View Thanksgiving In Literature Background. Holiday readings from louisa may alcott, mark twain, philip roth and contemporary novels that use thanksgiving as the backdrop for family dysfunction. God's word has a lot to say about gratitude and being thankful.
Definition and meaning:thankfulness, thanksgiving the old testament.
The american thanksgiving also has its origin in the faith practices of puritan new england, where strict calvinist doctrine sanctioned only the sabbath, fast days and thanksgivings as religious. Americans generally believe that their thanksgiving is modeled. This day is the most important day in america. In canada, it is the second.