Lit Authors

Julie Otsuka

Author of “When the Emperor was Divine”

loosely based on the wartime experiences of Otsuka's mother's family

J.D Salinger

Author of “Catcher in the Rye”

Loss of innocence, coming of age, identity, denial of adulthood

Onondaga People

Dreams shape reality/value family structures and women/ Interconnectedness of humans and nature: creation of the Earth requires both human and animal effort/ ANIMALS ARE IMPORTANT/ bravery, selflessness, generosity valued above all

Leslie Marmon Silko

Man to send rain clouds/ intercultural compromise

John Smith

first to promote permanent settlement of America.

described Jamestown for readers across the Atlantic.

Encouraged settlement: personal and national glory, wealth

disproved myths about America

N. Scott Momaday

Claims that we have a eurocentric understanding of history (the New World is ancient)/ Challenges stereotypes of indigenous people/ Bering Land Bridge Theory (Siberia -> Alaska)

Anne Bradstreet

raised 8 children, wrote for herself not for a publication/ unladylike occupation/ speaker in her stories are the ideal puritan wife.

Jonathan edwards

known for fire and brimstone sermons/ desired the return to the puritan past/ went to yale at 13

Olaudah Equiano

• thinks Europeans are bad spirits, he has never seen a white person so he believes they speak and look different.

• Made a persuasive piece to have people join abolishment cause.

• personal experience makes it feel real

• Gustavo Vassa was the name was given to equiano

• Voyaged on  the middle passage during the transatlantic slave trade

• From West Africa Nigeria

Arthur Miller

wrote the crucible in response McCarthyism/Morality in the face of desperation