The American Experience
Hailey Bean
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Chasing an Ideal
The Tragic Impulse
Abstract Ideas
Works Consulted
Abstract Ideas
Overarching themes that reoccur throughout works representing the battle of the American Experience.
Identity
Escaping/Defying Society
Longing for the Past
Hope vs. Delusion
Sacrifice
Dignity
Benefit of Others
Values
Race
Old vs. New (Tradition vs. Modernity)
Humanized vs. Mechanical
Coming of Age
Power
Manipulation
Works consulted
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