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Period Name: Native Americans

Period Characteristics: 1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.

3. Deep respect for nature and animals.

4. Cyclical worldview.

5. Figurative language/parallelism.

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Fun Fact #1: Native Americans made the oldest cotton cloth ever found

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Native Americans facts#2

spoke more than 300 languages.

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Period name: Puritanism and Early Settlement of First "American" colonies 1600-1800

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Period special dates: 1507: Early Settlement of the first American colonies- Jamestown

Period Characteristics: 1. Wrote mostly diaries and histories, which expressed the connections between God and their everyday lives. 2. South to "purify" the Church of England by reforming to the simpler forms of worship and church organization described in the New Testament. 3. Saw religion as a personal, inner experience. 4. Believed in original sin and "elect" who would be saved. 5. Used a plain style of writing.

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1692: Salem Witch Trials

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1741: Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Period authors and works

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William Bradford
-"Of Plymouth Plantation"

Anne Bradstreet (poetry)

John Edwards
-"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"

Edward Taylor
-"Huswifery"

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Fun Fact 1: The puritans believe "Original Sin (humans are innately sinful, tainted by the sins of Adam & Eve; good can be accomplished only through hard work & self-discipline)"

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Fun fact 2: Judgmental God (rewards good/punishes evil)

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Period name: Rationalism

"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

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Period Special Dates

1607 Early Settlement—Jamestown

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Period Special Dates

1775-1783 Revolutionary War

Period characteristics

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1. Mostly comprised of philosophers, scientists, writing speeches and pamphlets

2. Human beings can arrive at truth (God's rules) by using deductive reasoning, rather than relying on the authority of the past, on religious faith, or intuition

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Famous Authors and Works

Benjamin Franklin
—Autobiography

Patrick Henry
—"Speech to the Virginia Convention"

Thomas Paine
—"The Crisis"

Phyllis Wheatley
—poetry

The Constitution

The Bill of Rights

The Declaration of Independence

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Fun fact:

Roughly 5,000 members of the Continental Army, 5 percent of the total number, were black.

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Fun Fact #2

The American Revolution was the United States' longest military conflict before the Vietnam War.

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Period Name: Rationalism

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"The Age of Reason"

"The Enlightenment"

Period special dates

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1775-1783 Revolutionary War

Period characteristics

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Famous authors and works

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Fun fact:

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The Enlightenment brought with it many books, scientists, artists, inventions, laws etc

Fun fact #2

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" At the center of the Enlightenment was a belief that it was the reason in which humans were trying to understand the universe and improve their own conditions"

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Period special dates:

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2200 B.C.—Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1-9)

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2200 B.C. to 1600 A.D.

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1607—Early settlement at Jamestown

Period characteristics

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1. Oral literature: epic narratives, creation myths, stories, poems, songs.

2. Use stories to teach moral lessons and convey practical information about the natural world.

3. Deep respect for nature and animals.

4. Cyclical worldview.

5. Figurative language/parallelism.

Period authors and works

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Literature was handed verbally during this time.

Period name:

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Transcendentalism

"The American Renaissance"

Period special dates:

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1840-1860
Transcendentalism

Period characteristics:

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1. Everything in the world, including human beings, is a reflection of the Divine Soul.

2. People can use their intuition to behold God's spirit revealed in nature or in their own souls.

3. Self-reliance and individualism must outweigh external authority and link conformity to tradition.

4. Important social and political movements include the Abolitionist, Utopian, and Women's Suffrage Movements

Period authors and works

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
—Nature
—"Self-Reliance"

Henry David Thoreau
—Walden
—Life in the Woods

Louisa May Alcott
—Little Women

Fun fact #1

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After the transcendentalism was brought to America, the took progressive stands on women's rights, abolition, reform, and education.

Fun Fact #2

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Transcendentalism was a 19th century movement with writers and philosophers

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24 February 2022

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Russia attacked Ukraine and the Ukrainians called for countries like the United States and Europe to support them in fighting back and keeping their entire country.

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7 October 2023

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On this day, Hamas attacked the Supernova Music Festival in Israel taking a significant stand against the Israeli suppression of the Palestinian people. Very sadly many young people were killed.

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Period Name

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Romanticism

Industrialization

Period special dates

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1800-1860

Dates

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The War of 1812
1812-1815

Dates

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California Gold Rush 1848 January 24th

Period characteristics

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1. Valued feeling, intuition, idealism, and inductive reasoning.

2. Placed faith in inner experience and the power of the imagination.

3. Shunned the artificiality of civilization and sought unspoiled nature as a path to spirituality.

4. Championed individual freedom and the worth of the individual

5. Saw poetry as the highest expression of the imagination

6. Dark Romantics: used dark and supernatural themes/settings (Gothic style)

Period authors and works

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Washington Irving
—"Rip van Winkle"

Emily Dickinson
—poetry

Walt Whitman
—Leaves of Grass

Edgar Allan Poe
—"The Raven"

Nathaniel Hawthorne
—The Scarlet Letter

Fun fact #1

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Romanticism celebrates and awes the power of nature and human creativity

Fun fact #2

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Romanticism is also known as the art movement that added emotion to art

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Nikki Giovanni Poet fact1

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Her experiences from being a single mother influenced her with her poetry

Fact 2

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She taught at many Universities and one of them had a mass shooting in 2007

Fact 3

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One of the students she taught was acclaimed poet Kwame Alexander

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American Renaissance Literature(fact 1)

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Outside the new England Circle was the Southern genius Edgar Allan Poe who later had a strong impact on European Literature.

Puritans ( fact 2 )

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The Puritans believed that God had chosen a few people "The Elect"

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McCarthyism Fact 1

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One thing that turned the public against McCarthy was in 1954 when his investigation of security threats in the US army was televised.

Fact 2

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Another interesting this is how The Crucible is connected with McCarthyism. "The Crucible," a dramatization of the 1692 Salem witch trials, was written as an allegory for the "witch-hunt" atmosphere that pervaded America when Joseph McCarthy, a Republican representative from Wisconsin, led the nation on a search for communists in the American government"

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Suli Breaks fact 1 (speakers corner)

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His passion was drawn from his love of literary and even though it was hard for him to find a job he found one.

Fact 2

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Even though he wrote poetry, he never published any until the year 2008

Fact 3

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His most famous poems are " Why I hate school and love education" and " I will not let an exam result decide my fate"

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Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Fact 1

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His inspiration for writing started when he was stuck in a ship from Europe and from hearing the sound of the engine inspired him to write his first work "And to think I saw it on Mulberry street"

Fact 2

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The reason he called him Dr Seus was to lend credibility to his writings and characters, and in reaction to his father's wish that his son would get a dotorate.

Fact 3

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He briefly studied English Literature after graduating and even though he never had a degree he ended up being a cartoonist.

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Realism

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Realism was used to describe truthful and accurate things that an artist could see rather that imitating the past

Period Special Dates

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Civil War
1861-1865

Period Special Dates

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Reconstruction Era
1865-1877

Period Characteristics

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1. Feelings of disillusionment.
2. Common subjects: slums of rapidly growing cities, factories replacing farmlands, poor factory workers, corrupt politicians.
3. Represented the manner and environment of everyday life and ordinary people as realistically as possible (Regionalism).
4. Sought to explain behavior (psychologically/socially).

Famous Authors and Works

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Mark Twain
-Huckleberry Finn

Jack London
-Call of the Wild
-"To Build a Fire"

Stephen Crane
-"The Open Boat"

Ambrose Bierce
-"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

Kate Chopin
-"Story of an Hour"
-The Awakening

Fact #1

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The invention of photography in 1840 likely helped to spur on the realism movement.

Fact #2

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realism seeks the realistic truth.

Bret Harte Fact 1

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Before settling to be a writer, he was a teacher, and was even a stagecoach guard for Wells Fargo

Fact 2

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He drifted out of school at 13

Fact 3

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Harte did not like the name he was born with so he changed it

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Alice Walker fact 1

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Her most famous work is "The Color Purple" and she got awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983.

Fact 2

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“different reasons for the book being banned, including religious objections, homosexuality, violence, African history, rape, incest, drug abuse, explicit language, and sexual scenes.”

Fact 3

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While growing up she was accidentally blinded in one eye, and her mother gave her a typewriter, allowing her to write instead of doing chores.

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Period Name

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Modernism
1900-1950

Special Dates

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World War I
1914-1918

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The Great Depression
1929-1939

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World War II
1939-1945

Period Characteristics

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1. Sense of disillusionment and loss of faith in the "American Dream": the independent, self-reliant, individual will triumph.
2. Emphasis on bold experimentation in style and form over the traditional.
3. Interest in the inner workings of the human mind (ex. Stream of consciousness).

Period authors and works

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Lorraine Hansberry
-A Raisin in the Sun

F. Scott Fitzgerald
-The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner
-"A Rose for Emily"

Eudora Welty
-"A Worn Path"

Robert Frost
-poetry

T. S. Eliot
-The Waste Land
-"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

John Steinbeck
-Of Mice and Men
-The Grapes of Wrath

Fact 1

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During the great depression real GDP fell 29% from 1929 to 1933. The unemployment rate reached a peak of 25% in 1933. Consumer prices fell 25%; wholesale prices plummeted 32%.

Fact 2

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During the time of the great depression factories were shut down, farms and homes were lost to foreclosure, mills and mines were abandoned, and people went hungry.

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The American Dream fact 1

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At first it was all about equality but by the 1920's it escalated into a dream of material possession

Fact 2

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In the 20th century the people dreamed of freedom, wealth, and meaning.

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The American Dream in the 30's and 40's fact 1

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In the 1930's a person who was considered to be living an American dream had 2 children, a marriage, a three bedroom housed, and a white picked fence.

Fact 2

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In the 1940's, something called the birth of the American dream arose which was when people began to look to the future with expectations

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The American Dream in the 50's fact 1

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To have The American Dream in the 50's, your goal included, ownership a home in the suburbs, a stable job with a pension, children, a car, a stay-at-home mom, and a life better than your parents.

Fact 2

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The 1950s promised an easier existence for Americans who had endured the Depression and World War II.

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Period Name

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Harlem Renaissance
"The Jazz Age"
"The Roaring 20s"

1920–1940

Period Special Dates

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"The New Negro Movement"
1919-1925

Period Special Dates

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Prohibition
1920-1933

Period Characteristics

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1.Black cultural movement in Harlem, New York
2.Some poetry rhythms based on spirituals and jazz, lyrics on the blues, and diction from the street talk of the ghettos
3. Other poetry used conventional lyrical forms

Famous Authors and Works

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James Weldon Johnson

Claude McKay

Countee Cullen

Langston Hughes (poetry)

Zora Neale Hurston

Fact 1

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The jazz age led to the rise of organized crime and illegal bars called speakeasies.

Fact 2

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The total wealth of the Americans during the 1920s doubled, and Americans became wealthier.

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The American Dream in the 60's and 70's fact 1

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The dream was to create a completely equal America, where African-Americans and Caucasian can live in peace and cooperation to improve and better the great American nation.

Fact 2

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In the 1970s, family was focused on and so was latest trends in music. Hippies were popular and everyone needed to work hard for what was essential to live.

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The American Dream during the 80's fact 1

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As people became extremely wealthy, the American Dream began to become about being rich, the most successful.

The American Dream in the 80's

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“American Dream” in 1980s was people having fun, making money, and living free

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The American Dream during the 90's and early 2000's

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It was all about buying a house

The American Dream during the 90's and early 2000's

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The American dream of the 2000's is becoming a millionaire, staring on a reality show, and becoming a celebrity is all apart of the new American dream.

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Period Name

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Contemporary "Postmodernism"
1950–present

Period Special Dates

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Korean War
1950-1953

Period Special Dates

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Vietnam War
1954-1975

Period Characteristics

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1. Influenced by studies of media, language, and information technology.
2. Sense that little is unique; culture endlessly duplicates itself.
3. New literary forms and techniques: works composed of only dialogue, or combining fiction and nonfiction, experimenting with physical appearance of their work.

Famous Authors and Works

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Alice Walker

Wallace Stevens

e.e. cummings

Maya Angelou

Anne Sexton

James Baldwin

Richard Wright

Fact 1

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Postmodernism is a late 20th-century movement in philosophy and literary theory that generally questions the basic assumptions of Western philosophy in the modern period

Fact 2

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At the heart of the Vietnam war was the desire of north Vietnam

Water for Elephants by Sarah Gruen

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The book "Water For Elephants" is about a man called Jacob who joins the circus after his parents died. He falls in love with Marlena who is married to an abusive circus owner called August. He is thinking back on all of this as he is in a nursing home. The story highlights connections between humans and animals, talks about love, loyalty, and also survival.

Reflection

ballerinalavender2006 — 2024-07-19 18:07:20 UTC

I found a lot of things that connect literature to historical events. First of course a lot of stories in literature have happened in history so we find that. Secondly, I found a lot of historical stories and events can inspire symbolism and even themes which is very interesting. History also helps to know about the cultures and how everything came to be.