American Literature Assistamce

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I am taking a American Literature course in college and was hoping I could get some help from you guys. I was told you guys are very nice and helpful so I'm hoping for the best. We were given a 3 page study guide for a upcoming exam, and I was bale to answer all but 2 of the questions and was hoping to get some help. Here they are:

1.) Controversy characterizes the ending of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Evaluate the ending.

2.) Naturalist novels tend to portray their protagonists as subject to massive social forces. These social forces are virtually inescapable; they are as inevitable as fate. When we first see a broad-brush picture of the Bowery in the second chapter of the novel, for example, we are told that the people are "withered . . . in curious postures of submission to something." Maggie: A Girl of the Streets raises important questions about the capacity of people to be responsible for their own deeds. Is Maggie to blame for her descent into prostitution? Is Jimmie to blame for his violence, brutishness, and casual cruelty? Or must we point the finger at the social forces and diseases that brought them to the brink of degradation (poverty, coercive capitalism, lack of education, alcoholism)? How does this book steer a path between the two extremes of absolute personal responsibility and entirely contingent morality? Or does it avoid choosing a compromise position, and instead throw itself behind the position that social circumstance, not personal choice, is to blame for Maggie's tragedy?

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[equestrian]

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And yes, we are very nice and helpful. I wish I could help now.

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Of course, I could have just checked and saw that you posted here before. I saw "Icarian" and just assumed ...

[equestrian]

So no one can help me with these questions? I need more help with the second one than the first.

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