The Different Ideas In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises?

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In the novel The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway, has many different ideas of his life and how they all relate to the importance of who he is. In this book, there are three different books in total. These different chapters represent the different ideas in which he has experienced, also it shows how these things are tying into one another. For example, the people, actions, and situations are somehow connected in this novel.
-In the ending of the chapters of the book, Hemingway somehow relates each ending to the beginning of the next chapter instead of creates a brand new idea about his life. In the first chapter, Jake ends by using the conversation between him and Robert Cohn. He narrates "I watch him walk back to the café holding his paper. I rather liked him and evidently she led him quite a life" (15). Then, the start the next chapter, Jake says "That winter Robert Cohn went over to America with his novel, and it was accepted by a fairly good publisher" (16). These two lines have some type of …show more content…

These idea explains more on what Jake was talking about. At the end of chapter 3, Jake narrates "I sat beside her. The cab starting with the jerk"(32). then, Brett says ""Oh darling, I've been so miserable" (32). Then within chapter 4, Jacob begins the chapter by saying "The taxi went up the hill, passed the lighted square, then on into the dark, still levelled onto a dark street behind St. Etienne du Mont" (32). These two relate to one another because the last chapter ended with Brett & Jake finally catching up with one another. Then, the next chapter is beginning with the further conversation between the two. These follow up ideas help with understand how each situation actually relates to one another and now they build off each other. These transitions create better details when it comes to Jake and the people he associates himself with during his time in

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