BLOG A: Chapter Presentation: You have been assigned a chapter from the novel. Discuss the impact of Twain's choice regarding how to develop and relate elements of Huckleberry Finn. How are characters introduced and developed in the chapter? These should be submitted two days after the class discussion of the chapter to receive full credit. Make sure your response follows the general requirements as well. Minimum 100 words. Do not include the directions or questions in your response.
As we read the novel, prepare to respond to the following questions with specific quotes/evidence from the text. Make sure your quotes include page numbers from the novel and connect to the themes of American realism: freedom, the American dream, racism, regionalism, survival, "individual vs. society," and "civilized society vs. the wilderness.
BLOG A: Chapter Presentation: You have been assigned a chapter from the novel. Discuss the impact of Twain's choice regarding how to develop and relate elements of Huckleberry Finn. How are characters introduced and developed in the chapter? These should be submitted two days after the class discussion of the chapter to receive full credit. Make sure your response follows the general requirements as well. Minimum 100 words. Do not include the directions or questions in your response.
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Vlad K
2/18/2014 10:55:41 pm
chapter 9
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Erlend F.
2/22/2014 11:33:31 pm
In chapter 16, Mark Twain shows that Huck’s conscience troubles him deeply about helping Jim escape from Ms. Watson, and that he is showing some pro-slavery thoughts. However he changes his mind when he hears about Jim’s family and that he is Jim’s only friend. Jim plans to get help from Abolonists to kidnap his family from the slave masters, as if Mark Twain was presenting Abolonists as heroes. As the men in the boat arrives, Mark shows them as kind hearted for giving away 40 dollars and telling them to move farther down the river to get help for his “family”. He doesn’t give Jim up because he feels that he should disregard morale and stick to what is the most beneficial. When their canoe disappears they assume its because of the snakeskin on the island, later a steamboat collides with the raft, breaking it apart, Jim and Huck both believe in superstition. When Huck makes it ashore he is cornered by a pack of dogs. Huck develop his morality in the chapter, his views on what’s right and wrong and what to believe is affected by the events and choices he makes. He presents Jim as a lonely man who lost his family when he tells Huck about how he was going to buy his Wife and kids’ freedom as soon as he got the money in the Free States.
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Keoni C.
2/23/2014 08:53:34 pm
In Chapter 10, Huck and Jim both show they have the will to survive. During a scene Jim is bit by a snake it shows what they do to help with the wound. They also catch a catfish the size of a man in which both of them helped capture it. The also have the skills to make it through people searching for them. These show the evolution of both characters in how they see each other differently with respect, as before he was a slave. The way they see each other now is completely different form the start in where they met.
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Brandon F
2/24/2014 09:55:31 pm
In chapter 14 Huck starts telling Jim different kings and dukes and about what they did. During the conversation Jim brought up King Solomon which they started to talk about. During this conversation Huck learned that Jim despised King Solomon a lot. After that Huck started to talk about Louis Sixteenth at got his head cut off and how his little boy would have been king but they went and put him in jail and that he did in there or he got free and taught people how to speak French. A quote that comes up during this is “Spose a man was to come to you and say Polly-voo-franzy—what would you think?” (Says Huck) “I wouldn’t think nuff’n; I’d take en bust him over de head. Dat is, if he warn’t white. I wouldn’t ‘low no nigger to call me dat.” (says Jim) From this conversation you can tell that Jim doesn’t understand that there are different languages besides the only one he knows. That is what I got from chapter 14.
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Vlad K
2/25/2014 05:51:52 pm
Chapter 9
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Tatiana
2/25/2014 06:00:17 pm
One day when he wakes up everyone is out on the river searching for his body. They think he has died and has been murdered. They have all these ideas to where they think that they will be able to locate the body. Huck knows that if he someway finds his way home he can get some food to eat so he is searching for ways to get food. After some time he is starting to feel really lonely being away from everyone so he tries to find or make other friends while he is on the island. Jim then assumes that Huck is a ghost and doesn’t want him to hurt him so he begs him not to hurt Jim. Then Huck tries to convince him that he isn’t a ghost and that he isn’t actually dead which sounded so weird to Jim later they hang out then Huck wants to know why Jim is even on the island and he told him if he tells why he’s there that Huck has to promise to not tell. After he tells him he runs away and is shocked but he knows he can’t tell anyone why he’s there.
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Sarah C
2/26/2014 08:44:05 pm
In chapter 13, Huck and Jim start going for the robbers boat. The robbers had put stolen items in the boat, but leave so they can get more money from another steamboat. Huck and Jim went into the robbers boat and left as soon as they could. After a while, Huck feels bad for the robbers stranded because he felt as if he might be murdered one day as well.
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Anel
2/26/2014 09:21:55 pm
Chapter 15
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Jesse T
2/27/2014 08:26:57 pm
Chapter 14
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Steven H
3/19/2014 12:15:23 am
In Chapter 11 Huck is traveling down the river with Jim. Huck needs to find out the scoop/411 on what people are saying about his alleged "death" so he decides to go travel on land and go in a city and leave Jim with the raft at Jackson's Island. Huck disguises himself as a girl by the name of Sarah and heads towards the city. There he meets a woman who is very talkative and that ells him (Sarah) all that has happened. She mentions to him about the death of Huckleberry Finn and tells him that people believed that the father killed him at first but now they have pinned the murder on a runaway slave by the name of Jim. She tells Huck (Sarah) that they have sent a hunting party to search for this runaway slave and for Pap. Pap is worth $200 and Jim was worth $300. Huck is terrified at this point and has to run back to worn Jim and escape these hunters. All while this woman is talking to Huck (Sarah) she is secretly interrogating him and putting him to a test. She finds out that Sarah isn't a runaway girl and that she is a boy. Huck tells her that yes he is a boy and that he is running away because his is being mistreated. She believes this lie and Huck goes back to the island to warn Jim.
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Connor H
3/19/2014 02:21:49 am
In chapter 17, Huckleberry Finn seems to have brought in a sense of Romeo and Juliet into the story. There’s a feud between the Shepherdson’s and the Grangerfords. In chapter 17, these two were introduced when Hucks’ raft was destroyed from hitting a boat while in the fog down the river. He awakes by dogs who are about to attack him, but a man calls them off. Huck introduced himself as George Jackson. When the Grangerford husband invites him to his house, he thinks that George is a Shepherdson but eventually realizes he isn’t. Buck is introduced later as well. Buck is the Grangerford’s son, and tells Huck that he should stick around him and they’ll have some real fun. Bucks family offers to let Huck live with them as long as he likes. Huck does enjoy the house and their style. He said that “nothing couldn’t be better” than the life at the house.
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Eren Y
3/19/2014 06:48:26 am
Chapter 12
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