Goal: To understand Huck better as a character AND as a mouthpiece for Twain.
DO NOW: Freedom means different things to different people. What does it mean to you as a high school sophomore and a resident of Winchester, MA? (Don't hesitate to touch upon the spiritual, social, intellectual and emotional aspects of your lives.)
Next: Let's read chapter 3 together to get more comfortable with the dialect Twain uses and to compare Huck with Tom more closely.
Discussion Questions:
Writing: Why might a writer choose to have an unreliable narrator--one who doesn't understand the full significance of the events he comments on--in his novel. In other words, how and why does Huck function as a mouthpiece for Twain?