The period after the First World War was not the best and why do we know this? This is partly thanks to the group of writers called the Lost Generation who lived through the war and life afterward and did an incredible job providing in-depth information about their times. This work discusses the characteristics of the works of the Lost Generation. In the first part of my essay I will describe the post-war period. In part two, I'll tell you who the lost generation was. Additionally, I will describe the lives and subjects of the authors whose text I have selected. Then, in the third part, I will focus on the features and information I learned from the context, in the texts, then I will compare them and find the connections between them. Life in the United States after World War I After World War I, the world changed forever. . During the First World War, new technologies quickly transformed warfare and, furthermore, thanks to them, the war had a greater impact on the population; the total number of victims was more than 37 million. The war had forced the generation to grow up quickly, and for those who had spent years in the trenches, the war was all they really knew. “What will become of us? asked one soldier to another. “We’ve been living this life for so long. Now we'll have to start all over again. » The years immediately following the First World War were not the most peaceful. People were unhappy with the established social and aesthetic conventions of the time and some young artists were trying to do something; they gathered in major cities, like Chicago and San Francisco, to protest, explore their own values, ones that clearly ran counter to what their elders had already established, and create new art. Some writers no longer felt the need for... middle of paper ......ttp://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/348402/Lost-Generation (accessed November 15, 2013)6 ) Dictionary. com LLC. “Quotes from the lost generation.” Dictionary.com. http://quotes.dictionary.com/search/lost+Generation?page=1#6XHegBM6tp3pU92F.99 (accessed November 25, 2013)7) Frenz, Horst, editor. “Nobel gives literature lessons. » Amsterdam: Elsevier publishing house. 1969.8) Pospíšil, Ivo, Simoneta Dembická, Jaroslav Kovář, Karolina Křížová, Petr Kyloušek and Irena Přibylová. “Světové Literature 20. Století v kostce”. Prague: Libri. 1999.9)Hemingway, Ernest. “The sun is also rising.” United States of America: Bantam Books, Inc.1949.10) Gray, Richard. “A History of American Literature.” » Malden: Blackwell, 2004.11) Fitzgerald, Francis Scott. “The Great Gatsby.” Australia, 1925. Planet eBooks Web. Accessed November 26, 2013. http://www.planetebook.com/ebooks/The-Great-Gatsby.pdf