Some calls me Sarah, some calls me Mary.

Huck Finn illustrations by E. W. Kemble.

In English today, we will try to catch up...There have been numerous critics who rightly compare Huck Finn to "The Wily Odysseus" and the "Adventures" of Huck to the convoluted exploits in the story of the Odyssey. It is right, therefore, to consider the novel an epic; it takes place over vast setting; yet it is rooted in the particular culture and country of the South; it has a hero; yet he is a kind of anti-hero. But however similar it might seem, Huck Finn lacks both the supernatural (because it is a book of Realism) and the moral wisdom of The Odyssey (because Twain likes to mock things). 

Agenda:

1. Pray
2. Read T. S. Eliot's Intro to Huck Finn 
3. Read Huck Finn
4. Review HW:
1. Study Vocab Unit 7 and Bedford 10. Quiz tomorrow (1/23).
   
1. Read Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn --
   DO THE READING!
1. Check out the Reading Schedule.
2. Study the Huck Finn Reading Questions
3. Get a free audio version: Lit2Go and LibriVox. Both are available as Podcast. Also, some audio versions are available on Youtube. Grover Gardener is a wonderful reader of Huck Finn. You need someone of the south. Regionalism depends on it.
2. Binder Check this week. 
3. Be perfect.