Part One Topic
Chapter 1 The Law of Life by Jack London.
Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost
Chapter 3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes
Chapter 4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner
Chapter 5 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck （Excerpts）

Part Two Environment
Chapter 1 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe
Chapter 2 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane
（ Excerpts ）
Chapter 3 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser （Excerpts）
Chapter 4 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway

Part Three Character
Chapter 1 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
（ Excerpts ）
Chapter 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
（ Excerpts ）
Chapter 3 Billy Budd by Herman Melville
（ Excerpts ）
Chapter 4 A Father-To-Be by Saul Bellow
Chapter 5 A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor

Part Four Theme
Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald
（An Excerpt）
Chapter 2 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
（An Excerpt）
Chapter 3 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison （An Excerpt）
Chapter 4 Everyday Use by Alice Walker
Chapter 5 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien
（An Excerpt）

Part Five Figure of Speech
Chapter 1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant
Chapter 2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
Chapter 3 The American Scholar by Ralph W. Emerson
（An Excerpt）
Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Chapter 5 Riprap by Gary Snyder
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