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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.