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American Self-Making and Self-Help - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who become a leader in the abolitionist movement. He wrote the "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" in 1845, which is about his early life as a slave.
- - - - Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and poet. He is known as a central figure of Romanticism and of American literature.
  - - - "The American Boy": "What we have a right to expect of the American boy is that he shall turn out to be a good American man. The boy can best become a good man by being a good boy–not a goody-goody boy, but just a plain good boy. I do not mean that he must love only the negative virtues; I mean that he must love the positive virtues also. ‘Good,’ in the largest sense, should include whatever is fine, straightforward, clean, brave and manly."
  - - - "How this Book was Written and Why": "I also gradually realized that I was sorely in need of such training myself. As I look back across the years, I am appalled at my own frequent lack of finesse and understanding. How I wish a book such as this had been placed in my hands twenty years ago! What a priceless boon it would have been."
- - - - "Common sense seized public opinion, propelling American colonists towards independence."
  - - - “In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.”
- - - - In Marco Rubio's "Campaign Announcement" he says, "There was still one place in the world where who you come from does not determine how far you can go."
    - - In "I Know What Savage Fear Really Lies at the Heart of the American Dream" by Costica Bradatan, he states "Quite a lot of who we are, what we do and especially what we cannot do is determined well before we are born, by history, geography, the rise and fall of empires, that farcical god we call luck. I came into this world with failure in my blood and bones. Sometimes I wonder if there is anything else there." This quote summarizes Bradatan's main purpose of the reading is and how he defines success as a
    - - "Echos of the Jazz Age": "... and it seemed only a question of a few years before the older people would step aside and let the world be run by those who saw things as they were--and it all seems rosy and romantic to us who were young then, because we will never feel quite so intensely about our surroundings any more."
- - - - John Winthrop was an early Puritan leader. He was one of the leading figures in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wrote "A Model of Christian Charity" in 1630.
  - - - Mary Rowlandson was a colonial American woman who was captured by Native Americans in 1676. She wrote "A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson", which was about her personal experience in captivity. Rowlandson's narrative was also the first captivity narrative in Puritan literature.