Part One Topic Chapter 1 The Law of Life by Jack London. Chapter 2 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost Chapter 3 The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes Chapter 4 A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner Chapter 5 The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (Excerpts) Part Two Environment Chapter 1 A Cask of Amontillado by Adgar Allan Poe Chapter 2 The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane ( Excerpts ) Chapter 3 Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser (Excerpts) Chapter 4 In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway Part Three Character Chapter 1 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne ( Excerpts ) Chapter 2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain ( Excerpts ) Chapter 3 Billy Budd by Herman Melville ( Excerpts ) Chapter 4 A Father-To-Be by Saul Bellow Chapter 5 A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor Part Four Theme Chapter 1 The Great Gatsby by Francis Fitzgerald (An Excerpt) Chapter 2 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (An Excerpt) Chapter 3 Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (An Excerpt) Chapter 4 Everyday Use by Alice Walker Chapter 5 The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (An Excerpt) Part Five Figure of Speech Chapter 1 To a Waterfowl by William Cullen Bryant Chapter 2 Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving Chapter 3 The American Scholar by Ralph W. Emerson (An Excerpt) Chapter 4 I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman Chapter 5 Riprap by Gary Snyder 參考文獻(xiàn) 后記