If you teach it, they will read : literature's life lessons for today's students / by MacLean, John V.

Table of Contents: “…-- The search for identity : Cyrano de Bergerac and A Lesson Before Dying -- Rite of passage : The Odyssey, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Heart of Darkness -- The quest : Arthurian legends, Siddhartha, and Song of Solomon -- I want a hero : The Canterbury Tales, Beowulf, and Hamlet -- The anti-hero : Native Son and The Stranger -- Literary devices -- A woman's place : Medea and A Doll's House -- The little things that matter : Emma and Pride and Prejudice -- Dealing with loss : "the wanderer," the Hemingway hero, and The Tempest -- The need to dream : Of Mice and Men, The Glass Menagerie, and The Great Gatsby -- The weight of the past : Oedipus and The Piano Lesson -- Private morality and second chances : The Scarlet Letter, The Crucible, and The Kite Runner -- Throwing the good away : Macbeth, Fences, and Death of a Salesman -- Love, actually : Twelfth Night, Othello, and Wuthering Heights -- Some great deed : The Iliad -- Final thoughts.…”