“ ‘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.
Friday, October 26, 2007
AHF QR 5
“ 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.
‘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.
Monday, October 15, 2007
AHF QR 2
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.
“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.
AHF QR 1
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Page 31-32
“I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say- can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t?
In this quote you can see the power of education for the father feels inferior to his son how has and education and the father does not. By him say to his son he is going to knock him down a “peg” this shows that there is a son father hierarchy, and Finn is moving up in the hierarchy by getting an education. Latter on in the story the Finn’s father tells him to quite school or he will be beat, this shows how scared his father is of his son getting an education. For his son can use the education to his advantage and intellectually beat him.
“I’ll take you down a peg before I get done with you. You’re educated, too, they say- can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t?
In this quote you can see the power of education for the father feels inferior to his son how has and education and the father does not. By him say to his son he is going to knock him down a “peg” this shows that there is a son father hierarchy, and Finn is moving up in the hierarchy by getting an education. Latter on in the story the Finn’s father tells him to quite school or he will be beat, this shows how scared his father is of his son getting an education. For his son can use the education to his advantage and intellectually beat him.
Monday, October 8, 2007
E Dickinson
Throughout these poems Emily Dickinson speaks a lot about nature, though she does not have a kind relationship with it as you can see in this quote, “I dear not meet the daffodils, For fear their yellow grown Would pierce me with a fashion So foreign to my own.” (Emily Dickinson XIV In Shadows). The fact that she fears nature is the exact opposite of transcendentalist ways. For to a transcendentalist nature is inherently good and one cannot fear something that is good in nature. Dickinson in XIV states that she wishes bears and bees would stay away and this is part of nature and if she wants nature to stay way then she is not “awake”. In the poem XX she discuses her self drinking and this would probably be considered part of society, and transcendentalist consider society bad. From the facts given it is obvious that Dickinson is not a transcendentalist.
Sunday, October 7, 2007
Quote Responce
“Songs Of Myself 52” by Walt Whitman
“Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
After reading this it might be confusing, but after taking sometime with this quote it seemed to be a metaphor. This quote might mean to never give up your dreams, for when “Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged” is said it might mean one might fail to achieve there dreams at first but they must keep optimism. Then when “Missing me one place search another” is said it might mean that you might not gain your dream by doing one thing you might have to change up your routine. When the last part of this quote is said it means that your dream will never stop being there you will always be able achieve it.
“Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.”
After reading this it might be confusing, but after taking sometime with this quote it seemed to be a metaphor. This quote might mean to never give up your dreams, for when “Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged” is said it might mean one might fail to achieve there dreams at first but they must keep optimism. Then when “Missing me one place search another” is said it might mean that you might not gain your dream by doing one thing you might have to change up your routine. When the last part of this quote is said it means that your dream will never stop being there you will always be able achieve it.
Quote Responce
“Songs Of Myself 15” by Walt Whitman
“The married and the unmarried children ride home to thanksgiving dinner…the duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches… Off on the likes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface.”
These quotes were taken form different parts of this passage, these extracts were chosen for it gives the reader at perspective of what is really going on in this story. Seeing that this story is a bunch of snippets of what people are doing it was hard to figure out what was going on. But these excerpts were taken form the begging and the end of the story and they show a progression. The first two snippets of what people are doing are form the beginning of the story and it is talking about the hunting season and the thanksgiving. Then the next snippet is form the end of the story and this one speaks about ice fishing. Form this one can infer that ice fishing only happen when lakes and completely frozen over and this only happens in the dead of winter. So because ice fishing only happens in the dead of winter and thanksgiving takes place in the fall there is a time progression in this story.
“The married and the unmarried children ride home to thanksgiving dinner…the duck-shooter walks by silent and cautious stretches… Off on the likes the pike-fisher watches and waits by the hole in the frozen surface.”
These quotes were taken form different parts of this passage, these extracts were chosen for it gives the reader at perspective of what is really going on in this story. Seeing that this story is a bunch of snippets of what people are doing it was hard to figure out what was going on. But these excerpts were taken form the begging and the end of the story and they show a progression. The first two snippets of what people are doing are form the beginning of the story and it is talking about the hunting season and the thanksgiving. Then the next snippet is form the end of the story and this one speaks about ice fishing. Form this one can infer that ice fishing only happen when lakes and completely frozen over and this only happens in the dead of winter. So because ice fishing only happens in the dead of winter and thanksgiving takes place in the fall there is a time progression in this story.
Thursday, October 4, 2007
Responce
“The Minister’s Black Vail A Parable” Nathanial Hawthorne Page 58
“ ‘The is an hour to come,’ said her, ‘ when all of us shall cast aside our veils.”
What is said here is a metaphor for people the walk around and have metaphorical mask that hide there in emotions for the public, where veil is the metaphor for mask. What he is saying in this quotation is that there will be a day when people take off that metaphorical mask. When people take off that metaphorical mask then no one will have anything to hide. This is relevant to the story in that he where’s a veil to express to people physically that they all wear veils that hide their inner thoughts and emotions. In the grand scheme people should were veils for if the world was open then we all would have nothing to hide thus destroying the element of surprise.
“ ‘The is an hour to come,’ said her, ‘ when all of us shall cast aside our veils.”
What is said here is a metaphor for people the walk around and have metaphorical mask that hide there in emotions for the public, where veil is the metaphor for mask. What he is saying in this quotation is that there will be a day when people take off that metaphorical mask. When people take off that metaphorical mask then no one will have anything to hide. This is relevant to the story in that he where’s a veil to express to people physically that they all wear veils that hide their inner thoughts and emotions. In the grand scheme people should were veils for if the world was open then we all would have nothing to hide thus destroying the element of surprise.
Responce
“The Minister’s Black Vail A Parable” Nathanial Hawthorne Page 57
“As his plighted wife, it should be he privilege to know what the black veil concealed.”
This too was a metaphor for it really means his wife should be his confidant. Thus by being his close friend she should know his deepest secrets that he hides behind his veil. In medieval times the queen was thought of to be the most trust person to the king and in this case his wife is. But his wife does not even know his secrets consequently there is a disconnect between him and his wife. His wife never gets the privilege to know he is hiding and she eventually leaves him. This is very common in most relationships for the woman really always want to know what ails her mate and sometimes the man is not man enough to tell her and she leaves him.
“As his plighted wife, it should be he privilege to know what the black veil concealed.”
This too was a metaphor for it really means his wife should be his confidant. Thus by being his close friend she should know his deepest secrets that he hides behind his veil. In medieval times the queen was thought of to be the most trust person to the king and in this case his wife is. But his wife does not even know his secrets consequently there is a disconnect between him and his wife. His wife never gets the privilege to know he is hiding and she eventually leaves him. This is very common in most relationships for the woman really always want to know what ails her mate and sometimes the man is not man enough to tell her and she leaves him.
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