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Saturday, March 22, 2014

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.

2 comments:

  1. Tiarah, rather than have just a few surface level comments about each chapter, try delving deeper into the analysis of your theme - even if it means just discussing one or two events that happened over the events of the entire reading for the blog.

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  2. You put an aspect of the book into a perspective I hadn't considered with the suggestion that Widow Douglas was technically betraying Jim by fixing to sell him off. Personally, I wasn't surprised that people thought Jim murdered Huck, not because it seemed like a logical assumption or even because of anything to do with our blog posts, really, so I guess I won't talk about that. By the way, I like the grammar in this book, too. Pooty great, isn't it?

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