Chapter 31:
Pg. 192: "After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here was it all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars."
-Nobody is good or bad, it is how they think that determines whether something is good or bad. Huck is a person who likes to help his friends even if he has to lie and confuse other people to do that. He is neither good nor bad, he does bad things for good reasons. Two of the other characters, the Duke and the King, do bad things for bad reasons. The King sold Jim to a person, and said he was a runaway nigger, he was lying and sold another person. Both the King and the Duke want to make money, even if it means adding more sin onto their plate. Despite Jim and Huck going along with all their ideas, they still did bad things and betrayed them.
Chapter 33:
Pg. 205: "He was the innocentest, best old soul I ever see. But it warn't surprising; because he warn't only just a farmer, he was a preacher, too, and had a little one-horse log church down back of the plantation, which he built it himself at his own expense."
-As I mentioned before, no one is good or bad, but it's how they think. This old man thought everyone was good and so he behaved well. He did tasks to please others and keep peace, he was probably a little naive in his thinking, but it affected everyone around him and that in turn made everyone around him want to do nice things for him. They didn't want to hurt him so they tried to do as much good as possible.
Chapter 35:
Pg. 216: "You got to invent all the difficulties. Well, we can't help it, we got to do the best we can with the materials we've got. Anyhow, there's one thing--there's more honor in getting him out through a lot of difficulties and dangers, where there warn't on of them furnished to you by the people who it was their duty to furnish them, and you had to contrive them all out of your own head."
-Tom is an unrealistic person. He reads a lot of books and wants to have an adventure so he takes the crazy ideas that they come up with in his stories and he tries to put them into action. He truly thinks that there is nothing in taking the easy way out and because of that he gets others into trouble and gets out of it. He doesn't take into account the opinions or morals of his friends and drags them into his fantasy world where he is the mastermind behind everything, but since nothing is ever as dramatic in the real world as they are in books, he has to make them elaborate to quench his thirst for adventure.
Chapter 37:
Pg. 229: "But he done us a good turn with the spoon, anyway, without knowing it, and so we'll go and do him one without him knowing it--stop up his rat-holes."
-Even though Tom is an unrealistic person with a thirst for adventure, he does do a lot of good things. When he wants adventure, he disregards his friend's opinions, but he does still have manners to those who help him without meaning too. Uncle Silas, the old man who unknowingly helps them also does good things. He gives them a place to stay and food, is a preacher, talks to Jim, and unknowingly covers for Tom and Huck. Tom knows this so he wants to help him, but it also confuses Uncle Silas even more when they do help him. He doesn't think about it anyways and just thinks he did it and forgot.
Chapter 39:
Pg. 240: "Aunt Sally warn't over it yet; she warn't near over it; when she was setting thinking about something, you could touch her on the back of her neck with a feather and she would jump right out of her stockings. It was very curious. But Tom said all women was just so. He said they was made that way; for some reason or other."
-Tom and Huck are boys, they grew up wrestling, sleeping outside, having wild adventures, lyng, acting impolite, the list goes on and on. They don't get that girls don't like a lot of those things, having fun they do like, but not the whole get completely gross and catch crawling wildlife. We prefer a lot more comfortable lifestyle without creepy crawlers on our kitchen table. They didn't grow up like girls, or with a girl their age so they don't understand this, so when Aunt Sally gets scared over all the snakes, they don't, can't understand. They didn't grow up like a girl, so they can't possibly understand why she would be so afraid of it.
Chapter 41:
Pg. 254: "And twice I went down the rod, away in the night, and slipped around front, and see her setting there by her candle in the window with her eyes towards the road and the tears in them; and I wished I could do something for her, but I couldn't, only to swear that I wouldn't never do nothing to grieve her any more."
-Even though Aunt Sally is actually Tom's aunt, Huck still feels as though if she was his aunt. He also thinks for others, even if it means lying, he feels so bad that he was lying to her the whole time, especially about his identity. He can't tell her the truth though because that would get him in trouble as well as Tom and Jim. Any man would fee sad seeing a woman cry, no matter what the age, and Huck is a man who does good things. He tries to make up for all the grief they caused her by trying not to cause her anymore grief, but it still hurts him to see her cry.
Chapter 43:
Pg. 262: "We had Jim out of the chains in no time, and when Aunt Polly and Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally found out how good he helped the doctor nurse Tom, they made a heap of fuss over him, and fixed him up prime, and give him all he wanted to eat, and a good time, and nothing to do."
-Despite Jim being black and a recently freed slave once they heard about what a great person he was, they treated him like a white man. They knew he was black, but since he did a good thing that saved their beloved family member, his skin color was ignored. He was also a free man, meaning he was equal to them, they finally realized that after the news and worked on treating him like one. Nobody is good or bad, it is what they think, besides their skin color, age, or experience. The family overcame that barrier just like Huck and Finn had, overcoming the social wall that separated them.
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Sunday, July 21, 2013
They Say/I Say: Part 2
Exercise 2:
Essay 1:
In David Zinczenko's "Don't Blame the Eater" he clearly states his opinion that it is not fast food industries that are making people fat, it is the people's fault for buying the high-calorie food. He believes the people are not trying to be healthy and look at the food they are eating, they are just buying the cheapest things that look appealing and not bothering about the health affects, such as Type 2 childhood diabetes and obesity.
Despite many people's belief that there are no healthy cheap alternatives to fast-food restaurants, there are. Most grocery stores have a deli that will make sandwiches with the person's favorite choices on it, with green vegetables that are freshly grown and not just made to look healthy. The grocery store also contains a lot of good deals for fruits and vegetables that give people the needed vitamins and minerals to help fight off bad health problems, such as obesity. By simply buying the necessary ingredients to make a sandwich, whether it is roast beef, turkey, ham, or even tuna fish, those added vitamins can help a person have more energy to go throughout their life. Places such as Costco sell food in bulk, allowing a person to have many snacks around the house that can be thrown into purses and backpacks. There are healthy alternatives to fast food, the main problem is that nobody wants to change their habits getting quick cheap food.
Essay 2:
Is being overweight a genuine medical problem, or a cultural stereotype? The main problem in America is the obesity rate, the problem is that most homeless people, are too fat in America. Looking at it carefully, I have determined that it is a cultural stereotype that comes from our society.
A common advertised cultural experience, is staying up late and getting little sleep. The young, the old, the wealthy, the poor, everybody does it at one time or another, for all different reasons. Staying up late, more importantly not getting enough sleep, actually causes our body to gain weight. The first reason is with the little bit of sleep, our bodies think that something is going on in the environment and they want to prepare, so they take all the extra energy and start packing it on, to prepare for whatever comes ahead. The second reason is, a person tends to eat less healthy. If a teenager goes to bed late after school, a sports game, a party, or anything else, they are tired the next day, just as a business man who stayed up late trying to get a contract to go through, or a nurse who was at the hospital. Regardless, the emotional tiredness that comes from the lack of sleep causes us to go to comfort foods, foods high in sugar, salt, and fat. We eat more and more of those, the extra calories then to pack on and we end up with more weight than when we started. Since most people in America stay up late though, we eat unhealthy to try to get short bursts of energy, and become fat because of it. Most people around the world get up early and go to bed early, especially in countries such as Africa and India, you do not find many fat people there because they wake up early and go to bed early for hard work.
Another cause of obesity is a person's work. A person may be too busy to go to the gym or for a bike ride, and therefore are unable to burn the extra calories and take off the weight. Most people also work at a job that involves sitting in a desk and dealing with people on the phone or paper, jobs do involve people walking around, but not a lot of them use that to their advantage.
Health care today also allows a person to have their fat removed whenever they want, allowing major health problems to be stopped, and their life to lengthen. With today's medicine, we can stop many problems that would have been to much a hundred years ago and give people a sense of superiority.
The last reason I believe that obesity is a cultural stereotype is because we have advanced technology. A person with by pressing a button, can talk to a person on the other side of the world. They can shop for clothes without leaving their room, they can have a garden watered automatically, the abilities that we used to have to do manually, are now done by some buttons. They have the technology to rob banks, without leaving their house and to take other people's identities without having to meet them. With this, all the manual labor diminishes to a very small amount.
As much as the facts point to obesity being a health problem, even though it is, it is also a cause of society. People enjoy the easy route, even when it affects them personally. It is hard to find a obese person in an agricultural society where physical labor is their life, unlike America whose life is too party and have fun.
Essay 1:
In David Zinczenko's "Don't Blame the Eater" he clearly states his opinion that it is not fast food industries that are making people fat, it is the people's fault for buying the high-calorie food. He believes the people are not trying to be healthy and look at the food they are eating, they are just buying the cheapest things that look appealing and not bothering about the health affects, such as Type 2 childhood diabetes and obesity.
Despite many people's belief that there are no healthy cheap alternatives to fast-food restaurants, there are. Most grocery stores have a deli that will make sandwiches with the person's favorite choices on it, with green vegetables that are freshly grown and not just made to look healthy. The grocery store also contains a lot of good deals for fruits and vegetables that give people the needed vitamins and minerals to help fight off bad health problems, such as obesity. By simply buying the necessary ingredients to make a sandwich, whether it is roast beef, turkey, ham, or even tuna fish, those added vitamins can help a person have more energy to go throughout their life. Places such as Costco sell food in bulk, allowing a person to have many snacks around the house that can be thrown into purses and backpacks. There are healthy alternatives to fast food, the main problem is that nobody wants to change their habits getting quick cheap food.
Essay 2:
Is being overweight a genuine medical problem, or a cultural stereotype? The main problem in America is the obesity rate, the problem is that most homeless people, are too fat in America. Looking at it carefully, I have determined that it is a cultural stereotype that comes from our society.
A common advertised cultural experience, is staying up late and getting little sleep. The young, the old, the wealthy, the poor, everybody does it at one time or another, for all different reasons. Staying up late, more importantly not getting enough sleep, actually causes our body to gain weight. The first reason is with the little bit of sleep, our bodies think that something is going on in the environment and they want to prepare, so they take all the extra energy and start packing it on, to prepare for whatever comes ahead. The second reason is, a person tends to eat less healthy. If a teenager goes to bed late after school, a sports game, a party, or anything else, they are tired the next day, just as a business man who stayed up late trying to get a contract to go through, or a nurse who was at the hospital. Regardless, the emotional tiredness that comes from the lack of sleep causes us to go to comfort foods, foods high in sugar, salt, and fat. We eat more and more of those, the extra calories then to pack on and we end up with more weight than when we started. Since most people in America stay up late though, we eat unhealthy to try to get short bursts of energy, and become fat because of it. Most people around the world get up early and go to bed early, especially in countries such as Africa and India, you do not find many fat people there because they wake up early and go to bed early for hard work.
Another cause of obesity is a person's work. A person may be too busy to go to the gym or for a bike ride, and therefore are unable to burn the extra calories and take off the weight. Most people also work at a job that involves sitting in a desk and dealing with people on the phone or paper, jobs do involve people walking around, but not a lot of them use that to their advantage.
Health care today also allows a person to have their fat removed whenever they want, allowing major health problems to be stopped, and their life to lengthen. With today's medicine, we can stop many problems that would have been to much a hundred years ago and give people a sense of superiority.
The last reason I believe that obesity is a cultural stereotype is because we have advanced technology. A person with by pressing a button, can talk to a person on the other side of the world. They can shop for clothes without leaving their room, they can have a garden watered automatically, the abilities that we used to have to do manually, are now done by some buttons. They have the technology to rob banks, without leaving their house and to take other people's identities without having to meet them. With this, all the manual labor diminishes to a very small amount.
As much as the facts point to obesity being a health problem, even though it is, it is also a cause of society. People enjoy the easy route, even when it affects them personally. It is hard to find a obese person in an agricultural society where physical labor is their life, unlike America whose life is too party and have fun.
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Chapters 16-30
Chapter 16:
pg. 81: "He said he'd be mighty sure to see it, because he'd be a free man the minute he seen it, but if he missed it he'd be in the slave country again and no more show for freedom."
Freedom meant a lot to the slaves back then, to their masters in the south, they weren't human at all, just mindless muscle that did whatever it was told to do. Slavery was big back then, before the Civil War. They knew that when they went north they could be free, but it probably scared them too, what did they do with their new lives? Most of them only had one chance to gain that freedom and many were too scared to take it. Jim had his chance for freedom, but it was wrought with dangers.
Chapter 18:
pg. 104: "Dey's mighty good to me, dese niggers is, en whatever I wants 'm to do fur me, I doan' have to ast 'm twice, honey."
The term nigger was commonly used a lot back then, it was term to determine you status, in this case, Jim uses it in a way to show that he is a higher status than the niggers, whether they think so, he definitely does. The slave owners use it to show their status as Master. For Jim to call them niggers, means he is accepting of the term, even though it's racist. The blacks use it just as much as the whites, even then, it's strange how it was hurtful for a white person to call them that, but when another called them that it was semi-acceptable. They understand that was what they were, they had it integrated into them for a very long time and they accepted it, even adopting the phrase.
Chapter 19:
pg. 113: "I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here I am, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft!"
That time, as any other time, was filled with many lies. Immigrants with no money and job, claimed to be royalty, wronged on their voyage, some believe them and some don't, most of the time they receive benefits though. They use the lie, whatever it might be so much, that they begin to believe it, in his case English Royalty. The man starts with the lie that he is royalty and doesn't consider the others like him. Others do that and it is very difficult to determine whether or not someone is telling the truth. Those lies made life very difficult for the people.
Chapter 22:
pg. 134: "The average man's a coward. In the North he lets anybody walk over him that wants to, and goes home and prays for a humble spirit to bear it. In the South one man, all by himself has stopped a stage full of men, in the day-time, and robbed the lot."
There is much prejudice between the North and the South, since it is set in Pre-Civil War times, when conflicts between Slave Masters and Abolitionists was very strong. The North believed that all men were equal, and since many of their necessities were made from machines, they didn't need as much man power as the South did to harvest crops. The North, since it believes all men are free and wants to respect everyone and their differences, they don't say anything insulting, they were probably to afraid of getting criticized and getting pushed away as not accepting others for who they are, they still had the right to speak their opinions as any free person did. In the South, there were Masters and Slaves, they drew the line between the people and races, and could speak their minds freely because of their status. They weren't afraid to beat a slave who spoke out, so they weren't afraid to shoot a man who spoke out against their views. It was the different atmospheres they were raised in that made them two different entities.
Chapter 24:
pg. 144: "I never knowed how clothes could change a body before. Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he'd take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe he was old Leviticus himself."
Leading back to the deceiving that most people did in that time to make their lives seem more than they were worth, the clothes add to that. Many people didn't want to acknowledge that their life was how they lived, mainly the lazy ones who didn't work, or the very deceitful ones that bought things that made their lives seem better. They wanted other people to be jealous and want to be more like them, even though they were the same as them, their appearance mattered greatly though. Nice clothes gives a person self confidence and the attitude, any nice, new thing would accomplish that as well.
Chapter 26:
pg. 160: "I says to myself, this is a girl that I'm letting that old reptile rob her of her money! Then Susan she waltzed in; and if you'll believe me, she did give Hare-lip hark from the tomb! Says I to myself, And this is another one that I'm letting him rob hers of money!"
Back then, there were less bad people than good people, but because of all the bad things they did, it seemed like much more, it was also focused on a lot more. Those who lied were necessarily bad people, they have faults like everyone else, Huck Finn is a good example of this. Everybody lies, no one is perfect, it also depends on the extent of the lies and how they affected the lairs life. Good people were easily conned out of their money and land because their wasn't much safety besides a gun, their lives were always hard and unpromising.
Chapter 28:
pg. 170: "I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't looked to me like the truth is better, ans actually safer, than a lie. I must lay it in by in my mind, and think it over some time or other, it's so kind of strange, and unregular."
Here, people's morality comes up a lot, in this book and in that time, one of the main themes of the book is morality, I am guessing. Good people back then, who wanted better lives for themselves and loved ones were sometimes forced to do things that would weigh heavily on themselves. Those who do bad things, once they start, most of the time they do not stop, it is addicting to not get in trouble with a simple excuse, it doesn't get the person hurt, but it hurts the person on the receiving end.
Chapter 29:
pg. 186: "..he was so glad I was back and we was shut of the king and the duke..."
Even though they do bad things too, they didn't like being with the truly bad people who stole from innocent orphan girls and made an entire village their enemy. At that time, you didn't want to be involved with bad people, they ruined your life and your chances of succeeding dwindled with each lie. As much as they wanted to have easier lives, the peace and security they once had, have now diminished with each deed.
pg. 81: "He said he'd be mighty sure to see it, because he'd be a free man the minute he seen it, but if he missed it he'd be in the slave country again and no more show for freedom."
Freedom meant a lot to the slaves back then, to their masters in the south, they weren't human at all, just mindless muscle that did whatever it was told to do. Slavery was big back then, before the Civil War. They knew that when they went north they could be free, but it probably scared them too, what did they do with their new lives? Most of them only had one chance to gain that freedom and many were too scared to take it. Jim had his chance for freedom, but it was wrought with dangers.
Chapter 18:
pg. 104: "Dey's mighty good to me, dese niggers is, en whatever I wants 'm to do fur me, I doan' have to ast 'm twice, honey."
The term nigger was commonly used a lot back then, it was term to determine you status, in this case, Jim uses it in a way to show that he is a higher status than the niggers, whether they think so, he definitely does. The slave owners use it to show their status as Master. For Jim to call them niggers, means he is accepting of the term, even though it's racist. The blacks use it just as much as the whites, even then, it's strange how it was hurtful for a white person to call them that, but when another called them that it was semi-acceptable. They understand that was what they were, they had it integrated into them for a very long time and they accepted it, even adopting the phrase.
Chapter 19:
pg. 113: "I am the rightful Duke of Bridgewater; and here I am, forlorn, torn from my high estate, hunted of men, despised by the cold world, ragged, worn, heart-broken, and degraded to the companionship of felons on a raft!"
That time, as any other time, was filled with many lies. Immigrants with no money and job, claimed to be royalty, wronged on their voyage, some believe them and some don't, most of the time they receive benefits though. They use the lie, whatever it might be so much, that they begin to believe it, in his case English Royalty. The man starts with the lie that he is royalty and doesn't consider the others like him. Others do that and it is very difficult to determine whether or not someone is telling the truth. Those lies made life very difficult for the people.
Chapter 22:
pg. 134: "The average man's a coward. In the North he lets anybody walk over him that wants to, and goes home and prays for a humble spirit to bear it. In the South one man, all by himself has stopped a stage full of men, in the day-time, and robbed the lot."
There is much prejudice between the North and the South, since it is set in Pre-Civil War times, when conflicts between Slave Masters and Abolitionists was very strong. The North believed that all men were equal, and since many of their necessities were made from machines, they didn't need as much man power as the South did to harvest crops. The North, since it believes all men are free and wants to respect everyone and their differences, they don't say anything insulting, they were probably to afraid of getting criticized and getting pushed away as not accepting others for who they are, they still had the right to speak their opinions as any free person did. In the South, there were Masters and Slaves, they drew the line between the people and races, and could speak their minds freely because of their status. They weren't afraid to beat a slave who spoke out, so they weren't afraid to shoot a man who spoke out against their views. It was the different atmospheres they were raised in that made them two different entities.
Chapter 24:
pg. 144: "I never knowed how clothes could change a body before. Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he'd take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe he was old Leviticus himself."
Leading back to the deceiving that most people did in that time to make their lives seem more than they were worth, the clothes add to that. Many people didn't want to acknowledge that their life was how they lived, mainly the lazy ones who didn't work, or the very deceitful ones that bought things that made their lives seem better. They wanted other people to be jealous and want to be more like them, even though they were the same as them, their appearance mattered greatly though. Nice clothes gives a person self confidence and the attitude, any nice, new thing would accomplish that as well.
Chapter 26:
pg. 160: "I says to myself, this is a girl that I'm letting that old reptile rob her of her money! Then Susan she waltzed in; and if you'll believe me, she did give Hare-lip hark from the tomb! Says I to myself, And this is another one that I'm letting him rob hers of money!"
Back then, there were less bad people than good people, but because of all the bad things they did, it seemed like much more, it was also focused on a lot more. Those who lied were necessarily bad people, they have faults like everyone else, Huck Finn is a good example of this. Everybody lies, no one is perfect, it also depends on the extent of the lies and how they affected the lairs life. Good people were easily conned out of their money and land because their wasn't much safety besides a gun, their lives were always hard and unpromising.
Chapter 28:
pg. 170: "I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place, is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't looked to me like the truth is better, ans actually safer, than a lie. I must lay it in by in my mind, and think it over some time or other, it's so kind of strange, and unregular."
Here, people's morality comes up a lot, in this book and in that time, one of the main themes of the book is morality, I am guessing. Good people back then, who wanted better lives for themselves and loved ones were sometimes forced to do things that would weigh heavily on themselves. Those who do bad things, once they start, most of the time they do not stop, it is addicting to not get in trouble with a simple excuse, it doesn't get the person hurt, but it hurts the person on the receiving end.
Chapter 29:
pg. 186: "..he was so glad I was back and we was shut of the king and the duke..."
Even though they do bad things too, they didn't like being with the truly bad people who stole from innocent orphan girls and made an entire village their enemy. At that time, you didn't want to be involved with bad people, they ruined your life and your chances of succeeding dwindled with each lie. As much as they wanted to have easier lives, the peace and security they once had, have now diminished with each deed.
Sunday, June 23, 2013
They Say / I Say: Part 1
Exercises:
1. Many people wonder why there are so animal rescues out there, like horse rescues. Most people hate animal abuse; they think that the people who abuse animals are sick and disgusting, and most are, however some are just ignorant and choose to be. For instance people take Thoroughbreds, and try to race them, especially descendants of Secretariat, the famous Triple Crown winner. They think that since they are his descendants, they will run just as good as him, but they aren't him and they don't do as well. They take the leftover horse and put them in a pasture, their thought process is: if the horse doesn't win the race, we won't give them the food they need, they can just survive off of grass like mustangs-but they can't. For hundreds of years, Thoroughbreds have been bred to race and are some of the most domesticated horses out there, they are born and raised in confined spaces with a many people, animals, and objects going by them. They survive off of machine-made, high calorie food that are full of vitamins, steroids, and medicines that their bodies need. When the horses are put into pasture, their bodies literally can't handle only the grass, there are no vitamins and nutrients, they aren't built like mustangs. They start losing weight and lose hundreds of pounds as well as starve. Their teeth start to rot and degrade so even if they wanted to eat, they can't. Rain starts to rot their skin and fur and it comes off in chunks, the water is disgusting and nobody does anything about it, because the horse didn't make them any money. That is where horse rescues come in, they take out those abandoned, starved, half-alive animals and give them new names and new lives, they help them gain weight, and adopt them out to nice homes. They are very important and without them, there would be a lot more animal casualties in the world.2. In the Introduction to "They Say/I Say":The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein provide templates designed to allow a writer to better organize their words and thought process into an organized body that anyone can just pick up and read. They argue specifically that their templates allow anyone of any level to raise the standard of their personal writing so that it is greatly appreciated by those around them. As the authors themselves put it "their opinion/ my opinion." Although with a certain outline comes the argument that it is destroying a persons originality and that is of the essays or paragraphs will have the same monotone sound to them. Graff and Birkenstein insist that they are not all the same and even with a uniform design, everyone's creativity comes in and makes them all different.
I personally agree. In my view, the templates that the two authors recommend help build a very solid foundation for us. For instance, without having any sense of how to write the essay, or paragraph everything would be so different, it would give the reader a headache. As well as causing the writer to have many problems. Some might object, with the single reason that the template tells what you what to say rather than how you say it. My argument is that it is the writer's choice whether or not to use those exact words that were given to him or rephrase it to add to his originality-an important belief to make given that even though everyone has creativity, it is not necessarily their greatest attribute.
Chapters 1-15
Chapter 1:
pg.6: "They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it . Here she was a bothering Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it."
-He grew up without proper guidance in his life, this shows that what he thought was what he made up or reasoned out himself, whether it was right or wrong, and nobody would try to teach him the right things, they just told him he was wrong. Smoking at that time was something they did to relax after a long day at work doing what they did, they did not know at the time the health implications it had and the long term affect, so it was acceptable for young men to do so. Religion also played a big part in their daily lives, bad luck was played upon by many and prayer could solve almost anything.
-Huck's father may be a free man, but he doesn't use it wisely. He grew up old-fashioned and prejudiced against the ability for his son to learn and go to school when he couldn't, deep down he was probably jealous that his son was getting a higher education than him and his ancestors. He wants complete control over his son and is not afraid to beat him when he thinks he does something wrong. He uses his power as his father to beat him up and make himself feel better.
pg.6: "They get down on a thing when they don't know nothing about it . Here she was a bothering Moses, which was no kin to her, and no use to anybody, being gone, you see, yet finding a power of fault with me for doing a thing that had some good in it."
-He grew up without proper guidance in his life, this shows that what he thought was what he made up or reasoned out himself, whether it was right or wrong, and nobody would try to teach him the right things, they just told him he was wrong. Smoking at that time was something they did to relax after a long day at work doing what they did, they did not know at the time the health implications it had and the long term affect, so it was acceptable for young men to do so. Religion also played a big part in their daily lives, bad luck was played upon by many and prayer could solve almost anything.
Chapter 3:
pg. 13: "Then Miss Watson took me to the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn't so. I tried it. Once I got a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn't any good for me without hooks. I tried for hooks three or four times, but somehow I couldn't make it work. By-and-by, one day, I asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she said I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn't make it out no way."
-Huck wasn't so bright, even though he went to school and learned to read. Without the proper explanation on simple things, he is misled and confused, which could be avoided. He therefore with a confused outlook on things looked at other situations with a different point of view, most of the time wrong to other people. The people around him take pity on him because of his "stupidity" and when they try to help they do it in the wrong way making him more confused.
Chapter 5:
pg. 21: "And looky here-you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what he is. You lemme catch you fooling around that school again, you hear?"
-Huck's father may be a free man, but he doesn't use it wisely. He grew up old-fashioned and prejudiced against the ability for his son to learn and go to school when he couldn't, deep down he was probably jealous that his son was getting a higher education than him and his ancestors. He wants complete control over his son and is not afraid to beat him when he thinks he does something wrong. He uses his power as his father to beat him up and make himself feel better.
Chapter 8:
pg. 41: "When breakfast was ready, we lolled on the grass and eat it smoking hot."
-When Huck left he has to fend for himself, when he meets Jim, he knows he is not alone and has someone to go through it with. They don't have the comforts of a normal life now that one is an escaped slave and the other is presumed dead. They have to survive off of what's less and hide in the night, like ghosts. When they do get the comforts, it's like a gift, like hot food.
Chapter 9:
pg. 48: "I didn't look at him at all. Jim throwed some old rags over him, but he needn't done it; I didn't want to see him."
-With their new life on the run and hiding like ghosts, they are going to see death, it is a natural occurrence. Since they aren't going to be living in the safety and comfort of a town, they are out in the wild where robbers and murderers are more noticeable, it was only time until they came across a body or gang. Their lives aren't going to be the same innocent ones as before, the only thing they can do is try to keep their morals in check.
Chapter 11:
pg. 56: "Well, the woman fell to talking about how hard times was, and how poor they had to live, and how the rats was as free as if they owned the place, and so forth, and so on, and then I got easy again."
-Times were hard for them, people didn't have a lot of luxury goods and a hundred dollars was a lot of money, you were rich if you had that much. Most people couldn't afford a lot of necessary things and worked hard all day just to provide for their family's, simple things like having enough flour were very important. People who were used to a lot of wealth sometimes couldn't make the transition to being poor and it destroyed them.
Chapter 13:
pg. 70: "....for I couldn't rest easy till I could see the ferry-boat start. But take it all around, I was feeling ruther comfortable on accounts of taking all this trouble for the gang, for not many would a done it. I wished the widow knowed about it. I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions...."
-Despite running away in such a dangerous situation, they still keep their morals under check and don't change into the people they are hiding from. He wants whats best for everybody, even if it means saving the bad guys from drowning. He doesn't want his conscience ridden with the guilt of letting anyone die, even if other people call him a sissy because of it. Keeping their mind as guilt-free as possible allows them to look on their situation with a great outlook and have a positive journey ahead.
Chapter 15:
pg. 81: "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwords, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd a knowed it would make him feel that way."
-Huck is good kid inside and out, even if he isn't the smartest person out there he has a good heart and will do anything to save his friends, even when it was he who wronged them in the first place. Being kind to a black person in those days was unheard of, most people who did that were abolitionists and considered a little crazy, but they weren't, they just understood, like Huck did with Jim, the black people had feelings.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
My Personal Life
Personality:
I am a unique and interesting person, as told to me by many people. I think differently than most people as I connect incidents in my head with something else and go onto that subject, so a lot of times when talking to someone else it sounds like I am saying random things, so do not be alarmed when I switch topics for no apparent reason, I just forget to say the connection out loud.I talk a lot, about everything and anything, I can go on forever about anything mythical, I LOVE fantasy and science-fiction stories, preferably fantasy though, I create my own story ideas. I have only finished one years ago, and it was quite bad. I create an entire story in my head, but I'm not big on writing it all down, so I have a lot started and stored in my head or on bullet points on paper, but I haven't exactly finished them yet.
Hobbies:
As said before I write books...well start them. I have a lot of notebooks and stories on my computer, and like the challenge of a new story idea, although lately I have been running a little dry on the ideas, preferring to go back to my old stories and rethinking them.I like all kinds of music, I have three siblings and two parents who listen to a variety of music so I listen to everything at all volumes, all times of the day. I like watching movies and TV shows, Lord of the Rings, as well as Star Wars will always be in my top 5 favorites. I am not a horror movie person, but I can handle gore as my dad is a war movie lover.
Sports:
I play volleyball all school year round, I have been playing since forth grade, junior year will be my eighth year and the school season will start my twelfth season. I ran track in fourth, sixth, and eighth grade, but I have bad ankles so the season wasn't fun. I played soccer in second grade, fourth and fifth, as well as basketball fourth and fifth. Being 5'9.5"-10", I was forced to join the tall sports teams.Volunteer:
I volunteer at a non-profit organization in Cottonwood called Safe Haven Horse Rescue and Animal Sanctuary. It is mainly a horse rescue, but we have llamas, and ponies as well, coming from all over. I have been there for five years and ridden my favorite horse: Reuben, for the past year, he is a retired jumper from Southern California. I have helped set up and work at an auction for the horse rescue, and I am also joining them at a horse expo in Sacramento that the owner personally asked me to go to. The rescue has had over 600 horses go through it since it started for various reasons, abuse, retirement, abandonment, kill-pen, pmu (pregnant mare urine; they get mares pregnant for their urine which they use in antibiotics and other medicines and then kill off the babies), it's horrible.
Other:
I have two cats, which act like dogs. I am a hard worker and a leader, I can be a little bossy, but I am working on that as well as listening more. I walk to school every morning and almost everyday back, I like animals and know most everything fantasy related. I hope we get along well together!
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