Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

The modernist literature period started in the beginning of War World I in 1914. America had develop into a modern country with advance technology. Because of the new modern lifestyle there was better education reforms and caused a higher literacy rate than before, making a demand on literature before the war. The writers in this period thought the cultural way of thinking of the generation before them was wrong, and wanted nothing to do with them. Members of this generation of new modern way of thinks were known as The Lost Generation. These were writers that came of age in the First World War. There was a stop in demand of literature after the war, causing them to be a “lost generation” of writers. The term was coined by Gertrude Stein saying to Ernest Hemingway “you are all a lost generation.” Hemingway used this idea for his book The Sun Also Rises, having the characters as young people with a fast paced and heavy drinking lifestyle. F. Scott Fitzgerald showed the rich white American lifestyle in The Great Gatsby, a story about the millionaire Jay Gatsby, in the Roaring Twenties. Fitzgerald shows the death of the American dream in the book and wrote this while in Paris. Another member of the Lost Generation was T.S. Eliot, an American poet that moved to Europe in the mid-1920s. He was the first of the modern poets, which did

Hughes like T.S. Eliot wrote in plain speech for a wider audience, so less educated black Americans could understand his poetry. The Harlem Renaissance was a movement in New York, specifically Harlem, were black artist came together trying to understand what it meant to be a black, to be an artist, and an American. Langston started writing poetry when in grade school because his white classmates picked him to be class poet, he continued writing the rest of his life. His poetry often had racial themes and was criticized for