What better way is there to capture history or to sum up a generation of thought, than through literature? To look back into the past to see what events took place and what the mood of the people was, people look to literature. It displays the lifestyles of the time and an intimate peek into the lives of the past. The Beat Generation captures the attitude of kids that had lived through World War II …showed first 75 words of 912 total…

…showed last 75 words of 912 total…it.         Though they were not a very large group of writers, the beats affected a lot of people, then and today. They gave us insight into the attitude and way of life in that sensitive time period after the second world war. They broke down the boundaries of conventional literature in America for future writers. The Beat Generation is truly something to applaud for its boldness and addition to the thought of the American mind.