The Sun Also Rises Compare And Contrast Essay
Obviously, the two song’s goals are the same: criticize the traditional value of the glorification of war. Both of the songs aim to portray Uncle Sam as someone who gets into wars and needs help. Also, they define soldiers as ignorant people going to war in someplace or reason they don’t understand. The upbeat music that is traditionally used for invigorating soldiers is used to make fun of them. The ideas of “I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die-Rag” clearly stem from the ideas of “I Don’t Know Where I’m Going But I’m On My Way.”
On the prose side of literature, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises gives the story of a group of individuals after World War I. The “lost generation”, as literary portraitist Gertrude Stein called them, were without a traditional structure of values, religion, and lacked a sense of identity (Vanspackeren 62). Most would assume this meant creating a peaceful new generation after seeing the world’s worst war, but unfortunately this would not be the case. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises gives tales of rampant sex, unhappiness, staying up at night crying, and a lost people (Shmoop). The main character of the story is a man named Jake who was …show more content…
The war, which should have made them men by traditional standards, has left them unable to perform the most basic associations of manhood: being able to produce a child. After risking their lives in war, they simply cannot return back to society normally. Furthermore, the government is seemingly useless in both stories. In The Sun Also Rises, Jake actually moves away from America’s government and goes to Paris. Likewise, Born On The Fourth of July Kovic shows a strong distaste of the government. Eventually, both characters turn to alcohol to try to solve their problems. Altogether, both protagonists become disillusioned with the government, traditional values, become unhappy, and seemingly wander life while wondering what the purpose of their lives
On the prose side of literature, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises gives the story of a group of individuals after World War I. The “lost generation”, as literary portraitist Gertrude Stein called them, were without a traditional structure of values, religion, and lacked a sense of identity (Vanspackeren 62). Most would assume this meant creating a peaceful new generation after seeing the world’s worst war, but unfortunately this would not be the case. Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises gives tales of rampant sex, unhappiness, staying up at night crying, and a lost people (Shmoop). The main character of the story is a man named Jake who was …show more content…
The war, which should have made them men by traditional standards, has left them unable to perform the most basic associations of manhood: being able to produce a child. After risking their lives in war, they simply cannot return back to society normally. Furthermore, the government is seemingly useless in both stories. In The Sun Also Rises, Jake actually moves away from America’s government and goes to Paris. Likewise, Born On The Fourth of July Kovic shows a strong distaste of the government. Eventually, both characters turn to alcohol to try to solve their problems. Altogether, both protagonists become disillusioned with the government, traditional values, become unhappy, and seemingly wander life while wondering what the purpose of their lives