An attribute that both generations show is strength. Both show this strength in different ways but this attribute could have been directly passed down from parent to child. The Greatest Generation showed their strength by their ability to fight a war that was on the other side of the world. They fought for other countries’ freedom fully knowing the danger of their service. Those who were left in the United States exhibited enormous amounts of strength by their resilience and ability to industrialize their nation to supply the nation’s war efforts. During the war, this generation worked together to make hundreds of thousands of airplanes, thousands of tanks and warships, and tens of billions of pieces of small ammunition (Bondi, 1995). They
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Authors who were born during the 1920s, such as Ray Bradbury, give a good insight on what society thought. They wrote books about what they were passionate about. Authors also wrote pieces that influenced their generation. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was a story about an over-controlling government and the effects it had on the people who lived in the story (Bradbury, 1953). Many were haunted because they remembered the threat of tyranny during Hitler’s conquest in World War 2 and the rise of the U.S.S.R. This book put people’s fears into words that made the possibility of such a strict government feel very real. This is why Fahrenheit 451 is still read in many high schools. Since there was such a focus on the sexual revolution, literature during the 1960s had a lot of focus on sexual matters. Fanny Hill, a novel by John Cleland, set the bar for sexual literature. Books written before it such as, Tropic of Cancer and Chatterley’s Lover, were less sexual and had more literal value to them but were still banned because of the sexual content. After Fanny Hill was cleared by the United States Supreme Court, more authors were ready to release their works on sexuality. This increase in numbers of books with erotic portions coincides with the sexual revolution occurring in the United States. More and more teenagers were having casual sex instead of waiting until marriage which was the expected behavior of older generations. The birth control pill also allowed for intercourse without fear of getting pregnant. This lifestyle was so different and radical from previous generations that those older were appalled at what the Baby Boomers were doing with their
Authors who were born during the 1920s, such as Ray Bradbury, give a good insight on what society thought. They wrote books about what they were passionate about. Authors also wrote pieces that influenced their generation. Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 was a story about an over-controlling government and the effects it had on the people who lived in the story (Bradbury, 1953). Many were haunted because they remembered the threat of tyranny during Hitler’s conquest in World War 2 and the rise of the U.S.S.R. This book put people’s fears into words that made the possibility of such a strict government feel very real. This is why Fahrenheit 451 is still read in many high schools. Since there was such a focus on the sexual revolution, literature during the 1960s had a lot of focus on sexual matters. Fanny Hill, a novel by John Cleland, set the bar for sexual literature. Books written before it such as, Tropic of Cancer and Chatterley’s Lover, were less sexual and had more literal value to them but were still banned because of the sexual content. After Fanny Hill was cleared by the United States Supreme Court, more authors were ready to release their works on sexuality. This increase in numbers of books with erotic portions coincides with the sexual revolution occurring in the United States. More and more teenagers were having casual sex instead of waiting until marriage which was the expected behavior of older generations. The birth control pill also allowed for intercourse without fear of getting pregnant. This lifestyle was so different and radical from previous generations that those older were appalled at what the Baby Boomers were doing with their