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REALISM

REALISM CHARACTERISTICS

• Realistic
• Characters more important than plot
• Attention to class
• No outlandish plot points
• Show not tell

HISTORIC EVENTS

• Fugitive Slave Act 1850
• Women's Rights Movement 1850's
• Darwin theorizes evolution 1859
• First civil war shots fired 1961
• Gettysburg Address given 1865

HISTORIC EVENTS

• Statue of Liberty was deticated 1886
• Basket ball invented 1891
• First Olympic games 1896

FAMOUS BOOKS

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

• Writer of Uncle Tom's Cabin 1851
• Best selling anti-slavery novel
• Broad selection of other kinds of books

LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

• Writer of Little Women 1868
• American Novelist
• Started with poetry and short stories
• Began with novels

LEO TOLSTOY

• A Russian writer
• Philospher
• Political thinker
• Mainly wrote short stories

ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER

RED BADGE OF COURAGE

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