EN 2230 Lecture Notes - Tall Tale, Jab
Document Summary
Huck doesn"t like socializing, he loves being alone and loves being outside of civilized convention. Public huck is pressured to conformity, to racism (treating jim as property); private huck respects jim and dislikes conformity. Huck is always lying in the book; he knows he has to lie in the public society if he wants to protect his private self. This novel is in part a satire. Addresses the duality of appearance and reality. Provocative when it was published, and still is today. Huck tests the authority of those around him; he"s told that if he prays he"ll get what he wants - doesn"t get what he wants so he"s disillusioned and says he"s not going to rely on that convention. P. 1299 - brief transparent eyeball experience; it can only be brief because people are going to come back; interrupted by a "boom" - means people are coming back.
