Austen+-+Hem's+heroes

Looks like you've got some great work here, Austen. Did you have a question for me today? I agree that the thesis needs some conciseness, but I like your ideas. One thing I would consider for the outine is the order. Do you want to review the info about the true hero first and then the code hero as the former learns from the later? Finally, besides the galegroup one, are any of your other sites below print sources? Are keeping track of which source each quote comes from for your parenthetical citations?

Websites: http://www.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/heming.htm http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/articles/hallengren/index.html http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/hemstories.htm http://www.elcamino.edu/Faculty/sdonnell/hemingway.htm http://find.galegroup.com/gps/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale(en%2C%2C)%3AFQE%3D(K0%2CNone%2C21)Hemingway%27s+code+hero%3AAnd%3AFQE%3D(TX%2CNone%2C16)Hemingway%27s+hero%24&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&sort=DateDescend&searchType=BasicSearchForm&tabID=T003&prodId=IPS&searchId=R2&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=va_p_freder_a&docId=A196218926&docType=IAC&contentSet=IAC-Documents http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/govt/ehaley/Quotes/hero.htm http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~ganterg/sjureview/vol4-2/02Nolan.htm http://www.eiu.edu/~ipaweb/pipa/volume3/lerman.htm

Ernest Hemingway revolutionized the meaning of a hero, his true hero //learning// life lessons from another in order to survive the inevitable “nada”. 1. death: nada (the hero's confrontation with the absence of God, value of his life and "hostility" of the universe) a. the nada then creates insomnia (fear of nada), war (hostility of the universe), despair (absence of hope-- helped by code-hero) 2. social disorder a. "Hemingway had an underdeveloped social sense, and he put his characters in situations where society had already broken down. He pictured the social order as disorder, a kind of natural catastrophe like a river in flood. The individual could save himself only by relying on himself" http://find.galegroup.com/gps/retrieve.do?contentSet=IAC-Documents&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale(en%2C%2C)%3AFQE%3D(K0%2CNone%2C19)Hemingway+code+hero%24&sgHitCountType=None&inPS=true&sort=DateDescend&searchType=BasicSearchForm&tabID=T003&prodId=IPS&searchId=R1&currentPosition=1&userGroupName=va_p_freder_a&docId=A196218926&docType=IAC&contentSet=IAC-Documents 3. unreasonable wound: unexpected and irrational injury that symbolizes ever-present nada, death, destruction and hostility a. the hero normally suffers some kind of injury (Henry's leg) http://www.elcamino.edu/Faculty/sdonnell/hemingway.htm
 * I. Thesis:**
 * II.** What is nada? http://www.elcamino.edu/Faculty/sdonnell/hemingway.htm

1. true-hero: characters who have recognized the reality of nada and who (depending on the stage of their growth) are either struggling with the fear, anxiety, and loss of control which the recognition of nada brings, or who are in the process of learning the nature of true values and the requirements of the code. a. Henry in FTA b. does not make things happen, they just do-- they can't help their fate c. To go farther Hemingway will have to find the courage to look into his own past which he has buried. “The moral of Hemingway is that the only possible Hero of our times is the lone wolf.” http://www.claremontmckenna.edu/govt/ehaley/Quotes/hero.htm 2. There are also anti-heroes that help the true hero on his journey a. EX) Rinaldi in FTA b. anti-hero: “characters who are blind to the reality of nada, who live according to illusions, false values, and/or random impulses; such characters are generally either stupid and messy, idealistic and deluded, or self-centered and destructive.
 * III.** The True Hero

1. Code-hero: "characters who have recognized and accepted the reality of nada, who have learned the nature of true values, and who live in compliance with the requirements of the code. Such characters are the models from whom the true heroes learn." a. Catherine in FTA i. “Catherine's erratic behavior actually contributes to the possibility of her being "code heroic" since it indicates that she understands what Frederic does not, namely, that everyone makes choices.” http://www.eiu.edu/~ipaweb/pipa/volume3/lerman.htm ii. Like when Henry tries to be intimate with Catherine and she slaps him—she doesn’t want to be viewed as a whore, she understands that there are consequences (Henry should be prepared to be slapped since he grabbed her arm when she didn’t want him to), just as Catherine expects to live the unpredictable and non-perfect life by staying with Henry and having his baby iii. When pregnant, Catherine definitely displays “grace under pressure”—accepting fate (that is uncontrollable) b. "The pattern of what Alberto Moravia aptly calls Hemingway's "ingenuous nihilism" was early set, but even Hemingway could not sustain himself on nada, or on bread alone. If life was a short day's journey from nothingness to nothingness, there still had to be some meaning to the "performance en route." In Hemingway's view, the universal moral standard was nonexistent, but there were the clique moralities of the sportsman or the soldier, or, in his own case, the writer. So he invented the Code Hero, the code being "what we have instead of God," as Lady Brett Ashley puts it in The Sun Also Rises." i. Religion? "instead of God" c. "The Code Hero is both a little snobbish and a little vague, but the test of the code is courage, and the essence of the code is conduct." d. Conduct: how someone behaves honorably, how someone behaves under stress or rules or "limits" e. with such dignity comes tragedy and death f. Courage: grace under pressure g. //The Nick Adams Stories// as well i. http://www.people.vcu.edu/~bmangum/hemstories.htm
 * IV.** Code-Hero


 * V. Conclusion**

Tip: use strong verbs, be aware of what you are starting and ending the sentence with, take it easy with the -ings (it weakens the verb by adding a syllable)