Packet 2: Tossup 7

George Saunders writes that others’ suffering is unreal for this character and calls him “that stinker” in an otherwise positive essay titled for “The United States of” his counterpart. The narrator dismisses this character’s advice as having “all the marks of a Sunday-school” after rubbing a lamp for hours. Ernest Hemingway recommended skipping chapters with this character, despite claiming that “all modern American literature comes from” the novel as a whole. This character suggests baking a rope-ladder into a “witch pie” even (-5[1])though (-5[2])he could (10[1])easily (10[1])steal a key. (10[1]-5[3])The narrator pretends (10[2])to be this character, (-5[1])who at first takes him for a ghost, in the chapters (-5[1])following the narrator’s declaration “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.” (-5[3])For (-5[1])10 points, what annoying nephew of the Phelpses plans Jim’s rescue (10[2])in the end (-5[1])chapters of Huck Finn? (10[4])■END■ (10[11]0[2])

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