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A 3 page research paper/essay that examines the various reasons why Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises has been frequently banned. The writer attributes this primarily to the novel's depiction of a decadent lifestyle and the sexual components of the plot. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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In the U.S. in 1960, The Sun Also Rises was banned from public schools in San Jose, California and all of Hemingways works were removed from school libraries (Freedom to
Read). Furthermore in 1962, a group in Texas opposed using textbooks that even mentioned the Nobel Prize-winning Hemingway (Freedom to Read). This examination of Hemingways classic novel examines its
controversial material, discussing why this book has been banned so frequently. First of all, while it seems mild by todays standards, The Sun Also Rises uses the word "hell"
frequently. Brett considers her love for Jake to be "hell on earth" (Hemingway 27); Jake says, "To hell with Brett" (Hemingway 30); "to hell with Cohn" (Hemingway 222); Jake feels
"low as hell" (Hemingway 222), etc. As this quotes suggests, the word "hell" is sprinkled liberally throughout the novel, which may have contributed to its initial banning in 1929, as
"hell" was simply not uttered in polite society in previous decades. Secondly, the plot concerns characters who live an antisocial, disreputable lifestyle. The characters primarily "hand around in clubs and
cafes in the Latin Quarter and Montmarte" areas of Paris (Scalero 489). In the chapters set in Spain, they continue this lifestyle, with "Days on end of singing and dancing,
of raucous, unchecked hullabaloo, drinking binges that last from morning to night..." (Scalero 489). Hemingways heroes spend their time "observing, thinking, searching, remembering, talking" but not producing anything discernible useful
to society (Soto 5). This point is made explicit by Hemingway in a scene in which Bill tells Jake, "You spend all our time talking, not working. You are an
expatriate, see? You hang around cafes" (Hemingway 120). Nevertheless, what the book banners fail to note is that Hemingway does not support this lifestyle as a pattern to be followed.
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