Post Modern Er Carson Mccullers - 1869 Words

American literature does not only include characters, plots, settings, and themes, but also historical and personal events that shape the writer’s literature. One era that is known for outside events influencing the writing of the time is the post-modern era. The start of the post-modern era took place in the year 1945. This era took rise after two major historical events in America’s history, the Holocaust and the dropping of the atomic bombs on two Japanese cities. Once World War II was over, Americans wanted to return to normal life. However, with the desire to return to normal, Americans in the 1950’s had a hard time determining what they would consider normal. One early post-modern author, Carson McCullers, focused her writing on the feeling of isolation and loneliness that American citizens were facing at the time. Carson McCullers’s novels and short stories contain themes of isolation, death, hope, and dark humor, which are all symbolic of the hards hips humans faced in the post-modern time period and her own personal trials. Works of literature from the post-modern era contain similar characteristics. Post-modern authors usually include irony, dark humor, bisexuality, hope, isolation, and historical events in their writing. The end of World War II played a major role in the desire for America to return to normal. Like all other wars, there were thousands of people killed, but World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. Germany, one of the world’s