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Why were young people who came of age in the first decades of the 1900s, as writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway did, dubbed the Lost Generation?.

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They had lost their faith in the goodness of humanity as a result of the violence of World War I.

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The term lost generations is used to describe writers and artists that coming of age happen during world war I.

These artists and writers forced to emigrate to Europe and work there. They often gathered to critic each other's work

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