... who had been liberated by Americans and Russians. After the war, the narrator went home, married, and had kids, all of whom are grown now. He studied anthropology at the University of Chicago, and in anthropology he learned that "there was absolutely no difference between anybody," and that "nobody was ridiculous or bad or disgusting." He's worked various jobs, and tried to ... Paul Lazarro. Derby is the oldest POW there, he had to pull strings to get into the army. He is a high school teacher from Indianapolis, and he is in good physical condition despite his forty-four years of age. H...

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• Grade Level: High School

... that it produced chaotic and difficult writing, that it moved beyond the capacity of many readers and became elitist. Indeed, it is true that readers need a background awareness of psychology, anthropology, history and aesthetics to master some of the literature of the early years of Modernism: T.S. Eliot even furnished footnotes to help the reader with his The Waste Land. But all ... That is for ever England. In four years from 1914 to 1918, over nine million lives were lost. Deep psychological wounds were caused in the minds of the survivors and a physical and metaphysical wasteland w...

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