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Title: Hucklberry Finn Theme Notes
Description: These notes are for whoever is studying American Literature. They explore the themes of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Description: These notes are for whoever is studying American Literature. They explore the themes of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
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Themes in Huckleberry Finn Notes
Emancipation Proclamation - September 2, 1862, freed slaves in area of rebellion, did not free slaves
in areas under Union control
Reconstruction - Period after the Civil War, rebidding the South and readmitting them into the Union
Jim Crow Laws - Southern Laws restricting colored people, for example must not strike a white, but
have to give up a seat for a white
Allegory - something that can have a hidden meaning or message
Superstition - belief in supernatural beings, i
...
ghosts
Precept - mental concept that is developed because of a perception
Mob Mentality - the ways in which mob thinks and then in-turn respond to events
Bildungsroman - a novel dealing with one person's formative years or spiritual education
Hypocrisy - the practice of claiming to have moral standards to which one own's behavior does not
conform
Satire - the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or
vices
Irony - the expression of one's meaning by using language that signifies the opposite
Dialect - form of language particular to one region
Parody - an imitation of the style of a particular writer, i
...
Star Wars and Star Balls, Star Balls is a
parody of Star Wars
Themes:
Racism and Slavery written after Emancipation Proclamation which abolished slavery, but time period of story
set during slavery
during Reconstruction, a less institutionalized form of slavery existed in the South (Jim
Crow laws)
allegorical portrayal of conditions of "Blacks" in U
...
after end of slavery
Hypocrisy of "Civilized" Society
society's laws vs
...
natural
a "just" society that condones slavery
unsteady justice is blinded by cowardice, prejudice, and a lack of common sense
seemingly good and character are slave owner
hypocrisy o civilized society which values morality, but condones slavery
Freedom
importance of individual thinking and ideas
escaping an illogical and oppressive society
Mississippi River as a safe haven
slavery vs
...
ideal (the river)
Raft
tool for escape
safe place
Money
separates the civilized from the "outcasts"
Title: Hucklberry Finn Theme Notes
Description: These notes are for whoever is studying American Literature. They explore the themes of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.
Description: These notes are for whoever is studying American Literature. They explore the themes of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.