Friday, May 4, 2012

Huck Finn 8

I questioned why Huck didn't tell Jim that the two men weren't really kings at all when Jim said, " ...dey's reglar rapscallions." That would have been the perfect time to do so because he was starting to think they weren't! But now he just streached the lie more so Jim'll be even more hurt if he finds out the truth.
There is satire when Huck is saying " It wouldn't a done no good (to tell Jim teh men were fakes); and, besides, it was just as i said: you couldn't tell them from the real kind." Twain is talking about the leaders we have and saying that they are all fakes and take advantage of other people and use them to their own advantage.

There was a piece in chapter 24 that brought it the Bible. Huck was describing the king in his new clothes and how "...he looked teh grand and good...that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself." Is there an important meaning behind this? What's the importance of bring the ark of Noah and Old Leviticus together to describe a fake, yet apparently good looking, king(once he cleans up)?

I was in shock when i see Huck saying "if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a nigger." He sarcastically called himself a colored person?! WOH! This was his reaction and attempt to describe his feelings from teh sight the king and duke were playing; pretending to be a dead man's brothers. Is this a way of saying Huck has decided to help Jim with his plan of freedom and getting his family no matter what the concequences? Or maybe now he knows for sure Jim is just like him; a person with feelings, not a working machine with no emotion or mind of his own. I'm kind of excited to see what test Huck will have to take on to see how connected he is with Jim!

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  1. I'm also starting to feel that Huck is starting to realize that Jim is a man too, and that he also has feeling. Huck isn't thinking of him anymore as being someone's worker, he is seeing his emotional side of things too.

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