MODERNS

CHARACTERISTICS

• American dreams
• A new eden land of beuaty ,bounty and unlimited promise.
• Optomism justified by the the ever expanding opportunity.
• Importance of the individual self reliant person.

CHARACTERISTICS

• Modernist Movement
• It is in literature painting music swept along by disillusionment.
• Traditions became spiritually empty

HISTORICAL EVENTS AT THE TIME

• World war one
• The great depression
• New york stock market crash

FAMOUS AUTHORS

• Ernest Hemingway
• Carl sandburg
• Jack london
• F. scottfitzgerald

FAMOUS TEXT

• The great gatsby
• Call of the wild
• Fare well to arms
• Chicago poems