Need American Literature ideas.?
I need to do a powerpoint project on a piece of american literature and how it relates to period of time or event in American history, and a song which will play in the back. I have music to do anything. I just need the literature to help me make up my mind.For example, I could use the Grapes of Wrath and relate it to the 30s and the great depression, but we read it in class. It would be cool to read a possibly fiction book that converys the culture of a period.
My ideas are
American Revolution
Great Depression
Trail of Tears
Hippy Movement
60s culture
70s culture
Invasion of Normandy
Civil Rights
I don’t really know any American literature except fantasy books. Any ideas welcome. Fun short books or long poems would be nice. Remember I am just a 17 year old boy. >_>
Jack Kerouac’s On The Road!
Here’s a review:
“On the surface, it gives a wonderfully vivid (and exciting) picture of a very different America, a place where there were no freeways or computers or mobile phones, and railroads were still important, and you could hitch-hike across the country and survive by manual labor, and hear jazz in its purest form. Besides that, it’s probably the ultimate adventure novel, and in some way probes the male mind (and dream of freedom) as well as reexamines the much vaunted ‘American dream’ as something beyond nationalism and corporate capitalism.
The prose is beautiful, full of vivid portrayals of excitement and emotion. Much imitated, this is one of the few books that I not only enjoyed but which has changed the way I think. Give this wonderful, jazzy book a chance!”
Pulp Fiction: The Golden Age of Sci Fi, Fantasy and Adventure – Commercial Free Version
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Seasons: A Real Story of an Amish Girl $3.49 As the oldest child in an impoverished Amish family, Lydia Lee knows little more of life beyond hard work, sacrifice and extreme hunger. Yet, even as a young girl she strives to be content with all God has provided. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, Lydia’s childhood unfolds as her family struggles to survive, finding strength from their Amish faith. But, when tragedy strikes, that v… |
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Where Darkness Dwells $3.95 Summer, 1934. Two boys, searching for a local legend, stumble upon the Underground, a network of uncharted caverns. Time holds no sway there; people no longer age and their wounds heal as if by magic. By morning, one boy is murdered, while the other never returns. Below a town ravaged by the Great Depression, an immortal society thrives, built on the backs of slavery and pervasive immorality…. |
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The Grapes of Wrath $7.39 Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath is also the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, who are driven off their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Recommended in Laura Berquist U.S. History Geography and American LiteratureAuthor: John SteinbeckFormat: 464 pages, P… |