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WWI AND ITS EFFECT ON AMERICAN LITERATURE
But following the deadly "Great War" people's ideas of America and the confidence they carried quickly began to vanish. More and More people were speaking and acting with distrust and uncertainty, and as this increased more and more, people were less scared to show it.
Prior to WWI, the American People viewed America with optimism and trust, they were full of confidence and strength...
This movement of the comfort threshold for the American people was a direct portal to leading our society into the creation of modernism. Modernism is essentially pessimistic symbolism that doesn't conclude on issues but leaves them open ended having been brushed with opinion by the writer. Modernism was a style of writing that left it to the reader to come across their own conclusion on ideas. Modernists believed that reality was shaped by people's personal perceptions of ideas. Modernism did however transform from earlier froms of writing, such as Naturalism and Realism, the two closest relatives of Modernism. Mark Twain is a great example of an author who's works could be viewed as extremely influential in early modernists work. Twain used stories based on true events to help illustrate a deeper purpose. Many of his stories showed optimism which was not something carried along by the modernists. The modernists were an era of writers who were dissjointed , full of dissillusionment and dwelled on the bewilderment and meaninglessness of life. WWI made life much more realistic for the people of America. It supported the thought that ideas, government and literature could no longer make decisions for the general public, it was kind of the beginning of the revolution for freedom of mind, and being able to come to any conclusion a person wishes for.
