Part One Topics / 1
Chapter 1 The Law of Life by Jack London / 2
Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost / 11
Chapter 3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes / 14
Chapter 4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner / 18
Part Two Environment / 30
Chapter 1 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway / 31
Chapter 2 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe / 39
Chapter 3 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
(excerpts) / 49
Chapter 4 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (excerpts) / 74
Part Three Characters / 100
Chapter 1 Billy Budd, Sailor by Herman Melville
( excerpts ) / 101
Chapter 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
(excerpts) / 116
Chapter 3 A Father-To-Be by Saul Bellow / 142
Chapter 4 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
(excerpts) / 156
Part Four Themes / 192
Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald
(an excerpt) / 193
Chapter 2 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (an excerpt) / 212
Chapter 3 Everyday Use by Alice Walker / 219
Chapter 4 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
( an excerpt) / 231
Chapter 5 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
(an excerpt) / 256
Part Five Rhetorics / 273
Chapter 1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant / 274
Chapter 2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving / 278
Chapter 3 The American Scholar by Ralph W. Emerson
(an excerpt) / 296
Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman / 307
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