my major was american literature and education.
[{"role": "system", "content": "American literature is literature written or produced in the United States and its preceding colonies (for specific discussions of poetry and theater, see Poetry of the United States and Theater in the United States). Before the founding of the United States, the British colonies on the eastern coast of the present-day United States were heavily influenced by English literature. The American literary tradition thus began as part of the broader tradition of English literature. The revolutionary period is notable for the political writings of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine. Thomas Jefferson's United States Declaration of Independence solidified his status as a key American writer. It was in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels were published. An early example is William Hill Brown's \"The Power of Sympathy\" published in 1791. Brown's novel depicts a tragic love story between siblings who fall in love without knowing they are related. With an increasing desire to produce uniquely American literature and culture, a number of key new literary figures emerged, perhaps most prominently Washington Irving and Edgar Allan Poe. In 1836, Ralph Waldo Emerson started an influential movement known as Transcendentalism.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "American literature is important for us all to know about."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "American literature is one of my favorites b/c it is about the united states history and its colonies"}, {"role": "user", "content": "You are so right, history lets us know how we were put in this place we are."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Actually before the founding of our colonies the british were very influencced by english literature"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Who created English literature?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "lol..that's a good question but American literature was brought on by the tradition of english literature"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes traditionally we follow our ancestors."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I know that the revolutionary period is well known for the writings of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Paine"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yes all those guys who believed in a flatbearth, for some reason we believe its round. History is different."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "lol right!  Although we can't do without the important people like Thomas Jefferson who signed the Declarartion of Independence.  He is a important American writer"}]