The Sun Also Rises

The Sun Also Rises is the first full-length novel of Hemingway, which was published in 1926. “Trauma cannot be taken as an excuse for escapism”, this is the most impressed idea I got from this novel.

Definitely one of the heroine’s pursuers cannot be ignored, he is 科恩, for there is a brief biography about him in the opening chapter. He was born to a wealthy Jewish family, and graduated from Princeton University. He could be labeled as innocent, gentle and softhearted. It seems that there are no flies on him, but also no specialty. But he failed to get along well with people around, because he had not endured the suffering of the war.

Those who had taken part in the war and been injured, included the hero, looked down upon almost everything 科恩 did. 科恩 never gets drunk and regards bullfighting boring. He is not a thrill-seeking risk taker as others. In a word, he is a normal young man. But the war is like a river, distinguishes him from others at the other bank.

To tell the injured form the uninjured, the most essential point is that, nothing matters to the injured. They are so-called Lost Generation that they think only the stimulus is what they are chasing. The story can also epitomize the thing going on around me. I have some friends who come from a divorced family. Some of them abandon themselves to computer games, alcoholics and even loving affairs. I do understand that it really hurts when having to accept such a fact. But as a person who has had a similar experience, I sincerely hope that they won’t take their trauma as an excuse for escapism anymore.

To be alive is good. Though you lose everything, as long as you still have one life, you can start from scratch.

 

第二篇：Report of the Sun Also Rises

Report of the Sun Also Rises

Part1 New Words

1. Manifest： Provide evidence for;

2. Hale： Exhibiting or restored to vigorous good health

3. Sinewy ：(Of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful

4. Advent: arrival that have been awaited (especially of something momentous)

5. Brace: cause to be alert and energetic

6. Alms: money or goods contributed to the poor

7. Sundry: consisting of a haphazard assortment of different kinds

8. Stalwart: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships

9. Morose: showing a brooding ill humor

10. Bestow: present, confer

11. Intimation: an indirect suggestion

12. Tacit: implied by or inferred from actions or statements

13. Physiognomy: the human face (`kiss' and `smile' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)

14. Interpose: to insert between other elements

15. Vexatious: causing irritation or annoyance

16. Tempest: a violent commotion or disturbance

17. Laconic: brief and to the point; effectively cut short

18. Churlish: rude and boorish

19. Hem: utter `hem' or `ahem'

20. Sagacity: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and evaluating

21. Taciturn: habitually reserved and uncommunicative

22. Diabolical: extremely evil or cruel; expressive of cruelty or befitting hell

23. Disparity: inequality or difference in some respect

24. Beneficent: doing or producing good

25. Eloquence: powerful and effective language

26. Rheumatism: any painful disorder of the joints or muscles or connective tissues

27. Reprobate: a person without moral scruples

28. Ensconce: fix firmly

29. Wretch: someone you feel sorry for

30. Hearken: listen; used mostly in the imperative

31. Miscreant: a person without moral scruples

32. Vapid: lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest

33. Tome: a (usually) large and scholarly book

34. Atrocious: exceptionally bad or displeasing

35. Dingy: thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot

36. Hubbub: loud confused noise from many sources

37. Lachrymose: showing sorrow

38. Vagabond: a wanderer who have no established residence or visible means of support

39. Transgression: the action of going beyond or overstepping some boundary or limit

40. Writhe: to move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling)

41. Martyr

42. Zeal: a feeling of strong eagerness (usually in favor of a person or cause)

43. Tenacious: stubbornly unyielding

44. Lamentable: bad; unfortunate

45. Doleful: filled with or evoking sadness

46. Waif: a homeless child especially one forsaken or orphaned

47. Appellation: identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

48. Vanquish: come out better in a competition, race, or conflict

49. Belie: be in contradiction with

50. Caprice: a sudden desire

51. Querulous: habitually complaining

52. Salutation: (usually plural) an acknowledgment or expression of good will (especially on meeting)

53. Orison: reverent petition to a deity

54. Egress: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent

55. Partake: have or give, or receive a share of

56. Impalpable: incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch

57. Quarry: a surface excavation for extracting stone or slate

58. Unfledged: (of birds) not yet having developed feathers

59. Recompense: the act of compensating for service or loss or injury

60. Wheedle: influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering

61. Curate: a person authorized to conduct religious worship

62. Rue: feel remorse for; feel sorry for; be contrite about

63. Portend: indicate by signs

64. Prattle: speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

65. Peevish: easily irritated or annoyed

66. Tyrannical: marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior

67. Evince: give expression to

68. Moor: open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather

and bracken and moss

69. Vociferate: utter in a very loud voice

70. Gallows: an instrument of execution consisting of a wooden frame from which a condemned person is executed by hanging

71. Insolence: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties

72. Spectacles: optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision

73. Culpable: deserving blame or censure as being wrong or evil or injurious

74. Recommence: begin again

75. Expostulate: reason with (somebody) for the purpose of dissuasion

76. Burnish: polish and make shiny

77. Mire: deep soft mud in water or slush

78. Blackguard: someone who is morally reprehensible

79. Dour: showing a brooding ill humor

80. Impertinence: an impudent statement

81. Lament: a cry of sorrow and grief

82. Equanimity: steadiness of mind under stress

83. Victuals： Any substance that can be used as food

84. Entreaty: earnest or urgent request

85. Gruel: a thin porridge (usually oatmeal or cornmeal)

86. Prognosticate: make a prediction about; tell in advance

87. Habituate: make psychologically or physically used (to something)

88. Malady: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

89. Execrate: curse or declare to be evil or anathema or threaten with divine punishment

90. Ruffian: a cruel and brutal fellow

91. Gadget: a small tool or device that does something useful

92. Innovator: An innovator is someone who introduces changes and new ideas.

93. Dismiss: fire

94. Bacterial:细菌的

95. Sponsor: the initiator, organizer

96. Daunting: something makes you feel slightly afraid or worried about dealing with it.

97. Deplete: run out of

98. Slash: to make a long cut with a sharp object, especially in a violent way

99. Stagnant: not developing, growing or changing

100. Disclosure: the act of making something known or public

101. Receding: to move gradually away from someone or away from a previous position

102. Transient: continuing for only a short time

103. Predecessor: a thing, such as a machine, that has been followed or replaced by something else

104. Brittle: hard but easily broken

105. Gallon: a unit for measuring liquid

106. Revenue: earning or income

107. Reckon: to think something or have an opinion about 108. Unveil: recover

109. Squeeze: to press with fingers

110. Pharmacy: a store sells drug or medicine

111. Monopoly: something the complete control, possession or use of something;

112. Segment: fragment

113. Relay: convey

114. Embark: to get onto a ship; to put something onto a ship 115. Cognitive: connected with mental process of understanding 116. Warrant: an acceptable reason for doing something 117. Dub: give someone a nickname

118. Vapor: a visible suspension in the air of particles of a substance

119. Evaporate: change something into a gas, especially steam 120. Anticipate: expect something

121. Emission: the production or sending out of light, heat, gas 122. Vicinity: the area around a particular place

123. Yield: earning

124. Underscored: prove

125. Preoccupied: focus on something

126. Prudent: sensible and careful

127. Invariably: unchanged and forever

128. Chronicle: recording

129. Filter: a device containing paper, sand, chemicals, etc. that a liquid or gas is passed through in order to remove any materials that are not wanted

130. Notoriety: bad fame

131. Stem: a main part of plant, stop

132. Conspiracy: a secret plan

133. Allege: claim

134. Legitimate: something is legal

135. Depiction: something is a picture or a written description 136. Indignation: anger

137. Illuminate: to shine light on something

138. Perceive: to notice or become aware of something

139. Ingenious: very suitable for a particular purpose and resulting from clever new ideas

140. Instantaneously: happening immediately

141. Paperback: a book that has a thick paper cover

142. Layout: the way in which the parts of something such as the page of a book, a garden or a building are arranged

143. Implementation: to make something that has been officially decided start to happen or be used

144. Meltdown: sudden fail

145. Bulk: the main part of something; most of something

146. Mounting: increasing, often in a manner that causes or expresses anxiety

147. Retention: the action of keeping something rather than losing it or stopping it

148. Thrift: the habit of saving money and spending it carefully so that none is wasted

149. Premature: happening before the normal or expected time 150. Aspire: to have a strong desire to achieve or to become something

151. Commemorate: in memory of

152. Legible： Clear enough to read

153. Inadvertently: by accident; without intending to

154. Perpetually: everlastingly

155. Patronizing: showing that you feel better, or more intelligent than somebody else

156. Laurel: honor and praise given to somebody because of something that they have achieved

157. Ubiquity: If you talk about the ubiquity of something, you mean that it seems to be everywhere

158. Swirl: to move around quickly in a circle; to make sth do this

159. Immerse: put into a liquid so that they or it are completely covered

160. Exemplify: take something for example

161. Prey: a person who is harmed or tricked by somebody, especially for dishonest purposes

162. Prevalent: very popular

163. Magnitude: the degree to which a star is bright

164. Multitude: mass, many

165. Paralyze: make somebody cannot move or something unable to work

166. Persecute: to treat somebody in a cruel and unfair way, especially because of their race, religion or political beliefs

167. Propel: to move, drive or push something forward or in a

particular direction

168. Consecutive: following one after another in a series, without interruption

169. Mogul: a very rich, important and powerful person

170. Rudder: a piece of wood or metal at the back of a boat or an aircraft that is used for controlling its direction

171. Depict: to show an image of somebody/something in a picture

172. Slump: to fall in price, value, number

173. Manipulate:操作，处理

174. Meditate：沉思，打算

175. Elite: 精华，精英

176. Plausible: 貌似真实，有理的

177. Trophy：奖杯

178.Obesity: 肥胖

179.Brim：边缘，边沿

180.Trump：王牌，法宝，有效手段

181.Leach：过滤，过滤器

182.Deteriorate：使恶化，变坏

183.Adverse：不利的，有害的

184.Manditory：强制性的

185.Stride：大步，步幅

186.Bog：沼泽

187.Contend：竞争，声称

188.Deflect：使歪斜，使扭曲

189.Pastry：糕点，油酥

190.Consortium：财团，组合

191.Credential：文凭，信任状

192.Savior：拯救者

193.Mascot：吉祥物，福神

194.Oriental：东方人的

195.Fatigue:疲劳，工作服

196.nip：夹，伤害，啃咬

197.Futile:无益的

198.Veteran：老兵

199.Debauchery:道德败坏，淫荡

200.Prodigy:奇才，壮举，盛况

Important Quotations

(1) Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of

Princeton. Do not think I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.

(2) [Cohn:] “I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast

and I’m not really living it.”

(3) [Jake:] “Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except

bull-fighters.”

“Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”

(4) Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic.

He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.

(5) Painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of

interiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.

(6) “You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You

get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed with sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafes.”

(7) “Perhaps as you went along you did learn something. I

did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what it was all about.”

(8) “This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You

don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

(9) It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There

was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people.”

(10) “The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very

clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.”

Prat3 Synopsis

The Sun Also Rises is a 1926 novel written by American author Ernest Hemingway about a group of American and British expatriates who travel from Paris to the Festival of San Fermín in Pamplona to watch the running of the bulls and the bullfights. The novel is a roman à clef; the characters are based on real people of Hemingway's circle, and the action is based on real events. In the novel, Hemingway presents his notion that the "Lost Generation", considered to have been decadent, dissolute and irretrievably damaged by World War I, was resilient and strong.[4] Additionally, Hemingway investigates the themes of love, death, renewal in nature, and the nature of masculinity. Part4 Analysis of Major Characters

Jake Barnes

The fact that Brett, the love of his life, refuses to enter into a relationship with him compounds this problem. Jake, with

typical subtlety, suggests that she does not want to because it would mean giving up sexual intercourse. Jake’s hostility toward Robert Cohn is perhaps rooted in his own feelings of inadequacy. In many ways, Jake is a typical member of what poet Gertrude Stein called the “lost generation,” the generation of men and women whose experiences in World War I undermined their belief in justice, morality, manhood, and love. Without these ideals to rely on, the Lost Generation lived an aimless, immoral existence, devoid of true emotion and characterized by casual interpersonal cruelty.

Most important, perhaps, he acknowledges, the pain that his war injury and his unrequited love for Brett cause him. However, though Jake does perceive the problems in his life, he seems either unwilling or unable to remedy them. Though he understands the dilemma of the Lost Generation, he remains trapped within it.

Lady Brett Ashley

Brett is a strong, largely independent woman. She exerts great power over the men around her, as her beauty and charisma seem to charm everyone she meets. However, her independence does not make her happy. She frequently complains to Jake about how miserable she is—her life, she

claims, is aimless and unsatisfying. Her wandering from relationship to relationship parallels Jake and his friends’ wandering from bar to bar. Although she will not commit to any one man, she seems uncomfortable being by herself.

As with Jake and his male friends, World War I seems to have played an essential part in the formation of Brett’s character. During the war, Brett’s true love died of dysentery. Her subsequent aimlessness, especially with regard to men, can be interpreted as a futile, subconscious search for this original love. Brett’s personal search is perhaps symbolic of the entire Lost Generation’s search for the shattered prewar values of love and romance.

Robert Cohn

Cohn has spent his entire life feeling like an outsider because he is Jewish. While at Princeton, he took up boxing to combat his feelings of shyness and inferiority. Although his confidence has grown with his literary success, his anxiety about being different or considered not good enough persists. These feelings of otherness and inadequacy may explain his irrational attachment to Brett—he is so terrified of rejection that, when it happens, he refuses to accept it.

Cohn adheres to an outdated, prewar value system of honor

and romance. He fights only within the confines of the gym until his rage and frustration make him lash out at Romero and Jake. He plays hard at tennis, but if he loses he accepts defeat gracefully. Furthermore, he cannot believe that his affair with Brett has no emotional value. Hence, he acts as a foil for Jake and the other veterans in the novel; Sadly, Cohn’s value system has no place in the postwar world, and Cohn cannot sustain it. His tearful request that Romero shake his hand after Cohn has beaten him up is an absurd attempt to restore the validity of an antiquated code of conduct.

Part 5 Themes

The Aimlessness of the Lost Generation

World War I undercut traditional notions of morality, faith, and justice. No longer able to rely on the traditional beliefs that gave life meaning, the men and women who experienced the war became psychologically and morally lost, and they wandered aimlessly in a world that appeared meaningless. Jake, Brett, and their acquaintances give dramatic life to this situation. Because they no longer believe in anything, their lives are empty. They fill their time with inconsequential and escapist activities, such as drinking, dancing, and debauchery.

It is important to note that Hemingway never explicitly states that Jake and his friends’ lives are aimless, or that this aimlessness is a result

of the war. Instead, he implies these ideas through his portrayal of the characters’ emotional and mental lives. These stand in stark contrast to the characters’ surface actions. Jake and his friends’ constant carousing does not make them happy. Very often, their merrymaking is joyless and driven by alcohol. At best, it allows them not to think about their inner lives or about the war. Although they spend nearly all of their time partying in one way or another, they remain sorrowful or unfulfilled. Hence, their drinking and dancing is just a futile distraction, a purposeless activity characteristic of a wandering, aimless life.

Male Insecurity

While Jake’s condition is the most explicit example of weakened masculinity in the novel, it is certainly not the only one. All of the veterans feel insecure in their manhood. Again, Hemingway does not state this fact directly, but rather shows it in the way Jake and his veteran friends react to Cohn. They target Cohn in particular for abuse when they see him engaging in “unmanly” behavior such as following Brett around. They cope with their fears of being weak and masculine by criticizing the weakness they see in him. Hemingway further presents this theme in his portrayal of Brett. In many ways, she is more “manly” than the men in the book. She refers to herself as a “chap,” she has a short, masculine haircut and a masculine name, and she is strong and independent. Thus, she embodies traditionally masculine characteristics, while Jake, Mike, and

Bill are to varying degrees uncertain of their masculinity.

The Destructiveness of Sex

Sex is a powerful and destructive force in The Sun Also Rises. Sexual jealousy, for example, leads Cohn to violate his code of ethics and attack Jake, Mike, and Romero. Furthermore, the desire for sex prevents Brett from entering into a relationship with Jake, although she loves him. Hence, sex undermines both Cohn’s honor and Jake and Brett’s love. Brett is closely associated with the negative consequences of sex. She is a liberated woman, having sex with multiple men and feeling no compulsion to commit to any of them. Her carefree sexuality makes Jake and Mike miserable and drives Cohn to acts of violence. In Brett, Hemingway may be expressing his own anxieties about strong, sexually independent women.

Part 6 Opinion

Hemingway's work continued to be popular in the latter half of the century and after his suicide in 1961. During the 1970s, The Sun Also Rises appealed to the lost generation of the Vietnam era. Aldridge writes that The Sun Also Rises has kept its appeal because the novel is about being young. The characters live in the most beautiful city in the world, spend their days traveling, fishing, drinking, making love, and generally reveling in their youth. I believe the expatriate writers of the 1920s appeal

for this reason, but that Hemingway was the most successful in capturing the time and the place in The Sun Also Rises.

Some of the characters have not stood the test of time, writing that modern readers are uncomfortable with the anti-semitic treatment of Cohn's character and the romanticization of a bullfighter. Moreover, Brett and Mike belong uniquely to the Jazz Age and do not translate to the modern era. Bloom believes the novel is in the canon of American literature for its formal qualities: its prose and style.

Bullfighting in the novel: Bulls and bull-fighting are the two most critical symbols in The Sun Also Rises. The bulls symbolize passion, physicality, energy, and freedom. As a combination of these factors, in their interactions with the bull-fighters, they also come to symbolize the act of sex. Each bull-fight involves seduction, manipulation, maneuvering, and penetration by the bull-fighter of the bull. It is significant that, of all the characters, Jake, Brett, Romero, and Montoya are the most stirred by bull-fighting.

Although we do not learn much about Montoya’s personal life, it is apparent that he views bull-fighting as the highest, purest art form, one that exceeds all else in love, beauty, and passion. As discussed briefly in the above character analysis, the bull-fights can also be read as paralleling the characters and events of the novel. During the running of the bulls, to take just one example, a man is gored and killed the same day that Cohn

leaves Pamplona.

The novel made Hemingway famous, inspired young women across America to wear short hair and sweater sets like the heroine's—and to act like her too—and changed writing style in ways that could be seen in any American magazine published in the next twenty years. In many ways, the novel's stripped-down prose became a model for 20th-century American writing. Nagel writes that "The Sun Also Rises was a dramatic literary event and its effects have not diminished over the years.