ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Pocketknife, Lightning, Dey
22 Nov 2018
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Huck"s quest: freedom or family: range of families and parents, escaping, finding, rejecting, imaginary families, quest for family unusual in a boy"s adventure story, huck"s emotional journey. Jim as surrogate parent: huck and jim: a family unit, ideal of humanity, with compassion, respect (lynn 429-31; He chased me round and round the place with a clasp-knife, calling me the angel of death, and saying he would kill me, and then i couldn"t come for him no more. I begged, and told him i was only huck; but he laughed such a screechy laugh, and roared and cussed, and kept on chasing me up. But i never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it"s the best way; then you don"t have no quarrels, and don"t get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, i hadn"t no objections, long as it would keep peace in the family [ ].
