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You have 15 minutes of individual work on English class assignments: Finish yesterday’s quiz.

You have 15 minutes of individual work on English class assignments: Finish yesterday’s quiz. Write Journal #26. Read your Twain book. Huck Finn Reading Quiz #2 - 25 points. Chapters VIII - XI (pages 277-279) “People In Action”- 1 a-f “ “Reading in Depth” – 16 a-e

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You have 15 minutes of individual work on English class assignments: Finish yesterday’s quiz.

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  1. You have 15 minutes of individual work on English class assignments: • Finish yesterday’s quiz. • Write Journal #26. • Read your Twain book.

  2. Huck Finn Reading Quiz #2 - 25 points • Chapters VIII - XI (pages 277-279) • “People In Action”- 1 a-f • “ “Reading in Depth” – 16 a-e • Chapters XI-XVI (pages 281-283) • “Games, Lies and the Truth” – 12 a-f • “Reading in Depth” – 17 a-e, 18 a-c • Extra Credit – “Reading in Depth” #15 on page 283 (1 or 2 points) • When you finish, write Journal #26: How can society’s values and laws can be in conflict with individual moral values? Discuss one generally accepted value, idea, law or practice in today’s society that you believe is wrong. Explain your moral conflict with it.

  3. Chapters XVII-XVIIIGrangerfords vs. Shepherdsons • IMPORTANT SATIRE SECTION • What are the comments and criticisms Twain is making through these chapters?

  4. Twain mocks the over-the-top decorating style of the time and people’s attempts to appear classy and well-to-do • “The Grangerford's furniture, much admired by Huck, is actually comicly tacky. You can almost hear Mark Twain laughing over the parrot-flanked clock and the curtains with cows and castles painted on them even as Huck oohs and ahhs… • “The mantel clock was admired by Huck not only for its beauty, but because the Grangerfords properly valued beauty and ‘wouldn’t took any money for her“’111). Huck admired the Grangerfords’ principles, and the stake they placed in good manners, delicious food, and attractive possessions. But Huck realizes in Chapter 18 that whereas the Grangerfords may value a hand-painted clock more than money, they put little value on human life.” http://www.123helpme.com

  5. Twain mocks the “cult of death” popular at the time through Emmeline • “Twain also pokes fun at the young dead daughter Huck is so drawn to. Twain mocks Emmeline as an amateur writer: ‘She warn't particular, she could write about anything you choose to give her to write about, just so it was sadful’(114). Yet Twain allows the images of Emmeline and the silly clock to deepen in meaning as the chapter progresses. Emmeline is realized as an early portent of the destruction of Huck’s adopted family.” http://www.123helpme.com

  6. Serious satire: Feuds • “The chapters dealing with the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud allow Twain to satire aspects of ‘civilized’ culture. The main aspect he satirizes is the feud itself. • “The Grangerfords being the representatives of civilization, Twain reveals the senseless brutality and needless slaughter involved in their arbitrary concept of honor. For Twain, such a feud goes against his common sense and anything that violated his common sense was crazy. • “The feud has gone on so long that the people don’t even know why they are fighting; yet, embedded in the feud are artificial concepts of civilized behavior. • Mr. Grangerford tells Buck that he shouldn’t shoot from behind the bush but he should step out into the road to kill a Shepherdson. • “Also there is a sense of irony--why would such a supposedly ‘civilized’ family be in a feud that they can’t remember the origin of.” http://www.123helpme.com

  7. Serious satire: Hypocrisy • “Another aspect is the Grangerford’s use of hypocrisy. The Grangerfords were ‘church goers’ and in one sermon given by Mr. Grangerford he speaks of brotherly love, this while feuding with (and shooting at) a family for a reason they don’t even remember.” http://www.123helpme.com

  8. Jim Turner, Bill and Jake Packard (ferryboat watchman) (two men with guns) (man on river) Grangerfords: Saul (Colonel) Grangerford Rachel Grangerford (Colonel’s wife) Buck Grangerford (Emmeline Grangerford) Tom and Bob Grangerford and their wives Miss Charlotte Grangerford and Miss Sophia Grangerford Betsy, Jack Shepherdsons Harney Shepherdson New CHARACTERSChapters XII-XXIII (12-23)

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