Author papers and whatnot
Mark Twain
In civil war limbo time, when transcendentalist tropes are falling apart
View on American Society
Twain postulates that society suppresses people
John Steinbeck
Villians don't have faces
People come together against them
Creates unbelievable characters to use them as embodiments of ideas
Charles Dickens
Using coincidence to convey larger theme: how fate relates to us in real life
Fate determined supernaturally, predetermined
Cynical, but justified, says this isn't right, isn't how it should be
Flawed conscience of society
What is right? Huck Finn
Tom is the romantic to Huck's realist
Fought for south, wrote derogatory attitudes about black people, views changed
Exposed to slaves as a child
Kafka
institution, bueaucracy, leads to alienation
Abusive father
Forrester
Characters who are passionate are the ones able to be see humanity for realtionships with different people, flexibility
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The nature of solitude
History of the family
Town is very isolated
After they make contact with the rest of civilization, things start to go downhill. Banana company and government start interfering, ppl get sick, involved in war