Huck Finn Chapter Final Chapter

I honestly hated the last chapter of the book. I loved the rest of the book but after reading the ending chapter, I got kind of mad. There was so much in the book about the relationship between Jim and Huck that when the book just kind of ended I got mad. In the end it didn't focus on them at all. It simply told us that Huck went out west and Jim got freed. It didn't tell us anything else. Until the last chapter I really liked this book. I still think it is good, it just bothered me. D :< Oh well...I just won't think about the last chapter. As far as a happy ending goes...It wasn't happy but it wasn't a sad ending. On the one hand it's happy because Jim got freed and Huck got his adventure. On the other hand Jim and Huck became such good friends that when they seperate from eachother it is sad.

Huck Finn Chapter 34-38

While Tom and Huck are at Silas' place, they make their plans to steal Jim back. After a few nights of looking for Jim, they finally see a slave going to a shed with a plate of food. Huck makes the decision that Jim is probably in the shed. The two boys decide they are going to find their way into the shed just to see if it is true or not. Tom finds out that the guard assigned to keeping Jim in the shed is very superstitious. Tom and Huck use this to their advantage. After hearing Jim yell from inside the shed Tom tells the slave that he is screaming because of witches. The slave lets the two of them into the shed where they find Jim. From then on the three of them, Jim, Tom, and Huck, could have escaped by the end of the night with no problems. However, Tom wants to make it much more of a game. The three of them go on for ages about how it is done in the books and how they need to escape with more of a bang then just leaving. The problem is that when the three of them start making their exit more novel-worthy Jim has to do more and more. Huck starts to treat Jim as a slave again rather then a friend. Even though they are trying to free Jim and they are friends with him, Huck and Tom start to make him do these tedious jobs that are completely unnecessary. Huck needs to realize that Jim is still his friend and he can't treat him like that if he is willing to free him.

Huck Finn Chapter 32-33

In these chapters Huck finds his way to Silas' farm and meets Aunt Sally. After talking to Sally for a while, Huck realizes that their nephew Tom is coming to visit them. Huck pretends to be Tom not realizing that the Tom they are referring to is Tom Sawyer. Huck leaves their house and runs to meet Tom before he gets to their house. He goes to the dock but Tom is not there. On his way home Tom passes him in a buggy. Huck jumps in the buggy and explains everything to him. Tom agrees to pretend to be a guest of Huck who is pretending to be Tom. Tom also agrees to help Huck free Jim. During this chapter Huck sees the Duke and King being tarred and feathered and he says the line, "Human beings can be aweful cruel to one another." Him saying this is completely ironic because the Duke and King are the cruelest characters in the book and he shows pitty towards them. I think Mark Twain has Huck say this to emphasize that irony.

Huck Finn Chapter 28-31

When the Duke and King went into a town, they left Jim and Huck on a raft in the river. Later Huck follows them into the town and tries to find them in the crowd. When he finds them they are fighting in a bar. After seeing them get into the fight, Huck decides to slip out and plans to escape with Jim on the raft. When he gets back to the raft, Jim is already gone. In the time it takes Huck to get from the town back to raft Jim gets captured by Duke and sold to Silas. After finding that Jim is gone, Huck decides to get Jim back. He first thinks that he should write to Jim's original owner but decides against it because he promised Jim at the beginning that he wouldn't tell on him. So he decides that he will go to the farm and try to get Jim back himself. Huck actually prays in this chapter, which is a huge surprise for him. After praying he just decides to screw over religion and morals and go for Jim. "I'm going to hell." Huck says this when he makes this decision.

Huck Finn Chapter 16-27

After Huck and Jim have picked up 'The Dean & King,' they go into towns off of the river to con people. They put on plays in order to get money for a mediocre performance. This is just one of the ways they con the people of the towns. The con they pull at a funeral is possibly the worst one. The Dean & King tell the nieces of the man that they are the niece's uncles from England. They take the note saying where the money from his will is and go and find it. They count the money end up adding some of their own money to it in order for it to reach the sum of $600 like the will said it would. Huck knows they were going to plan something to get the money so he goes to steal the money back. When he is in their room looking for the money they come in and he hears their plan. Huck finally finds the money and takes it. He ends up putting the money inside the coffin of the dead man thinking he'll be able to get it later. The coffin ends up being nailed shut and burried before he gets a chance. The true con that Dean & King pull off is that they sell the land and slaves from the man and break up a slave family. The family of the dead man put so much faith into Dean & King and they used that faith to get to the money. The Dean, King, and Huck are all pretty similar. They all steal, lie, and cheat as much as each other. The difference is that the the Dean & King lie more extensively and don't ever see that they have gone too far. Huck goes and steals the money from the Dean & King, which shows that he has a sense of going too far. There is no question that the Dean & King are the bad guys because Huck shows that he feels sorry for the family, whereas the Dean & King only look out for themselves.

Huck Finn Chapter 12-15

When Jim and Huck are running from everyone, they jump around a lot. When they are on one of the islands, they see a bunch of people in a boat wreck down the river. Huck imediately wants to go down and see the wreck. Jim hesitates because he didn't want it to be the widow or Huck's father on the boat. I think Huck wants to go down and help them for two specific reasons. The first reason is a purely selfish reason. He wanted to go down and steal whatever wasn't broken in the crash. I read something that made me remember the games Tom Sawyer wanted to play. How they would pretend to be robbers and murderers. This could play into Huck wanting to go and steal stuff out of the boat. The other reason he wanted to go down and help was because he knew if he was in that situation he would get pissed off if someone saw him stranded and simply passed him. Huck is always playing tricks and stuff but situations like this always prove to us that he is still good at heart. I guess the Widow helped him out afterall.

Huck Finn Chapter 1-11

In the beginning of the book Tom wants to play a trick on Jim but Huck tells him no. Although, Tom goes and plays a trick on him anyway, Huck still asked him not to. Much later in the book after Huck has escaped from his father he meets up with Jim again. While Jim and Huck are together they help eachother out and one major thing they do together is steal stuff from a house that comes floating down the river. When they are together Huck plays a trick on Jim. He takes a rattle snake and throws it on him as a joke to scare him. Huck thinks that it is simply a rattle snake skin but there is another rattle snake near it, which bites Jim and almost kills him. Personally, I think the trick that Huck pulls on Jim can be seen as an initiation deal. Before he knew that Jim belonged to The Widow so he didn't mess want to mess with him. But now he has run away and Huck connected with him. Tom and Huck played tricks on eachother all the time so I think it shows sort of a connection. When Huck played this trick on Jim it could be seen as the beginning of their friendship. He wasn't friends with Jim before so he didn't want to mess with him.

LAM Chapter 8...

At Turtle Island his apprentices start out loving the idea that they're going to be working in the woods and enjoy it. Then as more time passes, they realize that Eustace has changed. As it started out Eustace was more lenient and didn't get mad hardly ever but as time went on he changed around them. When one of his apprentices would screw something up or not do a job to his standards he would get mad and make them redo it. If I was working for someone who acted as irrationally as Eustace I would get pretty sick of it. I know Eustace means well and his ideals are in the right places but he doesn't tolerate people not having the same level of commitment. The people that go and work for him are dedicated but it's never good enough for Eustace, which is why I wouldn't want to work for him. He's too quick to yell at someone instead of listening to them.

LAM Chapter 7...

When Eustace had started up Turtle Island he started to notice and admire the people who lived in the mountain. After he talked to and spent time with those people, he began to think he wanted to spend time being more like them. Eustace was talking to one of the people who lived near Turtle Island about horses. After they talked Eustace ended up borrowing a horse of his and after a while bought a thoroughbread horse of his own. When Eustace bought the horse he decided that he needed to be more in touch with his horse. He eventually decides to take his horse on a trip across America. After some planning, Eustace and his brother Judson start in Georgia and make their way across the country all the way to California. While they were on the trip, their mule that they brought started acting up. Eustace all of a sudden jumps off his horse and starts beating on the horse. He bites, kicks, and punches so much at the mule that it simply breaks down.

10/12

In Emerson's writing, The first chapter titled Nature was my favorite. I kind of like the idea of getting to know your surroundings. It related to Whitman's poem when he talked about how Nature needs to be more sacred to people. I really like the idea of going out and sitting in nature.

10/04

For my paper, the first thing that popped into my mind was people helping the poor. Since Lucious Newsom is involved in our school and our school is involved with him anyway. I decided to look up organizations that he has started or helped start. Anna's House is the organization I think I'm going to right my paper about. They help with kids in hardships and help them obtain the skills they need to get a good job and maybe even go to college. I think I could write this paper and even get some people liking the idea of Anna's Place and maybe some people will want to get involved.

10/02

The Fourth of July for a slave is completely different to a freed person. I didn't even think about the difference of people around the Fourth of July until I read this passage. It basically said that what we celebrate on Fourth of July is directed only to white people that own land. When he gave this speech to all the abolitionists their reaction was surprise. They weren't expecting him to say what he did, at all. I was surprised at what he said as well. He told them that they shouldn't argue for slaves when they don't know what it's like. I didn't agree with him on this because the fact of the matter is that they were sticking up for slaves and he basically told them to stop.

10/01

The chapter called, 'A New Master' depicts the abuse of slavery the most in my opinion. In this chapter you realize that Dr. Flint truely is after Linda. You find out that he is actually wanting to have sex with her and is constantly abusing her verbally until she gives in. After a while, she gets fed up and decides to have sex with someone else so that Dr. Flint will leave her alone. I don't know anything but slavery that could drive someone to have sex with a random person-although she ends up falling in love with him-Slavery forced Linda to be violated.

9/28

At the end of the book, Linda ends up being sold to someone else who gives her freedom. Linda is extremely upset by this move. She says that it beats the point of being given freedom if you're going to be sold again. It makes sense, freedom and being bought & sold contradict themselves. If I was in Linda's position I would probably be pretty upset as well considering the fact that she was promised freedom and then she was sold one last time.

Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl: Chapter 1-5...

The first part of the book is all about her childhood and how her family changed as time went on. In my opinion, the point of this book is to get under your skin and make you feel sorry for the characters. If the editor had taken some stuff out, changed stuff around, or changed the language then it wouldn't be moving. If the incidents are fake and made up then it won't be as shocking when you read it. She's talking about how her family is getting sold and dying, imagine if it was fake, you wouldn't feel anyting towards them. Or at least, I wouldn't.

Notes Of The State Of Virginia...

When Jefferson wrote the Declaration Of Independence he was writing for an extremely large group of people, whereas when he was writing the Notes of Virginia he was writing for himself. He wrote the Declaration Of Independence for the good of the people. Everything he put in it needed to be appropriate for a large group instead of his thoughts. I think the Notes of Virginia are Jefferson's real thoughts and The Declaration are what he wrote because he was supposed to.

The Crisis: No. 1...

Thomas paine wrote passages to motivate the soldiers. When he said, "Panic can produce as much good as hurt" he was talking about using Panic to motivate people. He proposed that people would want to be more involved if there was more panic. I definately agree with his statements. I feel like if there is struggle people will want to help. A perfect example of this that I can think of is just after 9/11. After the attacks, civilian support went sky-rocketing. There was panic about what was going to happen afterwards so people wanted to help.

Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God...

The surmons given by Edwards were extremely one-sided. He was basically saying that you either do everything according to God's word or you go to Hell. Edwards didn't leave any room for disagreement or change. It was his way and that was the only way. When I thought about our class discusion, about the people who got kicked out because of what they believed, he comes to mind. The American dream as we stated is, "The pursuit of happiness" I think he is completely disreguarding this idea and saying, You can have the American dream if you are a white God-fearing male.

Chapter 9 Write

In chapter 9, Nick has a big funeral service for Gatsby. Although, the only people that show up are, Nick, Owl Eyes, Gatsby's father, and some of Gatsby's servants. When Nick is inviting people, he finds that no one actually cared about Gatsby. One person, when asked if he's coming or not simply said, "He has my tennis shoes, I'm gonna need those back." If you think about Gatsby's life, no one really knew him. It definately helps explain why no one comes to his funeral. The only two people who actually knew Gatsby were Nick and his father. The two of them talk about Gatsby and his father ends up showing Nick a schedule that Gatsby made when he was a kid.

Chapter 7 & 8 Write

Chapter 7 & 8 revolve around the climax of the book. At the dinner at the beginning of chapter 7 Daisy and Gatsby catch glances of one another and when Tom leaves the room, Daisy goes over and kisses Gatsby. Later on when they decide to go into town, Daisy and Gatsby have a moment where they stare into eachother's eyes even though, Tom is standing right there. I think that is the moment that Tom realizes Daisy's true feelings towards Gatsby. Tom can't deal with the way Daisy is acting so Daisy and Gatsby go in Tom's car and the rest of them go with Tom in Gatsby's car. The reason why they switched cars isn't completely explained, but it is a major part in the accident later on. On their way to town Tom stops to get gas. While they're in town, Tom calls Gatsby out in front of everyone and causes a big ordeal. On the way home Myrtle runs out into the street thinking it is Tom and Daisy, who is driving Tom's car, hits and kills her. If Daisy & Gatsby hadn't had their loving moment in front of Tom, then things would've gone differently and Myrtle might have not been killed. This is why I think their moment was the foreshadowing of the climax.

Chapter 6 Write

In Chapter 6 we find out the truth about Gatsby. Everything we know about Gatsby up until this point has been a lie. Gatsby has told us so much and we have found out all these wonderful things about him only to find they're all false. I think the reason Nick waited until now to tell us the truth is to build up the story, that is Gatsby. The story revolves around Gatsby and the story of his life. If we knew he was simply a man who made his money with the mob then there would be no mystery behind him. Gatsby loved to be seen as mysterious. No body knew Gatsby until Nick came along. Even at his parties, he could walk amongst the people and not be recognized. Another reason I think Nick waited to tell us is to let us know that there is more to Gatsby. If he had just told us at the beginning then we wouldn't think anything of Gatsby, we would just see him as a con-man or a fake. But since Nick waited, we're able to see that there is more to Gatsby. We end up feeling a sense of emotion whenever something happens to him. I wouldn't've felt emotion for him at all if I knew he was a fake from the beginning.

Chapter 5 Write

"His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one." I believe this quote is directed towards Gatsby and Daisy's relationship. Gatsby would always sit and stare across the water at the green light on the dock near Daisy's house. I think Gatsby would stare at the light and dream about his life with Daisy in it. The problem was that he would dream about their life and probably imagine how pefect it would be. However, when Gatsby was actually able to be with Daisy it wasn't how he imagined it. When they went out to the dock and he looked over he realized that it was only a light, nothing special.

The Quote At The End Of Chapter 4.

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, & the tired." This quote is meant to describe all the main characters in the book. All the characters fit into one of these four catagories. One example would be Gatsby trying to get Daisy. This makes Daisy the pursued and Gatsby the pursuing. Tom is another one; when Tom is trying to get Myrtle he is the pursuing and Myrtle is the pursued. The relationship between Jordan & Nick would best be described by the second part of the quote. Jordan is the busy because she's trying so hard to win Nick even though Nick doesn't really mind either way. I feel like, Nick is only with Jordan because other people want them to be together. Nick is seen as the tired because he doesn't seem bothered either way. He is, in a way, out of the pictue.

Chapter 4 Write

"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy & the tired." This quote sums up all the main characters in the book. Each character fits into one of those catagories. At any time there is someone pursuing someone else, there is someone being pursued, someone trying to get to another person and there's the characters that are out of the loop. As we find out in Chapter 4, Gatsby is pursuing Daisy.

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