Footnote1 According to these myths the Japanese Emperor unlike a King is a living descendent of the Gods and even today he is thought of as the High Priest of Shinto. ... Being anti-western also no longer served the purposes of the Meiji advisors. ... Footnote21 Burton believes that the Imperial Rescript on Educat...

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• They also provide shelter from the sun, block wind and noise, provide a habitat for wildlife, smell good, create beauty and prevent erosion. ... Little did they know that their actions would cause water tables started to rise, bringing salt to the surface. ... Salinity costs us around $270 million a year in lost agricultural production, damage to property and environmental destruction. ... (This is also known as the "phloem.") ... If the soil is too dry, not enough water will rise to a full tree height, and the vegetation that grows in that area will be shorter species, like ...

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At the age of 26, he produced The Sun Also Rises to achieve his own position in American literature. The book deals with the living attitude of the postwar generation especially those who thought that life was nothing and meaningless, and Hemingway became a representative of the "Lost Generation". ... Also, it takes a rather important position in American literature. ... He also recalled his energetic youth. ...

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It has also been said that McCarthy's family was responsible for legally changing his name to Gaelic, which means "Son of Charles." ... During this time he married a woman named Lee Holleman, also a student, and they had a son named Cullen. ... When she can find no trace of the child's body in the grave Culla shows her, she sets out in search of the tinker and her lost child" (Priola, Outer 1). ... Yet McCarthy's meditation on this lost soul is restrained, even delicate, in its images of his grievous acts. ... "In the end, Billy resembles both the wolf and the old dog: Acco...

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It was during this time that Hemingway and a group of ex-patriot American artists and writers became known as the "lost generation."" ... Hemingway also had a deep appreciation for bullfighting. ... But it is also possible to read this as, "only the bullfighters existed."" ... At one time, he had been very promising, but upon being gored in the abdomen, he lost his courage in the ring. ... Paco was also disillusioned in his admiration for the tall waiter. ...

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With the advent of television shows such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", fictional horror novels including Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys and the series of vampire novels by Anne Rice, and movies such as "Interview with a Vampire" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula", one would believe that vampire appearances are just as common now as they were in the Middle Ages. ...

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For two years he edited the influential Brooklyn Eagle , but he lost his position for supporting the Free-Soil part {Doren, 51} After a brief sojourn in New Orleans he returned the Brooklyn. ... He stayed in Washington as a government clerk and also served as a hospital volunteer. ...

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