The Lost GenerationThe term lost generation was coined during world war 1 (1920s) by a group of american writers writers (Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,and T.S) who called themselves the lost generation because they thought and wrote about how the generation in the 1920s lost their way of life. They had lost what's important really important. The whole point in calling it the lost generation was that the people have lost what has true value, they were now consumed or obsessed with materialistic goods and newer aspects of life that they forgot their generation. Due to these authors disappointment in the generation they moved to Europe (Paris in particular) to write about the lost generation and other current topics during the twenties like the American Dream. The author of the actual book the "Lost generation" was written by Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein who were part of the group of authors the lost generation.
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The picture to the left of this slide is a picture of the main writers (the ones I mentioned in the paragraph above) of the lost generations, these authors all published very famous books in which they talk about the American Dream and the way in which the lost generation lived and should have lived. These books in which they wrote are vital in people understanding why this generations way of life was lost.
Books Written By The Lost Generation
This was the main book during this time that was written specifically for the purpose"The Lost Generation". The authors of this book is the Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. The book was about the major adaptations and living circumstances/way of life in the 1920s.
This book was another book by Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s. The plot of this book was narrated by Jake Barnes, describes Robert Cohn, who was a very rich Jew who graduated from the college Princeton. He suffers from low self-esteem and is unsure of himself, He also had an unsuccessful marriage, lost most of his inheritance, and moved to Paris with an exploitative woman, to write a novel. I think that this book was focused around the lost generation group kind of explaining what they went through during this time and also there beliefs of this time. This book relates to the American dream because one of the most important focuses of this book was wealth. The most important part of the plot was the falling of people from wealth and having to climb there way back to where they want to be.
This book was another famous book written during the roaring twenties written by one of the authors from the lost generation, Ernest Hemingway. The plot of the book was about a man named Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver during the Italian army during World War I. He takes a winter leave from the front. However when he returns, he quickly falls in love with a girl named Catherine Barkley, who is an English nurse's aide in the town's British hospital. This book really expresses how this generation was very oppressed from "normal american life" because of the war. This book has a clear representation of the American dream due to the war.
This book is one of the most important books to the 1920s due to how greatly it is influenced by the American Dream. The book was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald another author who was a part of the lost generation. The plot of the book is about a very rich man named Gatsby whose life revolves around this girl who he is drink to impress. This book represents the rich and the poor, old money/new money, wealth, love, and status. Which are all aspects of the American Dream.
This book was another book by Ernest Hemingway during the 1920s. The plot of this book was narrated by Jake Barnes, describes Robert Cohn, who was a very rich Jew who graduated from the college Princeton. He suffers from low self-esteem and is unsure of himself, He also had an unsuccessful marriage, lost most of his inheritance, and moved to Paris with an exploitative woman, to write a novel. I think that this book was focused around the lost generation group kind of explaining what they went through during this time and also there beliefs of this time. This book relates to the American dream because one of the most important focuses of this book was wealth. The most important part of the plot was the falling of people from wealth and having to climb there way back to where they want to be.
This book was another famous book written during the roaring twenties written by one of the authors from the lost generation, Ernest Hemingway. The plot of the book was about a man named Lieutenant Frederic Henry, a young American ambulance driver during the Italian army during World War I. He takes a winter leave from the front. However when he returns, he quickly falls in love with a girl named Catherine Barkley, who is an English nurse's aide in the town's British hospital. This book really expresses how this generation was very oppressed from "normal american life" because of the war. This book has a clear representation of the American dream due to the war.
This book is one of the most important books to the 1920s due to how greatly it is influenced by the American Dream. The book was written by F. Scott Fitzgerald another author who was a part of the lost generation. The plot of the book is about a very rich man named Gatsby whose life revolves around this girl who he is drink to impress. This book represents the rich and the poor, old money/new money, wealth, love, and status. Which are all aspects of the American Dream.
" Something must be radically wrong with a culture and a civilisation when its youth begins to desert it. Youth is the natural time for revolt, for experiment, for a generous idealism that is eager for action. Any civilisation which has the wisdom of self-preservation will allow a certain margin of freedom for the expression of this youthful mood. But the plain, unpalatable fact is that in America today that margin of freedom has been reduced to the vanishing point. Rebellious youth is not wanted here. In our environment there is nothing to challenge our young men; there is no flexibility, no colour, no possibility for adventure, no chance to shape events more generously than is permitted under the rules of highly organised looting. All our institutional life combines for the common purpose of blackjacking our youth into the acceptance of the status quo; and not acceptance of it merely, but rather its glorification.”
― Harold Edmund Stearns, America And The Young Intellectual