Modern Literature

Katherine Krassilnikoff Modern Literature Everyone knows what it is like to feel alone. That you are different in ways that somehow isolate you from your peers. This can be due to racial barriers, language barriers, or simply not following or buying into what society presents as what should be believed in or do. These differences drastically change a person’s life, marginalizing them and pushing them to the edges of society. Modern literature targets those …

…false image of the world is shattered by this reality and it causes them to even further isolate themselves into a world where they are in control. Society is constantly raising the standards for what a human being should be. This disillusionment causes even the youngest child to believe that that is what they must become, no matter the consequences. This is how the war got started as well as the emotional breakdown that followed.