F. Scott Fitzgerald was born into a Catholic family in St. Paul‚ Minnesota‚ on September 24‚ 1896. Educated in private prep schools and then at Princeton until 1917‚ when he enlisted in the army because he feared he wouldn ’t graduate ‚ he was a middle-class‚ Midwestern boy who coveted the wonders of the East. When he married Zelda Sayre‚ a southern‚ upper-class daughter of a wealthy Alabama Supreme Court judge ‚ Fitzgerald thought he had it all. The couple lived the high life‚ moving back and forth
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“Guernica”: Symbolism‚ Significance‚ and the Spanish Civil War “Guernica‚” painted by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso in 1937‚ is a memorial of the bombing of the town of Guernica in Northern Spain by the Nazi’s during the Spanish Civil War (Petersen). The Spanish Civil War was an amalgamation of many different political factions into two opponents: The Republicans and the Nationalists. The Spanish Civil War‚ however‚ was not based solely on combative political ideologies. It was correspondingly
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INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE COURSE OUTLINE Course Description: This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of literary study and analysis. Students will be introduced to the fundamental elements of poetry‚ drama‚ and fiction; basic literary terminology; and strategies for analyzing texts based on close reading. Students will also practice writing short literary analysis. Course Objectives • Develop your basic understanding on what literature
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authors‚ Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy‚ explore the notion of XXXXXXXX surrounding the arduous journeys that their characters endure. In the two novels‚ “The Old Man and The Sea” and “The Road’ the authors‚ Cormac McCarthy and Ernst Hemmingway‚ explore the notion of limitless time surrounding the arduous and demanding journeys that the characters endure. It is important that we understand the interminable journey of both the old fisherman and the boy and his son. It is learnt in “The
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Hemingway’s Hero Of the segments of American society scarred by the anguish of the First World War‚ the damage was most severe amongst the younger generation of that time. Youthful and impressionable‚ these people were immersed headlong into the furious medley of death and devastation. By the time the war had ended‚ many found that they could no longer accept what now seemed to be pretentious and contradictory moral standards of nations that could be capable of such atrocities. Some were able
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visit Spain and learn how things can be the same but completely different from my home country‚ the United States. LOCATION Spain is one of the most diverse countries. Some of Spain’s major cities‚ including its capitol Madrid‚ Barcelona‚ and Pamplona are what makes people love this country while they are there. Spain is located southwestern Europe between the Atlantic Ocean and the Bay of Biscay in the northwest and by the Mediterranean Sea in the east and the south. Madrid and Barcelona also
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little detail regarding the characters ’ respective pasts or even the current situation‚ the use of symbolism utilized throughout the conversation allows us to understand something of them through indirect implications rather than specific details. Hemmingway ’s clever use of symbolism and allusion allows the reader to understand (again‚ without making direct reference to specifics) that they are arguing over whether or not Jig (the main female character) should have an abortion. By analyzing the couple
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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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journalist whose style had an important influence on XXth century’s authors. He also won a Pulitzer for Fiction in 1953 and a Nobel prize in Literature in 1954. The Sun Also Rises is his first fictional novel‚ it describes the travel from Paris to Pamplona of a group of British and American expatriates. This excerpt from The Sun Also Rises comes from the fourteenth chapter of the novel. It is about a man who struggles with his own thoughts and his idea of life and of the world‚ while he is trying
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F. Scott Fitzgerald ’s The Great Gatsby and Ernest Hemingway ’s The Sun Also Rises both define the culture of the 1920s through the behaviors and thoughts of their characters. The characters in both novels have a sense of sadness and emptiness‚ which they resolve through sex and alcohol. This can be attributed to the disillusionment surrounding the Great War‚ better known as World War I. Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby represents the Jazz Age and high life of the 1920s‚ in contrast to Brett Ashley
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