Today we are going to be discussing "Editha" by William Dean Howells and "The Things They Carried" by Tim O' Brien. We will be analyzing in this episode how these two texts contributed to the literary movement of realism and war.
Today's episode focuses on the slave narratives of Fredrick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs. I discuss what freedom means to each other, and how they crafted their narrative to appeal to their different audience.
Today we are going to be discussing "Young Goodman Brown" by Nathaniel Hawthorne that has influenced American literature.
Today we are analyzing the short story, "Rip Van Winkle" by Washinton Irving that influenced American history.