Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Searching for New Values in "The Sun Also Rises". Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
An 8 page paper which discusses
how, with the use of characterization, symbolism, and the narrator, Ernest Hemmingway
illustrates how people are searching for new values in their lives. They are searching for
new values in their lives because many of the old ones were destroyed along with the war.
Bibliography lists 6 additional sources.
Page Count:
8 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JR7_RAsunvlue.doc
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
way or another, through the reality that was the war, which ended just a few years prior to the opening of the story. In their suffering they have lost a
great deal of what they thought was of value in their lives. As a result, they scurry to find some value somewhere. Hemmingway presents us with this struggle through characterization,
through symbolism, and through the narrator, who is the main character. Characterization In many ways, "The Sun Also Rises" is a portrait of Americans who find themselves searching
for new values in a world where old standards have been blown away by the war. Jake, who, as mentioned is the primary character, and narrator, is the strongest illustration
of the use of characterization in presenting us with the struggle to find value. Many would see him as a hero, and yet he is nothing but a lost soul
whose dreams of the future, and his personal sense of value, were destroyed in the war. "Jake Barnes in The Sun Also Rises is both disillusioned and emasculated as a
result of the war, and he establishes his own code of behavior because he no longer believes in the dictates of society" (Schafer hem1.htm). In another characterization we see
Robert Cohn, "who has become afraid of growing old" (Anonymous The Sun also rises sun.htm). He wants Jake to come with him to Pamplona, Spain. We see that Robert desires
to travel and see the world and we understand that he is seeking some new value to his life in respect to his domestic life: "He divorces from his wife
Frances, who is a very dominant woman. Robert is in love with Brett and so is Jake, but his impotence has destroyed any chance of a relationship with her. Brett
...