Discusion questions 40- last

1.) We learn the Jim is willing to help others even if it means risking his freedom. he is not selfish and cares about others.

2.) The speech causes the men to stop cursing Jim. I think it is good that they are showing some pympathy to a black perosn, but they should feed him more.

3.) The bullet significe the death of romanticsm, but Twain has Tom keep it to show how people are iggnorant and never learn.

4.) He is going to leave and head out to the Indian territories. We wants to live wild because the society he lives in is corrupt and has a lot of issues. He wants a different way of living.

5.) I thought this novel was written well and different then a lot of books I have read in the past. Yes for the most part ir represents the Realist tradition as we have discussed. I think the the fact the Huck was so young and still learning made him a good narrator. It made it so you could see deffinate changes. Also, because of his age, he had not been fully corrupt, also bbecause of the way he grew up, and so he was capable of change. Huck was also truthful to what he knew. I didn't find any problems with Huck in this book. I thought he was a good narrator. If there were another narrator, I dont believe the story would be as good. Twains romantism vs realism wouldn't come out as good and you wouldn't feel like you were as in the novel as you do now. This novel is made pretty personal, and with another narrator it would lose that aspect.

Chapters 36-39, written asignment

At the beginning of the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn we meet a character named Tom Sawyer. A boy who everyone follows, including Huck. The first Episode of this novel is about Tom and Huck but when Huck begins his adventure down the Mississippi, Tom is left behind and almost forgotten until he reappears in chapter 33. Tom though, was not brought back without a purpose, and his purpose was to be the way that Mark Twain could show his dislike for romantic literture.
In order to get what Twain is doing, you have to realize that because Tom acts off his emotions and imagination, he represents the romantic side. Where as Huck acts on reason, representing realism. He uses this to to show the difference and how foolish and idiotic romantics are. So whenever Tom is around, the theme romantic vs realism will appear and Twain will show the difference between the two and how romanticism is ridiculous. Which is seen in chapters 35- 39 when Tom comes back into Huck's adventure.
There were many ways in which you could see Twains distain for Romantice fiction in Chapters 36- 39. For one, Tom is back so you know Twain is going to ridicule Romanticism some how. Another way you can tell, is Huck's idea of getting Jim out is quick, safe and simple. This is because he doesn't want to have that chance of getting caught. He learned after trying to have an adventure on the Walter Scott that real life adventures are scary and you only do what you have to do to get out safe. When Tom "helps" Huck rescue Jim, Tom has to throwing in a lot of ridiculous ideas, like making Jim write scribbles on the walls and grind stone and having him sleep with snakes and rats. Tom wanted an adventure so he through in all of these little things to make the rescue more heroic and dangerous. Tom doesn't ever think of the best thing or about Jim and how he probably just wants to be out of there, Tom just wants it to be dangerous and him to look like a hero. He also gets all of his ideas from romantic books like Baron Trenck, Casanova, or Benvenuto Chelleeny, where the characters are heros. Twain's disdain for romantic fiction was evident in the way he made all of plans ridiculouly pointless.

Disscusion questions 31- 35

2.) He won't go to hell for helping someone.
3.) It makes you think the place is like death and gloomy.
4.) To Huck, Providence is god or a being in heaven, who watches him and knows what he is up too and decides right and wrong. Yes I believe miss Watson would agree.
5.) When Mrs. Phelps if anyone was killed, Huck says no, but then he says a black person was. They don't consider a black person a person and I didn't think they wouldn't care that a black person died.
6.)Change of Identity (Huck becomes another person). Realism vs. Romatisim ( Huck is a realistic person but he is playing Tom who is a romantic). Gulibilty/ ignorance (Mr Phelps is gulibale in that he believes Huck and ignorant in that he can't tell that it is not Tom.)
7.) Tom wants an adventure while Huck just wants to save Jim.
8.)It shows that Huck cares for others, even when they have been horrible to him, and that he doesn't think people should be punished that way because it is wrong, even when the people are bad people.
9.) He has been telling Huck to steal a lot of stuff, but when Huck takes a Watermelon Tom gets mad at Huck, not somehting you would expect.
10.)Tom represents society and Huck wants to follow society's ways to fit in.

Questions XXVIII- XXX

1.) He made the funeral cheesy and a joke. No the criticism was probably not justified, but I'm sure he meant to make fun of the funeral and the ceremony and people didn't like it so they made fun of him.

2.) If he tells the truth to Mary Jane, he will make it out safe and the king and duke will be caught and put in jail.

3.) He lies to stay safe, not for the money.

4.) Its to show that Huck is beginning to see Jim as a person who he cares about and who cares about him.

5.)He isn't quick or smart. He wants to know what going on and watch the action.

6.) Huck likes Mary Jane and he tells her to leave becasue he doesn't want her to give it away that the king and duke aren't her uncles and they might get away with her money.

7.) It enforces the theme of gulliablity and the ignorance of people because it is pretty odvious that the king and duke are not englishmen.

8.) Rationality.

9.)I believe he keeps them as villians. He will use them as dramatic foils to Huck. They have gotten away from their tricks before, like when Huck first met them, and they hadn't changed from that, so why would they change this time.

Dicussion 24- 27

1.) Clothes stand for changing who you are, or being someone else.

2.)The people in both towns are close together, and it is a small town. The people are all gullibale. Huck starts to feel bad for the people he is conning and realizes how what he is doing is wrong. He meets the girls they are conning and he feels bad because he really like Mary Jane.

3.) They have never met their uncles, the towns people believe it, and they are innocent.

4.) Joanna is treated less, eating in the kitchen where the servants eat. Joanna got here nickname, harelip, because she has a cleft lip. I believe that because of Joanna's harelip, people didn't want to look at her because she didn't look "normal" so they stuck her in the kitchen to eat, which is where the servants eat. This plays along with the theme of a corrupt society and everyone being the same, those that are different are less. Another theme that comes out in this chapter is appearance vs reality, and the role of a woman.

5.) People will believe people they hardly know and will disregard their friends because they don't want to be wrong and look like a fool.

6.) Huck now tries to stop the king and duke because he doesn't want to steal from the girls. The theme that comes out is coming of age.

Chapter 25

Summary- The king and duke fooled the people into thinking that they were really the girl’s uncles and even after the doctor said they were frauds no one believed him.
I think the girls should have listened to the doctor, because even though everybody thought that the king and duke were the girl’s uncles they knew the doctor a whole lot better.

Connect to larger theme and explain- This chapter is connected to the theme of gullibility because the Duke and King are playing on the towns gullibility and getting the stuff that George left behind.

Pick out symbol- Coffin the duke and kings life are going to change because of this mans death.
letter- new life


Motifs (2-3)-
money- Freedom
Family- reoccurrence of the idea of family

Persona (if any)- The duke- William , The King- Harvey, Huck- a servant

Episode number- Episode 8

Act out Scene-
Monica- Mary Jane
Kaylie- King/ narrator
Kaitlyn- Doctor

Disscusion questions 21-23

1.) I believe Huck doesn't participate becasue it is not hos style but more important it is not the sort of adventure that Tom Sawyer would do.

2.)The Southern Myth Twain satirizes in the Sherburn incident is challenging someone when they have riduculed you or your name. It was a show for all of those who are able to watch. People like to be where there is action and watch the show. People get entertainment out of other people getting hurt.

3.)The circus and the duke and kings enterainments are both jokes and the duke and king are like clowns. Twain in making fun of romantic literature, show that it is a joke.

4.) It shows that Huck doesn't get jokes. Huck thinks the ring master is the most deceived.

5.) Twain is implying that if people think it is ment only for men they will all come because it has to be bad because only men are allowed, no children or women.

6.) He was implying that the duke and king are nothing like a real king or duke.

7.) It's starting to show us how Huck is starting yo see Jim as a person and getting to know him.

8.) Episode 1: (Chapters 1- 4) Huck is living with the Widow Douglas, who is teaching him about region and having go to school. Tom Sawyer starts a gang who says there are gonna steal for passing wagons. Tom plays a trick on Jim. Huck is in Tom's gang for a little while but nothing really comes of it and he quits. Huck realizes his dad is back and gives all the money to Judge Thatcher. This episode ends with huck's dad in his room. Huck goes to Jim for advice or a prophet and Jim really doesn't tell him anything important. ends by Pa showing up.

Episode 2: (5- 7) Pa gives Huck a hard time for being eduated and tells him to stop going to school or he'll whip him. Then he questions Huck about the money and Huck says he doesn't have it. Pa says he will get it from Judge Tatcher cause it's his. Then he goes to the Judge and demands for the money. The judge decided he wanted custody of Huck and go to the law. Well there is a new Judge in town who doesn't want to break up a son and dad. Pa then plays off the judge's Gullibilty, saying he would quit drink and is a changed man. The judge gives him a room and new clothes, pa gets drunk and the judge gives up on him. So Pa tries to get the money again, and he also kidnaps Huck. Well they live in a cabin and Pa is careful not to leave anything Huck could use to escape. Huck eventually finds a saw and starts sawing through the floor everytime Pa leaves. One night Pa comes back really drunk and tries to kill Huck. The next day, Huck finds some logs and Pa takes them to the town to sell them. While Pa is way, Huck finishes sawing thorugh, makes it look like he was killed and leaves.
Esipode 3: (8-11)
Episode 4: (12-16)
Episode 5: (17-18)
Episode 6:( 19-20
Episode 7: (21-24)
Quick summary From where i left off: Huck goes to Jackson Island where he finds Jim. Pa has told people Huck was killed and so Huck watches as they look for his body. They find a house floating down the river and go in it. the is a dead man (possibly Hucks Father) they take what ever they want. They move to a new campsite and Huck puts a dead rattlesnake in Jims bed to play the SECOND TRICK ON JIM. well the snake's mate goes to her dead mate and bites Jim. After living on the island for a while Huck decides he should go ashore and see what the news is. He goes and meets Judith who tells him about himself (she doesn't know it is Huck because he is dressed as a girl). She tells him about runaway Jim and says that people believe it was Jim who killed Huck. Then she says how she saw smoke over on Jackson island and told her husband, who was gonna go over that night. As soon as Huck leaves he heads straight back to the island and tells Jim and they pack up and leave.
Floating down the river: Jim and Huck come across and old boat, the walter scott, and go aboard to take stuff. On board they hear voices and realizes there are murders on the boat. When Huck is ready to leave, he goes back to the canoe where Jim is waiting. When he gets there jim tells him the canoe has drifted away. Huck and Jim steal the mruders skiff and leave. Huck feels bad so he go to get a steam boat's captain to go help them but he is too late and the Walter Scott drifted away. Back on the Raft, Huck takes and reads to Jim about kings. Jim and Huck argue on whether or not Solomon the Wise was really wise. Huck says there are no kings in america. Huck and Jim make up a plan that thye are going to goto Ciaro and go to the free states, While floating down the river a fog sets in and Jim and Huck get seprated. After awhile Huck finds Jim again and tried to pretend they never got seperated and Jim and just dreamt it all. Playing his 3RD TRICK ON JIM. and realizing that jokes aren't funny to everyone. Later on Huck Says he is sorry, SHOWING THE FIRST MAJOR CHANGE IN HUCK. Then they run into bounty hunters whil Huck is going ashore to turn Jim in because he feels bad for not telling people that he has jim (Who is a run away slave). But when the bounty hunters ask if Huck is hiding a black person , he tells them he is not and to prevent them from coming over he tells them his dad has small poks. Them men each give him 20 cents and leave Huck alone. That night, Huck and Jim realize they have missed Ciaro, they lose the canoe, and there raft gets ran over by a steam boat seperating Huck and Jim. Huck winds up at a house, which turns out to be a family in a feud. They invite him in and he lives with them for awhile. In the end all of the Grangerfords are killed, Huck has found Jim and leaves. On the river again, they are free. Once when they go to shore, they meet to men running for there lives. They join Huck and jim on the raft. They tell Huck and Jim they are a king and duke. They got to a town the is on a regious revival and so the king milks the town for money, and the duke make it possible for Them to travel during the day. Once they leave the town they decide to put on a produciton at the next town and preform romeo and Juliet. At the next town, a mand named boggs is shot by shelburn, and a circus happens to be in town that day. THe duke and king decide to preform at this one horse town and after the circus they preform. Hardly anyone shows up so they put on a different type. in this one the king just runs around nakes and painted. the town realizes they been fooled, but before they do anything they get the whole town to watch it so that they don't look like suckers and on the thrid night they were all gonna throw old food at the king and duke. Well the duke and king figured and once they packed the house full, they book it. leave that town. Ont he boat, Huck realizes Jim is home sick and Jim tells Huck a story about his kids. Jim also says that he doesn't think the king and duke are really a king and duke.. end of chapter 21

notes

Tom Sawyer, Romantic and innocent.

Lit Terms

Motif: any theme, image, symbol or idea the reoccurs through out the story.

Realism: A work of literature that depicts life and people as they really appear (all characters have flaws because all people have flaws). Themes: corruption, racism.

Romanticism: Works of literature that deal with the imagination, romantic adventures, spiritual connection w/ nature. Ex. The last Mohigans, Robin Hood.

Allegory: The presentation of an abstract idea through more concrete means, typical allegory is a narrative.

Picaresque Novel: Usually a satirical novel which depicts in realistic details the adventure of a roguish hero of low social class who survives by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

Bildungroman: A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological and intellectual development of a youthful main character.

Irony: a. Situation: a discrepanc between expectation and reality. A contrast between what is expected/ normal, and what actually happens.
b. Dramatic: When the reader knows something the character doesn't, or hasn't figured out yet.
c. Verbal: a speaker or writer says the opposite of what he or she actually means/ a discrepancy between what a speaker or writer says and what he or she believes to be true.

Satire: Work of literature that uses irony and hyperbole to attack and mock some aspect of society as a way to promote change.

Sarcasm: the use of irony to mock or convey contempt

Episodic Plot: S structure that features distinct episodes or a series of stories linked together by the same character. Huck Finn has 8 0r 9

Dramatic Foil: A character who, by contrast with the main character, serves to accentuate. bring out that character's distinctive qualities or characteristics.

Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

Unreliable Narrator: A character that misinterprets things.

Euphemism: a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for on considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing

Parable: a simple story used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson. * A short, realistic , and illustrative story intended to teach a moral or religious lesson; a type of allegory.

Oxymoron: A figure of speech that juxaposes two opposite or apparently contradictory words to present an emphatic and dramatic paradox for a rhetorical purpose or effect.

Antihero: a protagonist that doesn't fit the traditional description of a hero

Dialect:a particular form of a language that is peculiar to a specific region or social group

Metaphor: Comparison between two things not normally related.

Simile: Comparison between two things using like or as

Tone: The attitude of the author toward the reader or the subject matter of a literary work. can be serious, playful, mocking, angry, commanding, apologetic, ...etc.

Chapters 19 - 20

Chapter 19

start of Episode 6: The King and the Duke
They are Con Men.

Town wanted to tar and feather them
The Duke was selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth but it also destroyed the teeth
Running an anti drinking religious revival but was caught drinking

The Duke is a little bit more educated in what he goes about doing (rational)
The King does more spiritual stuff (emotional)

King and Duke have persona
Duke of Bridgwater King calls him Bilgewater
King, says he's son of Looy the Sixteen and Mary Antonette

chapter 20-

Notes on chpaters 17-18

Episode 5: The Feud (chapters 17-18)

Themes Romanticism vs. Realism, Death and Rebirth

Motifs: persona # 5- George Jackson or Jaxon

Snaked- connection w/ Jim
Shakespeare
George Washington

Families involved: Gangerfords and the Shepherdson
Allusions: Romeo and Juliet, George Wasington
Humer/ Satire: Shurch scnece with all the guns; Dr. Gunn's book of Family Medicine
These families are like royalty.
The feud is like Hatfields vs. McCoys feud that accorded in the 1800

Chapter 17- Group Questions (Started and to be finished in class on Monday)

1.)What are two motifs that appear in this chapter?
2.) What name does Huck take? What lie or story does he make up
3.) Make a list of items that appear in the house (at least four).
4.)Make a list of books that appear in the house (at least four). Are any of the titled humorous- which ones? Why?
5.)Describe the four paintings the Emmeline Grangerford created. What is in each picture? What do you think each picture is about?
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b.)
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6.) What is Emmeline's poem about? What is humorous about it?
7.) Twain is using the descriptions of this house and Emmeline as a forshado for the next chapter. What do you think he is hinting at?

Huck discussion questions 15-20

1.) It is a foreshadow of what will happen later on in the story, and it enforces the theme of superstition as a method of explaining and understanding things.

2.) It show the corruptness of society and how black people were not considered people. Huck feels bad and realizes tricks aren't always fun.

3.) This series of quotes show us how Huck's brain has been manipulated by a corrupt society. It is Huck debating between what is right and what is wrong. He has a hard time deciding because he likes Jim but because of where he was raised, he thinks of black people has property, not people. These quotes go along with the theme of the conflict between emotional and the rational, The coming of age, but mainly the conflict between the individual and society.

4.) They give Huck money because they feel sorry for Huck and that they can't help him. It's ironic because you'd expect the bounty hunters to be mean and uncaring individuals because they are hunting for black people, which is another person.

5.) The break of Huck from his thoughts of turning Jim in and being held back because he was raised in a corrupt society. (I'm not quiet positive on this one and I couldn't find the quote in the book.)

6.) Twain didn't like where he was going with Huckleberry Finn and didn't know where the book was going, or what the major themes were, so he quite writing it until he got some sort of inspiration and picks the book back up to continue writing it.

7.) There house it neat, well keep, and you can tell the are one of the richer families in town. With all of the stuff Huck tells us is in the Grangerford's house, it makes me think they believe in a romantic way.

8.) I can't really find much on Huck playing with Buck's gullibility except for, when Huck has forgotten what the name he gave himself was and asks Buck to spell it. We see the themes Coming of age, the conflict between emotional and the rational, the conflict between the individual and society. Mostly coming from Huck deciding whether to turn Jim in or not. Death and rebirth is also a theme the reappears in chapter 17 with the poetry. also the concept of family and sticking together, always backing each other up.

9.) That Huck doesn't get jokes and only believes in a realistic way.

10.) Religion is a joke, and worthless. The men have guns in church and the hogs live there, people just go to church because it is what society thinks is the right thing to do.

11.) The feud symbolizes the corrupt society and their ignorance, not really knowing what they are fighting for. It also symbolizes romantic notions society is built upon, one of the reason you so many references the to revolutionary war in the house hold. It is also why Huck describes Colonel Grangerford as a gentleman The feud reminds me of the feud in Romeo and Juliet. I believe Twain was showing us that people fight just to fight with no real reason. The feud also shows how a family will back each other up even if it is putting there own life in danger.

12.) The raft is much smaller than most any home. The theme it follows is freedom, because on the raft they are free.

13.) The clothes in a way represent society, but they mainly symbolize lack of freedom, restriction. When Jim and Huck are Free they don't wear clothes, when they are with society, they wear clothing.

14.) Huck doesn't expose the Duke and the King as frauds because he doesn't want to create any trouble on the raft, and it didn't really matter to tell Jim or not so Huck just didn't.

15.) I believe Huck is. Both the King and Duke are running away because they have both been caught. Huck has not been caught in his actions yet. Huck also realizes he shouldn't that the Duke and King are frauds in order to keep everyone happy and not have any trouble.

16.) The old man is playing Juliet, the Duke says no one will notice because he will be in costume but I don't think the costumes the Duke has and disguise an old man as a young gal. Romeo and Juliet are a motif that enforce romanticism which Twain is trying to make fun of all the time.

17.) The pirate says that because of this town, he says how he is happy even though he is poor. He is playing on the towns gullibility. The pirate is there to show how blind some people are. It also plays on the theme of emotional vs Rational because Twain believes religious people are more emotional.

18.) Society is gullible and will believe anything is they get fame from it. I believe this mainly from the "Kings" work, and they way everyone believed him because he said it was because of them and he would tell everyone about this town.

Chapter 15- 16

Chapter 15- Lost in the Fog
The fog symbolizes society and how they have but a fog over everyone's eyes escpecially Huck but then he comes out and realizes Jim is a person.

Prank #3- Huck tries to trick Jim into believing Jim has dreamt the entire episode. Jim tells Huck that his actions are trash. Huck, after so thought, apologies to Jim. (Hucks 1st Change)

Theme: comflict between individual/ Society; Coming of Age

Symbol: Fog, Islands, Towhead, the idea of being lost

Chapter 16- Juxaposition/15
Theme: Huck's deformed conscious
They are looking for Ciaro- Huck decides to got o town and ask How far, and also he is debating whether "Should I turn Jim in." When he is going a shore with a made up mind to turn Jim in he runs into two Slave hunters looking five runaway slaves.

Persona #4- piqures novel, Witty story about father and family being sick. To get out from. being caught. They give them forty dollars

Shows- the Slave hunters are not that bad of people, they want to help the family so they give them money, but the slave hunters are still products of society. Enforces that racism is owned by the society, society instatutse it.

Jim is either very sincere or worried Huck will tell on him

Find out that they missed Ciaro in the Fog, so they will probably have to take a steamboat and their boat was crushed by a paddle boat.
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The river ( Episode #4 12- 16 we just got finished with)
Hucks relationship with Jim
Pretty safe and relaxed compared to the rest of the story, only time they are by themselves.

from 15 to 16 there is a change in the tone of the story.
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chapter 17- Episode 5, THE FEUD
Satire *the Romantice notion of feuds

Allusion to Romo and Juliet, Romantic ideas of love and romantic idea of a feud
Dual because your honor has been insulted by the other person, only in the rich class
Romantic notion of duels in being made fun of

Discussion Questions: XII -XIV

1.) Huck believes borrowing is not stealing as long a you intend to pay it back at some point.

2.) It tells us Huck wants to be like Tom.

3.)Walter Scott is a famous romantic writer. Naming the boat The Walter Scott and the boat is sinking, is showing romantic writing sinking and dying. Also, Huck goes on the boat for adventure, and he finds it but relife adventure is much different than romantic adventure.

4.) Huck tried to save the murders because he feels bad for the murders because he wouldn't want to be in a situation like that, and he didn't want to become a murder himself.

5.) He is playing on the boatman's greed and pays attention to when the boatman mentions a rich persons name and with saying the person who is stranded on the boat is related to the rich man, he is able to enlist the boatman's help.

6.)He felt this way because he figured anyway he was goning to get of the Walter Scott he would either drown or be caught and returned as a slave.

7.)He is not very accurate about the dukes and kings because he thinks of them in a romantic way.

8.) Jim doesn't know the actual story or understand the story about Solomon, he just sees a man who lives in the middle of bickering wives, has a lot of kids, and wants to split one in half. Jim doesn't like it and thinks Solomon is not very wise. Slaves can't be taught how to argue is what Huck states even though Jim was arguing and made good points. Jim and Huck both don't fully understand so they can't agree.

chapter 11

Summary: Huck talks to Judith Loftus about Huck's murder.

Persona #1 Sarah- Mary- Williams
There is a reason that Pap might have killed Huck, but there is no reason for Jim (enforces rascim) $300 dollar reward for Jim, $200 for Pap: this is all satire and reinforces of a corrupt society)
Pap was the one in the house floating down the river (freedom)
In all of Huck stories his parents are dead or sick (plays on the gulibility of people, wanting to help someone young)
Themes: Freedom, Racism, Gullibility of people
Symbol: the rewards for Jim and Pap, Huck as a girl, raft
Motifs: personas or the invention of personas
Ends episode 3
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Huck Discussion Questions: V-XI

1.) Pap is telling Huck he cannot go to school anymore and if he, Pap, sees Huck around school, He'll beat him. This is a situational Irony because you would expect a dad to be happy that his son is going to school and getting and education that he himself never got, but Pap dpesn't like it one bit.

2.) Society believes the kin should not be seperated, even if the father was not suitable. This is one of the flaws of society during this time period.

3.) Huck prefers to stay at the Shanty because he likes to live wild and not dress nice. He likes to have more freedom and living in the shanty, in away he does, because he doesn't have to go to school or have any type of lessons, and for the most part he looks after himself. He also has to stay because his Pa locks him in, like something he owns, which goes along woth the theme of dehuminization.

4.) Mark Twain is saying that just because a person is white, doesn't mean they are in anyway better than a black person.
~Pa and everyone else believe they are better then that black man because they are white, even thought they have done nothing in there life to better themselves like the black man in the story had done.

5.) The escape- Freedom, finding Jim- Coming of age, and the conflict between the individual and society.

6.) Tom thinks in a romantic way and wants adventure, and while Huck like adventure as well, at that time, all he wanted to do was escape. So if Tom had been there, he might have over done the scene making it unconvincing.

7.) This bread was sent out to find a dead body because it was a superstition people believed in. The funny thing is, is that the bread actually found Huck. Once the bread found Huck he decided that praying must work for some people becasue the widow probably prayed for the bread to find Huck, and it did.

8.)At first, Jim is frightened of Huck because he thinks that Huck is a ghost, but once Huck explains what happened to him, Jim is okay and glad to see him.

9.) It is a physical and spiritual rebrith: Spiritual because Huck is now free and starting a new life on the river; Physical rebirth for to Jim: Jim thought Huck was dead, and now he is back.

10.) Jim is a person, but to Huck, he is property. It shows that Huck views Jim as someone's property still. which is also Huck resulting conflict in his mind, to Huck, Jim is property and running away is like stealing, but he promised Jim he would not tell.

11.) Much of what Jim says will happen, does come true. When he predicted bad luck will happen, the rattlesnake bite him. When he said it would rain, it did. This characteristic of Jim also goes along witht eh motif of superstition.

12.) After Huck kills a rattlesnake, he hides it in Jim's bed to scare him. Yes I think it is typical of Huck's character, he is a boy, got bored and didn't think anything bad would come of it. In the end, he learned that when you kill a snake, its matecomes and wraps around its dead mate.

13.) He is very witty and can make up a story on the spot, he also doesn't know how to act like a girl. Cares about the safety of Jim.

14.)The common human trait that emerges it our problem with over exagaration about things, Judith said Huck and Tom found 20 thousand dollars but really it was only 12 thousand dollars.

15.) Jim's reward is $300 while Pa's is only $200, They believe Jim was the one who killed Huck only because he happened to leave the night of the murder. He had no reason and they really only believed it was Jim instead of Pa because he was a runaway black slave. Pa on the other hand had a reason to kill Huck and that ishe would be able to get the money quicker.

Tricks on Jim

Tom hanging Jims hat above him while he is sleeping
Huck puts a dead snake in Jims bed to scare him
Huck tries to make Jim think he dreamed Him and Huck getting seperated.

Note on chapter 9/10

Earlier chapter- Pa is reborn, chapter 3/4

Episode 3- Jackson Island

Chap 9- Find a Cave and move all of their stuff up to it. Find a house float down the river and on the inside, there is a dead man (Theme of Death) (Fits the theme of superstition in the way of explaining things. Chicken/birds, rains). Fits the theme of freedom because the island itself is on the Mississippi.
Important- Dead man, that fact the the river is over flowing, Foreshadow of something, Dead man is a symbol of death and rebirth, Dead man- Pa?

Chap 10- Bad luck handing a snakeskin and something bad with happen, then Huck kills a snake, Plays the second trick on Jim be putting the snake in Jims bed to scare him. The snakes mate comes and bites Jim,- Huck is a lot younger than Jim, and it is a little disrespectful- Snakeskin and the Snake are symbols, Old Hank Bunker( backs up superstition, Satire- Drinking/ what drinking can do to you). End, Huck went over to the village as a girl (First real persona). Mark Twain makes fun of Alchol a lot in this book.
See Jim as an Adult in his reaction to get rid of the pain
Important-

Chapters 7 and 8

Chapter 7
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Theme: Coming of age, the start of Huck's Journey

Symbol: The woods are a symbol of peace a satuary. Huck always goes here to get away. The river

Motif: Coming of Age, it is the start of Huck's Journey down the river. Small one- superstition, June is always lucky for Huck.

Summary: Huck is waken by his father and is told to go outside to check the lines for fish. When he goes out, we sees a canoe floating down the river, pulls it to shore and hides it. Later that day, around 3 p.m. Pa goes to town to sell some logs that Huck and Him found in the river. While Pa is gone, Huck finishes sawing through and makes it look like the cabin was broken into and Huck was killed. Huck loads his canoe up with food and blankets and waits for the middle of the night to leave. When he wakes up to here a skiff coming down the river and realizes it's Pa, he immedeitlay leaves, going to Jackson Island. that night, he makes it to Jackson Island.
End of episode two

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Chapter 8

Themes:Dehumanization; Superstition Vs. Religion

Symbols: Woods: safe place

Motifs:Dehumanization, Superstition Vs Religion

Summary: After everyone looks for Huck and don't find him, Huck is living on Jackson Island safetly. Until he finds a fresh campfire and starts to worry. After moving around but not finding a secure location to live he decides to go back to Jackson Island and see who is there. That night he finds the campfire and when the man laying by it wakes up, Huck realizes it's Jim. Know who it is and know that Jim wont rat him out he says hi. Him and Jim eat breakfast and talk about what happened. Jim tells Huck how and why he escaped and Huck tells Jim what really happened. Next they start talking about superstition and ends with Jim talking about how he is rich.

Notes for Quiz

Romanticism- Works of literature that deal with the imagination, romantic adventures, spiritual connection w/ nature. Ex. The Last of the Mohigans; Stories about the round table; Robin Hood; Sir Walter Scott; Poe. Romanticism represents ideals and ideas, not reality.

Realism- Works of literature that depicts life and people as they really appear (all characters have flaws because all people have flaws).
Themes: corruption, racism

Satire: Work of literature that uses irony and hyperbole to attack and mock some aspect of society as a way to promote change.

Antihero: a protagonist that doesn't fit the traditional description of a hero. Ex. Huckleberry Finn.

Picarsque Novel: Usually a satirical novel which depicts in realistic detail the adventures of a roguish hero of low social class who survives by his or her wits in a corrupt society.

Bildungsroman: A novel whose principal subject is the moral, psychological and intellectual development of a youthful main character.

Episodic Plot: A structure that features distinct episodes or a series of stories linked together by the same character. Huck Finn can be broken up into 8 or 9 episodes.

Huck Finn Vocab words: 10/27

1) Affix (V): stick, attach, or fasten (something) to something else
The Cowboy affixed the saddle on the horse tight so that it would not roll.
2) Commence (V): begin; start
The race commenced with the sound of a gun.
3) Tolerable (Adj): able to be endured
My grandmother is a very tolerable women, she is kind and not annoying.
4) Shrivel (V): wrinkle and contract or cause to wrinkle and contract, esp. due to loss of moisture.
The grape shrivels to becomes a raisin.
5) Providence (N): the protective care of God or of nature as a spiritual power
The soldier ran in to battle because he believed he had providence, so nothing would stop him.
6) Ingot (N): a block of steel, gold, silver, or other metal, typically oblong in shape.
The pirates found nothing but an ingot in the cave, and since it was gold, the took it even though it was weird to carry.
7) Oracle (N): prophet, prophetess
The oracle said the end of the day would be tomorrow, and they all freaked out!
8) Infernal (Adj):of, relating to, or characteristic of hell or the underworld
The infernal boy and so horrible no one would babysit.
9) Speculate (V): form a theory or conjecture about a subject without firm evidence
Since the boy was not in school, his friend speculated he was sick, even though he was feeling great yesterday.
10) Hogshead (N): a large cask or barrel.
The hogsheads were kept in the basement of the winery because that was the only place they had enough room to store them.
11) Vial (N): a small container, typically cylindrical and made of glass, used esp. for holding liquid medicines.
The docotor asked his assistant to grab a vial filled the the type of medicine he needed.
12) Pivot (N): the central point, pin, or shaft on which a mechanism turns or oscillates.
The pivot broke so the wheel could not turn any longer.
13) Careened (V): to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion
The boat careened to the right whil in the storm but didn't flip.
14) Gaudy (Adj): extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless
The gaudy painting really stuck out in the white room.
15) Raspy (Adj): a harsh, grating noise
The man had a raspy voice that made you shiver everytime he spoke.
16) Notion (N): an impulse or desire, esp. one of a whimsical kind
I had a notion to go buy that computer but decided against it.
17) Dismal (Adj): depressing; dreary
The man was in a dismal state after his wife died.
18) Victuals (N): food or provisions, typically as prepared for consumption.
They only bought enough victuals for them selves for the whole trip.
19) Thrash (V): beat (a person or animal) repeatedly and violently with a stick or whip
The boy got a thrashing when he back talked to his father.

Young Goodman Brown

1.) Allegory: You are always close to evil, but there is something that holds use back, but when reason is lost, there is nothing to stop you.

2.) Pink ribbon: This is a symbol of innocence, and when the ribbon falls from the sky it is when Goodman Brown has lost his innocence and then he goes to the congragation
Faith- Is a symbol of Faith, when he is with her, he still has faith but when she disappears it is because her has lost faith
The Old man- The devil, we know because of the he carries staff, when he touches things living, like the trees, the all crumple and die, and we also know he represents the devil because he has been around for a long time, knowing Goodman Brown's Grandpa and Dad.

3.)I believe they were all illusions, I believe it was a dream to make him lose faith in the world, they were tricks that the devil played on Goodman Brown. They were just images to get Goodman Brown to do what the devil wants.

4.) Young Goodman Brown
The Devil (took the shape of old Goodman Brown)
Faith
Minister
Deacon Gookin
Goody Cloyse


5.) Egytian Magi- It is allusion to the bible, The Egytian Magi had staffs that turned into snakes
Kings Philip's War allusion to King Philips war

6.) I like this story even though I couldn't understand a lot of the allusions because I don't go to church I believe that it is a very well written story, that still leaves you questioning at the end whether this happened to Young Goodman Brown or not. I liked it because it showed how close we are to evil and the struggle we have between good and bad in our life. It makes you question yourself on what keeps you from being evil? What is your faith? I like how this story makes you think not just about what is happening in the story but also your life.

7.) He is critical about them to make a point to the reader of them doing something bad.

8.) The theme is that evil is always at your doorstep.

Self- Reliance pg 281, 1-5 a & b

1a.) According to Emerson, every person at a certain point in his or her education comes to realize the envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to til.

1b.) He says that envy is ignorance because if you are envy of someone you are paying attention to them and what they do and want and are ignoring, or being ignorant to yourself and what actually works for you. You are to busy worrying yourself over being like someone else that you aren't paying attention to yourself, and who you actually are. He says that imitation is suicide because Emerson believes that in order to be alive you have to have your own thoughts but when you are imitating someone your are taking there thoughts, and so to Emerson you are dead.
The alternative the Emerson recommends is for you to trust your self and be who you want, and don't follow societies image of a person. He says "Trust they self.... Accept the place the divine Providence has found for you; the society of your contemporaries, the connexion of events."

2a.) The virtue that society asks of each person is conformity. Emerson says people should strive to be a nonconformist instead.

2b.) Emerson Advocates nonconformity because he believes people need to trust their own ideas, that they need to be their selves and not societies image of a person, because if you don't, you become ignorant of yourself. To Emerson means by nonconformity means to not surrender the liberty and culture of yourself. It means to not follow the usual footsteps that society has placed, it means to be yourself and trust your ideas.

3a.) The type of behavior that is difficult but essential for greatness is to be able to live after your own opinion in the midst of a crowd.

3b.) Emerson is saying that a person, in order to be great, has to be able to be himself, like he would be if he were alone, when he is around people, or in the midsts of a crowd. The independence of solitude is = how you are when you are by yourself. It is something for which to strive for because it is they only way you will be great in life.

4a.) The qualities that distinguish them from other people was that they came up with ideas and said them even though it was not what society thought or believed in at the time.

4b.) Great people might sometimes be inconsistent because to be consistent is to be that same everytime, and great people are those that are different and don't keeps things the same or like the rest of society so they will be inconsistent to be different. They type of consistency Emerson believes in though is speaking your mind and saying what you believe, even when it changes. Emerson believes it is important to speak your mind.

5a.) Yes I do believe it is better ti rely on yourself rather than upon others for your values and your principles. The benefits for being self- reliant is you are not ignorant, You learn self lessons on your own. By letting your own personality shine, you find the true meaning of your life. You can not find this by coping someone else. You don't have to stress about worrying over what others think of you.

5b.) Nonconformists have the greatest impact because they are so different than everyone else. It is because people notice when something is different. They remember them because the are strange. A nonconformist can change society so radically because people will see them being different or their self, and the people like it, so they will do it too. Rosa Parks is a nonconformist because she didn't believe that just because she was black should she less equal than a white person. She went against society and stuck up for herself.

More sentence rules

http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/sentences.htm


2.) Compound sentences- refers to a sentence made up of two independent clauses ( or complete sentences) connected to one another with a coordinating conjunction. Coordinating conjunctions are easy to remember if you think of the word "FAN BOYS"
For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So

3.) Complex sentences- made up of an independent clause and one or more dependent clauses connected to it. A dependent clause is similar to an independent clause, or complete sentences, but i lacks one of the elements that would make it a complete sentence.
After
Although
As
Because
Before
Even though
If
Since
Though
Unless
Until
When
Whenever
While
A complex sentence joins an independent clause with one or more dependent clauses.
The dependent clauses can go first in the sentence, followed by the independent clause.
Tip: When the dependent clause comes first, a comma should be used to separate the two clauses
Conversely, th
4.)

Vocab words 10/08

1) Dogmatic Adj; asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.
At the meeting, the dogmatic man interuppted to say what he thought on every topic.
2) Egregious Adj; outstandingly bad; shocking
Trying to wrestle with the bear was a egregious idea.
3) Dissipate V; Disperse or scatter; squander or fritter away, misspend, waste
The smart boy's knowledge was dissipated when he only played video games.
4) Disparage V; to speak of or treat slightly; depreciate; belittle
The coaches yelling disparaged the players attitude and they played even crappier after it.
5) Elucidate V; to make lucid or clear; throw light upon
The Teacher gave a lecture to elucidate what quantum numbers were.
6) Torpid Adj; inactive or sluggish
The torpid turtle lost the race.
7) Tempestuous Adj; characterized by strong and turbulent or conflicting emotion; tumultuoud, turbulent violent and stormy
The tempestuous feelings of the girl for the boy made her confused.
8) Edifice N; any large complex system or organization; a building
The government is edifice of people working for other people.
9) Decorous Adj; In keeping with good taste and propriety; polite and restrained
The Decorous dog never jumped on visitors.
10) Eulogium N; a eulogistic language
The kings eulogium, after the queens death made everyone sad.
11) Propriety N; the condition of being right, appropriate, or fitting
The girl's propriety, made losing the debate battle inevitable.
12) Sagacious Adj; having or showing keen mental discernment and good judgement; shrewd
The sagacious teacher maybe good chocies on who should be grouped together, so that no one would distract another person.
13) Voluminous Adj; occupying or containing much space; large in volume, in particular; of great volume, size, or extent
The voluminous couch left no floor space in the room.
14) Arduous Adj; involving or requiring strenuous effort; difficult and tiring
Today we went for an arduous run and everyone was pooped after it.
15) Alacrity N; brisk and cheerful readiness

16) Languid Adj; lacking in spirit of interest

Speech in the Virginia Convention, pg 157

1.) (a) The only was to arrive at a truth to have an open debate where everyone would beable to speak there thoughts without affending anyone.
(b) So that they can see both sides. Henry feels a different way and thinks he should speak up because there are two sides on an arguement and things would not be settled unless all weere heard. Also as it states in the book, should he keep back his opinion, he would consider himself "guilty of treason toward his country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven..."

2.) (a) The evidence that Henry has come up with it the the British fleet and army are in America, when they have no enemies, unless they plan to attack the colonists.
(b) He distrusts in because while the British are "agreeing" and "listening" to the colonists, they are also preparing for war.

3.) (a) Henry's response to to possiblity of war breaking out, is that it probably will and the only thing left for them to try and break free is to fight back.
(b) Henry see's peace as the unthinkable alternative to war.

4.) (a) The colonists attempts were arguments, entreaty and supplication, they have petitoned, remonstrated, supplicated, prostrated themselves before the throne, and they have implored its interpostion to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliment.Now the british have not really tried anything except not listen to the colonists and they are now sending over troops and ships for war.
(b) Henry would not have called for war had Britian listened to the colonists in the first place, instead of rubbing them off.

"Sinners in the Hands of an Anger God" Questions 1-4a&b

1a.) Edward says that people think that is their good state of their body constitution, their care of their own life, and the means you use for your own preservation, but Edward is saying that it is really god who is keeping you from dying and falling into hell.

1b.) When he compares the people to a falling rock, he is saying that if God let you go and you were falling, that your good health does not matter. You sins are to heavy and your great health is not even close to enough to keep you from falling. You would die imideitly if god were to get anger at you and let you go. You would be dead, empty, like the husk after the grain is taken out of it.

2a.) The earth and the sun are elements that Edwards lists as "not willingly" serving the sinner.

2b.) He says rough winds, a dreadful storm, big with thunder. The another element he uses is a whirlwinds.

3a.) They they must have a change in heart, by the might power of the SPirit of God upon your souls, all you that were never born agan, and made new creatures, and raised from being dead in sin, to a state of new.

3b.) Edward tells them how that they are like spiders being hung over a pit of hell, and that god would just like to cast them into the fire. He tells them that God hates them ten thousand times more then they hate the most venomous snake, and that they offend him. And that GOd's hands are the only thing holding you up. That everynight GOd could let you go, but he doesn't even though their is no reason for them to still be here after they have been provoking God all day.
This would scare the people because they are thought of as only bugs and that at any moment they could die and not beable to save themselves.

4a.) He starts by telling them that by being hated by god they are in a lot of trouble. That you have provoked God and he hates you as much as he hates anyone else in hell. That you are on a thin thread with your sins around it making it ready to snap, and when you fall there will be nothing there for you to grab onto, nothing to save you from god's wrath.

4b.)This would be affective in arousing fear because the people there listening to the speach believe in god a lot, and so the thought that he was the one keeping them alive ment he could let go at anymoment. And now that they think god hates them and want to kill them right now, it freaked them out a little because they don't want to die.

Questions from the Iroquois

1a.) The five nations confederate lords plant the tree with Dekanawidah.

1b.) The purpose of the meeting is to lay down the law and make it so everyone, including tribes who want to join their confederate, know the rules.

2a.) Dekanawidah is talking to Adodarhoh, who is the chief confederate lord of the Onondaga.

2b.) Dekanawidah refers to the assembled lards as "cousins", not because they are all really cousins, but because they are all together under the same confederate.

3a.) A candidate lord must furnish four strings of shells, one span in length bound together at the end to show his pledge. This pledge symbolizes the candidate's honesty, that he will follow all of the laws, and exercise justice in all affairs.

3b.) A leader should cannot get upset about things, like offensice actions and criticism easily, they must be much tougher because now they are a mentor of the people. They cannot have anger or fury. The people of the nation and their welfare come before yourselves. They have to have endless patience, and self interest will be cast into obliviation. The leader can't only think of the present generation, but the future aswell.

4a.) In this ritual Dekanawidah incorparates nature by planting the Tree of the Great Peace,spreading soft globe thistle on the lords seats, crowning the leader with the sacred emblem of deer's antlers, and that the lords will offer thanks to the earth, streams, pools, springs, lakes, maize, fruits, medicinal herbs, trees, and forest trees.

4b.) They were very close to nature in everything that they did. In this passage they say things that give me the impression that they are close to nature like Dekanawidah plants a tree, and a new leader is crowned with "The sacred emblem of the deer's antlers".

5a.) I believe the values and moral code described in the Iroquois Constitution are appropriate for the members and leaders of a government. I agree that a leader, like stated in the constitution, needs to be patient, selfless, controlled, think highly of the welfare of their people, and not just consider the now generation but also the future. I believe the need to work together like cousins and anyone who want to join the confederate must follow the rules as well.

Semi colon

From: “The proper Use of Semi- Colon, Colon, and Dash, from the illicit Manuals of Outlaws, Short Stories of Jazz, and Authors of Revolutionary Letters.”
“ The dash is great refuge of those who are too lazy to punctuate.”
-- Bernard Shaw

SEMI-COLON- A stylistic mark that is never necessary: it takes the place of a comma or period.
USES:
1.) To join two or more closely related sentences or complete statements. EX. The black Saturn slid into a snow bank; the driver got out reciting: ‘The moon, a silver slither of an eighth note.”
I went to work; I had a quick lunch: I came straight home.
Note: Both of these sentences could be written with a comma.
The black Saturn slid into a snow bank, and the driver got out reciting: “ The moon, a silver slither or an eighth note.”
2.) To connect interrelated ideas or thoughts. Ex. In France, we bought tea; in Amsterdam, coffee; in America, coke-cola; in Ireland, apples juice.

We brought tea in France, coffee in Amsterdam, coke-cola in America, and apple juice in Ireland.
3.) A semi-colon may replace a comma to separate items of a list when additional commas may confuse the reader. EX The winning numbers were 1,273; 3,663; 8,462; and 2,370; Dean had all of them.

Mr. Green, the plumber (who did it with the wrench); George Jefferson, the laundry-mat owner; and Scooby Doo, the rabid mutt, were all at the school cookout.

colon

Colon- Stylistic mark, never necessary, takes the place of a comma
USES:
1.) Introduce a list

Ex. Bob excels in the following activities: wrecking his car while driving blindfolded; drinking bottles of hot sauce; watching football and scratching his ring ringworm foot bloody; and flunking English 060.

WARNING: A list must be introduced to use a colon. A similar sentence could be written: Bob excels in football, baseball and basketball. There is no introduction of a list and therefore a colon could not be used. It would be wrong to write: Bob excels in: football, baseball, and basketball.

2.) After a statement that introduces a quotation.
Ex. He began the meeting with this warning: “Gentlemen, Art Bell says the world will end in three years!”

We were at the pizza station when John shouted:” That girl is in my class.”

3.) Many writers use the colon to define or expand on some object or subject within a sentence. Here is an example from Eudora Welty’s story “Powerhouse” (From Hot and Cool: Jazz Short Stories) :”Powerhouse reads each one, studying with a secret face: that is the face which looks like a mask- anybody’s; there is a moment when he makes a decision.”

Here Welty is defining “secret face”. Another example from James Joyce’s “The Dead”: “So she had had that romance in her life: a man had died for her sake.” Here Joyce is defining ”that romance.”

Vocab words, Sept. 15

Callous-(adj); made hard, hardened, unfeeling, unsimpathetic
The callous look the girl had made everyone wonder if she was okay.
Capricious- (adj); Obsolete. fanciful or witty
The girl made a capricious comeback at the boy after he made fun of her.
Cajole- (V); to persuade by flattery or promise; wheedle; coax
The girl cajoled her mom into letting stay out later by saying how nice and cool she was.
Censure-(N); Strong or vehement expression of disapproval
The parents Censure on the movie made the child day care stop showing it.
Catalyst- (N); Something that causes activity between two or more persons or forces without itself being affected.
The catalyst in the reaction made it go much smoother.
Caustic-(Adj.); severly critical or sarcastic
The caustic comment that the boy made at the girl, upset her and she punched him.
Capitulate- (V) to surrender unconditionally or in stipulated terms
The the pirates capitulated after the english army killed their captian.
Celestial- (Adj.); pertaining to the sky or visible heaven
The weather broadcaster talked about the celestial clouds looking like they were bringing a storm.
Catharsis- (N); the purging of emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, esp. through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music
After her brother died, she hoped she could stay strong but the catharsis couldn't be avoided in basketball practice, so she tried to hide her tears.
Carping-(Adj); characterized by fussy or petulant faultfinding; querulous
The girl had a carping habit to point out the wrong in everyone's work.

Vocab words august 31- sept. 11

Conundrum- The victim could not answer the conundrum his guard asked him, so he was not freed
Deleterious- The defeat of the Yakutat Eagles by the Skagway Panthers had a deleterious effect on their spirits, and they never won again.
Enervate- Enervated from being lazy all day, caused the lady panthers to play poorly.
Hegemony- Mr. Thomas and Mr. Allen both ran for hegemony of the town.
Inchoate- The inchoate information on the poster-board was not ready for presentation the next day
Juxtaposition- The juxtaposition of the boy and girl student was quickly broken apart by a teacher.
Legerdemain- The legerdemain the boy had in his pick-pocketing skills were quite remarkable
Manifold- The girl had a manifold of duties that took her all night
Obfuscate- All of the unneeded information in the math problem was used to obfuscate the student into what he had to do to answer the question.
Ribald- The Ribald music was not allowed in the Rec- Center.