American Literature / Unit 11 AML 1010 short lesson, about 20 seconds
*Adventures of Huckleberry Finn*
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The idea
Published in eighteen eighty-five, the novel is narrated throughout by Huck in his own speech, and follows him down the Mississippi on a raft with Jim, a man escaping slavery. Episodes ashore let Twain examine feuds, frauds, mobs and the respectable people who own human beings.
In practice
A boy's voice, carrying the whole novel.
Where people slip
The narrator's limits are the book's method.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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