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How literature helps shape people's lives and values and how people read and write to endure and understand extreme situations. The Bible and hymnals in pre-Revolutionary War American households. The role of the reader during community events and the growing emphasis on book ownership during the war. The focus of postwar novels on the responsibility of freedom in a new republic and the importance of education for democracy. Charlotte Temple by Mrs. Rowson, Henry David Thoreau's Essay on Civil Disobedience and Walden Pond, the appeal of nature writers. Nazi concentration camps and the effect of Molière's play The Misanthrope that one survivor, Charlotte Delbo, describes in her memoirs.
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