American Literature Essay Examples and Topics

The American Voice is defined in more ways than one person can count. It is perceived as a voice of freedom, a voice of praise, a voice of justice, a voice of peace, (to name a few). Yes the American Voice can be defined in…

 Across a Hundred Mountains, Reyna Grande demonstrates how crossing to America offers immigrants a new start, a better lifestyle, and more opportunities to grow and succeed, idealizing the American Dream. This idealization of the American Dream profoundly changes family relationships in several ways: it creates…

In The Crucible, many themes are portrayed throughout the story. Many people in Salem are paranoid, due to the recent accusations of many of the townspeople of witchcraft; so, this caused the people of the town to act very differently and oddly. Many of the…

In “The House Of Mango Street”, Sandra Cisneros creates a curious tone with Esperanza the book which draws us more into the story and makes us more curious about the book. It makes us, the readers, think more and kind of draws us more into…

From the mind of Ken Kesey, the paid experimental subject in a study conducted by the CIA in which he was given mind-altering drugs and asked to report on their effects comes the book One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest which revolutionized the field of…

Junot Díaz is a Dominican-American writer whose works have been influential in discussing the life of minorities in America as well as their internal struggles due to race and culture. Some of his most famous works delve into this topic. Specifically, Díaz focused on how…

From the quote, “I committed a sin of betrayal of learning English” (p.22), feels like it isn’t a betrayal at all, but from the perspective of Rodriguez, and from the commodity that he is currently going through in this essay, it certainly feels like the…

Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Ann Johnson in St. Louis on April 4, 1928. Maya Angelou was known as a terrific performer, editor, filmmaker, educator, and has had many influences throughout her lifetime. What Maya knew best though, was to write. Angelou was influenced by…

‘If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you are.’ Throughout her lifetime, Maya Angelou has been able to produce many notable works including seven autobiographies, three books of essays, and several books of poetry. Many documentaries and films have…

Ayn Rand had a lot of theme words and out of all of the theme’s I picked individual because it goes more with the theme and it explained the theme more than the other ones do. She had a lot of individual things in the…

Many of Evelyn Waugh’s novels have been filmed. He was made Companion of Honour in 1966. He is considered as the leader in English of the European existentialist psychological fiction. This is characterized by the suppression of the old snobbery of literary genres. Greene states…

In the stories The Conductorette by Maya Angelou and Ashputtel by Peter Straub, the authors share the same theme of overcoming adversity in life. While both stories vary in how much adversity each main character faces in their own life, it still follows the same…

The Great Depression is known as one of the toughest economic periods of the industrialized world that brought severe consequences to a lot of countries in the West. A great example of an interesting description of the change in people’s lives is in the book…

Is it necessary to have rules in order to survive? In the novel, Bud, Not Buddy, author Christopher Paul Curtis explores the life of a young orphan boy named Bud Caldwell and his quest to survive during the great depression. Throughout the story Bud follows…

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” (Dr. Seuss, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”). Theodor Seuss Geisel, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. After leaving his hometown, the Poetry Foundation states, “Geisel…