The colonial period has really impacted American literature for years and it continues to. Over the course of the unit it talked about how there were basically two different sides to the time period because people had their different views. Writing started from the colonial adventurers who travelled the world to look for ways to entertain others living in their mother country. Which in turn began to inspire more and more people to write about different sides of views that people had being the puritans and rationalists. Over time literature in this time period has developed to be something more than just writing for entertainment purposes in a way it has made people write what they see the world as and possibly what they want it to be like.
