Literature has been used to express the concerns and questions that human kind has had regarding the society around it. These peices are social protests, criticisms, and commentaries.
+ Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whether practiced by kind or cruel masters, slavery injects misery into the lives of Southern blacks, testing their courage and their faith.
+The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
An Oklahoma farm family struggling from the drought during the depression journies across trhe country towards brighter hopes promised in California.
+Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau spends over 2 years and two months mostly ibn isolation from society at his cabin near Walden Pond. He writes of what his partial solidtude has taught him of living deliberately.
+The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Among the first "muckraking" peices of American literature, Sinclaire gives his insight to the dark underworld of the unregulated meat industry of 1906 before the FDA.
+ Roots, Alex Haley
A monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him. By tracing back his own roots, Haley tells the story of 39 million Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that ultimately speaks to all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.
+ Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Miller seems to say with this play that any man can have as great a fall and be as great a tragedy as a king or some other famous person. Just because people are common does not mean that their falls are to them less steep. Also one must find oneself to be successful in life.
+ On the Beach, Nevil Shute
The characters cope with the reality that they're among the few people in the world left alive after a catastrophic nuclear war, and that within several months they too will inevitably die from radiation sickness.
+ Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Stephen Kumalo struggles against the forces (white oppression, the corrupting influences of city life) that destroy his family and his country.
+ Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
Shortly after the suicide of Quoyle’s parents, his unfaithful/abusive wife, Petal and her lover leave town. Days later, she sells their daughters to a 'black market adoption’. Petal and her lover are killed in a car accident; the young girls are located by police and returned to Quoyle. Despite their safe return, Quoyle's life is collapsing. He moves to Newfoundland and learns about his own troubled family background. Quoyle begins a relationship with a local woman. His growth in confidence and emotional strength, as well as his ability to be comfortable in a loving relationship, become the main focus for the book. A series of deep and disturbing secrets about his ancestors emerge in strange ways.
+ Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
Whether practiced by kind or cruel masters, slavery injects misery into the lives of Southern blacks, testing their courage and their faith.
+The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
An Oklahoma farm family struggling from the drought during the depression journies across trhe country towards brighter hopes promised in California.
+Walden, Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau spends over 2 years and two months mostly ibn isolation from society at his cabin near Walden Pond. He writes of what his partial solidtude has taught him of living deliberately.
+The Jungle, Upton Sinclair
Among the first "muckraking" peices of American literature, Sinclaire gives his insight to the dark underworld of the unregulated meat industry of 1906 before the FDA.
+ Roots, Alex Haley
A monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him. By tracing back his own roots, Haley tells the story of 39 million Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that ultimately speaks to all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.
+ Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller
Miller seems to say with this play that any man can have as great a fall and be as great a tragedy as a king or some other famous person. Just because people are common does not mean that their falls are to them less steep. Also one must find oneself to be successful in life.
+ On the Beach, Nevil Shute
The characters cope with the reality that they're among the few people in the world left alive after a catastrophic nuclear war, and that within several months they too will inevitably die from radiation sickness.
+ Cry, the Beloved Country, Alan Paton
Stephen Kumalo struggles against the forces (white oppression, the corrupting influences of city life) that destroy his family and his country.
+ Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx
Shortly after the suicide of Quoyle’s parents, his unfaithful/abusive wife, Petal and her lover leave town. Days later, she sells their daughters to a 'black market adoption’. Petal and her lover are killed in a car accident; the young girls are located by police and returned to Quoyle. Despite their safe return, Quoyle's life is collapsing. He moves to Newfoundland and learns about his own troubled family background. Quoyle begins a relationship with a local woman. His growth in confidence and emotional strength, as well as his ability to be comfortable in a loving relationship, become the main focus for the book. A series of deep and disturbing secrets about his ancestors emerge in strange ways.
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