The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Discussion topics

Character traits:

Huck—sense of humor?

Tom

Jim

Pap

Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, Judge Thatcher

Organized Religion

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“The essential loneliness” of the individual—the American Experience—name days

Romanticism

Tom’s Oath

Superstition

Realism—mimetic theory of art

The raft, the river and the journey