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 * __ The Sun Also Rises __**

= **__ Ernest Hemingway__** (1899-1961) = ===

==== Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois on July 21, 1899, to a father who was a doctor and a mother who had some achievement in music. After graduating from high school, Hemingway worked at the Kansas City Star, where he learned the use of short, tense sentences, which are seen in his works of literature. After World War One, Hemingway moved to Paris, France and began his writing career. Once he became wealthy, he moved back to the States. On July 2, 1961, Hemingway committed suicide in Ketchum, Ohio. ==== [|www.biographyshelf.com/ernest_hemingway_biography.html]

__ The Sun Also Rises __ by Ernest Heminway follows the lives of Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley during a festival in Spain. The book begins with an explanation of one of Jake's friends, Robert Cohn, and his boxing career. The setting of the book originally begins in Paris, France, where Jake meets Cohn. On a night on the town, he encounters Lady Brett Ashley, who he immediately falls in love with. Even though Brett claims the love is mutual, she says she and Jake can not be together due to his inability to 'satisfy' her, because of a war injury. On that night, Brett also meets Robert Cohn, who also falls in love with her, but she wants nothing to do with him. Jake and Brett make plans for the next day, but she never shows. She later shows up, and after they kiss, Brett refuses him again. She then leaves for San Sebastian. While she's gone, another friend of Jake's, Bill Gorton, comes to Paris in preparation for their trip to Spain. When Brett returns, the three go out for drinks, and Brett leaves to meet up with Mike Campbell. "'Quite a girl,' Bill said. 'She's so damned nice. Who's Michael?' 'The man she's going to marry.'' (81). Brett does, indeed plan to marry him. The next day, Brett and Mike ask to join Bill, Jake and Robert in Spain. When Brett learns of Robert coming, she reveals a secret that effects the rest of the book. Once everyone arrives in Spain, the week is a blur of drinking, dancing and bull fights. During one fight, Brett notices a young bull fighter, Pedro Romero. She immediately becomes infatuaed with him. When they get to talking at a bar, sparks fly, and Brett abandons her feelings for Mike, and Robert's jealously grows. Jake attempts to keep the feelings good between group, however it fails. Jealousy, rage and love come to a climax with an act by Robert Cohn. Brett then must make a decision of who she should be with-Robert who is madly in love with her, Pedro her young infatuation, Mike the man she wants to marry, or Jake the man who understands her, but can not 'satisfy' her.

Criticism:

__The Sun Also Rises__ is a great book, yet there are a few things that just didn't work for the book. The short sentences that had nothing to do with the book such as: "He was reading the paper through his spectacles" (131), and "We crossed a bridge and walked up the Rue du Cardinal Lemoine" (83) often caused daydreams, making the reading experience more drawn out with the rereading of a section. Also, Hemingway often did not put much explanation into the emotions of the book, making it difficult to understand the situation until something happened, which caused more rereading, and more time. Also, there was no clear climax to the book, which may cause readers to consider the books ending blan.

There were many things that did work for this book though. Hemingway's descriptions gave a clear picture of where he was, what he was doing, or the person he was speaking with at the time. "After a while we came out of the mountains, and there were trees along both sides of the road, and a stream and ripe fields of grain, and the road went on, very white and straight ahead, and then lifted to a little ride, and off on the left was a hill with an old castle, with buildings close around it and a field of grain going right up to the walls and shifting in the wind" (99).Hemingway also included a lot of dialogue, which keeps the reader entertained with man conversations. The conversations though, often seem meaningless, and often are, yet are more entertaining than long paragraphs about what they were doing.

As stated before, Hemingway uses much dialogue in his writing. This helps the reader understand the characters by discovering their own personality through words. Hemingway also uses short simple sentences such as “Nor did I see Robert Cohn again” (75). Hemingway learned this from his time as a journalist. Through this, Hemingway goes against what many writers of the time were doing, which was a richer style of writing. __The Sun Also Rises__ can be considered a romance novel, although it is not clearly out there. There are many complex affairs, and heart brakes, which make it the most obvious, although it doesn’t seem to be the focal point of the book. []



__ The Sun Also Rises __ is not currently on the Outstanding Books for the College Bound list, but it should be. First of all, it is a Hemingway classic, and many of his other classics are currently on the list. Secondly, the book teaches of a generation considered the ‘Lost Generation’. That generation felt as if they were detached from the world and it is clearly displayed in the novel with his sentences which can be considered meaningless such as: “It was a big, closed car with a driver in a white duster with blue collar and cuffs, and we had him put the back of the car down” (97). The generation was often misunderstood due to this, yet with Hemingway, he displays it in a way that makes them understandable, or in the least, relatable. Thirdly, __The Sun Also Rises__ should be places on the list due to thinking it requires of the reader. The book is often blank in statements, causing further reading and thought into the true meaning. The thought process and deeper looking into is a great need for analyzing pieces of literature in college.



__ The Sun Also Rises __ is a book that should be considered by only people who have interest in the topic. The book would not strike up imagination in the mind of someone who did not have any interest in the 1920’s, bullfighting, and/or twisted romances. For anyone though, who had an interest in any of those topics, this would be an excellent book to read. It includes the action of bullfighting, the nightlife and wild drinking parties of the 1920’s and the twisted romances of a soap opera. I would just recommend that anyone who reads the book not read it when they are bored, or just looking for something to do. The short sentences that have nothing to do with the plot are often reoccurring for sometimes even chapters. As I have stated, it causes daydreams and rereading. The best thing when reading this book is to read it when you want to, not when you have to.



If you enjoyed __The Sun Also Rises__ or are just looking for other books that may relate to it, look for books by Hemingway, such as __A Farewell to Arms__ or __For Whom the Bell Tolls.__ You also may enjoy __The Great Gatsby__. []



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Books Cited Hemingway, Ernest. __The Sun Also Rises.__ New York: Schribner, 1926.

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