How have you re-evaluated your perceptions of the world and the American Identity?
After taking this literature course, I realized many things regarding the world and the American Identity that I did not know much of before. I now realize that Americas 'melting pot' society is not just a mix of different cultures, races, religious views, and traditions but it is also a mix of different literary themes. I found these different themes to be dependent of many things:
- Time period in which the literature was written in
- Setting
- Major events happening
- etc...
Prior to this class, the only differences I truly realized between different forms of literature was the genre. I knew this story was different from that story because of the differences in genres. For example fiction vs non-fiction. I now realize that these different genres can be further subdivided into themes such as imagism, post-modernism, naturalism etc...
Although I have a new found knowledge of literary works and the things I mentioned above, I still believe that the underlying concept found behind most, if not all, works is the yearning for freedom. The constant struggle for freedom is what has driven mankind from it's early days to more contemporary times and it still has a huge impact on literature.
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How you see the world depends on your particular perception but that doesn't mean there aren't other ways of looking at things and people often miss the underlying theme due to their insufficiency to see concepts more diversely.
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