Part One Topic

Chapter1 The Law of Life by Jack London

Chapter2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Chapter3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes

Chapter4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

Chapter5 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck （Excerpts）

Part Two Environment

Chapter1 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe

Chapter2 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane（Excerpts）

Chapter3 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser （Excerpts）

Chapter4 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway

Part Three Character

Chapter1 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne（Excerpts）

Chapter2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain（Excerpts）

Chapter3 Billy Budd by Herman Melville（Excerpts）

Chapter4 A Father－To－Be by Saul Bellow

Chapter5 A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor

Part Four Theme

Chapter1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald（An Excerpt）

Chapter2 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller（An Excerpt）

Chapter3 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison （An Excerpt）

Chapter4 Everyday Use by Alice Walker

Chapter5 The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien（An Excerpt）

Part Five Figure of Speech

Chapter1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant

Chapter2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving

Chapter3 The American Scholar by Ralph W.Emerson（An Excerpt）

Chapter4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman

Chapter5 Riprap by Gary Snyder

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