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Twain and the Vernacular Conscience: Huckleberry Finn — Homework
Reread the assigned Huckleberry Finn excerpts before answering.
- 1.What is vernacular narration?
- 2.Explain what Twain exposes by showing that Huck's "conscience" tells him turning Jim in is the moral choice.
- 3.Why does "All right, then, I'll go to hell" represent moral growth rather than moral failure in the novel's own terms?
- 4.Why might Twain choose a naive, imperfectly educated narrator to carry this argument rather than a sophisticated adult narrator?
- 5.In six or more sentences, explain whether a person's sincerely held conscience can still be wrong, using Huck's story as your evidence.
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