The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises - Response The Sun Also Rises [I cannot express to you how glad I am that I am taking this class. I am thoroughly enjoying Hemingway. The Sun Also Rises is one of the best books I've read in quite a long time. For a while there, I was, for God knows what reason, taking Physics and Chemistry and Biology. It is really an adventure to be back with books and words and reading. I am also amazed that I never could read more of Him when it wasn't an assignment. And how is it that when I am told to write "a 3-5 page essay" I can only come through with two-and-a-half, but a "one-page response" always wants to be twenty pages long?] I finished reading SAR around ten o'clock tonight. I could have taken it all in one big gulp when I began a week ago, but I couldn't do that. It wanted me to bring it out slowly, so I often found myself reading five or ten pages and laying it aside to absorb without engulfing. A man gets used to reading Star Wars and pulp fiction and New York Times Bestsellers and forgets . . .
The short sentences, the lack of qualifying, "he said"s and "she saids" and such, the tragedy of his love for Brett, those are the things I enjoy reading. Then I realized I couldn't keep track of who was speaking. It has always been troubling for me to read a book with the knowledge that there are things I am supposed to be catching, but not quite. what literature is until it slaps him in the face. Very powerful they were but fleeting. A man was killed this year, did you know? . I wasn't particularly bothered by His not telling me who said what, but it was very. Stillcrazymotherandchildreunionreneandgeorgettemagrittewith. I was surprised that more was not given to the bulls. The fish in the pools and the allegory and analogy and symbolism aren't fond of me.
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