After reviewing Olivia's vocabulary work based on the novel, we focused on why Chapter 14 is uniquely "American" and why the novel, Huck Finn, is often described as the Great American Novel. Here, we see not only everyday citizens, but more importantly Huck and Jim's discussion on nobility and royalty. Olivia reviewed the text and highlighted areas of satire of European royalty. We next discussed the Florida phenomenon of anti-bilingual sentiment often expressed in terms of Americans should speak only English. In this section of the novel, Jim , the escaped slave in a satire of these same types of sentiments, insists that all men speak only English and as such Europeans who speak French are not really men at all. Olivia was not familiar with the Biblical story of King Solomon which I related to her so that she could appreciate the chapter's satire of religion wherein Jim denounces King Solomon as a fool . She astutely recognized the point of the King Solomon parable and applied it to the text. For homework, I assigned reading the next two chapters.