The Sun Also Rises, by Ernest Hemingway. Banned in Boston, MA, in 1930, in Ireland in 1953, and in Riverside and San Jose, CA, in 1960 because of it language and use of profanity, and its central focus on sex, promiscuity and the overall decadence of its characters.

What is the first line of The Sun Also Rises?

First Line: “Robert Cohn was once middleweight boxing champion of Princeton.” Last Lines: “ ‘Oh, Jake,’ Brett said, ‘we could have had such a damned good time together. ‘ Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton.

What is the message of The Sun Also Rises?

Hemingway presents his notion that the “Lost Generation”—considered to have been decadent, dissolute, and irretrievably damaged by World War I—was in fact resilient and strong. Hemingway investigates the themes of love and death, the revivifying power of nature, and the concept of masculinity.