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American dream

Titles and other resources suggested for studying The American Dream as a theme.
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
American Pastoral
Bad Dirt
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain
Bridge of Sighs
The Catcher in the Rye
City of Masks
Close Range
The Color Purple
Death of a Salesman
Empire Falls
Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
The Glass Castle
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories
The Grapes of Wrath
The Great Gatsby
The Help
The Last Days of Dogtown
Of Mice and Men

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    • Family Relationships (Yr 7-8)
    • Graphic Novels (Primary)
    • Getting along with others
    • Grief and Death
    • Honesty and Truthfulness
    • Immigration
    • Memory
    • Participation
  • Years 9-13
    • Set texts >
      • Set texts Y9-10
      • Set texts Y11-13
    • Graphic Novels for High Schools
    • Abandonment
    • Addiction
    • Ageism and Ageing
    • Altruism
    • Ambition
    • American dream
    • Asian Theme
    • Beauty or Ugliness
    • Betrayal
    • Between Muchamore and Child
    • Between Two Worlds
    • Black Civil Rights Fiction
    • Challenges facing women
    • Characters reinventing themselves
    • Characters who inspire
    • Child abuse
    • Childhood Innocence
    • Coming of age
    • Conformity
    • Consumerism
    • Courage
    • Dance
    • Death
    • Deception
    • Discrimination and Prejudice
    • Displacement
    • Domestic Violence
    • Dysfunctional Families
    • Dystopia
    • Eating Disorders
    • Emasculation
    • Epistolary
    • Euthanasia
    • Family confict
    • Fate
    • Fear
    • Forbidden Love
    • Forgiveness
    • Freedom
    • Friendship gone wrong
    • Good v Evil
    • Grief and loss
    • Growing Up
    • Human Trafficking
    • Ideal man
    • Identity
    • Imprisonment
    • Individualism
    • Injustice
    • Innocence
    • Insanity / Sanity
    • Intimacy and/or Closeness
    • Jealousy
    • Journeys
    • Loss of Innocence
    • Loyalty
    • Love lost and rediscovered
    • Male role in society
    • Man's inhumanity to man
    • Media and celebrities
    • Mental health issues
    • Mental Illness / Paranoia
    • Modern Gothic
    • Money
    • Mothers and daughters
    • Natural enviroment
    • Non-linear story line
    • Nuclear War
    • Outsiders in Society
    • Overcoming Challenges
    • Paedophiles
    • Pandemics, Viruses and Plagues
    • Perfection
    • Persecution
    • Personal Responsibility
    • Post-apocalyptic Zombies
    • Power and Control
    • Psychiatric Illness
    • Racism
    • Rags to Riches
    • Reading around I am not Esther
    • Reflecting on own Mortality
    • Regret
    • Religious Puritanism
    • Revenge
    • Role of Women
    • Romance - Male Perspective
    • Sexuality
    • Substance Abuse
    • Suppression of Women in NZ
    • Teenage pregnancy
    • Teenage Rebel
    • Time and its inescapable nature
    • Tolerance
    • Unexpected friendship
    • Violence
    • Violence as entertainment
    • War
    • Women restricted by culture
    • Zombies
  • Forms
    • Graphic novels
    • Non fiction
    • Plays
    • Poetry
    • Short stories
  • Research
  • Summer Reading
  • SLANZA website