Huckleberry Finn 2

Question 1

Sanford Pinsker

Answer 1

“what freedom in America means”
“biggest lie of all is that anyone, black or white, could be genuinely free”
Freedom “consists of inflicting as much cruelty as they can”
“Huck is the satiric lens through which we see the world’s endless capacity for cruelty”
“[When romanticism] generates the ongoing feud of the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords, however, this is another matter altogether”

Question 2

Leslie Gregory

Answer 2

“Southern white society still looked upon them as sub-human creatures without souls or feelings”

Question 3

Tom Quirk

Answer 3

Sam Clemens “knew the lower Mississippi like the back of his hand”
“Huck is running away from a brutal father and Jim is running away from the impending possibility that Miss Watson may sell him down the river”

Question 4

Devoto

Answer 4

“the human race whose cruelty was the strongest pressure in Mark’s discontent”

Question 5

Lionel Trilling

Answer 5

“in Jim he finds his true father”