Saturday, April 12, 2014

Huck Finn 32-37 cut it short to make it on time

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 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.

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.