Its sounds, styles, and slogans are the subject of high school spirit days and rally skits.”(Culture in the 1960’s). Literature reflected this aspect of the time period too. There may have been a glamorous party going on in one part of town, but it was just as likely that tragic things were happening on the opposite side. Writers, often young ones, felt the need to capture this in their writing, the many sides of the society that they lived in with varying characters and contradictory settings. A lot of acts, whether they were criminal or honorable, have gone unjustified. What the main community didn’t know was that the cases that it had forgotten and left behind, were the ones that writers would discover. They would pick up the loose threads and try to show the world another side of the wrongly accused, or the ones that were never accused at all. In many ways, the authors of the 1960’s immortalized the bubbling misfortunes and sparkling answers in stone, with their writing. In this way and many other ways, the part that literature played in 1960’s culture was just as big as any …show more content…
It wasn’t just because of the revolutionary innovations or quirky hairstyles, it was because of the events behind all of these changes. The Sixties, embellished with it’s contradictions like rebellion and backlash, flower children and assassins, was a decade that transformed the world (The 1960s: A Decade of Promise and Heartbreak). With every step that the world took, birth, death, was, peace, writers were right behind, recording everything with a pen and paper. Sure, we have photographs and artifacts that show us plenty of things about what happened in the 190’s, but the most valuable thing we got from it was the literature, a treasure itself, and telling us about other priceless pieces of information that would otherwise be lost in the folds of history, among the countless other secrets that have never seen light. Without literature, we might still be trying to solve the mysteries we now regard as common info. Conclusion Literature, as shown above, has had a monumental impact on the 1960’s, the same way it's had a big impact on our lives and deserves to be recognized,. There were, great men and women in the 1960’s who have been recorded for the feats that they have achieved. Great events caused by three people, and a great culture shaped and defined by both of them. Literature in the 1960’s was something that still shows up in our daily lives, and deserve to be acknowledged for that lasting