Controversial Ending - Paradigms for Racism - Art Mirroring Life

A. As you read the first eight pages of, 

Mark Twain's Native Americans and the Repeated Racial Pattern in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", by 

Joseph L. Coulombe,make a T chart, chronicling those who SUPPORTED Native Americans and those who didn't.

 

Twain will often appear on BOTH sides of this debate, so make specific cited note each time evidence is given of his fickleness. 

B. What are the four stages of the Race Paradigm in which Twain copied from his personal Native American worlds to that of the African Americans' in the novel Huck Finn? 

C. Why does the author, Joseph L. Coulombe, say, "What we admire about Huck, we admire about Twain's early Western persona; and what makes us uncomfortable about one, makes us uncomfortable with the other."

D. How do these ideas relate to the "60 Minutes" articles?

E. How does this essay - Coulombe-correlate to your class response to "brilliant satire vs. reinforcing stereotypes?

F. Do you still feel the same as you expressed in your presentation? Why or Why not?

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