Modernism ("emo before emo")-
Started in Europe and moved to the U.S. It deals with "new' age of tought, reality, and life. Groups ithin the movement were writer,poets, activist, and "Ex-Patriots" or ecpats who stayed in Europe after WWI. The perspectives and ideas they stood for was dillusion, where they were losing faith in people government, morality, and religion. They were also known as the lost generation: males dead, fatherless kids, single mothers who had a loss of faith, life and "old ways". The theme for this group eventually become "youre all a lost generation" that was said by Gertrude Stien to a teen. Another famous Activist and writer during that time was F. Scot Fitzgeerald whos most famous novels were This Sde of Paradise, The Beautiful and Dammned, and The Great Gatsby.