Download Thesis Statements as of 10/30/13

Thesis Statements as of 10/30/13
The Sun also Rises by Ernest Hemingway depicts the inevitable struggles of a
typical veteran such as having a post traumatic stress disorder, living in the Lost
Generation, and loosing masculinity after the war.
Returning war veterans are plagued with drug abuse in order to obscure the past, loosen
their grip on the present, and distance them from the future.
Many people believe that Jake is not a typical main character, due to his faults. Though
there are points that may prove this, Hemingway gives us signs showing us that he is the
main character, just not the one everybody wants to be.
In The Sun Also Rises, the characters are part of a lost generation of the early twentieth
century, proving that the after effect of war can encourage people to escape their reality
and misbehave.
The Sun Also Rises can be described as a story about The Great War and its
effects on traditional society. Ernest Hemmingway uses the story to show how
World War I decimated the conventional definition for being a man, and brought
into question morality’s role and the meaning of life.
War novels are usually those, who depict the gruesome actions that occur during
war, the killing, the hiding, the sacrifices. Ernest Hemingway chose a different
side of the war to write about; The Sun Also Rises, is a war novel in disguise,
simply because every aspect of it revolves around society and the veterans lives
after war and how they bare with the notion of their lives never being the same;
and not being able to function as society expects them to. Therefore all
throughout we see how they deal with it through the partying, sexual desire, and
drinking
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Body #1: Meaning behind all the sex and drinking
Body #2: Wounds, disabilities and injuries, affecting their lives because of
the war
Body #3: Digression moral and social values after the war
In the novel The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway uses Brett Ashley as the main
significant women in the novel to manipulate the men around her for attention, pleasure
and sexual needs. Although Brett does not show any signs of love affection towards the
men in the novel, she leads each one of them to think that true romance will eventually
evolve between them. Being around homosexuals, constantly drunk, and hooking up
shamelessly with the men around her, Brett’s character creates conflict with in her inner
circle, that eventually leads to violence and communication breakdown. Hemmingway
uses Brett’s shameless character to reveal the true attributes and unfold the hidden closets
of Jake, Cohn, Mike and Romero.
In The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway applies pieces of his own background and
personal experience through the characters of Brett Ashley and Jake Barnes and
Hemingway’s summer in Paris after the war. He chooses to do so because the people the
characters represent and events that resemble his own impacted his life greatly and
shaped his way of seeing things.
Jake Barnes was wounded in World War I. Although he loves Brett Ashley, he cannot
give her sexual satisfaction because he cannot perform sexual intercourse. His agony is
Brett. His physical wound has deprived him of sexual ability, as well as removed his
desire. Brett is one of main character. She is psychologically traumatized by the World
War I, and she lives in confusion in values without the purpose of her life. She couldn’t
control her sexual desires. Ernest Hemingway tells that Brett is not a femme fatale, but
she is only a woman who is under social and psychological strain.