Ernest hemingway the writer of the lost generation course work

2.3.Years of War 
In the history of America, Great wars can be counted as one ofthe main 
factors which constitutes the body of its literature and haveprovided a perfect 
theme for talented American writers to express theirpotentials. Just before the 
outburst of war in Europe in 1914, differentarmies were settled in the borders, 
ready to be part of a war that theworld has never experienced before. Battles were 
no longer won by thenumber of soldiers, horses or acts of bravery, but by 
weapons andmachine guns. Many of these writers served in ambulance units 
and experienced a close confrontation with death. The battles continued in 
trenches with using of machine guns and chemical bombs. There were millions of 
soldiers slaughtered and wounded by these attacks without any victories for any 
side of the war. Europe was experiencing a new phase during this massive war. 
France was under attack by allied forces and Britain announced war on 
Germany. Economic conditions were affected by war and finding daily 
requirements to live became anordeal. The works of the writers of the Lost 
Generation are abundantwith the atrocities of the Great Wars. Disillusionment, 
bewilderment,mass immigration, religiosity, pending death, mechanically of life 
andso on, constitute the spirit and structure of the works of the authors whose 
works this research intents to investigate.The First World War was like a catalyst 

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which quickened thechange of the attitude in the new century. During the war 
soldiers ondifferent fronts killed one another under the influence of 
warpropagandas in a century which man supposed to move in the directionof 
civilization. The act of killing and being killed gradually vanishedthe 
propagandas aimed at bringing them to the war under the effects ofnationalist and 
religious slogans and soon they found themselves in awasteland with no 
protection and no moral principles. The only way toescape this disillusionment 
caused by the war was the well-advertisedconsumerism and materialism.
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