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Huckleberry Finn Unit. Web Quest Review. American Realism:20 th Century idea in art, music, and literature that showed reflections of the time period. A view of what was actually happening and defining what was real.
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Web Quest Review • American Realism:20th Century idea in art, music, and literature that showed reflections of the time period. A view of what was actually happening and defining what was real. • Picaresque Novel: Prose fiction, usually satirical, that depicts the adventures of a roguish hero of lo social class who lives by his wits in a corrupt society, through humor and realism.
Bildungsroman: Defines a genre of novels which focus on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood in which character change is extremely important. • Satire: work of literature or art whose objective is to ridicule.
Twain • Mark Twain was born Samuel Clemens in Missouri in 1835, 26 years before the Civil War. • He grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which became the basis for the town of St. Petersburg in his books The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. • As a young man, Twain fell in love with the Mississippi River and in 1859 he became a steamboat captain on the Mississippi. • When the Civil War broke out, traffic on the Mississippi dropped, and Twain traveled west. • Twain traveled throughout the Western United States and held several different occupations before finding success with his short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. • Mark Twain worked sporadically on Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from 1876 until 1884, when it was published. Twain drew on his experiences on the Mississippi river as a steamboat pilot and his youth in Hannibal.
Twain and Slavery: • Twain’s Uncle owned 20 slaves, and Twain witnessed slavery firsthand as a child when he spent time at his Uncle’s farm during the summer. • As Twain grew older, he grew to oppose slavery and viewed it as immoral. • "The skin of every human being contains a slave.” 1904 • “Lincoln’s Proclamation…not only set the black slaves free, but set the white man free also.”
Humorous Twain • “If a man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.” • “Wagner's music is better than it sounds.” • “If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a man and a dog.” • “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
Political and Historical Context 1840’s: -Slave society- slave-based agriculture is king industry -More rural than the North/less industrial -Comparatively primitive transportation system -Wealth disparity between wealthiest slave-owning plantation farmers and other Southerners -In time leading up to the Civil War, slave ownership became increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few wealthy plantation owners 1850’s: -Compromise of 1850: Fugitive Slave Act, popular sovereignty in new territories, slave trade abolished in the District of Columbia, California admitted as a free state -Increasing tension between North and South -Civil War: 1861-1865 After the Civil War: -Racism still rampant, even after the 14thAmendment- Jim Crow Laws, etc.
