Literature Analysis

The Sun Also Rises
By: Ernest Hemingway

 

1. Jake and Robert met up with some friends. Jake and his lady-friend, Brett, took a taxi ride where they expressed how they had felt about each other over the past. They explained to each other how much they loved each other, but couldn't be together. Jake went to fish in a town with his friend Bill.  They were to meet Robert, Michael and Brett to go see the bull-fights in Pamplona. When they were there,  they met a bull-fighter named Pedro Remero and found out that Robert likes Brett.Unfortunately, Brett fell in love with Pedro.
2. The theme of this story is Independence. Robert has to learn how to live on his own and Brett is a very independent woman who has an effect on everybody.
3. I chose this book because the title seemed interesting. To me,  it was going to be of how someone falls but stands right back up no matter what. After the first few pages,  I had to keep on reading because it I just had to know what happened to all the characters.
4. This book was very realistic. I could picture the characters in my head acting and doing the things said in the book.
5. This books tone was very excited. At times it was calm and sometimes romantic but but there was a lot of drinking so there was also a lot of drama.
6.~Personification: You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity

   ~Personification: It's an honest face.

   ~Simile: It all seemed like a bad play.

   ~Metaphor: You're not a moron, you're just a case of arrested development.

   ~Symbolism: Excessive drinking means getting away fromlife's stress.

   ~Symbolism: Bull-fighting is strength and courage.

   ~Imagery: "Brett wad damned good-looking. She wore a slipover jersey sweater and a tweed skirt, and her hair was brushed back like a boy's."

   ~Simile: She was built with curves like the hull of a racing yacht.

 

1. 2 direct characterizations were of Count Mippipopolous and Robert Cohn. 2 indirect characterization were on Brett and Michael.
2. When the author talks about everybody, he talks about how much he likes or dislikes them because of how they act.
3. The protagonist, Jake, is static because he doesn't really change at all. He just lives and meets new people.
4. After reading this book I feel that I have read about someone just like Robert Cohn because he doesn't get hints others give him about how they feel about him.

 

After reading The Sun Also Rises, I now remember that when people drink a lot there will always be a lot of drama and fighting. Also, I will remember that when you really love someone you shouldn't let them go because they'll eventually meet someone better than you treated them even if you still remain friends. In this book everyone drank all the time and they often ended up drunk and fighting. That's how a lot of the fights in this story were started. Also, Jake loved Brett, but didn't take it anywhere. Eventually, Robert started to get feelings for her and she started to get feelings for Pedro Romero.