American+Lit+themes

Not all the stories are listed here. Please add new themes and other readings wherever they may go.

Other stories/readings to classify:
Jefferson Letters Franklin's Speech at the Convention Faulkner's Acceptance Speech Young Goodman Brown Dr. Heidegger's Experiment - dysfunctional relationships The Luck of Roaring Camp Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Jilting of Granny Weatherall - dysfunctional relationships The Lottery Story of an Hour - dysfunctional relationships Richard Cory - when society gets it wrong? The Man Who Loved Flowers (King) - when society gets it wrong? Half-Hanged Mary (Atwood) - when society gets it wrong?

Outsider
Repent Harlequin Omelas Harrison Bergeron The Birthmark Hollow of the Three Hills Bride Comes to Yellow Sky Batman: Year One Rose for Emily Brother Death Good Man is Hard to Find Barn Burning

Issues of Race
slave narratives The Man Who was Almost a Man The Man Who Lived Underground The Man Who Saw the Flood Harlem Renaissance poetry King's Letter from Birmingham Jail Obama speech Fences Declaration of Independence Declaration of Independence (women's rights -http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.html) Declaration of Independence (by Malcolm X -http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=1148) Crash (movie)

Father/son
Knock Knock Brother Death Barn Burning The Bear

Images of Nature
Into the Wild (movie) Big Two-Hearted River Transcendentalism Emerson Thoreau Open Boat Old Man and the Sea Frost, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening Whitman, Song of Myself

Coming of Age
Indian Camp The Killers Laughing Man Nobody Said Anything Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Crutcher "O" Foods essay Stand by Me

Lady Macbeth lives
Rip Van Winkle Devil and Tom Walker Unicorn in the Garden Secret Life of Walter Mitty Catbird Seat Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Views of war
Declaration of Independence American Crisis War Prayer War is Kind - Crane The Good Soldier - Finkel