1. What are the basic assumptions that inform the essay?
A. What are the major organizing ideas?
B. What are the subordinate ideas?
2 What serious questions does the essay raise regarding the controversy (i.e race, the ending to Huck Finn, or gender)?
3. What serious omissions are left out of the essay? How do these distort or undermine the author's position?
4. What ideology or worldview governs the author's view(s)?
5. In what ways does the essay reinforce, extend challenge, or oppose your own view of the issue/controversy with respect Huck Finn? Be specific