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Saturday, March 29, 2014

Enough Huck for your Buck? Lame Pun (Social Responsibility Ch. 16-22)

Just a short look back, Huck has come from a boy with no manners or outlook on life just being Huck,  trained into somewhat of a well mannered  boy from Miss Watson and The Widow Douglas, then into the opposite from his father imposing a life of being down and dirty boy who respects his Pap and Pap only, back into his own independent person who creates a plan to run away living his life, then is influenced by Jim slightly, gains knowledge becoming smarter and now is faced with the choice to turn in Jim or not! OMG !!!! Talks about Social Responsibility Huckleberry has almost done it all. At such a young age he is has battled through most of it and is now faced with another "lens" if you will of social responsibility. In Chapter 16 Huck had planned on turning Jim in  since it was the common social responsibility, he was a runaway and most importantly miss watsons. Yet was compelled and in a sense caught feelings of a warm heartedness for Jims aspirations to see his family again, especially when jim ended with huck being the only white person he ever trusted. "Well I can tell you
It made me all overly trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he WAS most free--"( Twain pg. 112)  my interpretation of his decision is that Huck rather favors his own social responsibility to Jim over the "common" as I spoke of.
             Throughout the reading another form of social responsibility arose in chapter 18. Sophia Grangeford asks Huck to get her a bible in which Harney Sheperdson leaves a note "Half past two"(Twain 139). Basically half past two is  the time that the starcrossed lovers of feuding families shall meet.... *cough cough* Shakespeare? ? I think sooooooooo !!! Yet instead of Huck telling buck or colonel immediately as he should've #socialresponsibility he doesn't think much of it and in the end leads to a shootout amongst the families.

3 comments:

  1. Nice connection with the two families from the ones in Romeo and Juliet. I think though that by Huck deciding to not turn Jim in, he slowly matures through that decision. His making many decisions and mistakes also like not telling Sophia’s father about the note, but I do believe this is a working progress to becoming a better man in the future to come.

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  2. I like the reference to Romeo and Juliet. I never really thought about it that way. I think that if that if anyone else but Jim had been the slave to escape with Huck, he would have turned him in. Jim's kind nature might how gained him freedom. Huck immediately feels comfortable in his presence.

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