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Post by Mr. Thomas on Jan 7, 2014 18:06:18 GMT -5
Rescuing Jim!
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Post by johnmarano on Jan 7, 2014 19:27:48 GMT -5
John Marano
Mr. Thomas
English 11
7 January 2014
B. I found that Huck making it his mission to find Jim is really the significance of tonights reading. He goes through extremes trying to save Jim. Throughout the whole story, I was skeptical of the relationship between Huck and Jim. At this point, I finally came to a conclusion and noticed that Huck truly does care about Jim. He goes through various extremes including disguising himself in order to buy himself more time to successfully free Jim. He risked getting caught and being sent home. This shows how Huck grew such a strong relationship with a slave. I learned that it wasn’t just a journey to “freedom,” but it was also a discovery. Huck discovered that Jim is so important in his life.
D. In chapter 31, a scene that really stood out to me was when Huck learns of Jim being sold away and he begins to pray. He prays and prays but suddenly comes to a great realization that he’ll do his time in hell. This is quite ironic because from his past history, we know that Huck gave Mrs. Watson a hard time when she tried to teach him to follow his faith. This honestly just comes to show how long Huck came on his journey that he is even believing in God. A quote that Huck said that really interested me was “you can’t pray a lie.” I kind of had maybe a different interpretation of this quote. I think this is so important because it is showing how he is beginning to lose faith and he realizes that he can’t pray for a person who has been enslaved. He also knows that in Southern culture breaking out a slave is a sin. He is not sorry because he wants to save Jim even if it means going against culture. He even reveals that going to hell is worth saving Jim.
E. I kind of laughed at chapter 30 because I enjoyed the way Huck plays his cards. The whole journey its been Huck having to go along with the cons and obey them and whatnot. We are beginning to see a courageous Huck especially with his plan to trick the cons. In chapter 30, Huck manipulates the manipulators and this scene is absolutely great. He literally makes the duke and king fight each other because they are convinced that one is stealing the money. I laughed at this because it is honestly so ironic. They are completely clueless that Huck is tricking them because they feel that Huck is so worthless, well I think so anyway. I really enjoyed how Huck continues to keep a strong head after being threatened by them. Again we see the strength of such a young, independent boy. He finally gets back at them for once.
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Post by matthewchan on Jan 7, 2014 19:47:31 GMT -5
Matthew Chan
Mr. Thomas
English 11
7 January 2014
Ch. 30-32 DB
D. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” is a very important and strong sentence Huck says when he tears up the letter he was suppose to send Miss Watson. He did not care what the consequences were and just went with his conscience. He followed his belief and did what he thought was the right thing to do which is saving Jim. If I was in this situation, I don’t think I would be that brave with myself and be able to do this. I am proud of Huck’s bravery and sincerity towards a slave.
E. I was very shocked that Huck chose to go after and find Jim. The letter would be a good idea as well but it was his conscience that told him to do what was right which was to find Jim himself. This shows that he will do anything to find Jim, even maybe sacrificing himself. This also shows that Huck has grown from the beginning of the book. In the beginning, they were just friends. Maybe now, Huck thinks he is more than a friend. Huck’s maturity has changed a lot and has changed his life as well.
A. Huck has a real sense of bravery in him. He has done a few brave things during his journey but nothing better and greater than this one in this reading. Bravery is something that many people lack because they are scared or worried. I sometimes lack bravery because of the situation but this situation is above and beyond. I am proud of Huck and his way of thinking and doing things.
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Post by danokeefe15 on Jan 7, 2014 20:58:29 GMT -5
Danny O’Keefe
Mr. Thomas
English 11
7 January 2014
C. What still confuses me about these Chapters and the past couple of Chapters is why Huck and Jim didn’t leave the Duke and the Dauphin earlier. Huck knew that these men weren’t good and most of the things that they did bothered him, I don’t understand what took so long and why he had to escape from them, since Huck was the one that found them in the first place.
D. “thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking. And got to thinking over our trip down the river; and I see Jim before me all the time,” this quote stood out to me because it showed me how much Jim means to Huck. Huck has a hard time admitting it and realizing it, but Jim is Huck’s only friend and the only person that he could actually trust.
E. What really stood out to me when reading these chapters was Huck’s reaction to Jim missing and what he was thinking about after he finds out. He talks about Heaven and how what he was doing was wrong so the whole situation was a sign and then he talks about how being friends with Jim is a sin. Then in Chapter 32 when he tells Sally that a slave died in explosion, she replies by saying how lucky he is, which is sick and almost unbelievable.
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Post by Sgarlato on Jan 7, 2014 21:50:21 GMT -5
Stephen Sgarlato
Mr. Thomas
English 11
1/7/14
A. In chapter 31 it Huck thinks that God is punishing him for helping out a slave. I just wanted to point this out because I find it funny how much people actually believed in segregation. Huck actually believes that God, the thing that created everything and everybody, is punishing him for helping someone that God made. It really highlights the dismay and disparaging ideas that existed during this time.
C. I don’t understand why if the Dauphin is such a bad guy then why is he staying around. Like why are the two groups together if they are opposite. The Dauphin and Duke cannot really be trusted so what’s the deal. Maybe they are hooking on to them just to keep a low profile because they are not innocent themselves. So, everyone kind of helps each other not look suspicious.
I. This is kind of like my question but a little different. I think that Jim and Huck haven’t left just yet is because it makes them look less suspicious. Like being in a group looks less suspicious then being in a group of four. My question asked why hasn’t the Dauphin and Duke left Huck and Jim since they are different and don’t have good intentions but not specifically for these two.
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Post by georgebaroudos on Jan 7, 2014 22:39:05 GMT -5
George Baroudos
Mr. Thomas
English 11
7 January 2014
A – Isn’t it hysterical how things pan out. Huck Finn just happens to take over Tom Sawyer’s life in his aunts house. Huck goes from completely clueless to knowing more then he should. Huck asks Providence for the words to come to him and he literally lucked out. He will impersonate his best friend who he knows everything about. Huck literally found luck, he just has to make sure that Tom doesn’t actually show up. Huck is full of quick thinking and impersonations and this betters his journey.
D – “You can’t pray a lie.” (205). That is the God’s honest truth. You can lie straight through your teeth, but God knows. We all have to stay true to ourselves and to God. We can eventually lie in prayer, but we can never expect that to be answered. God is mystery and we never know what to expect. But I believe that he will never answer a lie. Prayer is the best form of exercise in my life and I will always be grateful for it.
I – Society and uprising will always have an effect on people. Every time we make a decision we most likely weigh and measure. Huck contemplates sending the letter, but he’s just weighing his options. What it comes down to is he did the right thing. He stopped thinking and he started listening to what his heart told him to do. This ultimately serves as justification in Huck’s eyes. We are now getting a sense of how deep their friendship goes. Huck goes against what he is taught and he does weigh that option. He does not want to be known as the boy who helped the runaway, but then again I do not think this motivates his decision. Once he goes to Tom’s aunts house he wishes he could free them all. I believe this is a changing point for Huck. We begin to see him slowly escaping societal grips. Huck is developing his own views and starting to see the moral side.
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Post by bourdonm15 on Jan 7, 2014 23:10:13 GMT -5
Matthew Bourdon
Mr. Thomas
English 11
1/7/14
B. We finally see that it was the Duke that sold Jim to slavery and the run around with these two con men continue. “After all this long journey, and after all we’d done for them scoundrels, here it was all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim” (Page 211). Huck should have honestly seen this coming all along due to all of the clues that were given. The poster printed out with a reward for Jim, them leaving Jim in the boat while most of their adventures happened, and the simple fact that they are con artists! Huck comes to realize reality too late when he could’ve saved Jim a long time ago.
E. We now see that Tom is going to enter the story. With much of a coincidence, those that Jim was sold to are the aunt and uncle of Tom Sawyer. “I hain’t no idea. Who is it? It’s Tom Sawyer! By jings, I most slumped through the floor!” (Page 223) This is an important scene as it shows that it makes it easier for Huck to get Jim now because he is owned by the family of one of his best friends, Tom Sawyer. It also is a foreshadowing that Tom is going to now pick up in these next couple of chapters and join in with Huck and Jim.
I. I agree with John Marano’s comment on the relationship between Huck and Jim. As opposed to earlier chapters, Huck thinks of the consequences of situations that involve Jim’s freedom. For example, he didn’t write the letter to Miss Watson cause the consequence would have been her selling Jim to slavery. This shows how much more closer Huck is to Jim and how much more he actually sees him as the human being that he is.
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Post by epoccia on Jan 7, 2014 23:13:32 GMT -5
Eddie Poccia
English 11
Mr. Thomas
7 January 2013
Ch 30-32
You can tell that the old man doesn't have any care at all for Huck. He begins to strangle him out of frustration until the Duke stops him. This makes the reader think that the Duke somewhat cares about Huck but it is later discovered that this is not true.
I was glad to see that Huck and Jim were actually looking to ditch the con artists. I think that they have been with them for far too long and they haven't done anything that benefits Huck and Jim. Their priority is to escape and survive and the con artists seem like more of a burden than help.
The fact that the old man was the one who sold Jim really frustrates me. I guess Huck should have expected some kind of betrayal from two con artists but maybe he wasn't able to realize that it would happen.
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Post by odonnelle on Jan 7, 2014 23:32:28 GMT -5
E.) The king is starting to resemble Pap in more ways than one. Namely, he has no qualms with selling what’s dear to Huck for booze money. He hasn’t gone to the length of physically abusing Huck (yet), but his regard for others is astoundingly low. What’s important, however, is how similar some of their decisions are to Jim and Huck’s, implying that our dual protagonists aren’t so far off from the moral bankruptcy of their companions. Whenever either pair makes a decision worthy of a monologue in the book, it’s never really between the right and the wrong. Even for Jim and Huck, it wasn’t about whether or not stealing was wrong. It was about how much stealing was wrong. The morally wrong thing has already been engrained into their decisions, and that’s a slippery slope. On the other hand, Huck’s growing disdain for the Duke and King is likely the beginning of his maturation from his compulsive lying. Then again, it could just be a disdain for the guys who wronged a cute redhead, which is by no means a disdain that will lead to a more holy Huck.
B.) The past few chapters before this seems to have been set up to foreshadow the conflict of Huck stealing the identity of someone who figures prominently in his life, as it seems Huck and Jim are on their way to returning they started (which, I assume, will also be where this adventure ends). Chapter 32 evidently seems to be bridging the gap for when the old will collide with the new, and characters introduced to us in the beginning will now be side by side with characters introduced since Huck and Jim took off.
C.) Will the kind and duke pop up again? If either of them got the hankering to seek out Huck and Jim, it seems they’ll be traveling forty miles in the wrong direction looking for him. Is Huck finally rid of them?
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Post by rodriguezj15 on Jan 8, 2014 3:48:14 GMT -5
Joel Rodriguez
Mr. Thomas
English 11
January 8, 2014
D. I think the most important line in book is in this chapter. On page 186 Huck says, “All right, then I’ll go to hell.” He says this after he tears up a letter he wrote to Miss Watson about the location of Jim. But after thinking if this was the right thing or not, how Huck usually does, he decides to tear the letter up, so he can actually help Jim escape once and for all. This is the moment where Huck goes against everything he was taught as a child, and decided that he’ll rather go to hell, a place he was taught is the worst place to be, than do what society wants him to do.
E. The duke and dauphin set the bar even lower when they sold Jim in chapter 31. It was noticeable that the worse the duke and dauphin got the better Huck got. But this was the breaking point. This was the moment that Huck realized he can’t be a part of that group. This truly says something about Jim and Huck’s relationship. Once the duke and dauphin really messed with Jim is when Huck retaliated.
I. Is it me or is the river probably a metaphor? To sail on a raft Huck and Jim were probably always going with the current, which is probably can be seen as society and where the phrase “going with the flow” comes from. But when Huck decides to throw away everything corrupted society taught him and helps a slave, he goes against the current.
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Post by scanley73 on Jan 8, 2014 10:50:40 GMT -5
I. To answer Danny’s question, Huck didn’t try to leave until recently because at first he hadn’t realized that he needed to leave. At first he looked up to these guys and wanted to be there. After a while he realized the mistake that he had made. Also, although he found he was sort of ensnared by them I guess you could say in their plots. Once he saw that these guys weren’t good people he knew he had to get away. That’s why he hadn’t tried to leave until recently.
A. When the duke and the king fight it reminds me of me and my friend. We’re good friends and do a lot of stuff together but we fight a lot. It doesn’t even have to be about a serious thing but it will escalate incredibly quickly. Granted our relationship isn’t exactly the same as the king and the duke’s but it does have its similarities. If it is something serious it can get physical but that’s just because we both know the other one can take it. It doesn’t get to the point where we are actually trying to kill each other though like it does with the duke and the king.
C. One thing that I still don’t understand is how Huck can feel sorry for helping Jim. Jim is his friend and someone should never be sorry for helping their friend. Maybe Huck isn’t really a good friend to Jim. I know that if I helped a friend and the consequences were coming back to me I wouldn’t feel bad for helping them.
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Post by michaelannunziata on Jan 8, 2014 11:56:07 GMT -5
Michael Annunziata
Mr. Thomas
English 11
1,8,14
A. this book is getting more and more confusing by the minute. I don’t understand why Huck thinks that he is being punished by god for helping out a slave. I can make a connection to this because one time when I did a good deed for someone but made life worse for another person, anything bad that happened to me I would blame god. But later now wen I look back upon it I realize I was acting stupid and immature just like how Huck s acting at the moment. It just makes no sense because I thought huck was turning into a mature kid but I guess not.
C. one thing that confused me throughout the book is that huck feels sorry for helping out Jim because he was black. I don’t understand why he thinks this because jim was a good friend to him the whole time. Jim and himself were not only friends but they were best friends and they were both there for each other so I don’t know why Huck is thinking this because he couldn’t have asked for a better friend then jim.
B. with that being said one thing that I do like about Huck is that he is doing anything in his ability to help find Jim because of how much jim did for him and how much jim means to him. This puts a smile on my face because I would do the same for jim.
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