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Maya Angelo

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Poet

“Fonamenal Women”

“I know why the cage bird sings”
- banned for lesbian content

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Ray Bradbury

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Fahrenheit 451
- book burning (24th century)
Something wicked this way comes
- carnival

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poetry

Self-reliance
Nature( book of poetry)

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Walt Whitman

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Leaves of Grass (poem about common man)

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Emily Dickinson

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Gorephobe (didn’t like leaving house)

Poetry was known to be ambiguous and paradoxical

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Fredrick Douglas

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African-American writer

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Robert Frost

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Poems

“The road not taken”
“Stopping by woods on a snowy evening”
“Nothing gold can stay”
“After apple picking”
“Out, out”
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F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Great Gatsby

Stopping in Babylon

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Anne frank

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Anne Frank’s diary

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S.E Hinton

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The outsiders

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William Golding

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The Lord of the Flies

Boys get in plane crash, kill each other. Loss of innocence

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Zora Niall Hurston

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Writer in Harlem Renaissance
“Their eyes were watching God”
- 1930s
- racial struggles of the African American race

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Harper Lee

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To kill a Mockingbird

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C.S Lewis

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Chronicles of Narnia

  1. The Magicians nephew
  2. Lion, the witch, and the wardrobe
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J.D Salinger

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“Catcher in the Rye”

Loss of innocence

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Jack London

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“Call of the wild”

“White fangs”

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George Orwell

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1984

Animal farm

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Louis Lowery

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The Giver

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Herman Melville

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“Moby Dick”

Famous line:

Call me Ishmael

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Ernest Hemmingway

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“A farewell to arms”
“The sun also rises”
“The old man in the sea”
“For whom the bell tolls”

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Edgar Alan Poe

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Poet/short novelist

The Raven
Tell,Tell Heart
Annabelle Lee

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H.G Wells

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“The invisible Man”

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Mary Shelley

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Frankenstein

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William Shakespeare

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Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth

Famous for The English Sonnet

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Amy Tan

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“The joy luck club”

- relationship about mother and daughter, which is hostile

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Percy Shelley

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Married to Mary Shelley

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J.R Tolkin

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“The Lord of the Rings”

“The Hobbit”- Bill Bo baggen

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Mark Twain

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The adventures of huckleberry Finn

The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Connecticut yankee at King Arthur court

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Alice walker

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The color purple

Banned for lesbian content

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Harlem rennassiance authors

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Zora Niall Hurston
Langston Hughes
Charles chestnut

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British romantic authors

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Percy Shelly
John Keets
Lord Bryan (known for getting around)

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Metaphisical poets

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John don Andrew
Andrew Marvell
George Hurbic

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Transdentalism authors

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

Henry Dave threau

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