Question:
Literature and social reality paper
During this period the American society was being pushed and pulled in different directions by a variety of social forces and trends. These forces and trends are reflected in period literature in many ways. Select one of the period's defining themes and write a 1,050 to 1,400-word paper exploring how your selected theme reflects the period in literature. You may discuss the political issues addressed, how the world is described, how dialect is portrayed, the topics of the works, the literary forms used by the writer or writers analyzed, how the written literature reflects, resists, and comments on oral traditions, or any other issues or patterns you see as significant. (One such option is to examine the tension between Realism and Romanticism in period literature.)