Woodstock Nation

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This paper examines the life of youth in America in the late 1960's through Cunningham's novel. It explains the carefree and innocent hope that characterized the youth generation of the 1960's. It tells the story of two brothers who participated in the Woodstock music festival and how they were representative of the typical youth of the time period.

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"The late 1960's in America, often described as the Summer of Love, or as in Michael Cunningham's short story, "White Angel", the time of "Woodstock Nation," was characterized most of all by a renewed hope among the youth of America for the triumph of peace and love. The youth movement that began for most in the hilly streets of San Francisco, and the campus of UC Berkeley, spread fast across the nation, culminated in a three-day festival of music and love in the farmlands of Upstate New York, known as Woodstock. There was a sense of innocence about that time in the history of America's youths, an innocence that would be quickly shattered by renewed violence in Southeast Asia. Through the story of two brothers, Michael Cunningham allegorically chronicles the loss of innocence experienced by a generation hopeful for peace yet mired in the violence of war. "

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