Major authors: Tribes sioux and Arapaho

“The whites are crazy father have pity on me, I am dying for thirst” (Arapaho stanza 35-38). This quote shows how the Siouz tribe were originally fearful and did not respect the whites for taking away their resources and trying to harm them in the past.

My theme is how the Sioux have always been very loyal to their culture expressed by the quote “I gave them fruits… I saw him when he flew down to the earth; he has renewed our life” (stanza 3-10). The Sioux being as loyal as they were, they had sacrificed their valuable resources and gave a new life to stand up and sacrifice themselves to the whites.

Major Authors: William Bradford, Jonathan Edwards, Anne bradstreet 

Major Historical Events: (1776- Dec. of Independence) (1848- Dec. of sentiments and resolutions) (1791- Autobiography of B. Franklin)


Major authors: Jefferson, Franklin, Stanton, Phillis wheatley, Edgar Allen Poe

Major historical Events: (1823 - Monroe Doctrine enunciated in America) (1833 - Emancipation Act receives its final reading, abolishing slavery in British) Victorian era (1837-1860)

Major Authors: edgar allen poe, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Melville 

Point of view: Third Person

Theme: the idea of sin and punishment


Connection: The Victorian era

In The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthrone the quote “On the other hand, a penalty, which, in our days, would infer a degree of mocking infamy and ridicule, might then be invested with almost as stern a dignity as the punishment of death itself” (Hawthorne 44). The author expressed that certain sins can result in a punishment as death which are related to the times when a crime had been committed in the Victorian era. Hawthorne uses “her especial friend, had taught her the secret, before this last good lady had been hanged for Sir Thomas Overbury’s murder” (212). The significance of this quote is to show how people would receive the punishment of death and be hanged for the sins that they had committed.

Major Historical Events: Dred Scott vs Sandford (1857), Oregon becomes the 33rd U.S. state (1859), Mexican War (1848)

Major Authors: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller

Connection: The historical event Dred Scott vs Sandford  was a fight brought to court about equality for African Americans during the time of segregation. In Emerson’s excerpt “Nature” it is brought up how everything is connected through the alliance of God, man, and nature. Emerson portrays “Nature never wears a mean appearance” (Emerson 3). This is important because it completely goes against Sandford’s point in the battle vs Dred Scott because he is arguing that specifically African Americans aren’t fit for the world. What makes nature so beautiful is that it gives a man the ability to become one with himself and bring out the inner child that was once a part of him. Relating to the quote "The sun illuminates the eye of the man, but shines the heart of the child" (15). This explains how a man can be free but looking back to Sandford’s point it is the opposite because he believes that African Americans don’t deserve freedom.

Major Authors: Frederick Diuglas, William Wells-brown, Harriet Jacobs

Connection:- emancipation proclamation

Relating to the quote “we pledged ourselves afresh, in the most solemn manner, that, at the time appointed, we would certainly start in pursuit of freedom” (Douglass 75). This exemplifies how Douglass had started on his journey for finally achieving freedom just like he has always wanted. My Theme is freedom Douglass had started to gain his own freedom. Acknowledged by the quote “I was full of hope. I expected to have been safe in a land of freedom” (80). Douglass had been convinced that he had finally found the freedom that he was looking for and could now live in peace.

Major Historical Events: World War I (1914-1918), The Great Depression (1929-1939), Harlem Renaissance (1918-1937)

Major authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, Ernest Hemingway

“I accepted a commission as first lieutenant when it began” (Fitzgerald 51). This quotes illustrates Gatsb’s significant role that which he had played during the time of World War 1 and what position he had on his mission in France. Times have changed in Gatsby’s life, nowadays he is this very wealthy and famous man who lives his best life with all his luxurious items. Reflecting on the quote “it was a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thin beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden. It was Gatsby’s mansion” (7).