In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway

In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
I n Our Time is a collection of short stories published by Ernest Hemingway in 1925. When the book was issued, it immediately received the highest praises of many famous writers such as F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos, and others. All they were delighted with the simplicity and preciseness of the author’s language he had used to describe a variety of complex emotions. The American version of this collection contained the following pieces: “Soldiers Home”, “Indian Camp”, “A Very Short Story”, “My Old Man”, and “ Big Two Hearted River”. All of these stories are related because of a common theme of the “lost generation”.
Having a glimpse into the author’s biography, one would obviously find out that Hemingway survived WWI as a soldier. He had to go through so much evil and blood that he began to rank himself as well as other victims of war among the “lost generation”, people who had no future. This idea is reflected in...