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Period: Jan 2, 1000 to Dec 29, 1470
Native American
Native American literature was mainly spoken orally and past on through generations and generations. This type of literature connected to living and non-living objects, and the moral of all their stories was that all things are believed to be significant. They also tried to connect with people spiritually connection with the living and the dead. Also, it was believed that the Native Americans to have an animal such as the coyote, fox, owl, etc. to be their relatives. With all these stories told -
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One World
This Native American poem states how everybody is one with each other in some way of form. It proceeds to say how once we pass away our spirits will become one with the clouds and heavens so that we are able to be taken care of and protected. Also, it starts to begin to talk about the Native American way of life and how it’s disappearing but no matter what their stories and traditions will live on as long as the people keep it up. -
Mar 13, 1300
Buffalo thunder
- The theme of this poem was war time heroes and how where they once commenced battle is now the field where buffalos graze. No one knows about where and how the battles started except for the buffalo since they were the only ones that really saw the battle.
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Mar 13, 1400
AMerican pride
- Throughout this poem right away the author tries to reach to the audience on how you must go through pain to achieve a goal. It talks about the challenges that American has gone through for a vast amount of time from kamikazes to police brutality. In the end American is still standing ready to take what hits them.
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Period: Feb 13, 1472 to
Puritan
The ways of the puritan literature affected writing politically, socially, and a difference in a cultural form. Most of the literature that came out of this puritan time period was very harsh and serious, they tried to portray life truly such as, the event as how it happened or that is a spiritual message from god. What also came with this type of writing was an emphasis on hard work, a push towards a democracy government, and the education of science. To conclude, the writing of the puritans wa -
New England
New England describes the voyage to the coast of Massachusetts and Maine in the early 1600’s but was captured by French pirates and was detain before escaping and making his way to new England and when he is there gives his description of New England -
Upon a wasp chilled with cold
This peom just watches and describes the way the author is observing a wasp. His main goal is to understand a deeper concept of the wasp. -
The author to her book
This poem is about Anne Bradstreet and how her father wasn’t supportive of her job as a writer and how her mother was in the streets and dint know what she could do to help. -
An essay concerning human understanding
This book was to show the public on the capacity of the human mind and how much information we are able to take in and the many different ways to improve this. This was also the key role on understanding empiricism in modern philosophy. -
Some thoughts concerning education
John Locke wrote this book in the late seventeenth century to teach about the education of men during that time. He created a new theory of the mind and throughout the book it teaches three ways to increase a men’s education. -
To my dear and loving husband
Anne Bradstreet is expressing her feelings towards her husband and how she was grateful that he was in her life. Without him she stated she would be nothing in this world. -
The Vnaity Of Human Wishes
– This short poem just mainly speaks about how far certain people want to go to figure out the whole mind and capabilities of a human. Also, towards the end it starts to describe more of a scholar and it talks about a more spiritual way of life. -
Democrratic Vistas
- Democratic Vistas is a collection of letters and politics which is influenced a lot by the Louisiana Purchase and the expansion of the American culture and the government.
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Sinners in the hand of an angry god
This sermon from Edwards was created do to the great awakening; to awaken people’s faith and belief in the majesty of god, he presented the sinners in the hands of an angry to represent both the positive and the negative images if god’s power. -
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Enlightenment
The Enlightenment Literature was trying to explain to the people what the human mind was capable of and what was able to be achieved through experiments and reasoning. This practice was used throughout the American colonies, Western Europe and England. -
The Old English Baron
A young man named Sir Phillip harclay has to return to England to find that his friend has passed away and the seat to the castle is finally open for him. Through the series it shows revelations of horror, climax, and romance to show how far he'll go to retrieve his rightful place. -
The Ghost seer
This story portrays of a secret society in Germany that is trying to convert a German prince to Catholicism and to control the kingdom that he is in. It shows a connection and conflict between passion and morality. -
The mysteries of udolpho
- Emily Aubetr have just suffered a tragedy from her mother’s death and now she is to return to an old castle that her mother has left behind for her. A twist in the plot comes when her father is to take over the castle since he is the closet to her, but then her father suffers from the same sickness her mother had. She is then finally able to take control of the castle but it has secrets that haven’t been revealed.
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The Monk
Two young travel back to their old hometown to be able to take care of their ill grandfather. The grandfather is disappointed in one of the young girls because of the man she is going to marry, a few months pass and they are wedded by a mysterious sermon that disappeared when she was a little girl. After her wedding a gypsy predicts she will die but she does not head this warning. -
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Romanticism
In the early 18th century a new era of literature was starting to conjure up in Europe, it dealt with expressing the individuals emotion, opened up to nature , and opened up the readers imagination. Romanticism was used to express how someone felt and the audience was able to be into the book. Some key people that used romanticism in their books were William Wordsworth, John Keats, and William Blake; these authors were able to capture the key essence that was happening during this time period. E -
Mathilda
- This story is based on Mary Shelly’s life experience when her one year old daughter passed away and her three year old daughter. She explains how this event affected her emotionally and sexually.
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Concord Hymm
Concords Hymm main focus throughout itself is talking about the civil war and the many things that occurred during the war. It goes into deep detail on how the nights were and all the action that was occurring. -
Drum Taps
- Another one of Walt Whitman’s collection is the poetry of The Civil War and what were the causes of the war itself. Another main theme throughout this book is the patriotism of the Americans at this time.
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Zastorzzi
These two servants are supposed to hide their king away in a secret hideout, the twist to the story is that the two servants end up betraying him and tie him up and chain him to the walls. They were forced to do this so the next king could finally be placed. -
Falkner
A six year old orphan [prevents one of the main characters Rupert Falkner from committing suicide, then Falkner adopts the little girl. The domestic harmony that the daughter and father have is a true triumph that has been made. In the end of the book it shows how much sympathy and generosity that Falkner had for his new daughter. -
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Transcendentalism
This movement was created in the mid nineteenth century, these writers believed that they could get to a person through literature in the forms of senses that humans contain and through a spiritual value. Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, and William Henry Channing were some of the authors that believed that transcendentalism would work and they started to write their own literature. These form of literature was mainly contained in the Americans, because many other countries believed that th -
The LAst Man
- This book is a series of writings that were found on the wall near the sibyls cave. Throughout this book it talks about the isolation of people and the science and medicines used in this time period.
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Leaves Of Grass
This book is a collection of poems and other passages that talk about religious, spiritual, and romanticism poems. Mainly most of the poems are in tied with nature and the human body and mind. -
The Raven
A man has ridden to a town never speaking a word from him and this feeling within him felt as if something wasn’t right. The character goes into detail about a women and how he could smell her and he could feel as if she was right next to him watching over him as he rode through the little town. Finally, he finds a figure wrapped in leather skin. The moral was trying to explain how death just happens there nothing anybody really can do. -
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Realism
This form of literature was created to capture how reality was truly during these different periods of time. Also, this form of literature focused on showing how everyday people lived their lives, activities from the middle class to the lower class. Realism was able to capture the feelings from people in literature and how people were really instead of depicting them as something else, it captured true emotion. You can say that realism was the foil to romanticism. Starting around the early 1900 -
Garden Spells
- the Waverly family finds a magical fruit tree in their backyard; whoever eats this fruit affects them in curious ways that nobody in the family can predict. One of the sisters is a rebellious person and the family suspects she will use the fruit for the wrong reasons. Throughout the book the sisters connect and turn her rebellious ways upside done.
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Gothic Fiction
Gothic Fiction was created around the 1850’s in England; it combined both horror and romance which created this dark form of literature that nobody at the time really understood. A main author that was able to give this movement the push it needed was Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the many acclaimed works of Edgar Allan Poe. This genre used heavy depiction on the setting and characters to help create the whole dark suspenseful story. Many of the authors that wrote with this genre used superna -
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Naturalism
Naturalism was another form of realism but with a little more power. This genre was started in 1840 and after being able to make its way it died around the 1940’s. Naturalism depicted real everyday reality, it talked about social, environmental, and heredity problems. Charles Darwin was one of the main men that started this form of literature for this theory of evolution, which made other authors explain to their audience that forces made scientifically instead of naturally. -
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Regionalism
Regionalism refers to the specific details that are put into a story such as landscapes, historical value, customs, traditions, etc. Authors that start to write in the regionalism genre they are the main person to describe to the audience how the setting is and other little details that are to be able to paint a picture in the readers mind. Mark Twain and Kate Chopin are some main authors that know how to write regionalism books very well, they are able to explain how the setting affects the cha -
Germinal
- A young man is uneducated and has a violent temper that ruins his life, to make ends meet he is working in a coal mine to make little to nothing. After being in this job he discovers that his fellow miners are in debt and cannot support their families. So, the young man takes action and leads a strike this can mean the start of something new or starvation for every worker and their family.
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Penguin Classic
- This story takes place in du Pnt-Neuf, Paris and a heroine and her lover killer her husband so they can finally be together. After doing this dirty deed they start to see visions of the dead man and they are not able to enjoy their time together because of this
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Song of Soloman
The story’s main theme is about a milkman that jumped off a roof top to be able to fly and failed miserably, now his goal throughout the book is to be able to actually fly. His journey begins and is trying to find his family’s origins as he tries to accomplish his goals and as he does this he meets many people from liars to cheaters and faithful people. -
One hundred years of solitude
This story’s tells about a town that has never been heard of and through all these years the struggles it has been through. The town has suffered from life and death, war and revolution, and love and lust. Each story has its own meanings and the hope is to keep these traditions the same. -
Sister Carrie
Sister Carrie is young woman set with a goal to make it big in a big city. So, she moves from Wisconsin to New York City to fulfill her dreams, with only four dollars in her purse she is determined to make her goal and prove to herself that whatever you set your mind on you can do it. -
Kafka on the Shore
A teenage boy named Kafka runs away from home to escape a prophecy that was foretold but the back story is also he is trying to search for is mother and sister that have been missing for years. The other character Nakata is coming back from war and is interested in Kafka, they both begin their journeys but there really is no point to them or the reader. -
The devil and Preston Black
The story begins with a man named Preston and he finds a song in an old album about himself which begins the quest of finding who wrote this song about him and why. Preston believes that his dad wrote this for him but turns out he made a deal with the devil that he doesn’t even remember making -
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Imagism
Imagism is a poetic style used in around the early twentieth century; these types of books use sharp and clear language throughout the whole story. A lot of imagism poems were made by women and they were a majority of the ones that wrote these poems. Erza Pound was one of the original women that started this imagism movement. -
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Modern age
An age of disillusionment and confusion—just look at what was happening in history in the US during these dates—this period brought us perhaps our best writers. The authors during this period raised all the great questions of life…but offered no answers. Faulkner, Steinbeck, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Frost are all examples. -
Toy Shop Windowgazing
The poem is of a little boy that always passed by a toyshop and looked at every toy as if it was the best thing he has ever seen. Unfortunately he could never have any of these toys and was always sad about it. So, when he was finally old enough and had children instead of them doing the same thing he did as a child he built the toys for them. It was able to fulfill that little piece of his heart that was hurt. -
Like water for chocolate
- The De LA Garza Family keeps strict restriction on the females, and the youngest female Tita has been forbidden to marry and the family’s tradition is that the youngest has to look after her mother until she dies. Tita falls in love with Pedro but since they cannot marry he marries another sister so he could always be close to her. In the end after twenty years of living like that through bad luck and all odds they beat them.
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Harlem Renaissance
African American literature came out during the 1920s which formed this genre of writing. The heritage of African Americans started to come out and a lot of people that really didn’t relates to them started to feel a sense of connection. This from of literature was a great starting point that helped with civil rights movement. -
This side of paradise
Fitzgerald shows the life of american young people after the first world war and the effects that came from it. It also shows the geed that is taking place and the spot seeking people wanted. -
The age of Innocence
A man is to wed the love of his life, but must return to New York for Ellen since she just got out of a horrible marriage. Archer starts to fall for Ellen and doesn’t know what to do or what choice is better for him. He is torn between his marriage and business, a decision that will either define his life or make it miserable. -
A trip, A trap
This poem is stating that there was a lonely boy or girl that never really expressed their feelings and the only way they felt comfortable was the old memories that a special person made with them. Now that they left they don’t want them to come back because it will be another trap. -
Cane
-Cane is a book that helps bring the life of the African Americans in the south; this book is a collection of poems and stories of how the African Americans lived. Cane is able to show others an eye to eye view of how these people are living day by day month by moth and it evokes an up rise throughout different communities. -
Drifting Plankton
This poem shows how the writer feels as if he and his loved one should be alone together without any distractions. -
The Great Gatsby
This book was published around the 1920s when the economy in america was high. This book showed how women were treated during this time and also the way people were living. -
Dust tracks on a road
This autobiography shows the life of Zora neale Hurston since she was a young girl in poverty and the ways her surroundings of Harlem helped her. This book shows the way of life and the hardship it took Zora to become the writer she has become today. -
The Blacker the berry
Emma Lou Brown is the main character in this story and shows her sorrow and pain she has to deal with on a daily basis. She travels to New York’s Harlem cities to find a safer place. It shows how she tries to survive in this city and the way she is living her life since she has transitioned. -
The sound and the fury
Faulkner employs the life of an american family living in the south and how they are trying to make their reputation better. Throughout the book it shows the financial problems they have and how they start to lose their faith in religion. -
Passing
- Irene has the perfect life and everybody wants her, her husband Brian a physician share a house in the Harlem neighborhoods. Irene encounters an old friend Clare and catch up, Clare states after her father’s death she left their old childhood neighborhood. Both Clare and Irene go back to visit the neighborhoods and see how bad it has changed since they left and both encounter the trouble of going back, but at what cost are they able to go back to this dingy, old broken down neighborhood.
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As i lay dying
This story is about a family that has lost there wife and mother and are taking a journey through the Mississippi countryside to bury her. Each family member tells their part of their story and also the wife tells her story about how life was and what caused everything to happen. -
Light in August
This story shows a life of a women that is looking for the father of her child and the life of a young man that passes as white but thinks he has some black ancestory. -
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Contemporary
This form of literature was set towards the end of World War ll. Most of the books that are made to this day are this form of literature. It asked many questions, but never really answered them. -
Climing
Climbing shows that you should never stop what your goals are no matter what obstacles get in your way. -
The ponder heart
The richest family in the county is releiving their money to the family and Daniel Ponder is the heir to all the money. Then daniel is forced to marry Teacake but then marrys another women. -
The Lovely Bones
This is the story of a loving family that was hurt from the gruesome murder of their teenage daughter; the husband cannot cope with what has happen and starts to turn mad. He searches and searches to figure out who and why the killer murdered his daughter. Throughout the book you find out that the young daughter Susie is still there in spirit for their family and she also finds out what was the cause of her death also. -
The Kite Runner
- The main setting throughout the book was in Afghanistan, a young boy and his best friend have grown up together; one of the boys is a son of a servant. As one of the boys gets bullied and the other isn’t there to help him out it forces the boy to leave his duties as a servant. They move to the U.S but his father dies and is returned to Afghanistan to find out secrets and truth about him.
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Gilead
- This story about is about a father and his three sons that have all fought in a war and carry the spiritual battles that affect in their hearts. Each son has their own story to tell about the war from the early days to the twentieth century. Gilead reveals how a regular family can carry the human condition and beauty of an ordinary life.
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Water For Elephants
Jacob Jankowskis ninety year old mind is brought back in the past to when he was a poor orphan and found a safe haven in the circus. He encounters a woman Marlena and seems to have a deep connection with her. Rosie the star act was an elephant that couldn’t take instructions but Jacob found hope in her. Throughout the book there is a triangle of love, trust, and faith between these three. -
Freedom
Patty and Walter Berglund are beginning their new lives as the new pioneers in St. Paul. Patty was an ideal person to go to for anything and Walter was an environmental lawyer all is going well until things take a turn for the worse. The Berglund’s have become a mystery there son has moved in with their subjective neighbors, Patty is missing, and Walter is trying to figure everything out for himself. -
Life of Pi
The story starts off with a young man and his family boarding a ship to high seas after rough times in their home country of India. Later on a major storm hits their ship and all goes wrong from there. Pi is stranded on a life boat with a tiger and all goes crazy until he finds spiritual moments and starts to connect with the tiger throughout the book.