Thursday, 2 January 2025
Reading prompts for the class of January 8
Choose one of the following questions and comment on it in the box below:
1. What symbolic undertones can be ascribed to the wall and how do these relate to the different types of walls we find in the text?
2. Characterize the narrator as character, from what he tells and shows about himself, and/or compare his struggles with his conscience with those of Huckleberry Finn.
3. How do you interpret the last sentence of the text?
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Páginas de Interesse
- 19th Century American Literary Figures & Literary Texts Online
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in Gutenberg
- American Memory: Library of Congress
- American Transcendentalism Web
- Edgar Allan Poe Baltimore Society
- Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa
- Mark Twain House and Museum
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
- Searchable Sea Literature
- The Nineteenth Century in Print
- University of Virginia's American Literary Texts Online
- Voices of the Shuttle: American Literature