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.