TEWWG Thesis 1

The way that men and women go about achieving there goals in this book is vastly different, thus making the two sexes distinct.

TEWWG ER 2

In chapter 10 Janie was surprised that Tea Cake wanted her to play checkers. In the passage it describes her looking him over then her getting the chills through her body. This is a new moment for Janie for she has not been able to experience freedom until the death of her late husband. With this newfound freedom she is able to experience it with another man too. Also in the American society the game of checkers is thought of to be a game play be old wise men thus making it manly. And for a woman to play the game it seems to break the barriers of the society. The fact that a man actually wants her to play and is willing to spend the time teaching her is extraordinary to her too. For this book is set in a time where meal dominance is popular in the American society.

TEWWG ER 1

Janie first dream was to fall in love when she got married for she felt love for her husband would automatically come from the marriage. But this was not true for she came to the realization that she does not like her husband and she left him. And she pursues her dream of marring Jody. This is the time that Janie becomes a woman for she is starting to pursue her dreams now. And this references back in the first chapter of the book when it states the different ways man and women pressure their dreams. With the aggressiveness of her perusal of her dreams by leaving her husband it is a coming of age event in her life.

TEWWG RQ 1

This quote shows the difference between men and women in how they interact with their aspirations. For it describes men as very passive in pursuing their aspirations and women very aggressive in their pursuit in their of their goals. In the way it describes men as watching their dreams like watching a ship on the horizon it shows in the quote that men are not aggressive, how it depicts their dreams that may come in on the tide, also shows the men have no doing in acquiring their dreams. Then the quote goes on to say that women “act and do things accordingly” thus showing that they are aggressive in their journey to acquire their dreams. This is relevant to the story in that it is foreshadowing for it is forecasting the events that are happen in the chapters 1 and 2. For instance the event where the grandmother does not want her grand daughter to marry a man that will not treat her with respect and how the grandmother wants her daughter to marry some one that will respect her. The events and the ideas that lead up to that dream is true to the quote. For it showed the aggressiveness of the grandmother to keep her grand daughter away from harm.

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“ ‘Good-bye, sir,’ say I; “I won’t let no runaway niggers get by me if I can help it.” Twain 96

In this passage it is a great source of irony that resides in this chapter of the Adventures of Hucklberry Finn. This is irony because Huck says that he will not let any run away slaves get by him when at the same time he is aiding a slave to escape the south. This is also ironic in that his conscience is telling him that it is wrong to help a run away slave to freedom when he really is helping a runaway slave obtain freedom and at the same time he is saying that he will not allow any runaway slaves get to their freedom.

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“ I had forgot my name was… and when Buck waked up I says:
‘Can you spell, Buck?’
‘ Yes,’ he says
‘I bet you can’t spell my name,’ says I…
‘G-e-o-r-g-e J-a-x-o-n – there now’ he says.
Twain 104

This passage shows Huck’s cleverness that gets him out of trouble for time to time. For if he had forgotten his name then the family he was staying with would figure out that it was a fake name and that he was telling a lie from all along. Thus by having the family figure out that he is a fraud he might be expelled from the house. His cleverness also came in handy when he was talking to the two men on the boat about who was on the raft, when Huck did not want the men looking in the raft and finding Jim. His Cleverness came in hand in that he played a game with the men to make them think his father had small pox, by doing this he gain forty dollars.

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Page 15
“I didn’t need anybody to tell me that that was awful bad sign and would fetch me some dad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time; and then I tried up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away.”

This quote shoes the narrator immense superstition, for earlier in the book Finn killed a spider flicking it into a flame and this is where this quote derives from. The ritual shows the fact that he has a planned system of superstition. The fact that he mentions a witch shows that he has the same superstition that of the slaves he lives with. Thus quote also relieved that Finn works with a luck based system. It also show that Finn is religious this is apparent when he crosses his crest.