American Literature

Have you ever wonder who created the myths, or how the earth came to exist? The slave trade, religious belief, and American Revolution are composed by historical, social, and cultural stories. EarlyAmerican literature is a combination of writing by Native Americans, settlers, and colonists. Basically there are sections that divide the Early American life; these are the Sacred Earth, Life in theNew World, and The Road to Independence. Each section has their own stories, narrated with details from de first ancestors of Native Americans through The American Revolution.
The following stories:"How the Leopard Got His Claws", "Of Plymouth Plantation", "Declaration of Independence", are son examples are America Literature. These can help us to comprehend the effects of the cultural Europeancontact on United States, why the religion was a major factor in American colonial culture, the hardships of slave trade and more knowledge about how the Americans fought the war, in order that theycould obtain freedom and independence.

"How the Leopard Got His Claws" provides information about the sacred earth.The title of the story exemplifies this era because the purpose of the myths is toexplain how the earth became to exist, and why the animals are the way that we know them today. In this myth retold by Chinua Achebe and John Iroaganachi is about when all the animals lived asfriends, no one had big and sharp teeth or claws. Even King Leopard had only small teeth, and the dog had big and sharp teeth. All the animals loved King Leopard, he was generous, an excellent king. KingLeopard had the idea of built shelter in order that the animals used the shelter as a refuge against the rain. All the animals helped to build the shelter, except the dog and the duck. One day the dogcame to the shelter. because the rain came in. The deer and the others animals were disagree about that. King Leopard fought against the dog, and the dog bit him. The animals announced the dog as a...