Name: ____Elena Tran__________________ Vocabulary Unit 21 In-Class Study Sheet Base Word/ Syn / Ant | Definition | Example using TSAR | 1. kudos | praise/honor received for an achievement | Pedro Romero received kudos from the audience. | S - accolade | an award/privilege granted as a special honor or as an acknowledgment of merit | Jake and his friends are war veterans that have received accolades for their services. | A - odium | general hatred/disgust directed toward someone as
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Memoirs September 27 2007 Loss of Identity The book‚ The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway‚ describes feelings and ideas that Americans had during the boom of the 20’s regarding the fear of change or loss in national identity. Loss of morality and increasing fear because of loss of identity during this period has created a general fear of dismemberment of culture and society consequence of the II World War. The Sun Also Rises is a socially loaded book because of the deep social identity problems
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Journal response 1 In the Sun Also Rises‚ by Ernest Hemingway‚ alcoholism is an important theme in the novel. Alcoholism is a large part of Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises”. Drinking is the greatest escape that the characters use and the author employs it very often in the novel. All throughout the novel‚ the characters are drinking excessively. They use drinking to also help prove themselves. Because of Jake’s war wound made him physically unable‚ he feels that he must prove himself
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The Great Gatsby Nick Carraway says‚ ‘Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply’. In the light of this comment‚ discuss ways in which Fitzgerald presents female characters in The Great Gatsby. The quote ‘Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply’ is very important in particular to two of the female characters. Daisy and Myrtle are both women who fall under the category of being dishonest however it is looked over and they both are able to get away with what they
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The Sun Also Rises: The Theme of Romanticism vs. Realism From 1914-1918‚ World War One took place. The war was a traumatizing‚ bloody occurrence for anyone who was involved. These expatriates were‚ generally‚ given the nickname‚ “The Lost Generation”. This label described the people’s loss of honor and value. Ernest Hemingway‚ who coined the phrase‚ dives into the days of the lives of the war veterans and nurses after the war by writing the novel‚ The Sun Also Rises. In this story‚ Ernest follows
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Character Essay: Gatsby In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ many characters appear to be one thing‚ but are truly a completely different thing. A prime example of a character who is not what he appears to be is James Gatsby. He appears to be a confident‚ powerful‚ wealthy man‚ but really he is insecure‚ and hides behind his new wealth. In the novel‚ Gatsby is built up to be a big good looking man and is thought to be extremely wealthy‚ confident‚ and popular. From
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Ernest Hemingway emphasizes this aspect of the era in his novel‚ The Sun Also Rises. There were two themes prevalent in this novel: the lost generation and the process of healing. At first glance‚ these two themes seem to have no mutual ground on which they stand. However‚ Hemingway makes sense of this in his novel‚ intertwining the two themes‚ whereas they work as one. In the midst of all this chaos‚ the main character makes a choice between excessive partying and drinking and a process of
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Jane Eyre and The Great Gatsby The novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald can be compared by what is valued by each character in the novel. Prestige‚ wealth‚ and education are some of the few things deemed important in each novel. In Jane Eyre‚ there is the notion that social status is analogous to wealth. During the novel‚ Jane is a poor girl who never holds any distinguished positions. As she is planning her wedding‚ Jane is worried because she can’t
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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
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The Sun Also Rises is the Destructiveness of Sex. It is a book that can be called as an “immoral”‚ with sex as a powerful force. Many characters through the novel do things that are not appropriate to be done and that parents wouldn’t like from their children to do so. The most shocking character is the Lady Brett‚ which seems to have sex in an indiscriminately manner. Jake on the other hand betrays Montoya‚ in this way allowing Brett and Romero to disappear together. Another immoral character is
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