Alcohol Symbolism

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Alcohol is grouped with other drugs, called deprssants that slow down the responeses in the brian and the spinal cord. these include thinking, feeling, judgement, and impulse contol. In effect, alcohol does not take these problems away,it only makes you forget for a little while and once you are sober the problem will still be there(THEVOICEBW).
The setting is in France and Spain. The book is about Jake, protagonist, and hios friends drinking and partying all the time because they have nothing else to do due tp their failed and boring life.Jake loves Brett ( Brett is the sex driven antagonist) , but they can not be together because of a war wound Jake got leaving him, unable tp please Brett sexually. Brett sleeps with a lot of men to hide her truw love for Jake and she will never give that yo to be with Jake because she needs sex. Jake and everyone else goes to see a bullfighting match which symbolizes living life to the fullest unlike how Jake and his friends drink their way through life. Bullfighting is important because it is the nly thing that they have to live for watching and ...

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