So I think its safe to say the Huckster B-) has found his place in society.... sort of .... -.-... at first as we read he is kidnapped by his dad if that even makes sense. With "good" ol' Pap Huck becomes a whole different person, as pap trys to pretend to care about Huck. Claiming the government screwed the family over. "Call this a govment? why just look at it and see what its like. Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him -" then tries to make it sound like he is owed for raising huck, "Yes just as that man has got that son raised and ready to go work and begin to do suthin' for HIM and give him a rest , the law up and goes for him. And the call that govment!" Huck(Paul) slowly forgets all of his manners and ways of being a common school boy that Miss Watson (miss wats) teaches him. He turns into the down and dirty (James brown) huckleberry. He becomes his own man. Besides, who wouldnt when your dad constantly brings you down and tries to kill you in a hallucination!!?? Lol I was laughing so hard imagining it xD. In all seriousness this chapter was a big step for Huck and really opened up the story.
Chapters 7-10 Finn stages his own death. Killing a pig (HOW COULD HE?? #RipPig) as part of his devised plan he manages to throw the towns people off and escape via canoe. After landing on Jackson island, Huck travels and finds the brehh Jim(my Neutron) aka the man who has "handled witches" speaking about his loss of money and luck and admits he too has escaped. Next jim tells huck about a dead man he encountered and they go to the house in which his supplies are located. While there, both of them deal with these "snake related probzz". After a few days, jim heals up but prior he acts as the superstitious omen he apparently is and talks of bad luck coming. With Huckster short attention span he takes his self freedom a decides to see what's happening in the town dressing up as the lady he is hehehe. From all of this, Huck is now being influenced by Jim. Slowly buying into his superstitious ways. Huck is fitting in to Jim's society otherwise "becoming a social responsibility" for jim. Do you think Jim is an Omen? Is Huck really gonna be like Jim? Will the people find him?
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Saturday, March 22, 2014
Huck Finn 6-10 Social Responsibilitaaayyy
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As an adult, even though he is a runaway slave, does Jim have a responsibility to society to look after Huck?
ReplyDeleteWhen Jim and Huck encounter the dead man usually they would have the social responsibility to report to to the authorities. But of course they can't because they are on the run. Since there was a dead man then that must mean that there is a killer on the loose. It's possible that it could be a foreshadowing of something that is going to happen to Huck and Jim for example maybe they'll come across the person who killed the man but it could also just be a small part of the story.
ReplyDeleteI felt that in these chapters Huck did not find his place in society, but rather reject the two places that began to accept him. By rejecting these parts of society he can begin to find his own place based on social responsibility, but I felt that in this part of the book Huck was rejecting society and his social responsibilities.
ReplyDeleteI read your blogs and I always get a kick out of them for their lack of formality and use of slang. Kudos for making me laugh. Back to Huck Finn, I think there was plenty social responsibility in these chapters. For starters, I think Huck escaping was in its own way a form of social responsibility. If anything this responsibility was to himself as he got out of an abusive situation. I believe if he had stayed it would have otherwise escalated into something far more abusive and controlling. Huck took control of his life when the people he depended on (The widow, Judge thatcher) were unable to rescue him. I think he's on his way to finding his own place in society without the help of anyone.
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