1. Jim has a good heart in him. He is just like everybody else. He risks his own freedom to help Tom, who doesnt even care if he gets help or not. And he helps the doctor to help Tom.
2. It helps Jim so people dont treat Jim so bad as they actually should. He was the worst thing someone could be in that society and the doctor's speech put him into a much better light. The doctor kind of persuaded the people. Even though they should hate him, after the speech they dont see him as bad.
3. Tom is really proud of the bullet in his leg. It is like some kind of a proof that he was brave and it reminds him of the adventure to 'steal' Jim. He also makes a necklace out of it to show it.
4. Huck Finn gets adopted at the end of the chapter to get a better education but he cant really stand it so he runs away. That shows that he doesnt really fit into the society. He wants to be free and not a member of society. He needs adventures and his own life to live in.
5. If Huck wasnt the narrator of the book, you would get a totally different view of the book, if not a totally different book. If you had a omniscient narrator, you would have known things so much earlier, you wouldnt have had the dialect and you wouldnt have seen things from Hucks point of view. As Huck is an unreliable narrator, you sometimes get problems to understand things, because he sees things sometimes different than they are.
Monday, December 13, 2010
Huck Finn .. Discussion Questions . XXXI - XXXV
1. I agree that Chapter 31 is the climax of the book because in that Chapter Huck makes an important dicision considering Jim. He finds out that Jim is the same as him, he is a human. Moreover he wasnt sure what he should do with Jim but in that chapter he knows that he has to save him and free him out of slavery.
2. The irony in this statement is that Huck really believes in that. Most people just say it as a phrase but do not really believe in that.
3. Huck is reborn again. The first paragraph symbolizes one of the main themes death and rebirth. Also it kinda seems like a very lonely western scene in a ghost town. (Ghost = death?)
4. The Providence is like God. Huck has faith in God in this moment because he believes that God puts the right words in his mouth when he needs them. I think Miss Watson would agree because she is a really religious person.
5.
6. Romanticism vs. Realism. Huck is the character that symbolizes Realism, Tom is the character that symbolizes romanticism. When Tom comes along on the ferry and meets Huck, romanticism and realism come together.
7. Huck wants to get Jim out of slavery because he is his friend and he really likes him. The only reason that Tom wants him out of slavery is that he wants fun and an adventure.
8. Even though the king and the duke gave Huck a lot of problems and he got into a lot of trouble because of them, he doesnt like it, when he sees them in tar and feathers. That shows that Huck has feelings and that he cares for people and has a good soul, that doesnt represent freedom.
9. When Huck steals the watermelon he wants it because he is hungry and needs it for himself. Tom on the other side says he doesnt need it, who cares if he is hungry, it is stealing if he takes it. However, if he took it to send it to Jim, bestest with a knife to kill people, its not stealing anymore, it would be perfectly fine.
10. Huck lets Tom take control because he admires him so much, he thinks his own doings and thoughts are worse than Tom's.
2. The irony in this statement is that Huck really believes in that. Most people just say it as a phrase but do not really believe in that.
3. Huck is reborn again. The first paragraph symbolizes one of the main themes death and rebirth. Also it kinda seems like a very lonely western scene in a ghost town. (Ghost = death?)
4. The Providence is like God. Huck has faith in God in this moment because he believes that God puts the right words in his mouth when he needs them. I think Miss Watson would agree because she is a really religious person.
5.
6. Romanticism vs. Realism. Huck is the character that symbolizes Realism, Tom is the character that symbolizes romanticism. When Tom comes along on the ferry and meets Huck, romanticism and realism come together.
7. Huck wants to get Jim out of slavery because he is his friend and he really likes him. The only reason that Tom wants him out of slavery is that he wants fun and an adventure.
8. Even though the king and the duke gave Huck a lot of problems and he got into a lot of trouble because of them, he doesnt like it, when he sees them in tar and feathers. That shows that Huck has feelings and that he cares for people and has a good soul, that doesnt represent freedom.
9. When Huck steals the watermelon he wants it because he is hungry and needs it for himself. Tom on the other side says he doesnt need it, who cares if he is hungry, it is stealing if he takes it. However, if he took it to send it to Jim, bestest with a knife to kill people, its not stealing anymore, it would be perfectly fine.
10. Huck lets Tom take control because he admires him so much, he thinks his own doings and thoughts are worse than Tom's.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Question - Huck Finn XXXVI - XXXIX
How was Twain's disdain for Romantic fiction evident in Chapter 36 - 39
Tom Sawyer is the character that represents romanticism in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.
He is a character that tends a lot to do things that are romantic. He reads adventure books and tries to do the same things as the characters in the book. He founds a band with his friends and swears to kill people, to steal things, they even write a vow with blood, but in the end nothing happens. He tends to make things really complicated and risky but he doesnt really care as long as it follows the 'guidelines' of his books.
Since Tom shows up, Huck kind of adjusts hisself to Tom. He does not really think anymore, he does what Tom wants him to. Huck got a lot smarter since the first chapter but he doesnt really use that ability anymore. He worships Tom and doesnt even think that something of him could be totally wrong.
When Tom plans Jim's escape, we see more of his idea for romanticism. He wants to make Jim keep a journal - even though he doesnt even know how to write. Then he wants to dig a hole to get Jim, with case knives, even though the door is unlocked. Moreover he wants to make him a pie with a rope ladder in it, even though Jim is located on the first floor or he wants to saw off the bed leg even though you could just lift it up. All in all we see that Tom's plans are kind of senseless and stupid.
For Jim Tom's plans are not really helpful either. First, He doesnt really get to escape really fast, but moreover Tom put snakes and spiders into his room and he nearly bit off his teeth.
Tom Sawyer is the character that represents romanticism in 'The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn'.
He is a character that tends a lot to do things that are romantic. He reads adventure books and tries to do the same things as the characters in the book. He founds a band with his friends and swears to kill people, to steal things, they even write a vow with blood, but in the end nothing happens. He tends to make things really complicated and risky but he doesnt really care as long as it follows the 'guidelines' of his books.
Since Tom shows up, Huck kind of adjusts hisself to Tom. He does not really think anymore, he does what Tom wants him to. Huck got a lot smarter since the first chapter but he doesnt really use that ability anymore. He worships Tom and doesnt even think that something of him could be totally wrong.
When Tom plans Jim's escape, we see more of his idea for romanticism. He wants to make Jim keep a journal - even though he doesnt even know how to write. Then he wants to dig a hole to get Jim, with case knives, even though the door is unlocked. Moreover he wants to make him a pie with a rope ladder in it, even though Jim is located on the first floor or he wants to saw off the bed leg even though you could just lift it up. All in all we see that Tom's plans are kind of senseless and stupid.
For Jim Tom's plans are not really helpful either. First, He doesnt really get to escape really fast, but moreover Tom put snakes and spiders into his room and he nearly bit off his teeth.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Huck Finn .. Review Questions . XXI - XXIII
1. People in Arkansas are kinda cruel. They torture dogs til they die, have dog fights, they are in mobs, trying to get a person, lynch him and they think it is totally fun to do it. Also they just kill Boggs, because he violated the pride of a person.
2. He knows that they are hypocrites, he just looks what they are doing but he doesnt want to participate in it. He also doesnt argue against them because he doesnt wanna get into trouble with them.
3. The idea of honor being a really high thing that should be protected is reflected. Also that people are curious and sightseeing as Bogg was killed and they dont want to miss anything.
4. The Duke and the King think that people really want to watch Shakespeare, because it is Shakespeare. But in the end there is hardly anybody watching it.
5. He is an unreliable Narrator. He thinks the guy in the circus got fooled, but in the end he didnt.
6. The advertisement wants to provoke the people who read that. It tells them that women and children are not allowed to watch the show so it must be something secret. People usually like to watch things like that.
7. Twain compares the two frauds with real kings and dukes. Real kings and dukes usually are hypocrites too. They want other peoples money and things for them and they dont care if those people want to give something to the royalty, they just take it.
8. Huck gets another view of Jim. He realizes that Jim loves his family, he misses them. He doesnt only think of his children, he also reflects on his doings earlier and what he did, how that effected his daughter and him and that he cannot forgive himself.
9.
- huck is adopted by the widow douglas. She makes him go to school, etc.
- Huck joins Tom saeyers gang, which presents to kill people and steal things, but they dont do anything.
- Huck gives money to judge
- Pap comes around and tries to get him away from school etc.
- Pap steals Huck and brings him to illinois shore
- People try to get Huck away from there
- Huck fakes his death and flees on a canoe to Jackson's island
- He finds Jim on the island who ran away cause Miss Watson wanted to sell him down to new orleans
- Huck plays prank on jim, who gets bit by a Snake
- Huck and Jim go to floating house, where a man lies and where they get dresses
- Huck goes back to land, dresses up as a girl, which fails
- Womans husband goes to island, cause he saw smoke
- Pap is worth 200 Dollars, Jim 300
- Leave --> Walter Scott
- Gang of 3 people killing one of members
- Huck goes to boat man, tells he is related to the rich guy, and his family is on the Walter Scott.
- Huck plays another trick on jim, they get lost in the fog for night
- Raft gets hit by steamboat, they dive, get into Ginger..., get friends with Buck, get into feud of Shepherdsons and Gingerpeople
- George Jackson -> Jim -> Feud
- Meeting the Duke and the King, who are running away from town
- playing Shakespear, no one watches it
- playing Royal nonsuch, everybody watches it
-Boggs coming to town, wanting to kill Sherburn, Boggs gets killed --> Bible under head
- Going to the circus, gets fooled by drunk person riding the horse.
2. He knows that they are hypocrites, he just looks what they are doing but he doesnt want to participate in it. He also doesnt argue against them because he doesnt wanna get into trouble with them.
3. The idea of honor being a really high thing that should be protected is reflected. Also that people are curious and sightseeing as Bogg was killed and they dont want to miss anything.
4. The Duke and the King think that people really want to watch Shakespeare, because it is Shakespeare. But in the end there is hardly anybody watching it.
5. He is an unreliable Narrator. He thinks the guy in the circus got fooled, but in the end he didnt.
6. The advertisement wants to provoke the people who read that. It tells them that women and children are not allowed to watch the show so it must be something secret. People usually like to watch things like that.
7. Twain compares the two frauds with real kings and dukes. Real kings and dukes usually are hypocrites too. They want other peoples money and things for them and they dont care if those people want to give something to the royalty, they just take it.
8. Huck gets another view of Jim. He realizes that Jim loves his family, he misses them. He doesnt only think of his children, he also reflects on his doings earlier and what he did, how that effected his daughter and him and that he cannot forgive himself.
9.
- huck is adopted by the widow douglas. She makes him go to school, etc.
- Huck joins Tom saeyers gang, which presents to kill people and steal things, but they dont do anything.
- Huck gives money to judge
- Pap comes around and tries to get him away from school etc.
- Pap steals Huck and brings him to illinois shore
- People try to get Huck away from there
- Huck fakes his death and flees on a canoe to Jackson's island
- He finds Jim on the island who ran away cause Miss Watson wanted to sell him down to new orleans
- Huck plays prank on jim, who gets bit by a Snake
- Huck and Jim go to floating house, where a man lies and where they get dresses
- Huck goes back to land, dresses up as a girl, which fails
- Womans husband goes to island, cause he saw smoke
- Pap is worth 200 Dollars, Jim 300
- Leave --> Walter Scott
- Gang of 3 people killing one of members
- Huck goes to boat man, tells he is related to the rich guy, and his family is on the Walter Scott.
- Huck plays another trick on jim, they get lost in the fog for night
- Raft gets hit by steamboat, they dive, get into Ginger..., get friends with Buck, get into feud of Shepherdsons and Gingerpeople
- George Jackson -> Jim -> Feud
- Meeting the Duke and the King, who are running away from town
- playing Shakespear, no one watches it
- playing Royal nonsuch, everybody watches it
-Boggs coming to town, wanting to kill Sherburn, Boggs gets killed --> Bible under head
- Going to the circus, gets fooled by drunk person riding the horse.
Monday, December 6, 2010
Friday, December 3, 2010
Huck Finn . Discussion Questions [: XV - XX...
1. fog is a metaphor for confusion. Huck and Jim lose each other several times in the fog. Light on the other hand stands for clearance and peace.
2. Even though Jims a slave, Huck cares for him. He realizes that he hurt Jim, that he has feelings just like a human being.
3.
- Huck thinks he is the reason that Jim is free and he thinks he is a bad person because he helped a slave becoming free. He got taught that stealing a slave is the worst thing he could do and he did it, even though actually freeing a slave is something really good.
- He has to buy his OWN children, because they do not belong to him. So if he cannot buy them he just steals them.
-Why should you do thinks right, when you have to learn to do them right. You could just do them wrong with no effort and the result is the same.
-As snakeskin stands for extremely bad luck, they think when they saw it it 'cursed' them. This was said in the fog when they were passing cairo and they were afraid that they already let cairo behind.
4. They gave him money, actually 40 $ which is a lot of money at that time, because Huck made up a story about his family being really sick and the hunters cannot go into the ship. So the hunters feel sorry and give Huck a lot of money.
5. It represents the judgement of nature and nature gets replaced by society, which is represented by the steam boat. Society destroys nature. Nature vs. Society.
6. Twain wrote this book and he wanted it to be a continuation of Tom Sawyer. He put his book down because it developed into something else. In the meantime he wrote another novel, which is called 'Life on the Mississippi'. After that he picked up Huckleberry Finn.
7. The furniture of the house makes fun of the romantic idea of death. The family actually acts kind of weird.
8. freedom, romanticism vs realism, superstition, ignorance & naivety, role of the outsider
9. Realism, Moses freed the slaves in Egypt and fled with them. Huck is compared with Moses, cause he steals a slave too.
10. Hogs are better than people, they go to church every time, people dont. And it is pretty funny that they take their guns to a holy place like this.
11. The feud stands for Romanticism. It is this too families fighting against each other even though they do not know the reason why they fight. It is a Connection to Romeo and Juliet.
12. Both of them feel better on the raft because it stands for freedom. They might feel more comfortable in a comfortable way on a bed or something like that but they feel more free on a raft where they can do what they want to.
13. Clothes represent society, nudity represents freedom. So they represent freedom by being on the raft naked.
14. Because his dad taught him that it is better to let people play and let them do their own thing except of arguing with them.
15. Huck doesnt tell them that he knows that their not real dukes and kings
16. Juliet is 'played' by the king who is totally old and ugly, which satirizes the book.
17. He says that he has been changed from a pirate by this meeting and now hes gonna go out to change all the other pirates, he just needs some money. Its satirizing the gullibility of people.
18. Twain days that Americans are really gullible, believing some strangers that they are a duke and a king.
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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Huck Finn . Discussion Questions [: XII - XIV... BTW FIelding put the F away :D
1.Pap says that borrowing things is just you take them, but you dont give them back. The widow says that this is stealing and its wrong. So Jim and Huck have a discussion saying that they create a list and just 'borrow' a few things but not everything anymore.
2. He is looking for an adventure.
3. Sir Walter Scott is an author of romantic novels. On the boat named after him, they murder people.
4. He saves them because he wants to be a good person. Also he says that he might become a murderer some day too, so he might see them as some kind of friends.
5. He told the boatman a story that his family is on the wrack and he is related to some really rich guy. Just a few moments before he got to know that this guy is so rich. How did he get so smart?
6.
7. I dont really think his information is really accurate. He even calls the dauphin dolphin. So he probably makes up most of it, cause he is too uneducated for knowing all that stuff.
8. I think that Jim thinks that it is some kind of a duty for a king to chop a child into two. He doesnt really like him because he doesnt get the sense of chopping a child. He also might be again kings in general. A king is usually a person who doesnt do anything all day long and just decides over people. That is like an owner of a slave, which Jim probably doesnt like.
15-20
1. fog is a metaphor for ?
light = clearance, peace
2. Even though Jims a slave, Huck cares for him. He realizes that he hurt Jim, that he has feelings just like a human being.
3.
- Huck thinks he is the reason that Jim is free and he thinks he is a bad person because he helped a slave becoming free. He got taught that stealing a slave is the worst thing he could do and he did it, even though actually freeing a slave is something really good.
- He has to buy his OWN children, because they do not belong to him. So if he cannot buy them he just steals them.
-Why should you do thinks right, when you have to learn to do them right. You could just do them wrong with no effort and the result is the same.
-As snakeskin stands for extremely bad luck, they think when they saw it it 'cursed' them. This was said in the fog when they were passing cairo and they were afraid that they already let cairo behind.
4. They gave him money because Huck made up a story about his family being really sick and the hunters cannot go into the ship. So the hunters feel sorry and give Huck a lot of money.
5. It represents the judgement of nature and nature gets replaced by society, which is represented by the steam boat. Society destroys nature. Nature vs. Society.
6. Slavery, Civil War, he was a boat captain, racism
7. The furniture of the house makes fun of the romantic idea of death. Romeo and Juliet
8. freedom, romanticism vs realism, superstition, ignorance & naivety, role of the outsider,
9. Realism, Moses freed the slaves in Egypt and fled with them. Huck is compared with Moses, cause he steals a slave too.
10. Hogs are better than people, they go to church every time, people dont. And it is pretty funny that they take their guns to a holy place like this.
11. Romanticism. Connection of Romeo and Juliet.
12. Both of them feel better on the raft because it stands for freedom. They might feel more comfortable in a comfortable way on a bed or something like that but they feel more free on a raft where they can do what they want to.
13. Clothes represent society, nudity represents freedom.
14. Because his dad taught him that it is better to let people play and let them do their own thing except of arguing with them.
15. Huck doesnt tell them that he knows that their not real dukes and kings
16. Juliet is 'played' by the king who is totally old and ugly, which satirizes the book.
17. He says that he has been changed from a pirate by this meeting and noe hes gonna go out to change all the other pirates, he just needs some money. Its satirizing the gullibility of people.
18. Twain days that Americans are really gullible, believing some strangers that they are a duke and a king.
18.
2. He is looking for an adventure.
3. Sir Walter Scott is an author of romantic novels. On the boat named after him, they murder people.
4. He saves them because he wants to be a good person. Also he says that he might become a murderer some day too, so he might see them as some kind of friends.
5. He told the boatman a story that his family is on the wrack and he is related to some really rich guy. Just a few moments before he got to know that this guy is so rich. How did he get so smart?
6.
7. I dont really think his information is really accurate. He even calls the dauphin dolphin. So he probably makes up most of it, cause he is too uneducated for knowing all that stuff.
8. I think that Jim thinks that it is some kind of a duty for a king to chop a child into two. He doesnt really like him because he doesnt get the sense of chopping a child. He also might be again kings in general. A king is usually a person who doesnt do anything all day long and just decides over people. That is like an owner of a slave, which Jim probably doesnt like.
15-20
1. fog is a metaphor for ?
light = clearance, peace
2. Even though Jims a slave, Huck cares for him. He realizes that he hurt Jim, that he has feelings just like a human being.
3.
- Huck thinks he is the reason that Jim is free and he thinks he is a bad person because he helped a slave becoming free. He got taught that stealing a slave is the worst thing he could do and he did it, even though actually freeing a slave is something really good.
- He has to buy his OWN children, because they do not belong to him. So if he cannot buy them he just steals them.
-Why should you do thinks right, when you have to learn to do them right. You could just do them wrong with no effort and the result is the same.
-As snakeskin stands for extremely bad luck, they think when they saw it it 'cursed' them. This was said in the fog when they were passing cairo and they were afraid that they already let cairo behind.
4. They gave him money because Huck made up a story about his family being really sick and the hunters cannot go into the ship. So the hunters feel sorry and give Huck a lot of money.
5. It represents the judgement of nature and nature gets replaced by society, which is represented by the steam boat. Society destroys nature. Nature vs. Society.
6. Slavery, Civil War, he was a boat captain, racism
7. The furniture of the house makes fun of the romantic idea of death. Romeo and Juliet
9. Realism, Moses freed the slaves in Egypt and fled with them. Huck is compared with Moses, cause he steals a slave too.
10. Hogs are better than people, they go to church every time, people dont. And it is pretty funny that they take their guns to a holy place like this.
11. Romanticism. Connection of Romeo and Juliet.
12. Both of them feel better on the raft because it stands for freedom. They might feel more comfortable in a comfortable way on a bed or something like that but they feel more free on a raft where they can do what they want to.
13. Clothes represent society, nudity represents freedom.
14. Because his dad taught him that it is better to let people play and let them do their own thing except of arguing with them.
15. Huck doesnt tell them that he knows that their not real dukes and kings
16. Juliet is 'played' by the king who is totally old and ugly, which satirizes the book.
17. He says that he has been changed from a pirate by this meeting and noe hes gonna go out to change all the other pirates, he just needs some money. Its satirizing the gullibility of people.
18. Twain days that Americans are really gullible, believing some strangers that they are a duke and a king.
18.
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