...In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, Jake Barnes, Robert Cohn and Lady Brett Ashley’s lives have been impacted by the outbreak of World War One. However, Cohn still lives by the pre-war values, mainly due to the fact that the war had little impact on him, unlike Jake who was injured in combat, or Brett, who lost her true love during the war. They all have characteristics that are similar with many people who were a part of what Gertrude Stein called “the lost generation”, a generation of people whose previous values were figuratively destroyed by the outbreak of World War I, and they wandered the post-war world without guidance, without a purpose. (Britannia 1 ) This is because Hemingway created these characters to symbolize a large portion of people in the 1920’s, through the characters attitudes, lifestyle and personalities. In doing so, Hemingway uses these three characters to represent different groups of people within the lost generation. Robert Cohn represents the people of the lost generation whose lives had been unaffected directly by the war, and those who still continued to live by failed the pre-war values of romance, morality and honor. Many of these people were outcasts; they were different, just like Cohn, and Cohn knew what it was like to be different. He spent a good portion of his life feeling like an outcast due to the fact that he was Jewish and Cohn never served in World War I, and was therefore typically scorned by people who had seen combat, like...
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...Lost in a Generation Gap I have part of my company for almost seventeen years. When I started I was one of the kids in the office. I was part of a small group primarily made up of baby boomers and a few of us generation X’ers. Over the years, the work place has grown and changed. Most offices, including my own, now have three generations. We are watching the boomers prepare for their exit while the millenniums are making their presence known. Generation X, sits right in the middle. So where is the problem you ask? The problem is the drastic difference in views, ethics and even loyally. The baby boomers are a generation of employees who worked hard and worked hard for one company. The Baby Boomers were focused on the organizations they lead, profit & loss, revenue growth, filling open positions, developing employees, and improving work cultures among myriad other issues related to running a business (Hain, 2013, para. 4). When I think of the boomers, I think of suits and ties. Long hours extending into the weekends. I think of meetings over a glass bourbon and a cigar. Woman taking notes and answering the phone. Okay, maybe I beginning to scene from Mad Men. I digress, the boomers have a sense of loyalty and dedication unmatched with any other generation. Generation X, may not carry the same level of loyally, but they are another group of loyal workers. They are educated and ready to take on the world. Well, at least maybe the offices the boomers will soon...
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...Emily Duthu English 210 WW4 A Moveable Feast Paper 2/18/13 Ernest Hemingway: A Moveable Feast The Lost Generations boomed in Paris after World War I, which is where all of the artists and writers relocated. The term the Lost Generations was coined by Gertrude Stein, she had an argument with Ford Maddox Ford when she stated, “You are all a generation perdue,” which translates to a lost generation (Hemingway 61). The writers and artists of the Lost Generation, portrayed in Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast, were people who lived a troubled life, but managed to find a way to use their struggles to successfully complete a work of art. Throughout A Moveable Feast, the writers struggle to get by in day to day life. Hemingway expressed through detail the atmosphere in the streets of Paris post war. Alcohol seemed to be a coping mechanism to pass the time during the struggle of the 1920s. “The men and women who frequented the Amateurs stayed drunk all of the time or all of the time they could afford it…” (Hemingway 15) explains the lifestyle in which the people were living during this time. Gertrude Stein was one of the many people who had a strong influence on Ernest Hemingway’s life. Miss Stein played the role of Hemingway’s mentor throughout his writing career. Although Gertrude Stein was not a writer, she was the only opinion that mattered when it came to success in writing novels. Stein was not one to express positive feelings about another’s writing, as Hemingway...
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...“I never met any one of his class who remembered him”: Religion and morality in Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” Ernest Hemingway considers that religion but not morality plays a significant role in his novel “The Sun Also Rises” for the whole novel is about drinking, parties and the religion issue. Hemingway describes the inferiority of a Jew called Robert Cohn and he is always called “the Jew with Brett” to announce how religion can impact people’s disposition. Hemingway suggests that religion is an essential role in lost generation but morality is not that important in this amoral society at that period, which was a period that filled with alcohol, money, sexual obsession. By using the modification of Cohn’s character from the beginning to the end, he illustrates how religion can affect one’s life and personality, in that case, he draws a rich Jew who had a strong feeling of inferiority although he was so-called the upper class and he did not dare to consider other girls but his fiancée Frances, and he gained confidence when his novel got a little success but he was actually a man with inner self-abasement which can be inferred through his handshaking behavior. As he says, “he cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton” (Hemingway 11). Princeton was known as a place where is full of wealthy guys and the...
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... - That’s it I defenetly agree with you. Even though I can not call it one of my favourite books, but the problems which the author raises are worth mentioning. And all of them will be always urgent. - for example the theme of the Lost Generation in the book. - could you please remind me what this theme is about? unfortunately I don’t remember why they were called lost generation - Sure, the Lost Generation was the generation that came during World War I. The term was populized by ernest Hemingway who used it as one of two contrasting epigraphs for his novel. People say that Gertrude Stein heard words “lost generation” from garage owner, who shouted at an young mechanic. - Well, Huxley uses this theme in his novel. He probes the psyche of human nature through the eyes of amused, and somewhat detached, young men searching fot meaning in a meaning less world. - Yes right and this meaningless world for themi s the world of lost generation following World War I. - huxley managed to develop this theme – the dehumanizing after math of total warfare and the uncertainty of a young generation unable to come to terms with the moral collapse and economic insecurity of a new. - You’re right. Certainly, Denis is a best example of this generation. Denis is a guest in Wimbush’s house. He is a...
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...Isolation, Illusion, and Love: Hemingway Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises was a book that emphasized what the jazz age was all about. The book was written in 1926 and is about a group of Americans and Brits that travel all over Europe after World War One. This is very similar to how Hemingway lived in the 20’s because he too traveled around Europe in the 20’s when this book took place. In the book a group of friends go to a bull fighting festival. The protagonist is Jake Barnes who is an American journalist living in Paris. In the war he suffered a wound that left him impotent, which means he can’t have sexual intercourse with a woman. Even though he cannot have sex he is in love with an Englishwoman, Lady Brett Ashley. Brett embodies the sexual freedom of the 1920’s. Her style is very close to the new woman, bobbed hear and many love affairs. In the first part of the book you can sense the sexual tension between Brett and Jake. While in the cab she confesses she loves him but a relationship would never work. When she tells him this they both are extremely drunk because they have been to a night club all night. The next part of the book Jake goes on a fishing trip with his friend Bill. They enjoy a quite few days with little drinking, playing cards and fishing. After the five days they rejoin their friends in Pamplona, where the festival is. They start to drink heavy again. The group is not fond of a fellow on the trip there with them, Robert Cohn. He had an affair with Brett...
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...decade. This was the age of business with Calvin Coolidge’s business mind leading to a short-lived prosperity. The new woman, the rise of Jazz, African American attempts for better rights, and the lost generation writers were also part of this enormous change. Young people of this generation finally felt less pressure to imitate their elders. This new culture will forever live on. Business experienced an industrial growth in consumer production and consumption. More electricity was being mass produced than the rest of the world but when cars, refrigerators, and radios were being produced farmers fared the worst, as high tariffs to protect American business increased farmer bankruptcy. The government faired a laissez-faire attitude, and forty-percent of farmers who became landless, and moved to cities. The Model T. car was the most important economic arrival as it was first only for the rich priced at 850 dollars and went down to only 290 dollars. Ford suggested this drop in price as it helped the common workers buy the car and increase profits by an even greater margin. Revenue generating gasoline taxes, and growing dependency on the automobile gave rise to suburb expansion. Woman in this age were unlike any other. Woman became educated and defied the morality or earlier generations. Women who got drunk, enjoyed sex, wore skimpy dresses, had short bobbed hair, bare arms and danced all night to wild jazz were called “flappers”. Woman in this time also drove the birth control movement...
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...In Ernest Hemingway’s “Soldier's Home,” Krebs feels lost when he comes home. Krebs has little direction in his life after he returns from the European theater of war. Krebs deals with internal conflict of his life trying to cope with the return to civilization and becoming a civilian again. He deals with external conflict when talking with his mother and his friends. Hemingway uses Krebs to explain how many of the lost generation felt during this historical time period. Like many returning home from the war, Krebs is stripped of his life psychologically. He no longer understands how to interact with others in the expected way. The army taught men how to be self-sufficient, which is how Krebs justifies his lack of a girlfriend. The lack of a girlfriend symbolizes how much of a toll the war takes on soldiers. Krebs calls them complicated, unlike the women in France. “He did not want to have to do any courting. He did not want to tell any more...
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...Soldier’s Home The short story “Soldier’s Home” is written by the American Nobel Prize winning author, Ernest Hemingway in 1925. Hemingway is acknowledged for his simple, straightforward style of writing, which also comes to expression in this story. This is especially seen in terms of the many short and direct sentences. This short story deals with the main character Harold Krebs, who just has returned from World War One, in where he mainly served in Germany and France. His return however is kind of overwhelming, since it seems like everything has changed in his hometown. In this assignment, my central focus will be on the main character, Krebs, who is an individual of “the lost generation”; a generation who are disoriented and directionless. Krebs does not fit into the post-war society as he returns, he feels like an outsider right from the moment he returns to the town: “People seemed to think it was rather ridiculous for Krebs to be getting back so late, years after the war was over” (p. 344, l. 3-5). For many people it seems odd that Krebs returns so much later, which starts off the main conflict between himself and the local community; Krebs does not feel a need to talk about his war experiences at first unlike the rest of the soldiers, but when he feels a sudden need to talk about his subjective experience with the war, he has to lie about the events in order to make people listen. A dark picture of the society is drawn by Hemingway already from the beginning of the...
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...Summary: “Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers?” June 5, 2013 Summary: “Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers?” Employers and educators realize the importance of good writing skills but many business employees have writing deficiencies, costing American businesses billions of dollars every year. According to a study conducted by the National Commission on Writing (NCW) in 2004, American businesses may spend close to $3.1 billion yearly on the remediation of employees’ writing deficiencies. Consequently, employers are dissatisfied with employees writing skills and even more disappointed in the skills of new college graduates. Traditionally, grammar was taught using a rules-based approach which was also referred to as traditional school grammar (Hillocks & Smith, 2003). Rules-based approach focused on teaching grammar rules with emphasis on form (present, past …). Many educators condemned this type of approach, and research showed that it was an ineffective way to teach grammar. Students were simply taught a set of rules and presented with a set of usage exercises. There was very little teaching of how to use grammar in a communicative manner. Rules-based approach has since been abandoned due to opposition from educators and the decision of the National Council of Teachers of English to discourage its use. Researchers have since proposed the use of new approaches such as, context based...
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...Wharton1 David Wharton Dr. Northcutt ENG 1020-04 April 10, 2012 “What a Beautiful Bridge” In the writing of A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway employs symbolism in many forms. Hemingway uses water in various states throughout the progression of the novel such as the use of rain and rivers to symbolize life and love as well as death and danger. Hemingway uses symbols to allude to the events that will occur in the coming chapters of the novel if the reader is keen to heed them. Hemingway’s use of the “bridge” and the rivers they cross, represent the lives of people and the hazards people encounter when they approach and cross a bridge in an effort to reach what is waiting on the other side. The novel opens with a beautiful description of life and of living our lives. “In the late summer of that year we lived in a house in a village that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains. In the bed of the river there were pebbles and boulders, dry and white in the sun, and the water was clear and swiftly moving and blue in the channels”(3). Life’s river bottom is littered with small problems and with large problems. When things are going well, our lives are blue skies and sunshine and we are eager to have life pass rapidly. Hemingway is making a stand on the political atmosphere that was prevalent in America in the late 1920’s and one which can be applied in contemporary America as well. I must Wharton2 disagree with Thomas P. McDonnell, who wrote in an article for the...
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...The Roaring Twenties and Modernism 7 F. Scott Fitzgerald “Bernice Bobs Her Hair” (1920) A. Characterisation - Comment on the characters with regard to the final chapters and the end. B. Narration and Language - What sort of narrator narrates “Bernice Bobs Her Hair”? Compare with Hemingway. - Characterise Fitzgerald’s language; you may find the adjectives below helpful. Compare with Hemingway; who is the more experimental? metaphorical – religious – humoristic – serious – playful – matter-of-fact – straightforward - | - What function do the passages of dialogue have? - Does Fitzgerald mainly ‘tell’ or ‘show’? telling – the narrator tells the readers what the characters feel: | showing – the narrator shows the readers what the characters feel: | When the teacher asked the students if they had done their homework, they felt very embarrassed. | When the teacher asked the students if they had done their homework, they looked down. | C. Structure - How has the short story been structured? (exposition and presentation of main conflict, subordinate conflicts, climax, coda) - What function does each chapter have, or how does chapter contribute to deepening or relaxing the conflict(s)? D. List the ten most important words of advice that would necessarily be included in a guidebook for a society vampire of the 1920s. E. Modernism In Life and Literature, Christensen writes about F. Scott Fitzgerald that * his works often...
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...Courtney McClure – Carr Mrs. Mann English III H February 18, 2012 Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is the man that did it all; known as an American author, adventurist, and reporter, he is also known to have had quite the relationship with a fellow writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hemingway was exceptionally intelligent and yet he was cursed by his poor eye sight, preventing his hopes for becoming a war hero – his father’s male dominant teachings. Feeling obligated to follow his father’s methods, yet unable too, he moved to his mother’s love of culture and began writing. In the midst of his first novel he married a woman named Elizabeth but his travels lead to affairs, which lead to more wives, and more to cope with. Writing was his ‘way out’ so to speak, the only way he could deal. Though he wasn’t yet known by many, or what one would say all that successful, he continued his pursuit of writing; soon luck would find him. While on a trip to Paris, in 1925, he found himself at the Dingo where he met F. Scott Fitzgerald who had just published his newest novel The Great Gatsby, and was now interrogating Ernest about his sex life and whether or not he and his most recent wife ‘saved it for marriage’. Obviously uncomfortable, but impressed by such conversation, Hemingway answered and gave Fitzgerald advice on ‘love’ and wrote a chapter about it in his writing The Moveable Feast. He opens the chapter with the following passage "His talent was as natural as the pattern that...
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...Soldier’s Home by Ernest Hemingway In Soldier’s Home, Ernest Hemingway depicts Harold Krebs return home from World War I and the problems he faces when dealing with his homecoming and transition back towards a normal life. After the fighting overseas commenced, it took Krebs a year to finally leave Europe and return to his family in Oklahoma. Once home, he found it hard to talk about all he had seen in his tour of duty overseas, which should be attributed to the fact that he saw action in some of the bloodiest, most crucial battles towards the culmination of the war. Therefore, Krebs difficulty in acknowledging his past is because he was indeed a “good soldier” (139), whose efforts in order to survive “The Great War,” were not recognized by his country, town and even worse, his own Family. After his late return from the war, Krebs moved back to the home of his family in Oklahoma. Although this seems common to what most soldiers would do after war, Krebs stay away from his family had been an elongated one. This is not just because of his leisure time at the Rhine with German prostitutes after the war had ended, but also because he went to the war direct from a “Methodist College in Kansas” (136). With that information, we can deduce that Krebs had not lived with his family for more than two years, but most likely between four and six. This must have put a serious strain on his relationship with his family members, who in his own mind, obviously lived in a different...
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...Why were they referred to as the “Roaring 20s?” For whom did the ‘20s roar? How? Who was excluded from the benefits of the 1920s (at least 2 groups)? After completing your reading, do you think that it is fair to call these years the “Roaring 20s?” Why or why not? The 1920s were often nicknamed “The Roaring Twenties” and “The Age of Wonderful Nonsense”. When referring to a time period, ‘roaring’ means a time that is full of excitement and viewed optimistically. From an industrial aspect, the factories that were used to build ammunition during the war were converted to be used for the production and manufacturing of other goods and technologies such as the phone with was becoming more widespread and motorcars. New roads and highways such as the Trans-Canada highway. There were many new trends in fashion and entertainment as well as new discoveries that were breakthroughs in History. Such as the radio, airplanes and insulin. However, these events mostly benefitted Canadians that lived in Ontario, Québec, and British Columbia. There was an increase in the demands of goods that were produced in these provinces such as pulp and paper, cars and other goods which weren’t manufactured as much during the war. In addition to that, the prices of food produce became cheaper. The Maritime and Prairie farmers, along with the Aboriginals were excluded from this prosperity. These three groups experienced hardships, but their complaints were largely ignored by the Canadian government. During...
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