Dec 26, 2009

In Our Time | Ideas for Group Discussions

Although it is unique in form and style, In Our Time deals with a familiar subject of universal and timeless relevance: a young person growing up, embarking on a quest for meaning and peace in a tension ridden and war-ravaged world. Discussions might usefully begin with comparison of other works which follow the same pattern and, more specifically, move to other works which appeared in the 1920s and reflect similar or disparate reactions to World War I (e.g., John Dos Passos, Three Soldiers, 1921; e. e. cummings, The Enormous Room, 1922). Hemingway's sense of...