The Changing Of The America Through Literature

Part I of Essay
The authors of these two novels, Mark Twain with The Adventures or Huckleberry Finn and F. Scott Fitzgerald with The Great Gatsby, both used their stories to try and get the reader to reflect upon themselves and the time period they were discussing. They were both trying ....

Part II of Essay
.... that had to be learned by his readers in entertaining stories that had the ability to get the point across. During that time the people were basically divided into three groups, rich white folks, poor white folks, and black slaves and plantation workers. There were no respected Negro people in any of the communities throughout the South. They were mostly slaves serving and working for the white people. Twain showed mostly the negative effects of that time period but also added in a few positive effects like having Jim freed at the end ....