final study guide

review reading quizzes for both books

objective portion

€ℝⓝᵉ𝓼丅 ⓗ𝐄𝕞𝔦𝐍𝐆ᗯα𝓎

• ww1 → 1914-1918

  • over 28.5 million casualties

  • bloodiest conflict ever

  • caused pres wilson to form league of nations

  • germany blamed for war (that wont cause any problems)

  • medical advances saved people who would have died, but it left them scarred/broken physically and mentally

• modernist movement focused on themes of isolation, alienation, urban modernity

• iceberg principle → if the writer is knowledgeable about the topic they’re writing about, the reader will understand even if all the details aren’t explicitly mentioned

• paul cezanne’s paintings had a huge influence on hemingway → he wanted to write about nature the way cezanne painted it

• the sun also rises

  • ecclesiastes 1:4-7

  • “You are all a lost generation” -gertrude stein

  • jake →

  • brett

  • cohn

  • bill

  • stein

𝒇𝐋คη𝐍ⓔ𝔯𝐘 𝑜'ⓒｏｎη𝔬ᖇ

• catholicism →

• central christian mystery → for all life’s horror, it has been found by God to be worth dying for

• Christ-haunted south is kinda more culturally christian than actually so → religion is all over the landscape despite not being something most people truly follow

• malgre lui = against himself → hazel tries to separate himself from his faith but he ultimately cannot

• wise blood

  • read author’s note to 2nd edition

  • quotes: onnie jay, hazel, sabbath, mrs flood, enoch

essay portion

uses both wise blood and the sun also rises