Literature

             American Literature is written by people who call themselves American and at the same time shape what it means to be American. American Literature separates itself from other forms of literature because of its individuality and most of what is written about in American literature are things that relate to society at the time it is written. Ben Franklin wrote about things that were important when he was alive such as: Slavery, Religion and other important issues that he felt strong about. What it means to be American, being American means that you have the right to voice your opinion about your government, religion and anything that you want to voice your opinion about. American freedom is the backbone of our country; we separated ourselves from England because of religious freedom. And to this day, our citizens and ultimately our country depends upon having that ability, the people in the United States define what it means to be American. I believe that people who we consider American authors are those that have made a statement to society by writing what they have written. These poets and authors have taken a stance against something in society that needed to be changed in some way. Like the issue of slavery, and women's rights is what I have gathered it to mean. By having the Declaration of Independence, we are granted the right to stand up for what we believe to be immoral and ludicrous, the first amendment is that we all have the freedom of speech, meaning that we can speak out against our government and anything we want almost. However, back in the days that we have been reading about so far, things like slavery were still going on.
             The most American author that we have read so far, in my opinion, is Ben Franklin. I think that he had a lot of influence over slavery and the shaping of the country, none of the other authors that we have looked at had the ability to say that they changed America like I believe Ben Fra...

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