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    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 who drinks heavily. The book describes her as separated from her husband and awaiting divorce. She is in love with Jake but she is unwilling to commit to a relationship with him because it means that she will

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    in relation with how religion is presented in popular culture and how religious groups react to that representation and see if it can be considered alongside the aforementioned classics. “The Blues Brothers” is a film about unsuccessful criminals Jake and Elwood Blues who set about saving their former home‚ a Catholic orphanage in Chicago from closure. Dan Aykroyd (Elwood Blues) who co-wrote the film with its director John Landis says of the

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    In The novel The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway‚ Men are portrayed to be good loving beings who only want to be loved in turn and that women use men for their own gain‚ enjoyment‚ and pleasure‚ but in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice‚ Women are portrayed to be good beings who want to love and be loved‚ and men are the horrid ones who use women for their own pleasure and gain. Hemingway shows in his novel‚ men are true in their love by example of Jake’s love for Brett‚ and that women are horrid

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    characters.  Very rarely does one actually come across a handsome‚ well-mannered man on a white horse.  Instead‚ one often finds a dishonest‚ self-absorbed‚ unemployed playboy.   A prime example of this type of man is the main character in the story‚ Jake.  Gilb provides numerous examples throughout the story to illustrate Jake’s character.

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    was saying what‚ but I believe this didn’t matter because any of the characters‚ except for maybe Jake‚ could have been carrying on those conversations. I say anyone except Jake because he was different than all the other characters in more ways than just being the narrator. He obviously had received a wound from W.W.I that caused him to be sexually scarred and thus set him apart from anyone else. Jake seemed to be an observer who was watching the lives of his friends unfold and happen around him

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    mainly on the central aspect of the novel‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ which is gossip. Throughout the novel‚ The Sun Also Rises‚ characters such as Jake would spy on others only to have information on the latest. Jake‚ for instance‚ was the main contributor about all the gossip‚ even spreading rumors about his own friend Cohn. Several months had passed before Jake took it upon himself to write a review of Cohn’s novel with the intent to find more information to use against him. As readers progress through

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    descent of a Canadian woman named Rennie from normalcy to physical‚ emotional and psychological disturbance. Rennie undergoes a partial mastectomy after being diagnosed with breast cancer‚ suffers the disintegration of her romantic relationship with Jake and finds herself entrenched in the political upheaval of the Caribbean island St. Antoine. Rennie lives rather apathetically; she does not care about integrity in her work or about love in sexual relationships. Perhaps unwittingly‚ Rennie consents

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    the social‚ sexual‚ and monetary competition of the city to a more idyllic setting. For example‚ Bill and Jake go on a trip to the countryside and are able to enjoy the freedom from the busy schedules of city life as well as a new openness with one another when Bill expresses his deep feelings of friendship for Jake that would’ve been considered inappropriate to express by social standards. Jake desperately wants to escape from his problems‚ however he carries a constant reminder of what he went through

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    Journal Entry: Summary Rick Dadier‚ a war veteran is hired to teach at North Manual High School. This is his first teaching assignment‚ so he can support himself and his pregnant wife. Dadier learns quickly that the school has a severe discipline problem‚ and the established teachers advise him how to deal with the students. Regardless‚ Dadier tries to discipline the class and this provokes a violent response in which Dadier is ambushed by a group of students. Dadier then goes to seek advice from

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    Alienation In the book The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway‚ the three main characters deal with some form of alienation. The characters who are alienated would be Jake‚ Brett‚ and Robert and each of them are dealing with a different type. Jake would be going through powerlessness where he doesn’t have any control over his problem as well as cultural estrangement. Brett is also dealing with powerlessness but also socially isolated. Robert is battling social isolation‚ normlessness

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