Jake‚ narrates this story. Throughout the novel‚ Jake is sarcastic and cynical; this makes him an unlikeable character‚ so much so that the reader has doubts he can overcome the troubles in his life. However‚ this is a key element of his character. What Hemingway did in this novel was‚ and still is‚ ingenious. Another theme that the novel portrayed was the focus on the process‚ not the outcome. Suffering from PTSD‚ Jake needed to overcome his stressful situation
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(5) Practical problem question Jake is the owner of a factory which is losing so much money that it is about to go out of business. Jake is in despair. He is a single parent who urgently needs to obtain funds for the medical treatment needed by his daughter Priya‚ who suffers from leukaemia. He decides that the only solution is to burn down the factory so as to obtain the insurance money and use it to pay for medical expenses. One Tuesday morning at 06h30‚ Jake enters the factory. The factory employees
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investigator‚ Jake‚ speaking to a woman who is supposedly married to Hollis Mulwray‚ the chief engineer of water and power in the area. She is concerned that he is cheating on him. After bringing bad publicity to his name‚ the real wife of Mulwray comes about claiming she will sue Jake for what he released about her husband. Jake realizes he and Evelyn‚ the wife‚ were set up and she drops the law suit. When Jake goes to find Mulwray he finds him already dead‚ in the bottom of a reservoir. Jake returns
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all struggle with finding their purpose in the world. Instead of searching far and wide for this purpose‚ they instead fill their days with repetitive drinking and travel‚ which are both empty activities without true principle. Throughout the story‚ Jake‚ the narrator and main character‚ describes the daily activities of his group of friends. Hemingway writes with description alone‚ allowing the reader to interpret the intricacies of the story. His emphasis
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however‚ is different. Polanski shot Chinatown with color film‚ and though his colors do appear especially vivid‚ color film precludes the contrast intensity that black and white film offers. In addition‚ Evelyn is not the classic femme fatale. Though Jake mistakes her for her husband’s killer at first‚ Mrs. Mulwray eventually emerges as the story’s most tragic victim. Yes‚ Chinatown for the most part conforms to the structure of film noir‚ but this film departs from the general genre‚ creating an entirely
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The effects of War World I are profoundly evident in the literary works of those who endured the war and the results thereof. Authors of this lost generation found themselves without purpose after having witnessed death on such a large scale. The crippling effects of their lost morality and disillusionment with society influenced them to lead lives of reckless decadence and an idealized past as expressed in such literary works as The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Sun Also Rises by
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find out that she actually has a husband‚ Jake‚ who refuses to sign the divorce papers. Although she is determined to get him to sign the papers‚ he still turns her down. He calls the sheriff and Melanie gets sent to jail where she has to call her parents. Her dad picks her up‚ and she tells them about the engagement. Melanie’s parents do not seem to approve‚ as they have not seen her since she left Jake seven years ago. They still think that her and Jake should be together. Many things can lead
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2003 cited in Brackenridge and Blows 2008). Effective communication is indispensable in Healthcare environment‚ especially in nursing care because it enables establishment of the therapeutic interpersonal relationship between nurses and patients (Sully 2012). Breckenridge and Blow (2003) classified communication into verbal and non-verbal communication. They referred verbal communication as the actual vocal words used to transmit a message. Whilst the non-verbal consist of body language and facial
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Tech 20 November 2014 Book Review By Colin Barker Homeland‚ John Jake’s formidable novel about the final explosive events if the nineteenth century‚ is the first in a series that will focus attention on a new “Jakes” family‚ the Crowns. Multiple characters and settings are the norm for Jakes; however‚ this story rivets primarily attention on Paul Crown‚ a young German immigrant. Paul leaves behind a Germany of cholera‚ poverty and political upheaval only to face problems of equal magnitude in America
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Tyson says‚ “Fitzgerald was ‘not averse’ to implying that Hemingway was gay‚” (Tyson‚ 353) which means Hemingway might have purposely written Jake as a queer coded character. Jake is a little more obvious than Gatsby and Nick though. Jake’s relationship with his best friend‚ Bill‚ for one is very homoerotic and doesn’t follow the homosocial norms. Bill and Jake have quite literally gone on dates and act like a married couple. They sometimes bicker‚ but usually they get along and are very close. They
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