Sunday, March 23, 2014

Chapter 6
Well i don't know about the rest of you guys but Huck is really starting to get under my skin. In chapter six after the widow threatens Pa, he takes Huck far out into the woods and hides him but the thing about that is Huck actually stays put for a while. He doesn't try to leave or anything. Thats selfish because you went from having nothing to having the best that someone much less a widow take you in as her own. He doesn't realize how much the widow cares for him and for him to be in that situation and not once mention well i wonder how she's feeling is really getting to me. Has he learned to be grateful over the time that he's spent with her, NO! Thats kind of going back to the theme of friendship and betrayal because regardless of the situation there was a sort of friendship between them. For him to betray her like that i don't think he realizes what his actions may mean. In chapter six his dad wakes up and is screaming and howling about the devils after him and the snakes won't stop biting hi. But then calls Huck the angel of death. After that he chased him around the cabin with a knife saying he was going to kill him. But what stuck out to me was how he refers to himself when he’s begging everything to stop biting and scratching him. On page  30 he says “oh let a devil alone” referring to himself. That was weird but going back to the start of the chapter he talks about government and how he raised his “son” to the best of his ability. But now the states want to take him away. Now we all know thats a bunch of bull. He really had the nerve to not vote because a nigger was allowed to !!!


Chapter 7
Huck may not get the alcoholic background from his father but he sure has learned a few things from his father, survival of the fittest. But i wonder is Huck envious of his friend Tom. Because he hasn't thought of noone but him this whole time and the only person he coens to think about is Tom. Now he’s going to jackson island. Where him and Tom once spent a couple days before. What puzzles me as well is why is it so important for him to be out on his own. His old habits came rushing back when his father took him back. I realize  that throughout most his life he only had himself but if you can have it all and a bed to sleep in why is he refusing it this much. The widow is not bad and her home surely isn't. Finally he has escaped but then ends up seeing his dad SOBER! This is a moment in history.


Chapter 8
Well i guess great minds think alike because JIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. After the whole little search party for Huck, Huck notices that he is not the only one living on the island. He goes and search to see who it is and it turns out being Jim. Ms. Watsons nigger. But like the previous chapter i still dont get why Ms. Watson thinks she is oh so a godly women when owning a slave. And listening to how Jim talks of how she treats him she isn't so innocent as she has put out to be. Jim talks about his story of being rich and i noticed that Jim called his own people niggers as well. ???? Thats kind of not in place i feel. I know Jim doesn't like being called that or treated like he has been treated so why follow through like everyone else. Why else would he have run away?. The nice things about this chapter is that a friendship between Jim and Huck has now started.


Chapter 9,10,11
Jim has told a story to Huck about how he believes in ghosts because he has seen a couple in his day. After the storm they find a dead man and i'm not going to lie when they said they found a whiskey bottle i automatically thought it was Hucks dad. But someone has shot him so it was done on purpose.Now Huck plays a joke on Jim and the worst happens, Jim gets bitten by the dead snakes mate. In these chapters theres a whole lot of talk about bad luck, good luck and superstitions. Jim and Huck are now wondering whats going on back in town so, they dress Huck up as a female to go find out. Hucks new name is sarah williams. The townspeople thought Jim had killed himself but then they switched into thinking Jim had done it. Now theres a reward out to find Jim. Now to me it sounds like the wanted someone to blame and because Jim is black they feel like he was the only suspect.  But idk why they would think Paps had something to do with it because his only reason for coming back was the money. Going back to what the lady was telling Huck or “ Sarah “ she said how Pap went and got drunk with a couple of people and never came back. Does anyone not think that he’s the one dead or is it just me?I thought she had figured out who he was but she had no clue. She only knew that she was really a he and that his name wasnt really Sarah. But niw theres trouble, The fact that theres a 300 dollar reward everyone is really trying to find Jim. And her husband and some other man are now going to go to the island and check for him. I think there are going to know people were there because they left some things out being in such a hurry to clean everything up.


chapters 12,13,14,15
In 12 Huck shows one of the things he’s actually adapted to from his father. One being that stealing is actually borrowing.See like i said before huck has learned and  took on a few things from his dad. Then Jim isn't bad at all because he actually goes and tries to teach huck. He makes both himself and Huck call three things they will not steal anymore. Jim i feel is a parent towards Huck but he just doesn't now. Like with the widow and his dad he was tld ok im your parent or guardian and this is what i say do, Jim isn't nowhere like that. They end up seeing robbers who are trying to plan out a death scene. So instead of killing the third man they want to let him drown. Heres when the dumb thoughts come into play. Both Jim and Huck say that they will go and call the sheriff. Did they not forget that they are both runaways. The community thinks one of them is dead (Huck) and they think the other killed him then ran away (Jim).They did not use their brains in that situation but thank their raft had broken. Does anyone else think that they would have really went for the sheriff or not? Hucks really not to please being stuck with the rest of the robbers knowing their trying to kill but finally he thinks about The widow.Huck finally thinks of himself of being a good person and thinks if only the Widow was here to see. i think him being away from everyone is starting to make him see what he hadn't before. Most of Chapter 14 was about what the widow had thought him. All about the biblical meanings and took it upon himself to explain it to Jim. I think he misses her but doesn't want to say it.  Just like when everything came back when he was back to living with his father, everything seems to be coming back when hes with the widows slave. Does that seem like a coincidence because i think it does but i dont get it when he says "you just can't learn a nigger to argue.".  Now this is what i mean when a friendship has  been made. They decide to try and go to ohio one of the free states for Jim. Its real friendship when a boy who was raised with people all around him to own slaves instead of befriend them and still finds a way to become friends with a nigger.But when both of them were hurt and Huck realized the joke wasnt funny he still made it his duty to go apologize. The fact that he didn't want to at first because he was black kind of makes me think he still has the ways of his town with him. The fact that he did apologize showed true friendship in my eyes.  Huck is really not that bad of a person.




4 comments:

  1. I really like the way you look at Huck's character here. Before reading this, I hadn't really thought of him as ungrateful to the widow, but I guess he really is in some ways. I'm still a little skeptical about Jim and Huck's friendship, but I think there is certainly a relationship there that may or may not be developing still.

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    1. Don't worry Sam I'm still skeptical about their friendship now as well because of what society has had on Huck but for now they seem pretty ok in their friendship

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  2. I never thought of Huck in that way. He didn't get under my skin until all he talked about was Tom. I wouldn't say he's envious of Tom though. I feel as though Tom is Huck's hero. He looks up to him, since all his actual father ever did was get drunk and beat him. Now that I think about it, do you think Pap takes his anger out on Huck because his wife is gone? Maybe he blames Huck for everything and beats on him. Orrrr, Huck reminds him too much of the deceased woman and he beats on him to forget about her.
    Anyway, I'm getting off topic, but you opened my eyes to Huck betraying Widow Douglas.

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    1. I never really thought of why pap was beating Huck but statistics show alcoholics become the way they are because of a internal conflict. so yea maybe it is because he remind him to much of his mother.

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