Check out this essay that mom found on Huck Finn. It delves into Twain's critique of the American Dream. We offer a land of opportunity...the opportunity to be fakes, and abusers of freedom.
http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.2095/article_detail.asp
Here is my title with summary:
ReplyDeleteHuckleberry Finn's Quest for Freedom
. . .in which a young man bound by ignorance, social norms, an abusive father and prejudices search for freedom through adventures that test him, strengthen and teach him the meaning of freedom when he frees another person.