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 Rivers 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 Characters
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 / 219
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. Emerson
(an excerpt)
Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
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