American Literature 201September 29

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As we degenerate, the contrast between us and our house is more evident. We are as much strangers in nature as we are aliens from God. [974]

Ralph Waldo Emerson “Nature”

Class Summary

Next Week’s Assignments

Some Useful Analogies

Frederick Douglass (Part 1) Topics

Next Week’s Assignments

October 4Read Frederick Douglass Narrative (VIII to end)Blog #8Email of 1 reading quote from each work we’ve read

October 6Review for mid-term exam

30 reading quotes to identify6-7 topics for comparison essay

Blog #9

Some Useful Analogies

How to Live

Fight – Battle of Good/Evil

Love – nurture and embrace

Read – Search for Knowledge

Eat – Search for Spiritual Nourishment

Sing – Music = emotion + thought

Walk – Journey to find / to escape

Dance – Balance of action and emotion

Act – the role assigned

Frederick Douglass Topics

Based on topics sheet

Last QuestionsRemember for October 4

Read Frederick Douglass Narrative (VIII to end)

Blog #8

Email of reading quotes

It is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson *

* Sante, Luc. “The Fiction of Memory” The New York Times. March 14, 2010.