"Death in American Literature"
             Death is all around us, is has become part of our culture and we have all adapted ourselves to accepting it. Not a day goes by that death is not mentioned or heard of. Every day the news, whether it's on television or newspapers, talks about death. Homicide or suicides have become common factors in our everyday lives. We all die at some point in time but the amount of people who die each day is greater than the amount of people who are born. Death is natural but the way people die now a day is very unnatural. Shootings, stabbings, drowning, terrorist deaths are now common in society when they shouldn't be. Entertainment has played a key role in adapting society to accept death. People think that the death is amusing in the unrealistic scenario of entertainment so they think it's the same as in real life, when it's not. American literature also creates the sense that death is good or the only point in life, when it's not.
             Death in American literature is demonstrated in the writings of many famous authors. Whether it's the small poem "Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening" by the well-known Robert Frost or by the young mind of William Cullen Bryant in "Thanatopsis," death seems to be the main topic in American Literature. Whether it's the death of a friendship in the story, "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck or in Emerson's "Friendship" essay death is usually caused by society. Society cannot live without death since the destruction of anything beautiful within society is inevitable. The main topics of all these famous writings are ambiguous, open to the interpretation of anyone, yet they all seem to end up with the same conclusion, death. All these authors have they're own form of writing and expressing their feeling therefore making up an eclectic sense in American literature yet their stories always end up in ...