Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Huck Finn: 14-16

Chapter 14: King Solomon/Kings in general

Reinforce Romanticism - and the romantic idea of kings. Jim argues that King Solomon wasn't so wise because he had a million wives which means he had about 5 million babies - and who could live with that kind of noise. He also argues that cutting a child in two isn't really smart. It's because he has so many children that he can afford to cut one or two in half.

There's a foreshadow here - kings and royalty are coming.

Chapter 15: Huck's third trick on Jim. Think about the towheads and the fog. What do they represent?
Huck learns more about Jim and begin to see him as a human.

Chapter 16: persona # 4 and Huck's deformed conscious.

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