1. Huckleberry Finn: A Black-White Paradigm
So when the duke and the dauphin come to dupe such people at their low point for their own selfish wants, well of course the spectacle would make anybody cynical. The spectacle illustrates just how unsympathetic, immoral, dangerous, and utterly terrible people can be, so much so that it makes Huck overwhelmingly disappointed and embarrassed to the point of being "ashamed " of his own kind of people. Not coincidentally, too, the con men duping these people are white. ... The scam has surely confounded Huck's idea of white "goodness," creating a gray area between the black-white paradigm:...
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- Grade Level: Undergraduate