AP English: Literature and Composition Name: Larissa Maggard Major Works Data Sheet Major Works Data Sheet Page 2 Major Works Data Sheet Page 3 Characters Name Role in the story Significance Adjectives Marlow Kurtz general manager Kurtz’s Intended Marlow’s aunt Russian trader African mistress of Kurtz protagonist‚ narrator of interior story
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Gabriella McLaughlin Period 2 Pre-AICE English Language MAJOR WORKS DATA SHEET The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway HISTORICAL FACTS President Truman ordered the construction of a hydrogen bomb in 1950. Polaroid cameras were invented in 1947. Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected President in 1953. In 1948‚ Gandhi was assassinated. China became a communist state in 1949. Soviet Union possessed an atomic bomb in 1949. MAIN CHARACTERS Santiago - He is a protagonist and an old man who
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Major Works Data Sheet Advanced Placement Literature and Composition | |Biographical Information about the Author: | |Title: Ethan Frome | | | |Edith Wharton
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presented where The Sun Also Rises acts as a memory of war. In some aspects‚ the story may seem difficult to comprehend because it is a book of Hemingway’s memory from
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the Lost Generation. The period after World War I were people were disillusioned‚ wandering through their life lost‚ not sure what their goal was. In Ernest Hemmingway’s novel‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ the Lost Generation and their inability to cope with the change around them is the focus of the novel. The Sun Also Rises is a beautifully written account of a generation lost in an unknown cause that leaves them abandoned in the end. <br> <br>Hemmingway wrote this story in a unique fashion. The book is
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The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises demonstrates elements of weakened masculinity throughout the novel. The lasting effects of WWI on the characters‚ Jake Barnes’ insecurities‚ and Lady Brett Ashley’s non-conformity all contribute to the minimized presence of masculinity. Hemingway began writing The Sun Also Rises in 1925 and it was later completed in 1926. Much like the novel’s protagonist‚ he too resided in Paris working as a journalist‚ after fighting in WWI. Hemingway
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Study – The Sun Also Rises Professor Zarettt Nov. 22‚ 2013 The Sun Also Rises The ‘Lost Generation’ refers to the young people retuning to the states after WWI. They were disillusioned‚ confused and living in a new age of sexual freedom and changing moral values. The “Lost Generation” was often characterized as having feelings of moral decay and social alienation. The Sun Also Rises is a novel that is effective as a literary validation of those feelings. One of the major stories throughout
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Selflessness In Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises‚ we are taken back to the 1920’s‚ accompanied by the “Lost Generation.” During this time‚ prohibition was occurring in America. Hemingway uses alcohol as an obstacle that causes distresses between the main character‚ Jake and his life. Along with alcohol‚ promiscuity is prevalent throughout the novel. The heroine of the novel‚ Brett‚ displays the theme of promiscuity throughout the novel. She uses her sheer beauty and charming personality to
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The Sun Also Rises Hemingway utilizes the theme and allegory to express lessons in life of immorality. The characters in The Sun Also Rises tend to treat life as if it were never going to end. They live fast and hard by jumping from one town to the next drinking and unrealized love. The narrator‚ Jake‚ upon the end of the war is completely in love with Brett Ashley; whom seems to take the stage as the main attraction to all characters in the book. She is described as a beautiful British socialite
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Throughout the entire book of The Sun Also Rises‚ hardly a page goes by without referencing any alcohol. From the very beginning of the book‚ the main character/protagonist‚ Jake meets a young prostitute named Georgette and they have drinks together. She states that‚ “Everybody’s sick. I’m sick too”. Bars‚ dance clubs‚ cafes where alcohol is served seems to be a place of escape for a majority of the characters. Jake Barnes‚ like the other characters‚ uses the consumption of alcohol to escape what
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