American literature, I now realize, is a foundation of our nation. The literature of our forefathers has shaped the country we know and love today. News traveled through the newspapers and the printing press was a huge reason the Declaration was spread to the other colonies and even to the British. I have never thought how a much a single writing could change the future. The Declaration made our nation, and therefore shaping the American dream we all strive for today. Therefore the Declaration can be thought of a blue print for our past, present, and future. Today literature is still a huge part of our country, but the interface is constantly changing. Like the printing press spread text in colonial time, the Internet makes it accessible to everyone. Hopefully this change in tools to distribute text will not cause our generation to lessen the value of it. Today popular novels are of a vastly different genre than what were the most popular works of history. I do not believe that this necessarily degrades the intellect of our nation but possibly foreshadows a less-literate future. This does not mean that the kinds of literature our forefathers used to start this nation will not survive, in fact I believe it is nearly impossible for this to dissolve as long as there are still true Americans in our nation.
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