EARLY AMERICAN LITERATURE MAGAZINE Early American Literature Magazine exam | Page 11

The Puritans were a group of people who were very believers in God. This happened in New England. Arriving in large numbers in America during the first half of the 17th century, they constantly modified and expanded that identity through an avalanche of sermons, stories, hagiographies, Jeremiates and, to a lesser extent, poems. The Puritans grew up with an idea that their lives had been written in the Bible and this was a new world like paradise. Characteristics  The spiritual search Puritans took inspiration from the spiritual life to write their books as experiences with God and stories from the Bible. They also wrote about the model of the perfect Christian life. The Puritans kept diaries in which the focus was on the writer's spiritual journey. But often, a special religious meaning was found in everyday events.  Biblical influence the puritans were very inspired by the stories of the bible for example "Jeremias" was one of the books of the bible that most used this literary genre is formula, in which the writer first summarizes the joy and faith that he once had the community punishes them for current and recent sins, and then advocates their repentance. 11