Romanticism Vs Realism Flashcards
HF 1
“Now, we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.”
HF 2
“It don’t make no difference how foolish it is, it’s the RIGHT way - and it’s regular way. And there ain’t no OTHER way, that I ever heard of, and I’ve read all the books”
GE 1
“I wished Joe had been rather more genteelly brought up, and then I should have been so too.”
GE 2
“pray tell me, both, that you forgive me!… and then I shall believe that you can trust me, and think better of me, in time to come!”
William F. Byrne
Huck’s imagination actually functions remarkably well in helping him solve real world problems… In contrast, Tom is spectacularly imaginative in the boyish, romantic sense… he has filled his head with romantic adventure novels”