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Hello, my friends. For today:. Expats in Paris Library to get books Anticipating The Sun Also Rises Picturing Hemingway Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory Time to work on Gatsby outlines. Why Leave America?.
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Hello, my friends. For today: • Expats in Paris • Library to get books • Anticipating The Sun Also Rises • Picturing Hemingway • Hemingway’s Iceberg Theory • Time to work on Gatsby outlines
Why Leave America? • The 20s were booming. Why did many authors, like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, want to get out? • Prohibition – Substance abusers need substance • Censorship – Push back against women’s liberation • Moral Authority • Institutionalized Racism • Birth of KKK • Headquartered in Detroit to partner with Henry Ford • Nationalism/Anti-Immigration • Tulsa Race Riots of ‘21 • Troubled Economy • Credit and debt, no safety net • Isolationism – Backed out of League of Nations
Why Paris? • What made this particular city so appealing? • No Prohibition • Synergy • All the artists were already there. New artists on the scene fed off the others • Center for artistic movements (Modernism)
What were they after? • Debunking delusions • Remember Gatsby? The “rock of the world on the wing of a fairy”? This sentiment was seeping into many aspects of philosophy, psychology, art, music, literature, baking, etc. • Something(s) about American life at the times was disguising life as it truly was.
Picturing Hemingway • http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/hemingway/index-paris.htm
Anticipating TSAR • What do we know about Hemingway? What do we think we know? • Remember our conversation about book titles for Gatsby. What does the title The Sun Also Rises conjure in your mind? How does it hit you as a jumping off point for this text? In what direction, as a reader, is it pointing you? • Consider the cover art • Page 99 analysis
Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory” “I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven - eighths of it under water for every part that shows . Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show.” • How this translates to Hemingway’s style is an almost complete absence of sentimentality.
Hemingway’s “Iceberg Theory” • Observe pgs. 46-47 from “She must have been…” • It appears to be a pretty heated exchange, although it is without the cues that let the reader know exactly what is happening, cues like “he said angrily” or “I replied apologetically” or “I knew I should have laid off but felt the urge to keep prodding.” • Hemingway makes us do the work to fill in the gaps here? What do you think? • Now observe pg. 118 from “’I saw you out…’” • It appears they’re joking/teasing each other but none of that language is there…
Gatsby Outline • I’m looking for: • Debatable thesis • >2 appropriate pieces of evidence • With conclusions supporting your thesis • Appropriate background, transitions • Basic format of an outline: • Intro • Body Paragraphs 1, 2, 3 • Conclusion