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Huckleberry Finn Motif 2 60second Recap (Original Post)
Quixote1818
Dec 2018
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rampartc
(5,433 posts)1. huckleberry finn IS the "great american novel"
what is your nomination for second place?
moby dick? grapes of wrath? last of the mohicans? scarlet letter? on the road? the great gatsby?
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)2. "Candy." Nothing else even comes close.
rampartc
(5,433 posts)7. candy seems to meet all the requirements ............
3Hotdogs
(12,402 posts)3. Grapes of Wrath.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)8. I thought of that one, too. To Kill A Mockingbird, Grapes of Wrath.
Now when I think of Grapes of Wrath, I think of what GW Bush said about it, when he was asked. He said he thought it was sappy. Republicans don't like books about poor people.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)4. Impossible to name "the" great American novel.
To Kill A Mockingbird is up there.
rampartc
(5,433 posts)6. there are times that i agree with you
and to kill a mockingbird is certainly in the running,
with catcher in the rye, stranger in a strange land, slaughterhouse 5, etc etc etc in enough profusion as to prove your response title correct.
Quixote1818
(28,960 posts)5. I agree 100%. nt
BootinUp
(47,179 posts)9. Yes. Nt