Part One Topics
Chapter 1 The Law of Life by Jack London
Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Chapter 3 The Negro Speaks of Rive by Langston
Hughes
Chapter 4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Part Two
Environment
Chapter 1 In Another Country by Ernest
Hemingway
Chapter 2 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan
Poe
Chapter 3 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
excerpts
Chapter 4 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
excerpts
Part Three Characte
Chapter 1 Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
excerpts
Chapter 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark
Twain
excerpts
Chapter 3 A Father-To-Be by Saul Bellow
Chapter 4 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
excerpts
Part Four Themes
Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald
an excerpt
Chapter 2 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison an
excerpt
Chapter 3 Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Chapter 4 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
an excerpt
Chapter 5 The Things They Carried by Tim O''Brien
an excerpt
Part Five
Rhetorics
Chapter 1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen
Bryant
Chapter 2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Chapter 3 The American Scholar by Ralph W. Eme on
an excerpt
Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
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