https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack Made by a Legend en-us 2019-01-29 16:16:57 UTC 2025-10-16 00:38:42 UTC hello@padlet.com htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325468206 Realism is the attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.]]> 2019-01-29 16:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325468206 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325469983 The realism art movement in painting began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. The realist painters rejected Romanticism, which had come to dominate French literature and art, with roots in the late 18th century.]]> 2019-01-29 16:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325469983 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325470451 Jean-François Millet, “The Gleaners”  -In the middle of the 19th century, artists in Europe adopted a new style of art: Realism. Characterized by unprecedented attention to everyday subject matter, this art movement transformed the western art world.]]> 2019-01-29 16:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325470451 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325471046 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. Among his novels are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter often called "The Great American Novel"]]> 2019-01-29 16:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325471046 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325471914 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn opens by familiarizing us with the events of the novel that preceded it, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Both novels are set in the town of St. Peters burg, Missouri, which lies on the banks of the Mississippi River. At the end of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn, a poor boy with a drunken bum for a father, and his friend Tom Sawyer, a middle-class boy with an imagination too active for his own good, found a robber’s stash of gold. As a result of his adventure, Huck gained quite a bit of money, which the bank held for him in trust. Huck was adopted by the Widow Douglas, a kind but stifling woman who lives with her sister, the self-righteous Miss Watson.]]> 2019-01-29 16:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325471914 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325914023 -Jean-François Millet also opted to feature working class people in his paintings. As he was based in rural France, he repeatedly returned to farmers as his subject-of-choice. “Peasant subjects suit my nature best,” he said, “for I must confess . . .  that the human side is what touches me most in art.”]]> 2019-01-30 16:30:41 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325914023 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325916349 - Realism is a sympathetic portrayal of poor, urban and rural workers in bent postures, struggling with their hard, manual labor, for example, The Stone Breakers by Gustave Courbet.

]]> 2019-01-30 16:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325916349 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325917344 -Henry James, OM was an American-British author regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. ]]> 2019-01-30 16:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325917344 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325917863 - Gustave Flaubert was a French novelist. Highly influential, he has been considered the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. He is known especially for his debut novel Madame Bovary, his Correspondence, and his scrupulous devotion to his style and aesthetics.]]> 2019-01-30 16:37:22 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/325917863 htle115_2 https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/326351924 The primary theme of the novel is the conflict between civilization and "natural life." Huck represents natural life through his freedom of spirit, uncivilized ways, and desire to escape from civilization. He was raised without any rules or discipline and has a strong resistance to anything that might "civilize" him.]]> 2019-01-31 16:37:41 UTC https://padlet.com/htle115_2/luisiswack/wish/326351924