Chapter 32: Huck acts like he's some Tom guy to try and get closer to Jim. Huck then finds out that this To guy is actually Tom Sawyer. throughout this chapter huck shows that he is mature to the point that he will lie to get tom out.
Chapter 33: Huck continues to act like Tom. It is more believable because Tom himself acts as though he isn't tom and continues the facade. He cares for the duke and his friend for about 10 seconds and then realizes that people are terrible.
Chapter 34: Huck and tom devise a plan to break jim out after observing to where he is. Huck makes a simplistic plan but tom doenst like that and makes a ridiculously ludicrous plan and huck agrees to it. They eventually get to see Jim and tell him that they will get him out.
Chapter 35: This chapter is kinda odd. Since there are no obstacles to huck's escape, tom makes them. He makes up a bunch of crap that needs to get done, that really doesnt , and then go with it. Huck ends up stealing a watermelon to give it to the slaves as compensation for stealing jim presumably.
Chapter 36: Not much of maturation happens within this chapter.
Chapter 37: Huck and tom mess with sally in this chapter by making her think she is going insane. They steal stuff and replace other stuff. They also make a witch pie taht they give to jim to keep away the witches.
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Saturday, April 5, 2014
Huck Finn Chapters 23-31
Chapter 23: Well the only references to Maturation of huck in this chapter would be when he decides against telling jim that the two people they were hanging out with were fakes. I feel that he thought that it would just be better if he didnt know, why he thought that, i am at a loss. Also when he comes to terms with the fact that Jim loves his family as much as any average white man would.
Chapter 24: In this chapter we see that Huck has taken a stance on what is right and wrong in the world. When he sees the men he was traveling with pretend to be the relative of a dead man in a new town, he is disgusted by them, and ashamed that he is part of their company.
Chapter 25: Not much can be seen in the way of coming of age from this chapter, except that Huck really hates the Daulphin and the Duke guys.
Chapter 26: In this chapter huck is determined to give the money back that the Duke and his friend stole from the family. He realizes it is wrong and wanting to do the right thing, hides the money so he can later give it to the family
Chapter 27: Huck is interrupted and hides the money in a coffin. The coffin is buried and the money is buried with it. Huck is horrified when the Duke and his friend sell the slaves of the estate and separate the family. He abhors the idea, and is only able to stand it when he rationalizes that they will be reunited soon.
Chapter 28: Huck tells the truth to Mary Jane, whom was distraught over the separation of the slaves, which is something foreign to him. He isnt used to telling the truth, and actually does because he knows it is the right thing to do.
Chapter 29: Well in this chapter, the feces hit the rotating oscillator so to speak. I mean the real cousins appeared, attempted to defraud the fake ones, almost die and huck is almost strangled to death.
Chapter 30: boring chapter the Duke and the other guy make up after fighting
Chapter 31: In this chapter the Duke sold jim for $40. Huck is caught between a rock and a hard place because he wants to save jim, but doesnt want to go against what he believes. Ultimately he resolves to help Jim even if divine retribution would be the punishment. He has begun to realize that even though Jim is of African descent, he is a human, and because of that he feels he must help him.
Chapter 24: In this chapter we see that Huck has taken a stance on what is right and wrong in the world. When he sees the men he was traveling with pretend to be the relative of a dead man in a new town, he is disgusted by them, and ashamed that he is part of their company.
Chapter 25: Not much can be seen in the way of coming of age from this chapter, except that Huck really hates the Daulphin and the Duke guys.
Chapter 26: In this chapter huck is determined to give the money back that the Duke and his friend stole from the family. He realizes it is wrong and wanting to do the right thing, hides the money so he can later give it to the family
Chapter 27: Huck is interrupted and hides the money in a coffin. The coffin is buried and the money is buried with it. Huck is horrified when the Duke and his friend sell the slaves of the estate and separate the family. He abhors the idea, and is only able to stand it when he rationalizes that they will be reunited soon.
Chapter 28: Huck tells the truth to Mary Jane, whom was distraught over the separation of the slaves, which is something foreign to him. He isnt used to telling the truth, and actually does because he knows it is the right thing to do.
Chapter 29: Well in this chapter, the feces hit the rotating oscillator so to speak. I mean the real cousins appeared, attempted to defraud the fake ones, almost die and huck is almost strangled to death.
Chapter 30: boring chapter the Duke and the other guy make up after fighting
Chapter 31: In this chapter the Duke sold jim for $40. Huck is caught between a rock and a hard place because he wants to save jim, but doesnt want to go against what he believes. Ultimately he resolves to help Jim even if divine retribution would be the punishment. He has begun to realize that even though Jim is of African descent, he is a human, and because of that he feels he must help him.
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Huck Finn 16-22
Well this chapter really shows that little old Huckie is growing up. Prior to this point in time, Huck would have easily given up Jim and let him get taken back to his master, yet in this chapter, he resolves to not letting himself turn him and, and decides to do what would benefit him at that very moment. I feel that this is just a way for Huck to rationalize himself helping Jim, and that he would not have turned him in even if it negatively impacted him. Later Huck finds a family called the Grangerford's who would have killed him if he was a Sheperdson. These families mirror the Capulets and Montagues from Romeo and Juliet, in that they were feuding to the point of killing each other and two of their children fell in love with each other. Huck leaves them, once he sees the families kill one another and continue on with Jim. Huck wanted to stay, but was disturbed by the fighting of the families. He found it ridiculous that they would fight to those extremes and left because of it. Huck's maturation is later shown when he avoids quarrel with two con-artists, knowing that telling that that he knew that weren't royalty would only lead to unnecessary trouble. The next few chapters dont really show Huck matures, but Sherman does have a cool monologue where he insults everyone.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Huck Finn
With respect to the maturation of Huckleberry Finn throughout the novel, Huck makes great strides, and equally large blunders along the way. During the beginning of the novel Huck acts much like the typical 12-15 year old. He is quite niave and believes many of the things that the townspeople, mostly the supersticious. Albiet this fact as the novel progresses Huck begins to mature and understand that which is around him. he begin to understand that the widow is attempting to help him unlike what his father has been telling him his whole life. He begins to see that unlike what his father conditioned him to believe, that authority is not trying to put him down,. but in actuallity they try to help him. Such is the case when Huck gives Judge Thatcher all of his money, but Thatcher will give him money whenever he asks for it. Part of growing up is seeing situations for their merit, and once he realizes that his life with the widow is significatly better than it was before he begins to enjoy it.
Sunday, December 1, 2013
Scarlet letter, the whole ordeal(Once again i apologize for the extremely late post)
So to finish this off here is my opinion of this whole Scarlet letter ordeal. Even if the masses consider this piece of work to be a "Masterpiece" or whatever, i do not feel the same. Before you either agree or disagree with what im going to saying, first hear out my points, and then debate on whether or not you agree. First off, the reason literature is deemed a masterpiece, is because for the most part they are timeless. Topics such as forbidden love happen quite often in society so when a book is written about this topic it is usually a hit. The best example of this would be Romeo and Juliet. Now try to reason this against the Scarlet letter. If what happened in the scarlet letter happened now, would the same thing happen. the simple answer is no. As of now people are much less fearful of things, and portion of society has little no no faith in god, so that part would be completely irrelevant. Now this does not go to say anything against those who believe in a religion, or to those who dont, but i digress. "Bastard children" or those who are born out of wedlock, are quite common in today's society, so much so that, the term is rarely ever used in that context, so that part would be thrown out as well. Now take the scarlet letter, and remove the aspects of religion and the fact that Pearl was born out of wedlock, and what do you have, the lifeless shell of a broken minded story struggling to stay relevant in today's "modern" world. This does not go to say that we are any better than those before us, and many would stay to say we arent, but nonetheless, the connotation that these pieces of literature can stay with us throughout the ages, is simply not true. Eventually they will all become irrelevant, some more quickly than others.
Yeah, this again (I apologize for the extremely late post i was not in the country)
Chapter 9: So Chillingsworth changes his name so no one in the town knows who he is, save for Hester. This man is trying his hardest to blend in with this town, village area, and goes about it by means that seem quite odd. If you wanted to blend it, you would try and NOT attract attention to yourself, i mean if no one knew you were there, no one would question you. But this guy does the complete opposite, he approaches the town and states that he is a doctor. Being in this time period, the medicine is sub-par at best, so when the townspeople hear of a doctor they are all over him. So as he begins to adjust to life in the village he is asked to treat the leader of the town, i think they said he was the mayor or something along those lines, because albeit his youth, he is quite sick. I find this odd, how a random man appears in a town, states he is a doctor, and then the people of the town willingly agree to allow him to treat the leader of the town without a second thought. Then again there medicine wasnt that great either. The most common form of treatment, was when the doctor would throw a bottle of leaches on our, to get rid of the "Bad Blood" which they thought made you sick. A lot of people actually would die from these treatments.
A couple hundred of these babies outta cure what ailes yah.
Chapter 10: And the irritating Chillingsworth continues to exist. As of this point he is prodding the minster about his life. He is asking him a bunch of personal questions, that the minster doesnt want to answer. He doesnt get answers, but begins to unnerve the minster by talking about unconfessed sin. This is reinforced when they hear a cry and see Pearl with Hester, and when Chillingsworth asks a question to the minister he get irritated and leaves the room. He comes back later at night and looks at the mans chest, and he is apparently delighted at it. They dont mention what is on his chest, but one can assume, at least i did, that it is probably a giant A, like one that Hester has on. At this point, i believe that Pearl is the minister's daughter, and that is also the reason that Hester wouldnt tell anyone who the father was, because if the minster is sinning, image what the people would say.
Chapter 11: So Mr. Psycho (Dimmsedale, the minster guy) is still heading for worse with his mental and physical state. Plus he hates, Chillingsworth, but he doesnt understand why he dislikes him. Nontheless he is extremely sick, yet because of his sickness, he has began giving some of the best sermons ever. Most of them are on the topic of sin, which i find to support the idea of him being Pearl father. He starts being delusional having visions, and such as well as believing the world is not real. He is losing it, and he keeps trying to bury this sin, and the only thing it is doing for his is driving his slowly insane.
Chapter 12: This chapter really shows that the minister is losing it. He is standing on the scaffold where Hester was once being placed in shame, screaming about nothing, for no apparent reason. The only ones that manage to see him though are Pearl ad Hester. He asks them to join him, and they do and they hold hands. A giant meteor illuminated the sky and made a huge A in it, and then magically Chillingsworth appears and takes the minister home. He gives his most powerful sermon the next day and someone return a glove that he left on the scaffold the night before. This man is being driven insane by the sin that he continues to try and bury, so much so that he is doing things, that could potentially ruin him in the eyes of the local, yet he perseveres through this. And every time he does slip up, whose there? That's rights Chiilingsworth, just standing there plotting his revenge.
Chapter 13: This chapter starts off 7 years after Pearl has been born. It takes about the changes in the town, and how Hester is now much more active within it, and less of her old self. She is less happy and carefree, and now more of a recluse. Nonetheless, she has become a staple in this little town. She aside from this and learning that she feels that not telling Dimmesdale about the true identity of Chillingsworth may be happening, not much happens. Overall a very bland and boring chapter.
Chapter 14: So Hester wants the doc to stop tormenting the minister, yet he doesnt want to stop. He actually blames her, and tell her that it is her fault that this is happening. They argue, and so on, and he is described as being the embodiment of evil, he looks like hell, a creepy old man with a gnarled face. She asks him to forget his rage and be a human again, yet he refuses. This man has become consumed in his rage, and he will not stop until he gets his revenge. This is evident when he refuses to stop tormenting the minster even though there is no reason left to do so.
A couple hundred of these babies outta cure what ailes yah.
Chapter 10: And the irritating Chillingsworth continues to exist. As of this point he is prodding the minster about his life. He is asking him a bunch of personal questions, that the minster doesnt want to answer. He doesnt get answers, but begins to unnerve the minster by talking about unconfessed sin. This is reinforced when they hear a cry and see Pearl with Hester, and when Chillingsworth asks a question to the minister he get irritated and leaves the room. He comes back later at night and looks at the mans chest, and he is apparently delighted at it. They dont mention what is on his chest, but one can assume, at least i did, that it is probably a giant A, like one that Hester has on. At this point, i believe that Pearl is the minister's daughter, and that is also the reason that Hester wouldnt tell anyone who the father was, because if the minster is sinning, image what the people would say.
Chapter 11: So Mr. Psycho (Dimmsedale, the minster guy) is still heading for worse with his mental and physical state. Plus he hates, Chillingsworth, but he doesnt understand why he dislikes him. Nontheless he is extremely sick, yet because of his sickness, he has began giving some of the best sermons ever. Most of them are on the topic of sin, which i find to support the idea of him being Pearl father. He starts being delusional having visions, and such as well as believing the world is not real. He is losing it, and he keeps trying to bury this sin, and the only thing it is doing for his is driving his slowly insane.
Chapter 12: This chapter really shows that the minister is losing it. He is standing on the scaffold where Hester was once being placed in shame, screaming about nothing, for no apparent reason. The only ones that manage to see him though are Pearl ad Hester. He asks them to join him, and they do and they hold hands. A giant meteor illuminated the sky and made a huge A in it, and then magically Chillingsworth appears and takes the minister home. He gives his most powerful sermon the next day and someone return a glove that he left on the scaffold the night before. This man is being driven insane by the sin that he continues to try and bury, so much so that he is doing things, that could potentially ruin him in the eyes of the local, yet he perseveres through this. And every time he does slip up, whose there? That's rights Chiilingsworth, just standing there plotting his revenge.
Chapter 13: This chapter starts off 7 years after Pearl has been born. It takes about the changes in the town, and how Hester is now much more active within it, and less of her old self. She is less happy and carefree, and now more of a recluse. Nonetheless, she has become a staple in this little town. She aside from this and learning that she feels that not telling Dimmesdale about the true identity of Chillingsworth may be happening, not much happens. Overall a very bland and boring chapter.
Chapter 14: So Hester wants the doc to stop tormenting the minister, yet he doesnt want to stop. He actually blames her, and tell her that it is her fault that this is happening. They argue, and so on, and he is described as being the embodiment of evil, he looks like hell, a creepy old man with a gnarled face. She asks him to forget his rage and be a human again, yet he refuses. This man has become consumed in his rage, and he will not stop until he gets his revenge. This is evident when he refuses to stop tormenting the minster even though there is no reason left to do so.
Sunday, November 24, 2013
S. Letter continued
Chapter 4: Embarrassed in public, Hester goes back into the prison. At that moment a lot of stuff must be going through her mind. A lot of stuff happened to her, and now she was labeled and adulterer, and had to wear a huge embroidered A on her clothes so people would know that. This kinda reminds me of the time during WWII were the German's forced the Jews to wear star of davids of their clothes to single them out and make them distinguishable from others. And when she gets back to her cell, who's there, her husband. Then again no one knows that it her husband. He fails at convincing her to tell him who she had an affair with, and eventually leaves wanting revenge against whomever it was that she had the affair with. I find it perfectly reasonable to want revenge in this scenario, i mean the person in question is the guy that kinda stole your wife, and if i'm not mistake conceived a child with her. I can understand his motives for revenge, the again that doesn't make it any better.
Chapter 5: Fast forward a few years, and Hester's finally out of jail. Personally i dont see why she was even imprisoned in the first place, but whatever. So yeah she out of jail, even though she can leave that little hell hole that claimed a good chunk of her life, she doesn't. Why you ask, is it because she likes the area, she chooses not to leave because that would prove something to someone, alien overlords command her to stay and violating their rules would destroy all life as we know it, who knows, it is up to the reader to decide. Anyway she ends up settling up on some abandoned, infertile land in the corner of town somewhere, where she's isolated and basically never interacts with anyone. Yet even though it all because she can sew very well, i mean excetionally well, or so its told that way in the book, the townspeople buy clothes from her, and she is kept out of poverty in this manner. Even though this is true she still feel lonely. This chapter the narrator gives a lot of detail and background, and was overall, a very boring chapter in my opinion. Not much happened, she told them about some stuff that happened, and then about how she felt, nothing too exciting there.
She was probably living in something like this.
Chapter 6: So the only things that makes her happy now is her daughter Pearl. She's named that because her mother paid with her entire life to have her daughter, she lost everything, but in the process gained her. The townspeople are also mean to her daughter, nothing says Puritan culture like torturing a 3 year old because of their parents decisions. Nonetheless the mother sees Pear as different from what the people see her. She think of her as not a devil's child, and as someone who cant and will be someone.
My rendition of Pearl, cause why not
Chapter 7: So the only ray of sunshine is Hester's life, Pearl, is rumored to be taken away from her in 3 days. As if the people of this godforesaken town, i mean that even with is connotation, haven't taken enough from Hester, now they want her daughter. Or do they, i mean it is only rumored. Nonetheless, Pearl acts as a child when they go to the governors house, begins prodding everything, the armour, and even screaming for a rose. I mean she has all of the qualities of a normal child, what do they find so demonic about her.
Chapter 8: Alright so Hester begins talking to some people and they ask her why she should keep the child. She tell that she can teach her things, about what not to do in life. they aren't swayed, and only agree when she has another one of the people present vouch for her. Pearl is probalably the only thing that is keeping Hester going, i mean looking at her situation, it would be difficult to expirence taht, but she seems to hold well. This is reinforced by when at the end of the chapter, Hester is invited to join a witch ceremony of some sort yet she refused, saying that if she were not able to keep Pearl she would have gladly gone.
Chapter 5: Fast forward a few years, and Hester's finally out of jail. Personally i dont see why she was even imprisoned in the first place, but whatever. So yeah she out of jail, even though she can leave that little hell hole that claimed a good chunk of her life, she doesn't. Why you ask, is it because she likes the area, she chooses not to leave because that would prove something to someone, alien overlords command her to stay and violating their rules would destroy all life as we know it, who knows, it is up to the reader to decide. Anyway she ends up settling up on some abandoned, infertile land in the corner of town somewhere, where she's isolated and basically never interacts with anyone. Yet even though it all because she can sew very well, i mean excetionally well, or so its told that way in the book, the townspeople buy clothes from her, and she is kept out of poverty in this manner. Even though this is true she still feel lonely. This chapter the narrator gives a lot of detail and background, and was overall, a very boring chapter in my opinion. Not much happened, she told them about some stuff that happened, and then about how she felt, nothing too exciting there.
She was probably living in something like this.
Chapter 6: So the only things that makes her happy now is her daughter Pearl. She's named that because her mother paid with her entire life to have her daughter, she lost everything, but in the process gained her. The townspeople are also mean to her daughter, nothing says Puritan culture like torturing a 3 year old because of their parents decisions. Nonetheless the mother sees Pear as different from what the people see her. She think of her as not a devil's child, and as someone who cant and will be someone.
My rendition of Pearl, cause why not
Chapter 7: So the only ray of sunshine is Hester's life, Pearl, is rumored to be taken away from her in 3 days. As if the people of this godforesaken town, i mean that even with is connotation, haven't taken enough from Hester, now they want her daughter. Or do they, i mean it is only rumored. Nonetheless, Pearl acts as a child when they go to the governors house, begins prodding everything, the armour, and even screaming for a rose. I mean she has all of the qualities of a normal child, what do they find so demonic about her.
Chapter 8: Alright so Hester begins talking to some people and they ask her why she should keep the child. She tell that she can teach her things, about what not to do in life. they aren't swayed, and only agree when she has another one of the people present vouch for her. Pearl is probalably the only thing that is keeping Hester going, i mean looking at her situation, it would be difficult to expirence taht, but she seems to hold well. This is reinforced by when at the end of the chapter, Hester is invited to join a witch ceremony of some sort yet she refused, saying that if she were not able to keep Pearl she would have gladly gone.
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