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    Although Hemingway wanted to enlist in the war, he became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. This is where he really practiced writing. He eventually moved to Paris to work as a reporter and he joined a group of writers and artists, including Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Pablo Picasso. In 1937, Hemingway went to Spain as a reporter to cover the Spanish Civil War. After, he moved around a great deal, first to Havana, Cuba, and then back to Europe to contribute to the war effort

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    Great War, which took place in the early twentieth century, is widely said to have altered America’s present culture as a whole. The term that defines the group of individuals that came of age during the Great War stems from a remark once made by Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway, “you are all a Lost Generation.” Hemingway used it as an epigraph to The Sun Also Rises, a novel that captures the attitudes of a hard-drinking, fast-living set of disillusioned young expatriates in postwar Paris (O’Connor

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    Lost Generation in Hemingway´s Sun Is Also Rises Lost generation is a term, which was originally coined in a conversation by Gertrude Stein, a member of the expatriate circle in 1920's Paris, describes a group of poets who were born around 1900 and Ernest Hemingway made this nickname popular in his book. Especially in the novel Sun is also rises. These authors experienced the World War 1 and in their works they described the situation, feelings and emotion during these years. They were different

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    Literary essay: the effects of World War I on the characters of Ernest Hemingway's Fiesta: The Sun also Rises “You are all a lost generation” Gertrude Stein told Ernest Hemingway, who then later used this quote as an epigraph to his novel Fiesta: The Sun also Rises (1926). “Who is?” You may ask: the expatriates, the survivors of World War I, the orphaned children of countries who sent them away to be slaughtered. “Lost to what?”: the world. Starting in such a way, Hemingway's novel could only be

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    A contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, describes the lost generation as the youth that experienced the terrors of World War One. Readers can observe in Hemingway’s novel, The Sun Also Rises, that the expatriates of the lost generation lead frivolous hedonistic lives on a superficial level. Additionally, two concepts relevant to their lifestyles can be observed. The first concept is explained in Hemingway’s ‘Nada’ theory (Miles), which states that when people lose meaning to their lives

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    A Moveable Feast Essay

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    Paris in the 1920s radiated a feeling of enthusiastic optimism and thus attracted a rich and diverse group of people. A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway documents the young author’s experience in Paris, focusing both on his own journey to becoming a true writer and his relationships with other artists in the city. During the 1920s, Paris exemplified the spirit of the world in the aftermath of World War I and allowed creativity and philosophy to thrive. Despite its sometimes slow pace and unconventional

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    “You are all a lost generation”, said Gertrude Stein to Ernest Hemingway in a casual conversation in Paris. The phrase then came to characterize an entire post-war generation of the 1920’s which sets the premise of Hemingway’s iconic novel, The Sun Also Rises. After World War I, society quickly began questioning their traditional ideas of justice, faith and morality. The men and women affected by the aftermath of the war became physically, psychologically, and morally lost. This group of people was

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    A Moveable Feast

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    During Ernest Hemingway’s time in Paris, 1921-26, he frequented the Musée du Luxembourg where he encountered the work of Paul Cézanne (1839-1906). Hemingway cites the post-impressionistic painter as a major influence multiple times, but does so in a particularly enlightening manner within his posthumously published memoir, A Moveable Feast, from 1964: “I was learning something from the painting of Cézanne that made writing simple true sentences far from enough to make the stories have the dimensions

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    Also Rises is regarded as the quintessential novel of the Lost Generation. Published in 1926, within the decade after the First World War, The Sun Also Rises embodies exactly what the Lost Generation is. The term “Lost Generation” was created by Gertrude Stein and is referred to today as a vast amount of American intellectuals, writers, poets, and artiest, who were born around the beginning of the 20th Century and served in World War One, this generation pursued different lifestyles and rejected the

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    Ernest Hemingway, author of A Farewell to Arms, created a classic but controversial love story banned in Italy as well as parts of the United States, for its candid brutality. While many authors during the Roaring 20s chose to focus on the sacrifices and valor of World War I, Hemingway wrote his novel from a different but realistic perspective. As a World War I veteran himself, Hemingway based his novel off of his experiences in war and from his own life to influence the romantic relationship between

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