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One of the greatest advantages of reading the literature is that it allows the reader to know more people. Novels, poems and stories often contain information about the historical, political, sociological and scientific events that were important and influential at the time the works were written.
For example, Arthur Miller's play The Crucible was written in response to the black list. House Un-American Activities Committee (Huaca) was aimed at writers, musicians and other artists and accusing them of having ties to the Communist Party and other treacherous activities. These hearings destroyed lives and reputation of many people during this period, and Miller was angry because of this. He noted some significant similarities to what happens to the Huaca and the Salem Witch Trials, wrote the crucible to further illustrate these similarities.
To illustrate the stupidity of "guilty until proven innocent" way of thinking, which seemed to guide both the witches of Salem and the McCarthy Blacklist, Miller accused the group of teenage girls, women of various city witch is. This is one of the quotes that Crucible is significantly better than those presented on stage, in print, but when Abigail and her pals begin to scream: "I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! "It is extremely strong in the arts, because it shows how depends on both these girls are transmitted any negative attention from themselves, as well as how easy it was to destroy the lives of their fellow townswomen.
Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird is another novel, which provides special insight into the particular time and place. Even the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird, and all characters are fictional, the issues of race, dignity family, and courage are so real, that continues to resonate with readers years after the novel was written. Although To Kill a Mockingbird was written in 1950 (published in 1960), is set in 1936, and many of her fans believe that is what the faithful representation of the South in 1930, as they may hope that to read.
Sometimes fiction is so well associated with a particular historical time period that the work can in fact be wrong to the historical record. Infrequently, to quote Homer's Iliad and Odyssey as if they were actual accounts of the Trojan War, not two poems that were part of brilliant oral tradition. It is the power of great writing.
Of course, it is advisable that students just read books like The Great Gatsby or To Kill a Mockingbird, when preparing for the AP U.S. history exams, but looking at the art historical period of study can provide valuable information on what the people of that era were thinking and feeling. One could argue that the art of the period is so valuable, historical, like any document or artifact, and understanding of what motivated, frustrated and fascinated writers, musicians and painters particular era adds a new dimension to each historical period.