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Intro to Realism & Huck Finn

Intro to Realism & Huck Finn. A New Era: Realism. Outgrowth of the Civil War. Cannot romanticize the horrors of war. Grim reality forces people to look at what is happening. Concerned with the way things actually are. Drawn to ordinary life “Real People,” not heroes.

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Intro to Realism & Huck Finn

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  1. Intro to Realism & Huck Finn

  2. A New Era: Realism • Outgrowth of the Civil War. • Cannot romanticize the horrors of war. • Grim reality forces people to look at what is happening. • Concerned with the way things actually are. • Drawn to ordinary life • “Real People,” not heroes

  3. Literature of the Era • Regionalism – Trying to capture the essence of a particular location • Dialects – Patterns of speech central to a location • Words and Style • Dialogue tries to capture the way people really speak

  4. Satire • Satire = Writing style in which the author subtly makes fun of characters and society through their own ignorance. • Characters are not aware of the jokes. • Sometimes causes confusion: • Can be difficult to detect as a reader.

  5. Mark Twain • Birth Name: Samuel Clemens. Born in Missouri in 1835. • As a young man, served briefly in the Confederate Army • Apprenticed on a steamboat – provides expertise for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

  6. Huck Finn Key Facts • Characters • Huck – 13. Uncivilized. • Tom Sawyer – Huck’s best friend. Adventurous. • Widow Douglas & Miss Watson – Huck’s adopted caregivers • Jim – Adult slave owned by Miss Watson • Setting –Missouri. Pre-Civil War

  7. Huck Finn “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Ernest Hemingway “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is the most grotesque example of racist trash ever written.” John H. Wallace

  8. The Controversy • Huck Finn has been banned in hundreds of schools, while praised as a classic in hundreds of others. • Controversy stems over racism in the novel. • N-word used 213 times • In addition to this slur, many instances of disparaging comments toward African-Americans.

  9. Key Questions • Essential questions of this text: • How can an individual break free against society? • What racial problems do we see today in America? How can we address them?

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