/lit/ - Literature

>>17904761
The great gatsby or How to kill a mockingbird.

>>17904761
The Book of Mormon is unironically the national epic of the United States.

>>17904761
Moby Dick no doubt.

>>17904780
Your gonna have to explain yourself cause that's a pretty audacious statement.

>>17904780
JDC stfu. No one wants to read your shitty midnight screeds

>>17904761
The Avengers

The Leatherstocking Tales

>>17904761
That is not where austin, texas is located.

>>17904761
Moby Dick

>>17904761
Tom Sawyer + Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird

>>17904761
White Fragility

>>17904826
THIS

>>17904761
Leaves of Grass or Moby Dick

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_American_Novel
According to Wikipedia, the Fountainhead.

Definitely not To Kill a Nigger

>>17904798
have you read it?

Infinite Jest.

>>17904802
LOL Card is not a Mormon whereas I am, he also isn't the best writer so I'm not going to defend him.
>>17904798
It's about why this land (i.e. North America) is a land of promise, it connects this land to Christian/Biblical expectations (knowing America is Christian, you know why that in turn fits: national epics sometimes want to connect their lands to their religions/gods), and it even presents ancestral democracy/republicanism and civil freedoms, by which it extends back in time American classical liberalism back to a pre-European beforetimes. On top of that, the book includes in it a utopian time period followed by a later descent into decadence, all as a fable and warning for what might happen to the United States itself if it strays from God or from morality. So it gives the country some moralistic direction and purpose as well. Given these characteristics, I don't see how it's anything but a national epic.

>>17904848
I don't think any of the capitals are accurately placed. Lincoln is further east, and Denver is more center. Springfield is not that far west, etc. etc.

M&D tb.h

Grapes of Wrath for the setting actually being in USA and a critique of our economic values

The Avengers, deal with it.

>>17904966
no!

>>17904983
Yes! And I love the implications of it. It’s the perfect monkey’s paw scenario.

Horror’s Call by F. Gardner.

Wouldn't the American Revolution be a sort of epic? It's just not in written form.

It's not even close

The Song of Hiawatha.

You are all retarded. The whole lot of you.

>>17904761

>>17904780
considering mormonism is just a CIA cult, this

>>17905164
If somehow in the future we return to a society that reveres the old South, maybe. But right now this aint near true

My vote is for Hamilton. If anyone can name a better dramatization of the founding of America I could change my mind though.

Paradise Lost

or Song of Hiawatha

>>17905536
This.

>>17904916
Denver is spot on retard

>>17905549
Wtf since when is butterfly based?

>>17905810
Cringe reply to cringe post by cringe fake butterfly who is quickly becoming more cringe than the also cringe real butterfly.

>>17904761
The Avengers film series is probably the best thing the US has produced

>>17905773
Anon is sorta right. Columbus is off.

All of you fags are wrong
It's literally the Vision of Columbus, an actual epic poem written for the purpose of being America's Iliad by a chaplain from the revolution

>>17905654
>Song of Hiawatha
Seconding this.

>>17904916
>>17905773
Denver is a little off but not by much.

>>17904761
my diary