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.
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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.
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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.
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- 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?
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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.
Huck Finn . Discussion Questions [: V - XI
1. Actually a good father would try to make his son a better person than himself but Pap obviously doesnt want Huck to be better as him, what makes him a bad father.
2. The Court refuses to give Huck protection from his Dad even though his dad is worse than everybody else. That shows that a blood relation ship or a family is worth a lot more than good people.
3. The life at the shanty reflects freedom, especially fredom from the society. It is where he grew up, what he is used to and as he goes back to it he gets used to it again.
4. Pap is upset that a nigger is so much better than him, he is rich, he wears jewelry, he is even allowed to vote.
5. Freedom is reflected. Huck tries to get away from his Dad, which he belongs to according to society. Jim is trying to get away from Watson and they both are worth a lot of money.
6. No i dont think that it wouldnt have worked because Tom reflects romanticism and would have tried to make it thrilling and so in the last minute everything would have gone wrong.
7. Last supper. Rebirth. Bread should have found a dead body, it found him, but he just eats it. It says the bread should have found him, and it did find him, in a living condition, but it found him. So prayer works for some things, but not for him.
8. jim thought Huck was a ghost ---> superstition. He was afraid, that huck is gonna kill him.
9. Huck doesnt have a past to worry about. They thought he was dead, now a person now he is alive, he got reborn. Now Huck knows, that Jim ran away, his knows that it is a crime, but he aint tell.
10. Abolitionist is one of the worst things you can call a person in this society. It is kind of ironic. Not wanting slaves is actually kind of good, but in this society it is one of the worst things ever.
11. He knows things because of his past, because of things that have happened to him or his family before. Also he applies superstition to things that happen.
12. I think it is typical for Huck, He plays the trick because he wants to have fun, he does not believe in the superstition and he does not understand the thing he is doing. He does not mean something bad with it. But he learns, that this was bad and he still want not to hurt anybody, so he is not gonna play this kind of trick again.
14. She exaggerates. She said it had been 20 thousand dollars, but in real it were just 12 thousand dollars.
15. Pap is worth 200 Dollars, Jim is worth 300 Dollars. Pap is a murderer, Jim is a runaway slave. In this society a runaway slave is worth a lot more than a murderer.
2. The Court refuses to give Huck protection from his Dad even though his dad is worse than everybody else. That shows that a blood relation ship or a family is worth a lot more than good people.
3. The life at the shanty reflects freedom, especially fredom from the society. It is where he grew up, what he is used to and as he goes back to it he gets used to it again.
4. Pap is upset that a nigger is so much better than him, he is rich, he wears jewelry, he is even allowed to vote.
5. Freedom is reflected. Huck tries to get away from his Dad, which he belongs to according to society. Jim is trying to get away from Watson and they both are worth a lot of money.
6. No i dont think that it wouldnt have worked because Tom reflects romanticism and would have tried to make it thrilling and so in the last minute everything would have gone wrong.
7. Last supper. Rebirth. Bread should have found a dead body, it found him, but he just eats it. It says the bread should have found him, and it did find him, in a living condition, but it found him. So prayer works for some things, but not for him.
8. jim thought Huck was a ghost ---> superstition. He was afraid, that huck is gonna kill him.
9. Huck doesnt have a past to worry about. They thought he was dead, now a person now he is alive, he got reborn. Now Huck knows, that Jim ran away, his knows that it is a crime, but he aint tell.
10. Abolitionist is one of the worst things you can call a person in this society. It is kind of ironic. Not wanting slaves is actually kind of good, but in this society it is one of the worst things ever.
11. He knows things because of his past, because of things that have happened to him or his family before. Also he applies superstition to things that happen.
12. I think it is typical for Huck, He plays the trick because he wants to have fun, he does not believe in the superstition and he does not understand the thing he is doing. He does not mean something bad with it. But he learns, that this was bad and he still want not to hurt anybody, so he is not gonna play this kind of trick again.
14. She exaggerates. She said it had been 20 thousand dollars, but in real it were just 12 thousand dollars.
15. Pap is worth 200 Dollars, Jim is worth 300 Dollars. Pap is a murderer, Jim is a runaway slave. In this society a runaway slave is worth a lot more than a murderer.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Huck Finn . Discussion Questions [: I-IV
1. The widow Douglas has a good heart. She takes Huck to her, she gives him clothes, she feeds him, she offers him to go to school, and she gives him an own room to live in.
Huck answered, that he is not interested in dead people. That shows that he is realistic and lives in the world of today.
2. Superstition is used quite often in the first chapter. Huck sees a ghost, he burns a spider, he hears an owl. Superstition has a similarity to religion. Its is mentioned in chapter 1 a lot, because it is used as a motif to understand Huck in a better way.
3. Huck says, that he does not want to go to the 'good place', where people play harps all day long. He wants to have an adventure, a change, he wants to do something.
4. The trick Huck and Tom played on Jim was not really meant in a bad way. They took his hat and hung it up. As they are children, it was just meant as fun.
5. A servant is a really good name for a slave in that time. Jim has somebody that pays attention to him, that makes him feel good. This ruins him, because a slave in that time is not supposed to feel good.
6. Tom took the candle, even though he did not need it. He left the 5 cents on the table, because he thought that would be right, maybe even better for the person, if they get something that is more worth than the candles. I think Huck wouldn't have taken the candles as long as he really does not need them He just takes things, when he needs them, but then he wouldn't have let 5 cents on the table.
7. Tom stands for romanticism, Huck for realism in this book. Huck is a uneducated boy, that does not understand everything that people tell him. He lives in the world of today, he tries to be honest. Tom has education. He is clever, but he is also insidious. He wants to make everthing as romantic as possible.
8. Highwaymen sounds way better than burglars. Burglars are usual, there are a lot of them, Tom does not want to be like everyone else. Highwaymen sounds more noble, and it is more fun to stop wagons instead of breaking into houses.
9. When Miss Watson said when you pray for everything, you get it back, Huck thought, when you pray, you get back even material things. He tried to, it did not work. He also wonders, why no one prays for the things they lost. Then Miss Watson told him that it is for spiritual things, then he is not interested anymore.
10. Tom calls Huck a numskull, because he doesnt get a lot of things. When Tom says something, he believes, that Tom means it, but he often does not, for example with the gang they found. Huck thought they would really kill all the people, but Tom only attacked a picnic.
11. Tom is romantic. He acts like there are all the elephants, and the arabs. Huck does not get it. He is realistic, he does not believe in those things.
12. He gives all the money to the Judge Thatcher, because he does not want his dad to get access to it.
Huck answered, that he is not interested in dead people. That shows that he is realistic and lives in the world of today.
2. Superstition is used quite often in the first chapter. Huck sees a ghost, he burns a spider, he hears an owl. Superstition has a similarity to religion. Its is mentioned in chapter 1 a lot, because it is used as a motif to understand Huck in a better way.
3. Huck says, that he does not want to go to the 'good place', where people play harps all day long. He wants to have an adventure, a change, he wants to do something.
4. The trick Huck and Tom played on Jim was not really meant in a bad way. They took his hat and hung it up. As they are children, it was just meant as fun.
5. A servant is a really good name for a slave in that time. Jim has somebody that pays attention to him, that makes him feel good. This ruins him, because a slave in that time is not supposed to feel good.
6. Tom took the candle, even though he did not need it. He left the 5 cents on the table, because he thought that would be right, maybe even better for the person, if they get something that is more worth than the candles. I think Huck wouldn't have taken the candles as long as he really does not need them He just takes things, when he needs them, but then he wouldn't have let 5 cents on the table.
7. Tom stands for romanticism, Huck for realism in this book. Huck is a uneducated boy, that does not understand everything that people tell him. He lives in the world of today, he tries to be honest. Tom has education. He is clever, but he is also insidious. He wants to make everthing as romantic as possible.
8. Highwaymen sounds way better than burglars. Burglars are usual, there are a lot of them, Tom does not want to be like everyone else. Highwaymen sounds more noble, and it is more fun to stop wagons instead of breaking into houses.
9. When Miss Watson said when you pray for everything, you get it back, Huck thought, when you pray, you get back even material things. He tried to, it did not work. He also wonders, why no one prays for the things they lost. Then Miss Watson told him that it is for spiritual things, then he is not interested anymore.
10. Tom calls Huck a numskull, because he doesnt get a lot of things. When Tom says something, he believes, that Tom means it, but he often does not, for example with the gang they found. Huck thought they would really kill all the people, but Tom only attacked a picnic.
11. Tom is romantic. He acts like there are all the elephants, and the arabs. Huck does not get it. He is realistic, he does not believe in those things.
12. He gives all the money to the Judge Thatcher, because he does not want his dad to get access to it.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Vocabulary Words ..Evanescent . Veneration.. November 9th
Evanescent (adjective)
There is an evanescent popularity of people who fight for less violence in the world.
Veneration (noun)
Some people have a huge veneration on famous people.
There is an evanescent popularity of people who fight for less violence in the world.
Veneration (noun)
Some people have a huge veneration on famous people.
Monday, November 8, 2010
Vocabulary Words ..Magnate . Malleable.. November 8th
Magnate (Noun)
Josef Ackermann is a magnate in the German bank business
Malleable (Adjective)
Our arms are malleable. Otherwise we would fail at picking up things.
Josef Ackermann is a magnate in the German bank business
Malleable (Adjective)
Our arms are malleable. Otherwise we would fail at picking up things.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
The Scarlet Letter .. The Nature of the Evil .. Post #55
I finally decided to take this theme as my essay theme.
The Evil is associated with the darkness in this book. Even though darkness can have good aspects, for example romance, it does not do here. With darkness Chillingworth is connected, and so Satan is, too. It seems like evil in this society is a lot about revenge and not being able to forgive. When someone decides on revenging he gets totally 'eaten' by the darkness. It is just like this person is some kind of puppet, a slave, that is totally devoted to the evil. It is just like you sign into a book with your own blood and it keeps you alive as long as you have something to suck from. You give your soul to the devil. Just as Chillingworth is the darkness in this book he needs sunlight of other people. He needs their pain. Like it always has been, evil needs good things to survive, just like there has to be sunlight for having shadows, there has to be light to have darkness, and so there has to be good to get bad things.
The Evil is associated with the darkness in this book. Even though darkness can have good aspects, for example romance, it does not do here. With darkness Chillingworth is connected, and so Satan is, too. It seems like evil in this society is a lot about revenge and not being able to forgive. When someone decides on revenging he gets totally 'eaten' by the darkness. It is just like this person is some kind of puppet, a slave, that is totally devoted to the evil. It is just like you sign into a book with your own blood and it keeps you alive as long as you have something to suck from. You give your soul to the devil. Just as Chillingworth is the darkness in this book he needs sunlight of other people. He needs their pain. Like it always has been, evil needs good things to survive, just like there has to be sunlight for having shadows, there has to be light to have darkness, and so there has to be good to get bad things.
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Nine - The Leech and his Patient .. Post #54
“Even in the grave-yard, here at hand,” answered the physician, continuing his employment. “They are new to me. I found them growing on a grave, which bore no tombstone, nor other memorial of the dead man, save these ugly weeds that have taken upon themselves to keep him in remembrance. They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime.”
Is this some kind of a tactic of Chillingworth to get deeper into Dimmesdale's heart? Even though it was not Dimmesdale's grave where the herbs grew, it connects to him, as he has a secret in his heart too. It is like the jewell Chillingworth keeps looking for in Dimmesdale's heart. The jewell, the secret in Dimmesdale's heart, that keeps Chillingworth's heart bumping.
Is this some kind of a tactic of Chillingworth to get deeper into Dimmesdale's heart? Even though it was not Dimmesdale's grave where the herbs grew, it connects to him, as he has a secret in his heart too. It is like the jewell Chillingworth keeps looking for in Dimmesdale's heart. The jewell, the secret in Dimmesdale's heart, that keeps Chillingworth's heart bumping.
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Twenty four - Conclusion .. Post #53
“Don’t you know,” cried the ship’s captain, “that this doctor here—he calls himself Chillingworth—has decided to try ship’s cooking along with you? Yeah, sure, you must have known. He tells me that he is a member of your party and a close friend of the gentleman you spoke of—the one that is in danger from these sour old Puritans.”
and
"Even across the broad and busy square, through all the talk and laughter and various thoughts, moods, and interests of the crowd, that smile conveyed a secret and fearful meaning."
compared to
"But what distinguished the physician's ecstasy from Satan's was the trait of wonder in it!" (Page 121, Chapter Nine)
Chillingworth changed during the book. He changed throughout his whole life. First, when he married Hester he was a normal person, studying books, trying to get more and more knowledge. Then he decided to take revenge and this revenge converted him into an evil man. He needed Dimmesdale to survive. First he was some kind of a substitute of Satan, until he finally changed into Satan. When he was described with the snake earlier in the book that was one of the first hints because Satan often gets described in the body of a snake. When he was wondering he was not totally evil yet, he still had some light in him but at the end of the book, he was not wondering anymore. All the light was gone, he turned into a devil. That is the reason he dies in the end. Would he have survived if there had been light somewhere hidden in him? Or would he have died anyways?
and
"Even across the broad and busy square, through all the talk and laughter and various thoughts, moods, and interests of the crowd, that smile conveyed a secret and fearful meaning."
compared to
"But what distinguished the physician's ecstasy from Satan's was the trait of wonder in it!" (Page 121, Chapter Nine)
Chillingworth changed during the book. He changed throughout his whole life. First, when he married Hester he was a normal person, studying books, trying to get more and more knowledge. Then he decided to take revenge and this revenge converted him into an evil man. He needed Dimmesdale to survive. First he was some kind of a substitute of Satan, until he finally changed into Satan. When he was described with the snake earlier in the book that was one of the first hints because Satan often gets described in the body of a snake. When he was wondering he was not totally evil yet, he still had some light in him but at the end of the book, he was not wondering anymore. All the light was gone, he turned into a devil. That is the reason he dies in the end. Would he have survived if there had been light somewhere hidden in him? Or would he have died anyways?
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Twenty four - Conclusion .. Post #52
"All his strength and energy—all his vital and intellectual force—seemed at once to desert him;"
"Leaving this discussion apart, we have a matter of business to communicate to the reader. At old Roger Chillingworth’s decease (which took place within the year)..."
Finally Chillingworth died too. First he just lost all his strength, he got weaker, than all his life faded away. I think again Dimmesdale is the reason that he dies. Again Chillingworth does not have any victim, any sins to get nourished from, and so he finally 'starves' to death.
"Leaving this discussion apart, we have a matter of business to communicate to the reader. At old Roger Chillingworth’s decease (which took place within the year)..."
Finally Chillingworth died too. First he just lost all his strength, he got weaker, than all his life faded away. I think again Dimmesdale is the reason that he dies. Again Chillingworth does not have any victim, any sins to get nourished from, and so he finally 'starves' to death.
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Twenty four - Conclusion .. Post #51
"... like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun."
Again there is the comparison of dark and light. Chillingworth is this seed that lies in the sun. He cannot live with too much sunlight, with too much happiness, joy, purity. He needs the darkness in a person, their sin, their fears. He needs a person who has sinned, who carries a sin, a dark side in his soul to nourish himself. That is the reason he cannot survive in the sunlight.
Again there is the comparison of dark and light. Chillingworth is this seed that lies in the sun. He cannot live with too much sunlight, with too much happiness, joy, purity. He needs the darkness in a person, their sin, their fears. He needs a person who has sinned, who carries a sin, a dark side in his soul to nourish himself. That is the reason he cannot survive in the sunlight.
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Nine - The Leech .. Post #50
"The Leech" (Title)
I finally can tell what the title means. Sure it is about Chillingworth, just as the chapter after that chapter but what about the leech? I think Chillingworth is just like a Leech. He needs to 'attach' to other people and needs to get what keeps a Leech' victim alive to stay alive. Chillingworth is just like that. He needs other people's pain and sin to stay alive and not to die.
I finally can tell what the title means. Sure it is about Chillingworth, just as the chapter after that chapter but what about the leech? I think Chillingworth is just like a Leech. He needs to 'attach' to other people and needs to get what keeps a Leech' victim alive to stay alive. Chillingworth is just like that. He needs other people's pain and sin to stay alive and not to die.
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Twenty three - The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter .. Post #49
| That final word came forth with the minister’s expiring breath. The multitude, silent till then, broke out in a strange, deep voice of awe and wonder, which could not as yet find utterance, save in this murmur that rolled so heavily after the departed spirit. Dimmesdale died. Why did he die? Maybe he would have died years before but Chillingworth tortured him. As the Devil he kept him alive with his torture to have somebody to get 'food' from. Now as he does not have a sin within him and so Chillingworth does not have anything to get out of Dimmesdale anymore. It is like he already has been in hell but now as he got pure with revealing his sin he finally got into heaven. |
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Twenty three - The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter .. Post #48
| “Thou hast escaped me!” he repeated more than once. “Thou hast escaped me!” These words came from Chillingworth. Dimmesdale did escape him. Why did he escape him? I think Chillingworth lives from Dimmesdale's pain and as Dimmesdale just revealed his secret, his deepest sin, he did escape him, because now he is no longer a victim of Chillingworth' torture. |
The Scarlet Letter .. Chapter Twentyone - The New England Holiday .. Post #47
| “What a strange, sad man is he!” said the child, as if speaking partly to herself. “In the dark night-time, he calls us to him, and holds thy hand and mine, as when we stood with him on the scaffold yonder! And in the deep forest, where only the old trees can hear, and the strip of sky see it, he talks with thee, sitting on a heap of moss! And he kisses my forehead, too, so that the little brook would hardly wash it off! But here in the sunny day, and among all the people, he knows us not; nor must we know him! A strange, sad man is he, with his hand always over his heart!” Here the comparison between dark and light is mentioned. In the dark, where noone else is, Dimmesdale reveals his secret, but in the daylight, where everybody can see him, he does not say something. Could this also be a comparison to Chillingworth and Pearl? Even though he does not want to reveal his secret to Chillingworth, he finds out. So the darkness knows. The light knows it too, but Pearl is probably not that sure, that he knows it. |
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