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to link to "Journeys" theme in The Country of the Pointed Firs.
How do the themes, ideas, and discussion questions generated on the "Journeys"
page differ when applied to the following works? One can focus specifically
on gendered journeys, psychological versus physical journeys, and the import
of journeys that prove (or seem) unsuccessful.
Suggested Reading List
| Mary Rowlandson | A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson | - Indian captivity narrative relating her forced journey with her captors until her release |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" | -story of a boy's journey toward identity |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Uncle Tom's Cabin | |
| Henry David Thoreau | A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers | -essays, historical information, and observations on nature set in frame of canoe excursion |
| Herman Melville | Moby Dick, Typee or Omoo | -wrote about both physical and inner journeys |
| Mark Twain | Huckleberry Finn, Innocents Abroad | |
| Sarah Orne Jewett | ||
| Kate Chopin | The Awakening | -a psychological journey; a coming to consciousness |
| Mary Wilkins Freeman | ||
| Edith Wharton | The House of Mirth | |
| William Faulkner | ||
| Eudora Welty | ||
| Zora Neale Hurston | Their Eyes Were Watching God | |
| Gloria Naylor | Mama Day |