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Mark Twain
? Autobiography:
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery.
I was not aware that there was anything wrong
about it. No one arraigned it in my hearing; the
local papers said nothing against it; the local
pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was
a holy thing, and the doubter need only look in
the Bible if he wished to settle his mind ? and
then the texts were read aloud to us to make the
matter sure.
?It would not be possible for a humane and
intelligent person to invent a rational excuse
for slavery? (?My First Lie and How I Got Out
of It,? 1899).
Huck Finn was banned from many libraries because the
content was thought to be too dark, distasteful, and
unsuitable for children.
banned the year it came out (1885). Official committee
members of the Concord, MA library said the novel was:
“rough, coarse and inelegant, dealing with a series of
experiences not elevating, the whole book being more
suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable
people.”
? Following The Equator
I had not seen the like of this for fifty years. It carried
me back to my boyhood, and flashed upon me the
forgotten fact that this was the usual way of explaining
one’s desires to a slave. . . . When I was ten years old I
saw a man fling a lump of iron-ore at a slave-man in
anger, for merely doing something awkwardly ? as if
that were a crime. It bounded from the man’s skull,
and the man fell and never spoke again. He was dead
in an hour. . . . Nobody in the village approved of that
murder, but of course no one said much about it.
(Chapter 38)
helped support Warner T. McGuinn through Yale
law school, because, as he put it in a letter to the
school’s dean, ?I do not believe I would very
cheerfully help a white student who would ask a
benevolence of a stranger, but I do not feel so
about the other color. We have ground the
manhood out of them, & the shame is ours, not
theirs, & we should pay for it? (to Francis
Wayland, 24 December, 1885).
McGuinn went on to a successful law career, and
served as mentor of Thurgood Marshall.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(book-cover and illustration )
?All American literature comes from one book
by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn??
Earnest Hemingway
Huck Finn
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American classic
Realism ? verisimilitude; realistic/fiction
Twain?s realism- reactive; use of dialect
Picaresque (picaro) Cervantes- Don Quixote
Bildungsroman; Goethe- Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre
? Henry Fielding ? The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling
Mark Twain
? Autobiography:
In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery.
I was not aware that there was anything wrong
about it. No one arraigned it in my hearing; the
local papers said nothing against it; the local
pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was
a holy thing, and the doubter need only look in
the Bible if he wished to settle his mind ? and
then the texts were read aloud to us to make the
matter sure.
?It would not be possible for a humane and
intelligent person to invent a rational excuse
for slavery? (?My First Lie and How I Got Out
of It,? 1899).
Huck Finn was banned from many libraries because the
content was thought to be too dark, distasteful, and
unsuitable for children.
banned the year it came out (1885). Official committee
members of the Concord, MA library said the novel was:
“rough, coarse and inelegant, dealing with a series of
experiences not elevating, the whole book being more
suited to the slums than to intelligent, respectable
people.”
? Following The Equator
I had not seen the like of this for fifty years. It carried
me back to my boyhood, and flashed upon me the
forgotten fact that this was the usual way of explaining
one’s desires to a slave. . . . When I was ten years old I
saw a man fling a lump of iron-ore at a slave-man in
anger, for merely doing something awkwardly ? as if
that were a crime. It bounded from the man’s skull,
and the man fell and never spoke again. He was dead
in an hour. . . . Nobody in the village approved of that
murder, but of course no one said much about it.
(Chapter 38)
helped support Warner T. McGuinn through Yale
law school, because, as he put it in a letter to the
school’s dean, ?I do not believe I would very
cheerfully help a white student who would ask a
benevolence of a stranger, but I do not feel so
about the other color. We have ground the
manhood out of them, & the shame is ours, not
theirs, & we should pay for it? (to Francis
Wayland, 24 December, 1885).
McGuinn went on to a successful law career, and
served as mentor of Thurgood Marshall.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
(book-cover and illustration )
?All American literature comes from one book
by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn??
Earnest Hemingway
Huck Finn
?
?
?
?
?
American classic
Realism ? verisimilitude; realistic/fiction
Twain?s realism- reactive; use of dialect
Picaresque (picaro) Cervantes- Don Quixote
Bildungsroman; Goethe- Wilhelm Meisters
Lehrjahre
? Henry Fielding ? The History of Tom Jones, a
Foundling
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Select one of the following questions to
write your response to:
1. Analyze how the use of local color
contributes to the impression of
“reality.?
2. Analyze one aspect of social
criticism you identified in the text
and comment on the effect of
seeing the events from Huck’s
perspective?
3. Pick one example of humor in the
text and analyze it.
Your response must be up to two full
double-spaced pages, not a paragraph.
You can go over two pages, occasionally,
if you choose, but not more than three
pages. Your response must demonstrate
knowledge of the material and thoughtful
analysis adequately supported with
evidence from the literary text.
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