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This is a 15 page paper that provides an overview of Twain's "Huck Finn". A number of discussion questions from the novel are answered. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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treat everyone as a potential Shepherdson, and to live in a state of constant paranoia and fear. When Buck Grangerford arrives and laments that he wont have the opportunity to
shoot a Shepherdson, this fear is revealed in the statement that if the Shepherdsons had really been there, "they might have scalped us" (Twain 1912, p. 136). 2.) (Chapter
17) Although Huck does not see it as comic, what does the reader find humorous about the titles of the dead girls pictures? The reader finds Emmeline
Grangerfords artwork humorous because it is exaggeratedly morbid and melancholy in nature, to the extent that it seems like a grotesque parody. This is seen primarily in the repetition of
the over-the-top word "alas" in every single one of her artwork titles (Twain 1912, p. 141). For Twain, this absurd presentation of the conceits of Romantic literature shows how hollow
the notions of Romanticism are, including those related to honor and tradition, like the ideals that are perpetuating the family feud in these chapters. 3.) (Chapter 17) Why does
the one pictures have eight arms, and what is Hucks comment on the picture? Emmeline Grangerford has drawn eight sets of arms on the figure in her
final, unfinished drawing, because she intended to later go in and remove all the sets of arms besides the ones that ended up looking the best. Humorously, all of the
sets of arms are in an exaggerated posture of macabre emotionalism. Huck comments that the multiple arms "made her look too spidery", a comment on the wicked nature inherent inside
humanity, including the Grangerfords, whose house he had previously thought of as a sanctuary (Twain 1912, p. 142). 4.) (Chapter 18) Buck describes to Huck what a feud
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