andrew levy? >> i disagree and i'm sorry she had to go through that . my university is a primarily white institution and i would choose not to isolate persons of color in that way. there is social science, the book teaches better and more interracial environments. older students, i am so sorry for your daughter. if i can say anything, she is not the only person who has testified in that way over the last four or five decades. >> jocelyn chadwick ? >> i think part of the issue, teachers do not know how to approach these texts. they do not know what resources there are for them. they do not know how to address students. as i just said, i was the only african-american english teacher, a predominately white school, in many of my classes i was the only african-american english major. i get that. not saying the teacher was right, because i disagree with it, one of the issues, we are working on a new book now, how do we help teachers understand how to teach critical texts, in this case, mark twain. for m

i know that last week when you are talking about huck finn andrew levy talked about that book being in the boys voice . this is not in the boys voice, this is interesting because jim burton is an adult, a middle-aged man . he's a lawyer in new york but you get these moments of him re-creating that sort of childhood deception, childhood eyes and on and rate female figures who were angels. you have that sense of him as a 10-year-old boy with this cowboy, his meeting his first real cowboy and re-creating his experience of childhood. >> prof. homestead, was there a go west young man sense to this book? >> it's a little better later than the horace greeley go west young man moment. you have a immigrant car, you don't have the conestoga wagon, you have the immigrants car or a coach like he and jake in the day coach so it's a little bit of a later moment . it really is in the early homesteading moment so the grandparents are based on cather's own grandparents to an extent and they were homesteaders under the homestead act. but at this point it was mostly land transactions.. people proved thei

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. >> andrew levy? >> i love those part taos. the shakespeare is great.eople think shakespeare is a kind of sacred literary icon but in the 18 40's and 18 50's, that is kind of how he was performed. people would show up at the theater with their rubbish and throw it at the actors if they didn't like what they were seeing. so the second part of the question was -- >> when huck realizes blacks feel the same about their families as the whites do. >> what do you think about that scene yourself? >> it just really struck me. i was so moved his, you know, kind of getting -- i call it getting hit in the head with a brick. like huck just, dong! realizes what's going on. and when jim's talking about. >> we have to leave it there. professor levy? >> it's what jocelyn said the whole book is about. seeing the other. can you see the other? and there are moments where, from huck's point of view, he sees jim as a person, the slave he's supposed to be see, the semihuman he's supposed to be see, he sees a human being just like him. those are powerful moments. what happens