Over the course of the semester, you have seen how literature can be used for a variety of purposes. choose a work from the semester that serves each of these purposes- readers survive in a new land, contributing to the creation of a new nation, and developing a national literature- and explain briefly how the chose serves purpose.

frances ellen watkins harper writing was influenced by: b. the education she received growing up in the north.

she was born in baltimore, maryland, on september 24, 1825. after the death of her parents, her uncle reverend william watkins, a teacher at the academy for negro youth, raised and educated her. she also continued educating herself by accessing a library of the family she worked for, beginning writing poetry afterwards. as a civil rights activist and abolitionist, watkins greatly influenced her life and work.