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of his own sense of himself,
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of what he needs to be what he wants to be.
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We don't have in American society an Iliad,an Odyssey,
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we don't have our own bible,
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but I think
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Mark Twain's Huck Finn is really very,very revealing
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to see what is so different about us
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in the modern times from the Homeric world.
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When things don't go right for Huck, what does he do?
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He lights out and wants to get away from society,
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he wants to go wandering and exploring,
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as an individual rejecting society,