Published Critical Essay Links: http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/satrev.html & http://twain.lib.virginia.edu/huckfinn/perry.html
Activity #1: How do social and historical context influence each critic?
Read the two published critical essays from above. Make inferences that answer the central question of the unit:
a. “How do the historical and social norms or the time period that you identified in your research seem to influence critics’ views of Huckleberry Finn?”
a. Identify key elements of your own culture and ccmpare your unique cultural contexts with those of the critics. In other words, how are your cultural norms alike or different than the critics that you chose in your research?
b. In what ways do you believe that the critics’ cultural norms influenced their critiques or analysis?
c. In what ways do your cultural norms influence your own critique and cultural analysis of the book?
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