Onomatopoeia

"... and the red and green stop-and-go traffic-signal, and the crowd going by, and the horse-cabs clippety-clopping along..." (page 22). The phrase 'clippety-clopping' helps to describe the sound the horses make as they walk. It just adds so much more to the book. Hemmingway describes everything in great detail. He describes the lavish scenery as well as the color of pernod. The phrase also draws to mind that horses are still commonly used. Cars were used but the people had not yet transitioned from horses to cars. The clippety-clopping of horses helps set the time period of the book.

Round Character

Jake Barnes is a round character. He is very complex just as real human beings are. He loves someone who says their relationship could never work out. He experiences happiness, jealousy, anger, excitement, and boredom. These are all feelings that humans experience every day. The key to creating characters is making them as realistic as possible. He has a job and he has many friends. Jake was in the war and he was wounded. He enjoys bullfights and he is catholic. Real people have religious beliefs (even if they do not believe in religion that is their belief), they have hobbies, jobs, and friends. They enjoy some activities and hate others. They love some people and dislike others. Somebody could tell me the story was based off of a real person named Jake Barnes and I would believe them.

First Person

"I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when thier stories hold together..." (page 12). The Sun Also Rises is told in Jake Barnes' point of view. I love stories in first person becuase I have a complete understanding of the character. Nothing is hidden from the reader. It is more intimate because it is like being inside the head of the character. Jake Barnes expresses his thoughts and feelings and all the characters are shown in his perspective. If he does not like a character, then the reader probably will not either because they will be exposed to negative thoughts. I say this because I liked Robert Cohn in the beginning of the story and towards the middle I started to think he was annoying. I was annoyed that Cohn never stood up for himself. "Why did he sit there? Why did he keep on taking it like that?" (page 58). At first, I did not think how Jake liked Cohn in the beginning and then slowly became annoyed at him. He hated him after he went out with Brett and would not leave her alone.

Stream of Consciousness

"... so I prayed that I would make a lot of money, and then I started to think how I would make it, and thinking of making money reminded me of the count, and I started wondering about where he was..." (page 103). Jake is in a church and is trying to pray. He begins praying for his friends and the bull-fights, then the fiesta , and finally their fishing trip. Hemmingway wrote this chain of thoughts very realistically. I will be thinking of something and then I end up on a random topic and I try to figure out how I had gotten to the idea. One thought automatically triggers more thoughts. Many books in first person do not always have a stream of consciousness but it is how humans think. It makes the character more real and believable.

Rhetorical Question

Frances begins to figure out that Robert Cohn is not going to be sticking around for much longer. She knows that it probably won't work out between them and they won't get married. She is upset at Cohn. She begins to get mad at him. She rages on for almost two pages in the book. I was rooting for her (I think Cohn is annoying-it might be because Jake thinks he is too). She just kept going on and on talking and then asking a question like, "Aren't you, Robert?" or "Didn't you, Robert?" (page 57). She doesn't even stop talking to see if Robert would even mumble a response. Cohn never stood up for himself. Frances did not expect a response from Cohn because she did not ask the questions to receive one. She was mad and she asks to questions to torment him.

Static Character

Brett is a static character. She does not change much thorugh the course of the novel. In the beginning she is planning on marrying Mike, but she has a bad habit of falling in love... all the time. She drinks. She is constantly finding a new love and never seems to be content. She also knows that Jake Barnes loves her but she says it will never work out. In the middle of the story she is still planning on marrying Mike but she has a fling with Cohn. She also drinks a lot just to get tight. Near the end of the book, she goes out with the bullfighter. She leaves him and goes to Jake for help. She drinks some more. Throughout the book her behavior stays the same, but she might be with a different guy. Brett is not content with her life. She cannot change her ways and that is why things would never have worked out between her and Jake.

Epigraph

"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth forever... The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down..." (page 7). I skimmed this page before I read the novel. I did not understand the meaning of the quote before I read the story so I thought I would read the novel and get back to it. I finished the novel and I did not know why the novel was called The Sun Also Rises. I found the passage at the beginning of the book and I reread it. The quote, "The sun also ariseth," from Ecclesiastes inspired Hemingway to title his book The Sun Also Rises. My interpretation of the quote is that the world just keeps going. Nothing will stop the sun from rising or the rivers flowing. People will die but the world keeps turning. Life goes on.