20th Cent Elias

     For this one I wanted to talk a little bit about (as the title would suggest) how people manage relationships with their loved ones in times of contagion, and how The Plague 's description of it matches what seems to be happening now. I think something that stuck out to me was the conversation Rieux had with Rambert as they discussed his inclination to escape. Rieux says to Rambert that he doesn't blame him for wanting to escape and reconnect with his girlfriend, and says, actually I don't know exactly what he says and I can't find the page, but from what I remember, he pretty much tells him that he respects Rambert putting his own happiness first and being there for a loved one, and says he wonders why he isn't doing the same himself. At the time I felt like Rieux was super lame, I mean he says this thing about how it's so important to be there for people and be happy but at the same time he's making no effort to do so, and he doesn't (at that mome

    So, we've finished The Sun Also Rises,  and I suppose it's time for my final blog post regarding it. I decently enjoyed reading this book and following the lives of the characters, but like many of my peers I found some of these characters' choices and actions questionable and/or mildly to wildly disagreeable. In this blog post I'm going to talk about how these actions made me view Jake and Cohn specifically, as well as give a summation of my final opinions of them.      Let's talk about the not-so-masculine, tough guy, super simp Jake. His character arc throughout the novel is almost a straight line, minus his loss of hope for a good life with Brett displayed at the very end. Jake presents himself as quiet and observing to the outside world, all the while hurling disparaging remarks about this, that, and the other inside his head for us to see. He can let out sharp remarks from time to time, but in the end only a fraction of what he keeps to himself. The reader