xv) as he invaded Poland in his quest to conquer the world. In September 1939, Germany’s dictator, Adolf Hitler, ordered his troops to kill “without pity or mercy all men, women and children of the Polish race or language” (Polmar and Allen, p. Events in History at the Time of the Novel World War II and the Holocaustīy 1943, when The Human Comedy was published, a major conflict had been taking place between Axis and Allied powers over much of Europe for four years already.
The fictional incidents inspired by his memories paralleled many acts of discrimination and violence faced by people of different ethnicities in the United States during the Second World War. Twenty years later he detailed some of those memories in The Human Comedy, setting them during World War II, which was unfolding as he wrote the book. Saroyan faced discrimination from teachers and townsfolk during his youth. A novel set in fictional Ithaca, California, in the early 1940s published in 1943.Ī young telegram messenger and his family are affected by World War II.Įvents in History at the Time of the Novelīorn August 31, 1908, William Saroyan grew up the son of immigrant Armenian parents in the ethnically diverse central Californian town of Fresno.
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