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“Soldier’s Home”

“Soldier’s Home”. By Ernest Hemingway. The Lost Generation.

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“Soldier’s Home”

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  1. “Soldier’s Home” By Ernest Hemingway

  2. The Lost Generation “Every man becomes civilized between the ages of 18 and 25. If he does not go through a civilizing experience at that time in his life, he will not become a civilized man. The men who went to war at 18 missed the civilizing… All you young people who served in the war are all a lost generation. You have no respect for anything. You drink yourself to death.” -Gertrude Stein

  3. Historical Background • During WWI, soldiers spent their days and nights in mud-filled trenches reeking of urine, poisonous gas, wet sandbags, and decomposing bodies. • They fought rain, cold, lice, and rats, as well as diseases such as trench mouth, gangrene, and dysentery.

  4. Historical Background Continued… • The worst horror, however, was the constant threat of death from enemy trenches. At any moment, a shell could be lobbed across no-man’s land, the barren stretch between the two trenches.

  5. Background on the Story • World War I was the war to end all wars. • Advances in weaponry made the Great War devastating, both physically and psychologically. • Returning soldiers sometimes could not adjust to life back home, which seemed to offer little they could relate to or believe in. • Some soldiers became disillusioned, cynical, isolated, and overwhelmed by hopelessness. • They become the “Lost Generation.”

  6. Background Continued… • Soldiers who returned home from WWI were often described as “shell shocked”- suffering from a mental and emotional condition of confusion, exhaustion, anxiety, and depression. • Now called Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder • Not well understood by friends and relatives who felt they couldn’t help their loved ones. • They couldn’t understand why some soldiers seemed unable to plunge back into civilian life.

  7. Literary Terms to Focus On 1. Protagonist: Central character of a work of literature. • Some protagonists are heroes; some are antiheroes 2. Antihero: Protagonist who appears in much modern literature.

  8. Hero Vs. Antihero Hero Antihero • Model from traditional literature of many cultures. • Responds to challenges with courage and self-sacrifice • Appears in modern literature • Gives in to disillusionment, hopelessness, and inaction

  9. Big Words I Don’t Know 1. hysteria: uncontrolled excitement 2. atrocity: horrible; brutal 3. apocryphal: of questionable authority; false 4. alliances: close associations entered into for mutual benefits 5. intrigue: scheming; plotting

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