Literature Analysis #2 The Sun Also Rises

1) The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway is a love story that takes place in South America and Spain (Madrid and Pamplona). The main character Jake shares a distinctive love for Miss Lady Brett although she does not share the same affection that he has towards her, because Jake was injured in WWI he cannot have sex (something Lady Brett is not willing to give up). Jake is madly in love with Lady Brett, and when his friend Robert asks him to leave South America and go to Spain he declines until he finds out lady Brett is going to Spain. Once in Spain Jake, Robert, Lady Brett and others decide to go to a fiesta in which major bullfighters display their talents. When watching the bullfighters Lady Brett (who constantly jumps from guy to guy) takes a special interest in the 19 year old prodigy Romero. She falls in love with him, and tells Jake to introduce her to him, once they meet they spend the night together which makes Jake very jealous. Jake then leaves and seeks to have time to himself outside of the busy city of Spain. Once he does make it out of Spain Lady Brett sends him a telegram asking him to meet her in Madrid, Jake agrees and leaves right away to meet her. Once there Lady Brett explains to Jake why her and Romero did not work out. She tries to sweet talk him and say that they should have spent more time together in Spain, showing how she wants Jake now that no other man is around, however Jake finally realizes what he really wants which is not Lady Brett.

2) The main theme is Love and how blind it may be. Lady Brett says she falls in love and throughout the novel she falls in love with three different guys. She thinks she is falling in love with all these men but is blindly crushing on them like a school girls does. She does not see what her actions can do to the other men and friends around her. All these love interests Lady Brett has hurts hers and Jakes friendship. Jake feels he is in love with Lady Brett but as he continues to see her true character realizes that he is not in love, showing the blindness of love throughout many characters in The Sun Also Rises.

3) Ernest Hemingway's tone in The Sun Also Rises is both compassionate and stern at times. When Robert fights Romero in his drunken rage Ernest Hemingway displays his tone as angry. Showing how Robert is so easy to snap and resort to violence shows how Hemingway's tone is very stern. He also shows a compassionate tone, the novel's main premise is love so Hemingway constantly shows a compassionate tone when he talks about the love situations with Lady Brett and Jake.

4) Through Hemingway's use of dialogue helped me understand his tone better. He used dialogue a lot when two characters talked mainly in situations where love was trying to be displayed. He also uses Jake's flashbacks from his WWI experiences to help explain his character better, why he is so compassionate and loving towards Lady Brett. Hemingway also uses irony, it is ironic how once Jake finally gets over Lady Brett is when she finally sees that she might be interested in him. In the last chapter Lady Brett says that they should have spent more time together in Spain and Jake just says "Yes, isn't it pretty to think so" not showing much emotion toward her comment. He also uses hyperbole almost over emphasizing how easily Lady Brett falls in love with all these men. Also Hemingway's descriptions of settings help show his tone. When Jake and Robert go fishing the way he describes how the river was so peaceful and how lushly green the grass was showed how peaceful his tone was at that point in the novel. When he describes the bull fights he describes them as very gracious and delicate, (showing the love inspired tone) this was where Lady Brett first "fell in love" with Romero.

Tools that change the way we think

The extensive use of Internet/media/technology makes everyone a little bit lazier. People often take for granted the internet and other technologies used for finding out information. People do not put much thought into what they are trying to find out, they just think "i can just search it on the internet and it will not take more then 5 minutes." Although the internet is a very fast, easy and efficient source to get your information from it does not require much work. Back in the day when my mom was in high school she used what seem like ancient methods of finding information, like a dictionary or encyclopedia. Many kids in this day and age have yet to even pick up an encyclopedia let alone use it. I feel that with such an efficient way of getting information we often as human beings become very lazy and dependent on such a reliable source.

In Search Of

a)I learned that filter bubbles on google and other search engines filter your search to what they think you want to see. Google is trying to make are lives easier by showing us most popular searches it thinks we will need, but what if its wrong?
b)This makes me think differently because its not what everyone is seeing. So the information you are getting is completely different then the information someone else is getting.
c)If the internet can predict what we want to see, do we have people who monitor what websites we are on for how long?
d)The only way i can see us improving our filter bubble is to be more specific on what we want to see.

 When I re-did the Shakespeare search I made it more specific. I searched "Shakespeares life compared to De Vere" since that was what i was most interested in. Instead of just searching "Shakespeare"

Notes on Hamlet

From the beginning of the play Hamlet seemed like a very calm and under control guy, but as the story progresses and Hamlet finds out more about the death of his father Hamlet becomes more unstable. You find out his true love for his father, mother, and ophilia. He finds it hard to cope with his loss and is internally battling the thoughts of suicide and murder. Since Hamlet has murdered Polonious I can see the whole community viewing Hamlet as a murder. He will be charged for not only his fathers death but his Polonious as well. Hamlet battled with a lose lose situation so chose the best way he thought would turn out best for him.

Who was Shakespeare

I knew before searching him that he was known as one of the greatest poet/writers ever. I knew he wrote many plays and was married to Anne Hathaway. However i did not know people were giving credit to Edward de vere for writing some of Shakespeare's works. I also find it interesting how we do not know much about when he was born or even exactly what looked like. You would think that someone of such fame with his literature would have had a picture of himself painted by a very famous artist. I think that when kids think of Shakespeare they are not thinking of him in the great writing he created, I think they just think to themselves "oh great, I have to read the most confusing piece of work." They are to mad about having to read old English and how confusing his writing is that they do not see the significance in reading his writing.

"To Facebook, or Not to Facebook"

Facebook varies a lot person to person, from people who use it for just communicating to people who are constantly on it as it becomes a necessity to those people. When i was a freshman Facebook was a necessity but as i progressed in years it has become less and less important to me. My first impressions of Facebook was "this could hands down be the best invention known to man kind" however my new impression is this is not that great and thus becomes more distant to me. It surprises me to see that 7.5 million kids under the age of 12 are using Facebook. Personally I do not see what a 12 year old would be doing on facebook. I do not think its safe for a 18 year old to be putting up personal stuff on their facebook, let alone a 12 year old. At such a young age people do not see the danger in the internet, they do not believe that they will be the one getting "creeped" on by older people. As I get brighter and older i begin to see all the dangers in online communication, and do believe kids so young should be monitored by their parents on what they put on Facebook and other social networks such as Twitter and Myspace.