The Lost Generation

The LOST Generation

Made by José Manuel Arroyo

Index

Introduction

Key Terms

Main Authors

E. Hemmingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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INTRODUCTION

Introduction

Some basic information

The Lost Generation was a group of American writers that during World War I became adults. The making of the term is attributed to Gertrude Stein, and was later extended by Ernest Hemingway because he used it in one of his novels, A Moveable Feast. According to Hemingway's A Moveable Feast, he had heard it used by a garage owner in France, who referred to the younger generation as a " génération perdue". In conversation with Hemmingway, she turned that label on him and declared "You are all a lost generation". The generation was called "lost" because the key terms that they inherited were no longer well-known in the postwar world.

Words from a French garage owner

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KEY terms

KEY TERMS

The main topics of this generation

Materialism

It means to not pay attention to the matters of the mind or spirit, but to enjoy the pleasures that money can buy.

Symbolism

It means that an object is used to provide information about the writing beyond what is essentially described.

Realism

A style of art and literature that seeks to represent every-day life, rather than an idealization of it.

Stoicism

The explanation for this term is patience and courgae when suffering.

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MAIN AUTHORS

Main Authors

The most known writers of the generation

Ernest Hemingway

F. Scott Fitzgerald

John Dos Passos

Born in 1896 in Minnesota, was educated at Princeton University and an army luitenant in 1917.

Born in 1896 in Illinois, he graduated at Harvard College and drove an ambulance in World War I.

His life of adventure influenced later generations. He committed suicide with his favorite hunting gun in 1961.

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Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

A novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest twentieth-century novles. The novel is classified as a symbolist tragedy because it combines symbolism with psychological realism. Fitzgerlad's novel symbolizes the american dream, which is the belief that money can buy love and happiness. The book also shows us the glamor and moral ugliness of the 20s.

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Hemingway

The Old man and the Sea

It is a novel written by the American author Ernest Hemingway. It was the last significant work of Hemingway published during his lifetime. It is a strong work that tells the story of a Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin (pez espada) in the coast of Cuba. It is a short and simple novel whose themes are stoicism, heroism and ceremony. It is also a beautiful about human life. In 1952, the novel recieved the Pulitzer Prize and was also awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Thank you !!!

José Manuel

Arroyo García de la Cruz