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Huck Finn

Huck Finn. All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn – Ernest Hemingway. Huck Finn. Cairo, MO = Need to go South, to go North. Huck Finn. The Fog 88 Huck tricks Jim Emotionalization of Jim Reaction of Huck 91

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Huck Finn

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  1. Huck Finn • All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn – Ernest Hemingway

  2. Huck Finn • Cairo, MO = Need to go South, to go North

  3. Huck Finn • The Fog 88 • Huck tricks Jim • Emotionalization of Jim • Reaction of Huck 91 • Huck’s irony of conscience 94 (Huge) • Huck’s lie about small pox • Steamboat crashes raft 98 • Literary devices and sensory details

  4. Huck Finn • The Grangerfords (George Jackson) 101 • Colonel Grangerford • Irony through Juxtaposition • Emmeline, Buck, and Sophia • Massive farms and slaves • Shepherdsons • Buck shoots at Harney = gun fight • Baldy kills Bud = execution style • Commentary on violence and the fighting between two sides

  5. Huck Finn • Commentary on those who kill and attend church • Sophia’s plot with Harney=Romeo and Juliet • Reunion with Jim • “Don’t want to talk” = 1st person narrator portrays vulnerability of kid = Death of Buck • Doppelganger: A body double spirit who is identical to a still living person

  6. Huck Finn • The river at sunrise 119 • The Scam Artists 122 • Duke (30s) – teeth cleaner • King (70s) – temperance revival • New Story = Huck from Pike County going to New Orleans = family lost on raft = just Huck and Jim

  7. Huck Finn • Huck reads the truth = best way to deal is to let them have their way • Camp Meeting in Pokeville • Dauphin as pirate to be saved • Duke looks for printing office • The Play • Hamlet’s soliloquy 136 • The play flyer 137

  8. Huck Finn • Ch 22 Arkansas Town 138 • Boggs and Colonel Sherburn • Sherburn’s rant about the average man and about mob mentality 144 (Big) • The Circus and the Drunk 145 • The Low Comedy-The Royal Nonesuch 149 • Bawdy content and audience reaction • Jim’s rant on royalty and history • Jim and daughter Elizabeth

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