Life and Work of Mark Twain

"Huck Finn", I-Defining an American Voice (1x13)

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The qualities that made Huck objectionable to the Concord Library Committee in 1885 are the same that equip him for heroism. He is a cultural illiterate, unburdened by the literary conventions that shaped belief in the antebellum South. He sees through his own eyes, not through books.