ENG 266 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: 1918 Flu Pandemic, Ernest Hemingway, Ragtime
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Took place from the beginning of world war i (1915) and the end of. The wars were a slaughter of people worldwide and on top of that, there was the spanish influenza that killed millions. At this time, there was disillusion about america and god because of such tragedy. Rejection of the certaining of scientific thinking. Rejection of the existence of an all-powerful creator. Recognition that the world was becoming more complex (not isolated anymore) Important pages: p. 701 paragraph when , p. 702 paragraph take the lid off is a description of the mother, p. 703-704 he was wonderful . Described to be a cold, sad, broken down place with broken down and beat up people. What happens is the admirer realizes how great of a man the artist really was. The ending wonders how a man of true greatness can come from this place, nebraska. Nebraska is talked very poorly of, art cannot survive there.
