How Does Society Affect American Literature?
When you think of America you think of white picket fences, big houses, with perfect families eating around a person dinner table sharing about their day. Even though this isn’t the typical life for most Americans, how did the idea get there? How come everything is the way it is now? Today, I am here to show you these reasons and more.
We have all heard a creation story, whether it was Adam and Eve or the Big Bang. A creation story told by the Iroquois Tribe (Native American Tribe) is one of the ways America is shown as a diverse country. The Iroquois Tribe believes in being as eco friendly as possible. They are a tight knit community, making one big family. In the story The Earth On Turtle’s Back told by the Iroquois tribe tells the story of a woman falling from the heavens and creating what is now the land of the earth. The woman had two sons; a left handed son and a right handed son. The …show more content…
Society as a whole was finding its new place in this new world. Patrick Henry was one of the first people to show their hate toward Britain. In his speech “Speech in the Virginia Convention”, or the more well known, “Give me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, Henry tried to persuade the people of the Virginia House to form an army to fight against Britain. Everyone was strongly against any proposal he was about to make. They thought fighting with Britain would be a terrible mistake. Henry presented his information in that people could see the same subject in different ways. He even apologized for going against the high authority people in the room. “He said he considers the subject a matter of choice between living in freedom or suffering as slaves (Of Britain). If he did not speak out on this topic, he says, he would consider himself guilty of treason” (Extended
When you think of America you think of white picket fences, big houses, with perfect families eating around a person dinner table sharing about their day. Even though this isn’t the typical life for most Americans, how did the idea get there? How come everything is the way it is now? Today, I am here to show you these reasons and more.
We have all heard a creation story, whether it was Adam and Eve or the Big Bang. A creation story told by the Iroquois Tribe (Native American Tribe) is one of the ways America is shown as a diverse country. The Iroquois Tribe believes in being as eco friendly as possible. They are a tight knit community, making one big family. In the story The Earth On Turtle’s Back told by the Iroquois tribe tells the story of a woman falling from the heavens and creating what is now the land of the earth. The woman had two sons; a left handed son and a right handed son. The …show more content…
Society as a whole was finding its new place in this new world. Patrick Henry was one of the first people to show their hate toward Britain. In his speech “Speech in the Virginia Convention”, or the more well known, “Give me Liberty or Give Me Death” speech, Henry tried to persuade the people of the Virginia House to form an army to fight against Britain. Everyone was strongly against any proposal he was about to make. They thought fighting with Britain would be a terrible mistake. Henry presented his information in that people could see the same subject in different ways. He even apologized for going against the high authority people in the room. “He said he considers the subject a matter of choice between living in freedom or suffering as slaves (Of Britain). If he did not speak out on this topic, he says, he would consider himself guilty of treason” (Extended