Ra’Jean Williams 10/2/2014
APUSH Pd. 1

Reformer Narrative

During the times of movement to westward lands, white-Americans also created changes in the environment and people that lived in the society. The Second Great Awakening major was a significant event that engaged individuals in the reforms that occurred in the period of the United Stated internal changes. Along with the changes was the trends of literature works in America due to the fad of English creations of literature. However, American publishers wrote about the religious, personal experiences, and economical situations of their society and how it affected its people. Northern writers such as: James Cooper, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville, mainly wrote about how their surroundings caused them to recognize human nature as destructive. The published pieces of the south discussed the need for continuous slavery institutions because the north formed abolitionist groups for the prohibiting of slavery. Theodore Parker a well-known Transcendentalist, also took action into the factors of American literature and religious and social reforms in the United States. Born on August 24, 1810, Theodore Parker would began a life of innovative religious beliefs and the ways that people should connect them with their life. Being one of the five siblings, from six, left, Parker was expected to grow around the many deaths in his closer relatives. Dealing with his mother death at seven years old, Theodore overcame the tragedy of her death by deciding to ignore the depressed and isolation phases. Instead, he faced the issues that his environment produced. His teen years held an advanced and successful future, because he began teaching at schools at the age of seventeen. Parker was accepted in to college, but could not afford the tuition fees. He retreated back home to farming chores and school studies, so it is safe to say that his family was not wealthy. Parker’s career of being a pastor involved sermons in which he argued religion could be linked with morality. This theory of his occurred due to the various stories the bible conveyed were