Huck finn 31-43

Looks lthe hut.ike the king and duke's luck is running out. As they make an attempt to betray a village, each attempt was unsuccessful. Huck's analogies are the absolute best! "Then in another village they started a dancing school; but they didn't no more how to dance than a kangaroo does;" (Twain - P. 237). I feel like Huck is betraying Jim by not going to look for him. When he discovers that Jim has been captured, he lays in the raft contemplating instead of searching for his friend. Huck believes it will be better if Jim was a slave with his family. But if Jim ran away from being a slave, why would Huck feel like that's the best decision? Plus, people are after Jim because they think he's a murderer. They won't be sending Jim to New Orleans, they're going to hang him.
      Huck is also being selfish when thinking about what's best for Jim. "And then think of me! It would get all around, that Huck Finn helped a nigger to get his freedom," ( Twain - P. 240). Losing Jim is finally getting to Huck. He decides to find his friens. He finds the duke for answers, but as soon as the duke was going to give Huck information he stopped. Not trusting Huck of course. Luckily, Huck already knew who he had to see.
      When Huck gets to the house, he soon realizes that Sally is Tom Sawyer's aunt. Thus, the lying duo is back. Huck meets his friend away from the Phelps house and tells him all about Jim. Tom is on board for helping with the nigger escape. Is it because he's trying to help a friend or is it because he missed searching for trouble?
      While the duo is out lurking through the town, they spot the other team of thieves dealing with some trouble of their own. When thinking of the four of them, I wonder if the king and duke symbolize Huck and Tom. Could the two be a representation of the two boys' future. If they continue to betray people, is that where they'll end up years from now?
      Tom is being a pretty good friend by helping Huck free Jim. Is this really THE Tom Sawyer with Huck? They soon devise up a plan to free Jim when they discover his whereabouts.
       Tom's plan is looking bad because Silas is guarding the hut. When they first spot Jim you can sense the friendship when he grabs there hands in the hut.
      Another greatly plan by Tom Sawyer is taking the wrong turn. Sally discovers the missing items and blames it on everything else but the boys. It's funny how the characters in the book underestimate the boys. Children can betray you too.
       This part of the book is where I realize that Tom is a little off... They snuck Jim out and the whole time, they didn't think of running away. Tom obviously doesn't care about anything, but Huck should be concerned about his friend. He's so obsessed with Tom that he forgets his other friend that is in danger!
       Due to Tom's new plan, the boys are im another predicament. The Phelps get men with guns to protect the family. Therefore, Huck, Tom, and Jim try to escape. Tom gets the armed men's attention and they fire at the three of them. Did Tom do this on purpose because the idea of getting shot or shot at excites him? When they get away, Tom is delighted by his souvenir. This kid is crazy!!!
       In the end, the three of them return to the Phelps and Jim is now a freed slave. Tom proves that he is a good friend by wanting to go back with people looking at Jim as a hero. He's still crazy though. Very crazy

Huck Finn. Chapters 23-30 Friendship & Betrayal

      So these chapters are basically about the king and duke tricking three girls into believing that they're are their uncles. This had to be the most interesting part of the book. Nothing but betrayal and friendship in these chapters. The duke even starts to feel bad. However, is talked blind, as Huck says on page 203. However, let's start from the beginning of their journey.
      The king and duke gained $465 in three nights by performing a tragedy. When they skip their final performance, Jim questions their royalty. Huck just simply says it's how the Royals are, they're rapscallions. I personally enjoyed how Huck related the actions of the king and duke to King Henry VIII. He told Jim how King Henry betrayed all six of his wives by beheading them. "And he would do it just as indifferent as if he was ordering up eggs," (Twain - 179).
      In the next chapter these crazy men decide to paint Jim blue, "like a man that's been drowned for nine days," (Twain - 183). If anyone comes lurking through, Jim has to scare them and make noises. One BIG flaw here people! If a man is in the woods, he has a gun! If a man with a gun sees this dead, avatar looking thing in the woods, they're going to shoot! These men have hunted before and I'm sure they're first instinct is to shoot. I'm convinced the conartists know this as well.
      Now, this is where they meet the man and tell him that they're the girls uncles, related to the deceased. They go to the funeral, cry and put on a phenomenal show for the grieving family. Huck quickly makes friends with Mary Jane and Susan. The youngest sister, Joe or Joanna, not so much. She doesn't believe one word he says. He does take a liking to the girls the king and duke are robbing out of their money though.
      We start to see a change in the duke, "the bag of gold was enough, and he didn't want to go no deeper - didn't want to rob a lot of orphans of everything they had," (Twain - 203). He's starting to have a little compassion inside of him. Maybe he realized that the girls considers them as family friends. Then again, he is good at tricking people. The king puts his partner's focus back on the gold.
      Huck betrays the girls every second he's not telling the truth. They're friends and yet, he continues to let the men rob the girls. The king and duke give the girls hope, they think they're going to England. Huck knows he is wrong. Thankfully, he comes up with a paln to steal the money. Plan seems pretty good until he places it in a ridiculous spot. You have to read to find out where :p Thus, showing what a remarkable friend he is.
      I was on my toes the whole time while reading chapter 28. Huck tells Mary Jane everything about their visit. I was afraid the king and duke were standing from afar listening to every word they say. I was waiting for them to yank Huck for betraying them like that. The two, Mary Jane and Huck, devise a plan to put the other two in jail.
      The plan turned to be unsuccessful and the three of them ended up being questioned. The money is then found. In the end Huck is free of the king and duke, but omly only for a second when they return to the raft. The king and duke start accusing the each other of betrayal and hiding the money. Surprisingly, they didn't think Huck did it to get rid of them.

Huckleberry Finn Chapters 16-22

      In the beginning of chapter 16, I have absolutely no idea what they are talking about. But apparently Bob seeks revenge when the Child fights back. "he was a man that never forgot and never forgive,". Even though the start of chapter 16 was a bore, we definitely see Huck getting more attached to Jim. And as soon as I think Huck feels blessed to gain such a great companionship, he thinks about betraying Jim. He's considering throwing poor Ol' Jim under the bus. "What did that poor old woman do to you, that you could treat her so mean?"(Twain - Page 109) He then continues to think about the good Miss Watson has done for him. He completely forgot the good Jim has done for him. When picking sides, Huck needs to realize that he can't win. No matter what he decides, he'll be betraying both of his friends. Jim is more significant than Miss Watson anyway. Him and Jim have more history.
      Huck makes the right decision and does not turn into a rat. They continue to set sail and are soon separated. Luckily, Huck meets a kind family and is hoping to stay with them. He's betraying Jim. It seems as though he forgot all about his friend that could be hurt or worse. Death seems to be significant in Chapter 17. I feel as though the significance is foreshadowing. Maybe a significant character will die later on in the novel. Emmeline Grangerford seemed as though she was infatuated with the idea of death. She "used to paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patient suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer, and write poetry after them out of her own head." (Twain - Page 124). After a gun fight between the Grangerfords and Buck, Huck runs away with Jim in a raft yet again. As Tim and Huck head down the stream, Huck comes across two men that were fleeing from their problems and asked if they can join the two on the raft. I was happy the two men ran into two sweet guys like Huck and Jim.
      However, it didn't take long for the two to betray Finn and Jim. They make up an outrageous lie that they are royal. The younger man states that he is an English duke and the older one says that he is the long lost son of Louix XVI.
      I'm indecisive on whether Huck is betraying Jim or not. He won't mention the fact that the two men lied about their identity. I guess he's only looking out for Jim. Well, at least Huck is aware of the lies; he learned one good thing from Pa. "If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way." ( Twain - Page 148).
      The men traveling with Finn and Jim may be con artists, but Huckleberry Finn will always be a bigger one than them. He learned that from Tom. Every time Huck gets into a predicament, he makes up an unfathomable story. He's betraying everyone he meets along the journey.

Huckleberry Finn FRIENDSHIP AND BETRAYAL Chapters 6-15

In Chapter 6, Pap is trying to get the money from Judge Thatcher and is still beating on Huck, as usual. "he went for me, too, for not stopping school." (Twain- Page 24). While reading, all I'm thinking is where is Huck's "savior", Tom, now? School is Huck's friend in my opinion. It's his comfort zone, the only place he can get away from his "lickings". "I didn't want to go to school much, before, but I reckoned I'd go now to spite pap." (Twain- Page 24). Widow Douglas is also Tom's friend, but since he looks at the "negatives", he doesn't see that the widow is just looking out for him.
Going further into the chapter, Huck begins to talk about how the law betrays him. On page 28, Twain writes, "Here's what the law does. The law takes a man worth six thousand dollars and upards, and jams him into an old trap of a cabin like this, and lets him go round in clothes that ain't fitten for a hog. They call that government! A man can't get his rights in a government like this." Then Pap rambles on about how the government betrays the people by freeing "niggers" and allowing them to look better than the whites. Typical Pap.
In Chapter 7, I didn't see much friendship and betrayal. However, on page 34 when Twain describes how Huck slaughtered a pig is just gross. I guess he betrayed the pig and his father because Huck's trying to make it look like he was murdered. Another, off topic statement, on page 36, Pap is sober. Way to go Pap!
In Chapter 8, Huck runs into his old friend Jim. I found Jim to be hilarious on page 43 because he thinks Huck is a ghost and starts to pray :D
It was pooty hard trying to understand what Jim was telling Huck on page 45, but apparently Miss Watson was gwyne to betray poor ole Jim. She was gwyne to sell him down to Orleans for $800. That's pooty rough for Jim. Oh how I love the grammar in this book :D
I didn't have much to say about Chapter 9, but the beginning of Chapter 10 was "oh my gosh..." On page 59, I guess you can say Huck betrayed Jim, but it was an accident. He didn't mean for the rattle snake to bite Jim.
Chapter 11, we find out that people think Jim killed Huck since he ran away on the same day. They really think Jim would betray Huck like that?
In chapter 12, Huck goes on and on about Tom. I just want to hit Huck upside the head and tell him that Tom isn't his true friend. In the end, you can tell Huck really cares for Jim. He finds out that a few men want him dead and he tries to save him.
Huck is too good of a person. In Chapter 13, he starts to feel sympathy for the murderers and wonders how he would feel if he were in their shoes.
From pages 83-84, Huck begins to tell Jim how the kings and dukes betray them. He says that they sit around do nothing unless there is a war.
Lastly, in chapter 15, I wonder if Jim is slowly turning into Pap. He's always drinking now. I just hope he doesn't start putting his hands on Huck. Huck gets enough of that from his actual father.

Friendship and Betrayal - Huck Finn

In this novel the friendship between Huck and Tom is kind of strange. I feel as though Huck is more of a friend to Tom then Tom is to Huck. When creating the Gang, they almost made poor Huck cry because he doesn't have a family. Which is messed because the pack was to kill a boy's family if they told about the secrets of the Gang.
In chapter 1, I feel like Tom was being friendly to Huck when he bribed him to go back to The Widow Douglas. Tom knows that the widow cares for Huck and Tom just wants Huck to be safe and have family he never got to have since his father is a drunk. "The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb," (Twain p. 2) The widow clearly shows signs that she loves Huck and she just wants the best for him. That's why she doesn't want him talking to Tom Sawyer.
Now going back to what I said before about how Huck cares more than Tom. On page 3 of the novel, Twain writes. "I asked her if she reckoned Tom Sawyer would go there, and she said, not by a considerable sight. I was glad about that, because I wanted him and me together." This part of the novel is when he was talking with Miss Watson about Heaven and Hell. He wants to go to Hell because that is where his friends were going and he didn't want to be with Miss Watson in the after life. He wanted to be with his "friends".
In chapter 2, the boys become the Gang. This part of the book got under my skin because they were willing to kill their friends' families if any word of their Gang got out. That just made absolutely know since to me. Tom also mentioned killing members of the Gang if there was conflict between two members. Tom isn't what I remember from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. I didn't think I would dislike him this much in the beginning of the story. Chapter 3, I didn't see much of my theme. Chapter 4 as well. Huck just recognizes his father's footprints and runs to Judge Thatcher and talks with Jim. Lastly, Chapter 5 is mainly about Huck's dad

Blog Post 4 (it's short because i wanted to finish it before 12)

Chapter 9(PP 114-125)

            Starts off talking about Roger Chillingworth… “The Leech”, perfect name for this man! “to vanish out of life as completely as if he indeed lay at the bottom of the ocean,” Haha, where he belongs!! I never said that… Apparently Chillingworth is the creator of the Elixir of Life. I wonder if he ever used it on himself. Now I see him as a mad scientist at the age of 252.

Towards the end it’s expressed that R.C. is either Satan or an emissary of Satan. I assumed this chapter was going to talk about Chillingworth’s past life differently. Due to the book only talking about how he is a bad guy, I was prepared to feel bad for the man. But, no! Now I’m more afraid of him than angry at him.

Chapter 10

            The first sentence made me think that Hawthorne was going to show the good side of Chillingworth. There is no good side apparently. “Old Roger Chillingworth, throughout life, had been calm in temperament, kindly though not of warm affections, but ever, and in all his relations with the world, a pure and upright man. (P 125) The way Hawthorne worded R.C.’s actions made it sound sinister. “He now dug into the poor clergyman’s heart like a miner searching for gold;” (P 125) However, R.C. was just in search of the clergyman’s soul.

            “Yet some men bury their secrets thus,” (P 128, Chillingworth) Now comparing him to the “Minister’s Black Veil”. I see that R.C. and the main character in the short story have similarities. Both of them are mysterious and dark. They both also believe that the Puritan people have something to say about everyone else, yet have their own skeleton trapped in the closet. No one embraces their wrongdoings.

            Hester and Pearl are soon brought up in this chapter. I feel as though Pearl is Hester’s guardian angel. Pearl arranges the prickly burrs along the lines of the scarlet letter. Knowing that these weeds have a touch texture, I begin to reread that section of the chapter and thing of the significance between Pearl’s actions. Thinking about it, I came up with the idea that Pearl placed the painful weeds upon the “A” symbolizing her mother’s pain. Hester goes through so much pain and ridicule every day and wears the “A” with pride. She never complains and she has her head high at all times. This is the reason why she doesn’t remove the weeds from her bosom.

            Pearl is highly suspicious of Chillingworth. “Come away, Mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you! But he cannot catch little Pearl!”

            Going back to Chapter 8 when I thought Rev. Dimmesdale was Pearl’s father, now I think he is too afraid of R.C. to do such shame. However, no one knows that Chillingworth is Hester’s husband. Then again, I feel like Dimmesdale is the father because when he left R.C.’s presence, Chillingworth stated, “But see, now, how passion takes hold upon this man, and hurrieth him out of himself! As with one passion, so with another! He hath done a wild thing ere now, this pious Master Dimmesdale, in the hot passion of his heart!” (P 133)

Scarlet Letter #3

Chapter 6 (pages 85-96)

            I didn’t really like this chapter. I find the relationship between Pearl and Hester to be beautiful, but the chapter bored me. Plus it didn’t help being how I was listening to Mozart while reading. However, this chapter goes into great detail about Hester’s sunshine. Pearl, named “as being of great price-purchased with all she had-her mother’s only treasure!” (Hawthorne, 85)

            Just like chapter 5, Hawthorne is showing a more sentimental side of Hester in this chapter. She’s strong in the very beginning of the novel and now we learn that she’s only strong because the heavens blessed her with this child. “Above all, the warfare of Hester’s spirit, at that epoch, was perpetuated in Pearl” (Hawthorne, 87) Even at such a young age, I feel as though Pearl knows she is different from the other kids.

• Symbol: Pearl’s eyes and smile

Every time Hester wonders if Pearl is a demon child, Pearl smiles and looks at her with eyes that reach the depth of your soul. Then, Hester knows her child is just a blessing that the world doesn’t understand.

Chapter 7 (pages 96-104)

            Do my eyes deceive me? Could Pearl really be taken away from her mother? This is not happening!

            Pearl has to be the cutest little thing. I picture Pearl with anime-like eyes, big, brown, and bright. When reading about Pearl stopping the kids from flinging mud at her and Hester, all I could do was laugh; imagining this little girl scaring off children three times her size. Pearl isn’t a sin; she gets rid of the sins. “She resembled, in her fierce pursuit of them, an infant pestilence-the scarlet fever, or some such half-fledged angel of judgment-whose mission was to punish the sins of the rising generation.” (Hawthorne, page 99)

            The last event that caught my eye in this chapter was on page 102, “…that it made Hester Prynne feel as if it could not be the image of her own child, but of an imp who was seeking to mould itself into Pearl’s shape.” (Hawthorne) Why did Hester begin to see her child as an imp (demon)? Were the words of the townspeople getting to her?

Chapter 8 (pages 104-114)

            When Governor Bellingham, Wilson, Chillingworth, and Dimmesdale walk into the room, they didn’t notice Hester. They talked bad about young Pearl until they noticed the mother. Gov. Bellingham tells Hester that Pearl doesn’t belong and that she isn’t a Christian child. However, talking bad about an infant isn’t Christian-like either!

            As the adults have a discussion about Pearl, there goes Chillingworth getting on my last nerve!! His whispers got under Prynne’s skin and she sticks up for her daughter. “God gave me the child! He gave her in requital of all things else, which ye had taken from me. She is my happiness!-she is my torture, none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life! Pearl punishes me as too! See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my sin? Ye shall not take her! I will die first!” (Prynne, page 109)

            Hester doesn’t give up when the men insist on separating her and her child. She perseveres by asking Dimmesdale to help her out. To my astonishment, he does just that. Maybe she has one person that hasn’t completely given up on her. I think Chillingworth is suspicious of Dimmesdale. “You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness,” He gives off the impression that the clergyman was the apprentice in the adultery. At the top of page 113, Chillingworth wants the men to continue the search for the father of Pearl. Why does he care so much? Maybe because men don’t like to be portrayed as a fool; even in today’s day in age men don’t want to find out their girlfriend or wife cheated on them. I think he cares because she killed his “pride”. In the end, precious Pearl is allowed to stay with her mother.J