Essays on Lost Generation

I chose to write a literary essay based on a story “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” written by genius American author Ernest Hemmingway because I have always admired the originality of his works and the unique style of their composition. While writing this paper I have consulted such sources as Oliver Evans “The Snows of Kilimanjaro: A Revaluation” (1961), Ernest Hemmingway “The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories” (2014), Michael Hollister “Analysis of “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” (2015), Nicole Smith “Analysis of The Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway: Major Themes Explored” (15 Jan. 2012), Arthur Waldhorn “A reader’s ...

Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald's creative works can be called "parallel", as both writers worked at the same time - "Jazz Age". Many different critics still discuss their works, citing the numerous common characteristics and similarities. Of course, their technique and literary devices differ and are unique. At the same time, some of the characters, concepts, and problems have similar features. For example, one can compare the value of freedom, which penetrates many writings of these brilliant authors. The theme of the "lost generation" sounds in the early works of E. Hemingway. In the novel The Sun Also ...

Ernest Hemingway is one of those artists, who like to expose themselves any way they like. Hemingway often used irony in his writings when depicting characters, which had life stories full of muddle and difficulties. Not many writers can boast of such an innovation brought to literature, but William Dean Howells can. He began as a critic, and later became a novelist – he is considered the champion of literary realism, who depicted each aspect of society without any embellishment. He sought to pass his own impressions to readers, to arouse their imagination and feelings – the same ones as Howells ...

The article “Are Writing Deficiencies Creating a Lost Generation of Business Writers?” by Zane Quible and Frances Griffin talks about deficiencies of writing skills among business writers in U.S. companies. The authors explore the reasons for American employees’ poor writing skills and discuss the benefits of the glossing, the modified context-based approach and consistent error marking in reducing writing deficiencies.

Although the problem is not new and students’ writing skills have neither improved nor deteriorated over the past 15-20 years according to the National Commission on Writing (NCW), the issue attracted attention of policy makers and researchers after the ...

In The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemmingway adopts the use of simple language to explore the ravages of World War I through his main character Jake. Interestingly, Hemmingway does not succumb to the temptation of using colorful adjectives to describe his characters and the events narrated in the novel. Instead, Hemmingway uses short and direct phrases that leave the reader in suspense. In addition, the style makes the writer omit many details that would have otherwise been useful in dissecting his characters as well as the themes and motifs discussed in the novel. Nonetheless, the style is likeable for ...

Introduction

During World War I, Germany soldiers were exposed to mental and physical trauma. The horrifying life of the soldiers and brutality they experienced in the war change their lives to a point that; when they went back home after war, they felt alienated from the life they used to live before. Many of the soldiers were killed, and those who survived felt the consequences of the war which led to horrifying life they were living.

Soldiers who survived the war felt that their place with other civilians was not the same; the war alienated them from their fellow townsmen. Though ...

Erich Maria Remarque fought in World War I where he was badly wounded. A decade after the war he wrote a book detailing how ordinary German soldiers fared during the war and this book of his was translated into All Quiet on the Western Front. At the time he wrote his book, war books had a romantic feel about them in their dealings with honor, glory and adventure and in 1895 Stephen Crane changed that with his book titled The Red Badge of Courage which revealed the brutality and violence that is all too common with wars. Remarque followed a similar mold ...

The novel “The Sun Also Rises” was accepted by the audience from all around the world from the moment it was published till this day. It provides a delicate and somewhat masked picture of the time in which the plot of the novel took place. The inspiration for the main characters in Hemingway’s piece lies in his own life experiences. Although his writing is very simple, it represents a treasury of hidden and concealed observations. The historical climate in which the plot of the novel takes place is very important for understanding concerns and behavior of the protagonists. It ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Sun Also Rises, was part of a generation of writers who made their mark on the literary scene beginning in the 1920’s. The end of the Great War had significant effects on the attitudes of many artists, who felt that the values under which they had been raised no longer mattered, because of the sheer horror of the war. The horrific weapons that were used for the first time during this war, such as mustard gas, and the size of the war, which dragged most of the West’s major powers into conflict, ...

Ernest Hemingway, the author of The Sun Also Rises, was part of a generation of writers who made their mark on the literary scene beginning in the 1920’s. The end of the Great War had significant effects on the attitudes of many artists, who felt that the values under which they had been raised no longer mattered, because of the sheer horror of the war. The horrific weapons that were used for the first time during this war, such as mustard gas, and the size of the war, which dragged most of the West’s major powers into conflict, ...

The American lost generation of the 1920s is the generation of the American women and men who came of age immediately after the First World War or during the war. This is the generation that is considered to be experienced in war following their involvement in the war and social upheaval of the time. This group lacked cultural identity because of the cynical nature of the war and the emotional stability. Additionally, the lost generation also includes the writers like the John Dos Paso’s, Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemmingway, F. Therefore, the lost generation focuses on the United ...

Ever since Hemingway published his novel “The Sun Also Rises“ he was in the center of attention of the world's reading audience. It was obvious that he shared his personal experiences with his audience through novels. Hemingway took his life experiences and gave them shape turning them in to simple prose. However, the simplicity in his writing hides complicated and implicit meanings. In order to understand this novel we have to look back and analyze the political and social context of the time the novel was written. The United States participated in World War I and after the ...

Many different themes of apparent opposition come from reading James Baldwin’s classic short story, Sonny’s Blues. There are themes of life versus death, good versus bad, light versus darkness, safety versus danger, white versus black, seeing versus blindness, and outside versus inside, to name only a few. A theme that encompasses all of these supposed oppositions is order versus chaos. The characters in Sonny’s Blues attempt to make order from the roiling dangers of poverty, addiction, war, and other chaotic elements of life in Harlem of the 1950s. However, Baldwin does not present chaos and order as ...

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Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises represents a drunkenness-infused, dissipated, and tragedy-stricken collection of antiheroic characters, adequately deemed the Lost Generation. Their postwar plight for meaning in a desolate wasteland of existence is a futile one, painfully aware of the fact that no baptism would wash away their sins. The psychological structure of these characters is equally marred by their profuse alcoholism and debauchery, and their ultimate tragedy is that the all but subtle myth of the generation they belong to would keep them in a perpetual state of psychological hell. The aftermath of the World War I challenged all the ...

The Lost Generation, Bloomsberg Businessweek, October 8, 2009, Your Name Peter Coy in his article “The Lost Generation” analyzes high unemployment among young people, starting their career during or right after the economic crisis. This trend does not only refer to high school drop outs, but also to college graduates, and MBAs. However, it’s not the unemployment itself that is frightening but its consequences both for businesses, not hiring young talented employees, and for the whole generation of people, forced to work in positions below their abilities and. The author stresses, that actions should be taken both ...