Huck Finn 1-4

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Huck Finn 1-4

• All modern American literature comes from one
  book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry FinnAll
  American writing comes from that. E.H.

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Twains firsts

• First American writer to write successfully in
  the vernacular. (Whats that?) - Huck, Jim, and
  others crude and undignified
• First to successfully infuse comedy Dinner at
  the Widows Later, lecture on temperance but the
  lecturers dont make enough money to get drunk.

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Realism and the death of Romanticism

• Romanticism Washington Irving, Poe, Hawthorne
  nostalgia, idealism, beauty in nature,
  individualism
• Civil War
• Realism adherence to truth slice of life,
  accuracy and honesty, 1st lines of Huck Finn
  (youll be trying to write like this)
• Some are offended Louisa May Alcott demands
  that it be banned (1st of many attempts) No
  problem for Twain he advertised its banning and
  sales went up 3000

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Chapters 1-4Tell some stories!

• What do you think? (always my first question!)
• Suppertime
• Out at night and the cave
• Ambuscade and the A-rabs
• Judge Thatcher and the money
• The hairball
• Pap

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Emerging themesHow are these introduced?

• Sivilization
• Religion
• Race/ class