The Sun Also Rises

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The Sun Also Rises

• by Ernest Hemingway

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Introduction

• Hemingway wrote In Our Time in 1925 short
  stories essays
• The Sun Also Rises was Hemingways first major
  novel in 1926
• Established his reputation as a lost generation
  writer

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His goal to write one true sentence
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Some Main Characters

• Jake Barnes
• Robert Cohn
• Brett Ashley
• Bill Gorton
• Pedro Romero

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Arguably the first modern writing style of the
20th Century
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Exposition

• Begins in post WW 1 Paris during the summer of
  1924
• Prohibition era
• Part of the novel takes place in the Pyrenees
  mountains, and the latter half is in Pamplona,
  Spain, Madrid and San Sebastian

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Criticism

• Novel depicts Hemingways view of the aimless,
  valueless men and women who survived WW 1
  questions the purpose of armed conflict as well
  as its lasting effect on casualties

• 1 of the main themes of the novel is
  disillusionment with life
• Cynical discussions of love
• Alcoholism

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Questions?
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Vocabulary To Know

• affected
• caption
• cavalrymen
• cupboard
• platonic
• sallow
• elation
• perfunctorily

• simian
• by-line
• exploitation
• bilge
• armoir
• simpering
• carabineers