Essay On American Literature

American literature is the literature written or produced in the area of the United States and its preceding colonies. During its early history, America was a series of British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States. Therefore, its literary tradition begins as linked to the broader tradition of English literature. However, unique American characteristics and the breadth of its production usually now cause it to be considered a separate path and tradition.
Jodi Lynn Picoult (born May 19, 1966) is an American author. She was awarded the New England Bookseller Award for fiction in 2003. Picoult currently has approximately 14 million copies of her books in print worldwide. The Storyteller is the twentieth novel written by

Even after nearly 70 years – Jodi leaves you with a story he told her. Years ago, after extensive work, his department finally was ready to question an 85 year old man who had been a Nazi guard and who was now living in Ohio. He refused to come in for questioning, so law enforcement professionals surrounded his house. He came outside with a gun. As the police lifted their own weapons he said, “Why you shoot at me? I not Jew.” Seventy years may have passed, but prejudice is alive and well.
“Forgiving isn 't something you do for someone else. It 's something you do for yourself. It 's saying, 'You 're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. ' It 's saying, ‘You don’t get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.’”
This quote rightly analysis how every survivor and victim of the Holocaust is trying to escape from their past and build a new life.
This paper will focus on presenting a criticism on Holocaust, how the survivors try to build a whole new world so that they could exist in it and even then, how the scars of being born in an unfortunate time and place affect their actions even after decades, and how they live behind a mask to be able to hide those