Ernest Hemingway
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Characters
Themes and Symbolism
Modernist Styleness
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What influenced him to love the outdoors?
Spending summers with his father in northern Michigan
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What year did he write The Sun Also Rises?
Somewhere around like 1926.
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Who were models for the characters Lady Brett Ashley and Robert Cohn?
Lady Duff Twysden and Harold Loeb.
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What does "you are all a lost generation" mean? Who said it?
Gertrude Stein- means that the people who fought in the war have no respect for anything and become drunk a lot. Yup don't even try to argue Hemingway, you quote-stealing writer.
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How was Hemingway influenced by Paul Cezanne?
His paintings were spread out, and there wasn't detail or depth, capturing a single surface. Hemingway wanted to do the same thing by disassembling nature and reassembling it to his own vision.
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Which newspaper did he work at and how did it influence his writing style?
Kansas City Star, influenced by Style Sheet
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Who edited The Sun Also Rises?
Scott Fitzgerald.
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What was The Sun Also Rises originally titled?
¡Fiesta! FIESTA SLEEP REPEAT= summary of whole book.
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What are the two themes of the novel that counterpoint each other?
Devastation, waste, and sterility Continual cycle of renewal and rebirth
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What are the characteristics of telegrammatic style?
Short Sentences and paragraphs, a vigorous use of english (ENIGLISH! ENGLISH! ENGLISH! NO SPANISH GEEZ PPL), and a lack of adjectives
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What happened when he tried to join the military?
He was rejected because of his bad eyesight, but later became a hospital van driver (It's all cool, no one cares that he has bad eyesight at the hospital) :D
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How did Hemingway die?
He commited suicide by shooting himself, but his wife tried to convince people he was "cleaning his gun" (How would that even happen?! "Oh yeah, I'll just clean this gun right next to my head...hey, what does this do? Oh, yeah, it's a trigger. Oops.")
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Who does Mrs. Braddocks think Georgette might be related to at first?
Georgette Leblanc
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What does the statue of what does the horse say (Ney) symbolize?
Ney may serve as Jakes double, because Jake seeks to live life well, nobly, and honorably.
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Why are there any extraneous words used at all?
To show the flavor of speech and character.
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Who was Nick Adams?
Hemingway's alter ego in "Big Two-Hearted River".
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Where did Hemingway meet James Joyce and Ezra Pound?
Shakespeare and Company bookshop, where writers could meet.
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Why does Brett have meaningless affairs with everyone?
Both her formal marriages failed and she has no children, so she feels sterile and lost.
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Why is Brett compared to Circe?
She turns men (Mike and Cohn) into "beasts", but can't have the man she falls for (Jake).
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Who influenced Hemingway's style The Sun Also Rises?
Stein, Pound, and Cezanne.
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What publishing company did Hemingway change to from Boni and Liveright and why?
He changed to Scribner's because Liveright rejected Torn of Spring and ended their contract.
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What was the first book Hemingway wrote, and who published it?
3 Stories and 10 Poems published by Robert McAlmon.
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Who provides the most comic relief in the novel?
Bill Gorton
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What is Henry's Bicycle?
It is a reference to a mysterious wound Henry James got that prevented him from fighting in the civil war (Hopefully we can all see how this relates to Jake. I mean, come on, this is AcaDeca. Make the connection guys.)
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What marks the text as modernist?
The ambiguity, embracing a worldview through first person narration, so thoughts are filtered through Jake's consciousness- fragmentation of absolute truth.
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