“I think they are a pack of flat-heads for not keeping the palace themselves ’stead of fooling them away like that…”
Here Huck is arguing with Tom about genies. Tom was telling Huck how if you rub a bottle and a genie comes out he has to do anything you say, even build u a castle made out of diamonds before the next sunrise. Huck thought this was stupid how the genies didn’t keep the castles and do favors to themselves. Twain could be speaking out about slavery, and how we make people do all of our work for us without any compensation. The role of the slaves and the genies are the same. Huck feels that tits unfair for the genies to do all the work. This shows is a metaphor that tells me Huck thinks slavery is unfair, possibly this could come up later in the story.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Huck Finn #5
“And she took snuff, too; of course that was alright, because she’d done it herself”
Here Huck is talking about how much he wanted to smoke from his pipe at that moment. He wanted to but the widow told him that its an unclean practice and she should stop. Huck notices that she is contradicting herself because she takes snuff. He doesn’t say this out loud because he didn’t want a flogging but he doesn’t like how people can tell you what to do and what not to do regardless of whether they know anything about it or actually experienced it themselves.
Here Huck is talking about how much he wanted to smoke from his pipe at that moment. He wanted to but the widow told him that its an unclean practice and she should stop. Huck notices that she is contradicting herself because she takes snuff. He doesn’t say this out loud because he didn’t want a flogging but he doesn’t like how people can tell you what to do and what not to do regardless of whether they know anything about it or actually experienced it themselves.
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Paper #3 Choice
I choose to do paper topic number 1 for my third essay. This will be about a situation that I witnessed at proctor that was handled poorly.
Friday, October 26, 2007
Huck Finn #4
“I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, I wouldn’t done that if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way.”
Here, Huck feels bad about messing with Jim’s head. Huck is truly sorry for making Jim feel this way. This shows Huck’s compassion toward Jim, and Jim, being a slave, this also symbolizes Huck’s compassion toward all slaves. Here, Huck is treating Jim as an equal unlike everyone else in his society treats slaves. Most other people in Huck’s society would treat Jim like an animal and not even think about Jim’s feelings.
Here, Huck feels bad about messing with Jim’s head. Huck is truly sorry for making Jim feel this way. This shows Huck’s compassion toward Jim, and Jim, being a slave, this also symbolizes Huck’s compassion toward all slaves. Here, Huck is treating Jim as an equal unlike everyone else in his society treats slaves. Most other people in Huck’s society would treat Jim like an animal and not even think about Jim’s feelings.
Huck Finn #3
“Jim said he reckoned the widow was partly right and pap was partly right”—p. 73
In this quote, Huck and Jim were debating weather or not to ‘borrow’ the fruits. Huck can’t decide if it’s morally right to borrow from this stranger. To help make up his mind Huck gives the points of view of his two mentors, Pap and the Widow. He makes his decision based on finding a happy medium between the two beliefs. This shows how Huck’s morals were affected by being raised by both a psycho drunk and a god-fearing widow. The two extreme personalities that helped raise Huck sort of cancel each other out. In the end, he decides to not borrow all of the fruits and to leave some behind.
In this quote, Huck and Jim were debating weather or not to ‘borrow’ the fruits. Huck can’t decide if it’s morally right to borrow from this stranger. To help make up his mind Huck gives the points of view of his two mentors, Pap and the Widow. He makes his decision based on finding a happy medium between the two beliefs. This shows how Huck’s morals were affected by being raised by both a psycho drunk and a god-fearing widow. The two extreme personalities that helped raise Huck sort of cancel each other out. In the end, he decides to not borrow all of the fruits and to leave some behind.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Huck Finn #2
“I think they are a pack of flat-heads for not keeping the palace themselves ’stead of fooling them away like that…”
Here Huck is arguing with Tom about genies. Tom was telling Huck how if you rub a bottle and a genie comes out he has to do anything you say, even build u a castle made out of diamonds before the next sunrise. Huck thought this was stupid how the genies didn’t keep the castles and do favors to themselves. Twain could be speaking out about slavery, and how we make people do all of our work for us without any compensation. The role of the slaves and the genies are the same. Huck feels that tits unfair for the genies to do all the work. This shows is a metaphor that tells me Huck thinks slavery is unfair, possibly this could come up later in the story.
Here Huck is arguing with Tom about genies. Tom was telling Huck how if you rub a bottle and a genie comes out he has to do anything you say, even build u a castle made out of diamonds before the next sunrise. Huck thought this was stupid how the genies didn’t keep the castles and do favors to themselves. Twain could be speaking out about slavery, and how we make people do all of our work for us without any compensation. The role of the slaves and the genies are the same. Huck feels that tits unfair for the genies to do all the work. This shows is a metaphor that tells me Huck thinks slavery is unfair, possibly this could come up later in the story.
Huck Finn #1
“And she took snuff, too; of course that was alright, because she’d done it herself”
Here Huck is talking about how much he wanted to smoke from his pipe at that moment. He wanted to but the widow told him that its an unclean practice and she should stop. Huck notices that she is contradicting herself because she takes snuff. He doesn’t say this out loud because he didn’t want a flogging but he doesn’t like how people can tell you what to do and what not to do regardless of whether they know anything about it or actually experienced it themselves.
Here Huck is talking about how much he wanted to smoke from his pipe at that moment. He wanted to but the widow told him that its an unclean practice and she should stop. Huck notices that she is contradicting herself because she takes snuff. He doesn’t say this out loud because he didn’t want a flogging but he doesn’t like how people can tell you what to do and what not to do regardless of whether they know anything about it or actually experienced it themselves.
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