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": "I have to take an american literature class and i know nothing about it lol"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well you have a lot to pick from. American literature is literature written or produced in the United States"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh Ok any famous authors I should get started with?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Mark Twain is very good.  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"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Ok I have heard of him who else would you suggest?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I would suggest you search for what interest you. in the late 18th and early 19th centuries that the nation's first novels"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I had no idea they went back that far! "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "\"The Power of Sympathy\" was published in 1791. It is very very good"}, {"role": "user", "content": "What is the subject matter on that one?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You dont know of William Hill Brown's work? It is a very early piece "}]