American authors

Death of a salesman is a two-act play set in the late 1940s. The death of a salesman is a tragic story of one family’s failed attempt to live the American dream. Majority of the action in the play takes place in the Loman’s home and yard. The Loman family consists of Wily, Linda and their two sons Biff and Happy. Overall I consider Death of A Salesman a fascinating Play. To begin with I found my self-having difficulty reading the play. I immediately began writing off the play as another story of

Samuel L. Clemens, aka Mark Twain was many things including riverboat pilot, journalist, lecturer, entrepreneur,and inventor, but mainly he was a widely known American author. Mark Twain was born on November 30, 1835 in the tiny village of Florida Missouri. Mark Twain died on April 21st 1910 setting the example for future americans. Clemens was the sixth child of John and Jane Clemens. By his fourth birthday they had moved to the town of Hannibal John worked many jobs dreaming of making wealth but

     All of the authors we have conversed about in class and studied about at home are connected in at least one way, if not many more. For example, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Michael Wigglesworth and John Winthrop all write about God and the way we should all act and the simple fact that we all need to be Christians and so must the Indians who occupy their lives. Where as these authors are writers of the Heavenly Father, the authors that I wish to write about, though they

Edgar Allan Poe is a well known American author. His pieces are remembered by their innovative and ground breaking plots and characters that left readers more disturbed than previous works of literature did. Poe is often called a pioneer when it comes to his stylistic pessimism and darkness. The people and hardships that filled Edgar Allan Poe’s life leave their mark on many of his greatest works such as “The Oblong Box”, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “The Cask of Amontillado”, and The Narrative of Arthur

Saul Bellow is one of the greatest influential authors in American literature. His emotions and point of view during and after WWII impacted American society during the late 1900’s. Bellow created an mental and physical images, illustrating the social and political injustices of the Holocaust as well as illustrating the American life after WWII through the eyes a Russian-American man. Saul Bellow uses his writing to describe his life and help people find their purpose and meanings in the world. Although

Ernest Gaines: Accomplished African-American Author Every person has challenges and different backgrounds that make him unique. These things effect how people think, speak, and act in different situations. Various experiences from an author’s life will influence his works and help them create their stories. A character or the story’s plot may resemble people and events that were present in an author’s life. Ernest Gaines became an accomplished author and the person he is today because of his life

era in Europe and in America. This movement was a large scale rebellion against the Englightment period ideas where science and logic ruled the literary arts. Authors took several approaches on how to convey to the readers social and metaphysical opinions through the tone in a series of novels published. Tone is apparent in much of the American Romantic era writing including that of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Edgar Allan Poe. Ralph Waldo Emerson was a self proclaimed Transcendentalist

features of American society seem most to trouble the authors of the Port Huron Statement? When writing the Port Huron Statement, its authors explicitly mentioned two key features of American society that they found troubling. First, they considered the presence of racism and overall bigotry in the American South as "…the permeating and victimizing fact of human degradation" (Foner 283). The authors acknowledged the presence of practices that essentially dehumanized African Americans in the

Jared Diamond, who is an American scientist and author best known for his popular science books, seems to have the idea that taking on the agricultural revolution was a stupendous thought. Archeological proof has been found to back Diamond’s assumption. By the study of ancient skeletons, visually viewing the bones, the teeth, and the general poor health of the mummified bodies, it is clear that agriculture had made its mark on a fair amount of people. Some people that were able to maintain farming

Edwidge Danticat, a Haitian-American writer, immigrated to the United States at the age of twelve from a Haiti that was filled with violent turmoil where she lived with relatives in a poverty-stricken area of Haiti. She soon learned English in the United States and began to develop as a young writer. Unlike most fictional writers, Danticat wrote her literature about the pain and suffering of her country from her own experiences. “She often says that her voice is the only one of many representing