Ernest Hemingway, who was wounded in World War I became the most known refugee author. In his novels, The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms, he criticized the worshiping of the war. He also began a tough, simple style of writing that set a new literary regulation. The Harlem Renaissance was a literary movement that was started by well-educated, middle-class African Americans. These young writers expressed a new pride in the black experience. They celebrated the heritage and folklore of their people. They wrote with defiance about being black in a white world. Black literature helped African Americans reach out and realize that they were just as important as everyone else in the country and that just because they were black did not mean they could not do the same things whites did. During this rich era, important developments also were taking place in African-American society. They began to take pride in their heritage, and started the richness of African-American culture. During the 1920s the lives of American people were not reality, even though they thought they were. All Americans cared about were themselves, and having fun. They were selfish when it came to money, even though they had enough to share. Materialistic things became much more important to Americans, they needed everything. All they did was celebrate, who knew what they were celebrating, whether it was their victory of the war or their wealth, they were still only thinking of themselves. The Roaring Twenties was not only a celebration of youth and culture, where the arts, music, and literature were significant in their lives, but it was also a time of internal hardships. Americans kept their feelings deep down inside themselves, being very careful that no one knew they were suffering, for fear of not being socially excepted. ...
