Literature as a reflection upon society "Where are the origins of American Literature derived from?"

ESSAY <Tab/>When historians look through history they look at many different aspects of it including literature, whether its Native American tales or Ben Franklin's journal there are hints that suggest certain values such as self-awareness, loyalty, nature, equality, and fairness. Out of all the values nature and equality (fairness) has proven to be the most important. When we look in historic literature fairness keeps showing up as the bases of …

…shape the society to the dominating one it is now. Written pieces by Americans told how equality will be the tone of this new country while Native Americans told stories about how important nature is and why things are the way things are. Whether a piece is about women's writes or why a spider has eight legs stories and historic documents prove that certain values did set the foundation for a majority of American Society.