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.