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1 Literary Themes for Students: (War and Peace) (Race and Prejudice) (The American Dream) (Author List) A Achebe, Chinua Things Fall Apart (War and Peace) p. 519 Alexie, Sherman What you Pawn I will Redeem (Race and Prejudice) p. 515 Allende, Isabel The House of the Spirits (War and Peace) p. 286 Alvarez, Julia In the Time of the Butterflies (War and Peace) p. 323 Angelou, Maya I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Race and Prejudice) p. 307 B Bowden, Mark Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War (War and Peace) p. 95 Brooks, Gwendolyn Blacks (Race and Prejudice) p. 128 Brown, Dee Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West (Race and Prejudice) p. 140 C Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Nunez Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition (The American Dream) p. 153

2 Cather, Willa O Pioneers! (The American Dream) p. 412 Chopin, Kate The Awakening (Race and Prejudice) p. 114 Cisneros, Sandra The House on Mango Street (Race and Prejudice) p. 279 Colbert, Stephen White House Correspondents Association Dinner 2006 Speech (The American Dream) p. 494 Conrad, Joseph Heart of Darkness (Race and Prejudice) p. 267 Cooper, James Fenimore The Last of the Mohicans (War and Peace) p. 364 Crane, Stephen The Red Badge of Courage (War and Peace) p. 439 D Dickens, Charles A Tale of Two Cities (War and Peace) p. 494 Dos Passos, John The Big Money (The American Dream) p. 93 Dreiser, Theodore Sister Carrie (The American Dream) p. 466 Du Bois, W. E. B. The Souls of Black Folk (Race and Prejudice) p. 456 E Ellison, Ralph

3 King of the Bingo Game (Race and Prejudice) p. 333 Emerson, Ralph Waldo Self-Reliance (The American Dream) p. 453 F Faulkner, William Absalom, Absalom! (The American Dream) p. 27 Fitzgerald, F. Scott The Great Gatsby (The American Dream) p.264 Forbes, Esther Johnny Tremain (War and Peace) p. 350 Forester, E. M. A Passage to India (Race and Prejudice) p. 398 Frank, Anne The Diary of a Young Girl (War and Peace) p. 185 The Diary of a Young Girl (Race and Prejudice) p. 199 Franklin, Benjamin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (The American Dream) p. 79 Frazier, Charles Cold Mountain (War and Peace) p. 154 Frost, Robert Mending Wall (The American Dream) p. 346 G Gaines, Ernest J. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Race and Prejudice) p. 86 Grass, Gunter The Tin Drum (War and Peace) p. 535

4 H Haley, Alex The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Race and Prejudice) p. 101 Hansberry, Lorraine A Raisin in the Sun (Race and Prejudice) p. 412 Hawthorne, Nathaniel My Kinsman, Major Molineux (The American Dream) p. 386 Heller, Joseph Catch-22 (War and Peace) p.124 Hemingway, Ernest For Whom the Bell Tolls (War and Peace) p. 227 Hersey, John Hiroshima (War and Peace) p. 274 Homer Iliad (War and Peace) p. 300 Houston, James D. Farewell to Manzanar (Race and Prejudice) p. 227 Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki Farewell to Manzanar (War and Peace) p. 213 Farewell to Manzanar (Race and Prejudice) p. 227 Hughes, Langston Montage of a Dream Deferred (The American Dream) p. 371 The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Race and Prejudice) p. 374 Hunt, Irene Across Five Aprils (War and Peace) p. 55 I

5 J James, Henry Daisy Miller (The American Dream) p. 181 Jefferson, Thomas The Declaration of Independence (The American Dream) p. 209 Joseph, Chief I Will Fight No More Forever (War and Peace) p. 337 K Kerouac, Jack On the Road (The American Dream) p. 400 Keneally, Thomas Schindler s List (War and Peace) p. 451 Kennedy, John F. John F. Kennedy s Inaugural Address (The American Dream) p. 291 Keyes, Daniel Flowers for Algernon (Race and Prejudice) p. 241 King Jr., Martin Luther I Have a Dream (Race and Prejudice) p. 294 Kingston, Maxine Hong The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts (War and Peace) p. 563 Knowles, John A Separate Peace (War and Peace) p. 466 Kovic, Ron Born on the Fourth of July (War and Peace) p. 109 Kushner, Tony Angels in America (Race and Prejudice) p. 72

6 L Lee, Harper To Kill a Mockingbird (Race and Prejudice) p. 470 Lee, Marie G. Finding My Voice (The American Dream) p. 236 Levi, Primo A Good Day (Race and Prejudice) p. 256 Lewis, Sinclair Main Street (The American Dream) p. 330 Lowell, Amy Patterns (War and Peace) p. 416 M Malcolm X The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Race and Prejudice) p. 101 Malory, Thomas Le Morte D Arthur (War and Peace) p. 378 Mathabane, Mark Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa (Race and Prejudice) p. 320 McCrae, John In Flanders Fields (War and Peace) p. 312 McMurtry, Larry Lonesome Dove (The American Dream) p. 317 McPherson, James Alan Elbow Room (The American Dream) p. 222 Miller, Arthur Death of a Salesman (The American Dream) p. 195 Mitchell, Margaret Gone with the Wind (War and Peace) p. 242

7 Momaday, N. Scott House Made of Dawn (The American Dream) p. 277 Myers, Walter Dean Autobiography of My Dead Brother (The American Dream) p. 66 N Neihardt, John G. Black Elk Speaks (The American Dream) p. 110 O O Brien, Tim The Things They Carried (War and Peace) p. 507 O Connor, Flannery Everything That Rises Must Converge (Race and Prejudice) p. 214 O Flaherty, Liam The Sniper (War and Peace) p. 481 P Paine, Thomas Common Sense (War and Peace) p. 169 Common Sense (The American Dream) p. 168 Paton, Alan Cry, The Beloved Country (Race and Prejudice) p. 186 Q

8 R Remarque, Erich Maria All Quiet on the Western Front (War and Peace) p. 69 Rivera, Tomas And the Earth Did Not Devour Him (The American Dream) p. 56 Roth, Henry Call It Sleep (The American Dream) p. 125 S Satrapi, Marjane Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood (War and Peace) p. 424 Shakespeare, William Henry V (War and Peace) p. 257 The Merchant of Venice (Race and Prejudice) p. 345 Silko, Leslie Marmon Ceremony (Race and Prejudice) p. 156 Sone, Monica Nisei Daughter (Race and Prejudice) p. 385 Stowe, Harriet Beecher Uncle Tom s Cabin (Race and Prejudice) p. 484 Sun-Tzu The Art of War (War and Peace) p. 81 T Taylor, Mildred D. Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Race and Prejudice) p. 426

9 Tennyson, Alfred The Charge of the Light Brigade (War and Peace) p.141 Tolstoy, Leo War and Peace (War and Peace) p. 548 Toomer, Jean Cane (The American Dream) p. 138 Twain, Mark The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Race and Prejudice) p. 55 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The American Dream) p. 41 U Updike, John Rabbit, Run (The American Dream) p. 440 V W Walker, Alice The Color Purple (Race and Prejudice) p. 172 Whitman, Walt O Captain! My Captain (War and Peace) p. 405 Song of Myself (The American Dream) p. 481 Wiesel, Elie Night (War and Peace) p. 393 Wilder, Laura Ingalls Little House on the Prairie (The American Dream) p. 302

10 Wilder, Thornton Our Town (The American Dream) p. 427 Winthrop, John A Model of Christian Charity (The American Dream) p. 359 Wollstonecraft, Mary A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Race and Prejudice) p. 499 Woolf, Virginia A Room of One s Own (Race and Prejudice) p. 441 Wright, Richard Native Son (Race and Prejudice) p. 360 X Y Yeats, William Butler Easter 1916 (War and Peace) p. 200 Z Updated 2015

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