The Lost Generation By: Zach, Ray, Brennan and Jessica

Activities While most Americans happily went to exciting activities such as movies, listen to the radio and music, dance, and read.

Materialism While most Americans did activities, listed in the previous slide, some began to attack America’s materialism. Materialism is placing more importance on money and material goods than it did on intellectual, spiritual, and artistic concerns.

Strong Writers Some of the people who attacked materialism included: Gertrude Stein Ernest Hemingway F. Scott Fitzgerald John Dos Passos Sinclair Lewis

Gertrude Stein Was very creative with her languages in her play, operas and books. She also gave a very important quote “you are all a lost generation.”

Ernest Hemingway Wrote the masterpiece “ The Sun Also Rises” published in He put Gertrude’s quote in the title of his book.

F. Scott Fitzgerald Wrote a famous novel The Great Gatsby. Published in 1925 Was considered Fitzgerald’s best work.

John Dos Passos In his trilogy U.S.A. he suggested the United States had become 2 nations one rich and one poor. He experimented with free form writing leaving punctuation behind

Sinclair Lewis Wrote satire novels such as Main Street and Babbit. Graduated from Yale University. Was a newspaper reporter in Iowa and San Francisco. Wrote 6 novels.

H.L. Menken One of the wittiest critics at the time, often richly deserved his nasty insults. Labeled the South the “ Sahara of the Bozard”.

Work cited Bayne, Nina. (1994). The Norton Anthology of American Literature. NY: Crunden, Perkins, George & Barbara. (1994). The American Tradition in Literature. NY: McGraudill www. Geocities.com/athens/acropolis/6681/tseliotb.htm www2.idsoline.com/jeff/lostgeneration.html html www2.idsoline.com/jeff/lostgeneration.html html

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