fanuzzir wrote: Then there's always the Love and Death in the American Novel perspective, which argues that Huck and Jim are alot like Ishmael and Queeqeg. Wait a minute! Didn't we have this discussion two months ago?
I could go on. . . Huck Finn has always been a Rorschak of American critical schools.
Yay, I came to this party when every body's already left. Too, bad. Queequeg and Ishmael, hmmm, the male friendship theme again; here set in another "age interval", grown up black man and a small white kid. Both are homeless, moving on. On the road? The Big American Journey?
Huck Finn is a kid that does what other kids could only dream about. Or couldn't even dream about, like forming a friendship with a 'nig-er' while floating on a river on the way to nowhere. Tell me all about it!
ziki
fanuzzir wrote:
Huck faking his own death and beginning his life over again--that makes Pap, or Finn, some figure of original sin, which the self-inventing American archetype is able to overcome. There's such a grisly gaiety in this image of a butchered hog, a father's body floating in the river, and a liberated young striver born again.
I'm reminded also of the butchered Christianity in the novel, and the profane outlook that Huck has about everything. These are Twain's brilliant reinterpretion of an essentially Christian myth about regeneration and freely willed salvation. Only he does not let his hero stay clear of social encumbrances for long, and soon abandons the journey up river after half the book.
Oh, my head is too small for all that
.....right now anyhow.Message Edited by ziki on 04-09-200701:56 PM
JesseBC wrote:
They put an end to it? How? Don't tell me Fan's not here anymore!
ziki wrote:
JesseBC wrote:
Oh, Fan, I don't care whether you agree with me or not -- I just learn so much from you that I'm happy you're here.
Hmmm..... and now BN put the end to it...I can't get over it, I must say!
ziki
Sad, but true. If you go to the American Classics board there is a goodbye from Bob Fanuzzi, he's been gone since the end of March.
This is so depressing, I'm not even sure I want to stick around anymore. He wasn't fired, was he??? The way you phrased it and the suddenness of his departure makes it seem like he didn't choose to leave or something.
He was one of the few moderators I've ever seen on ANY forum who actually encouraged intelligent conversation instead of just running around like an overgrown hall monitor giving people warnings about bad language and shutting down conversations that start to get interesting because, God forbid, it might make someone "uncomfortable."
He was one of the few moderators I've ever seen on ANY forum who actually encouraged intelligent conversation instead of just running around like an overgrown hall monitor giving people warnings about bad language and shutting down conversations that start to get interesting because, God forbid, it might make someone "uncomfortable."
KristyR wrote:
JesseBC wrote:
They put an end to it? How? Don't tell me Fan's not here anymore!
ziki wrote:
JesseBC wrote:
Oh, Fan, I don't care whether you agree with me or not -- I just learn so much from you that I'm happy you're here.
Hmmm..... and now BN put the end to it...I can't get over it, I must say!
ziki
Sad, but true. If you go to the American Classics board there is a goodbye from Bob Fanuzzi, he's been gone since the end of March.
