John Dos Passos

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John dos Passos A little biography. Born John Roderigo Madison en 1896, John dos Passos was a writer, although he was well studied in other arts like architecture and painting. He lived in Europe until he was five years old, which resulted in him having learned French as his first language. When he was five he and his mother came back to America, where young John started showing that he was no regular boy. He graduated from school early, and entered Harvard in 1912, after a year spent traveling to Europe, but now as a young adult. After his mother died in 1915, and with the war starting to rise up, John served as an ambulance driver in France. One mans initiation. His first (published) novel was about his wartime experiences. One man’s initiation was based largely on his own experiences during the First World War. The plot is about a young ambulance driver who is learning about the war after he volunteers for it. Apparently, this war caused such a great impact in Dos Passos that he started to feel that war was not really necessary, as well as capitalism. Three soldiers. The above said is widely confirmed in his next published novel, Three soldiers. With this novel, Dos Passos expressed his true feelings about war. Is one of the key American war stories, and we can see its influence in various works done recently. Two well-known examples of this are the movies Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979) and Full Metal Jacket (Stanley Kubrick, 1987) since both movies talk about the de-humanizing factors of war, and how we get to do a great amount of things that heard and seen from another point of view seem ridiculous. Three soldiers is not about the war, is about the impact of the war and times on the ordinary soldier, just like the movies mentioned above. In the novel we read about the three characters on their arrival to the boot camp in the U.S. and then

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