Saturday 2 November 2024

Reading promts for November 6: Huck Finn and Thoreau's life in the woods and civil disobedience

Answer one or more 

1. Write a literary text analysis of the passage that goes from "I see young men" to "break through and steal" (p. 110 anthology, p. 1769 of the text)

2. What points of contact do you find between the excerpt from Walden, "Economy", and chapter 14 of Huckleberry Finn?

3. "Civil Disobediece", first titled "Resistance to Civil Government" gave name to a strategy of power of the regular citizen. In which ways do Huck and Finn commit civil disobedience and in which ways are they liable to regular/petty crimes?