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Non-Fiction Timeline
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Of Plymouth Plantation by WIlliam Bradford
Bradford describes his journey to America. He explains how many get sick, and how the first winter was very hard on the colonists. This story is important becuase it tells about the people who started America.
"showing herein their true love unto their firends and brethren; a rare example and worthy to be remembered" (Bradford 63). This qoute meant the most to me because without the help of the brave and able, none of the colonists would have survived. -
Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson
This document declares that Britian has done unjust things to the colonists for too long and declares the colonists as an independent country. The Declaration is important to American Literature because it states our independence and begins our journey as a country, "It becomes neccesary to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another" (Jefferson 114). This qoute is important because it states the colonists are declaring independence from Great Britian. -
"Gettysburg Adress" by Abraham Lincoln
President Lincoln gave this adress to the people at Gettysburg. He emphasized rembering those who had fallen on the battlefield. "But it can never forget what they did here" (Lincoln 388). Lincoln is saying that we will forever remember the civil war and those who gave their lives during the war. This speech is known as one of the best speeches of all time and has lasting memories on american people. -
Hiroshima by John Hersey
Hersey's story retells stories of six people who survived the atomic bomb. "They still wonder why they lived when so many others died" (Hersey 1001). 100,00 people died when the bomb was dropped, and these six survived, how six people survived the bomb is a mystery. The story is the first nonfiction novel written, and gives a new view of the atomic bomb dropping. -
Vietnam Memorial Proposal by Maya Lin
this proposal is Maya Lin's idea for the Vietnam merorial. She proposes the winning idea, with two legs extending 200 feet in each direction. "We, the living, are brought to a concrete realization of these deaths" (Lin 1194). Lin accomplishes the thought of putting the indivudal together with the war as a whole. The proposal created a somber but meaningful monument visited by thousands each and every day.
