Read the quotation from Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms.There is nothing as bad as war. . . . When people realize how bad it is they cannot do anything to stop it because they go crazy. There are some people who never realize.Which common Lost Generation theme is reflected in the passage?
Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.According to the excerpt, Faulkner believes that a young writer must
With his writing, William Faulkner explored universal themes, such as
Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.According to Faulkner, the poet is not just a witness to the past, but also
Which value was emphasized in the writings of the Lost Generation?
Randall Jarrell wrote poems that expressed what
Read the following excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work—a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.According to Faulkner, who or what is the true recipient of the Nobel Prize?
Read the excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s All Rivers Run to the Sea.It is unbelievable how fast people will adapt. It hurts to admit it, but within hours of first breathing the cattle car’s nauseating air, we began to feel at home. . . . Mixed into my sadness there was undeniable excitement, for we were living a historic event, a historic adventure.Which theme is expressed in the passage?
Both Flannery O’Connor and William Faulkner explored the lives and existence of
Read the excerpt from William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech.. . . the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed—love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.Which best describes the meaning of the term “universal truths”?
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