Friday, March 28, 2014
3rd blog on Huck Finn :)
Right now in the book, Huck is beginning to have second thoughts about helping out his slave friend Jim. 'But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could have paddled ahead and told somebody.' (Twain, 109). I understand why Huck is feeling this particular way. Back then, it was uncalled for to help a slave, so Huck is going against the way of life back then by helping Jim to freedom. I thought it was so sweet when Jim was talking about saving up money to buy his wife back, then his kids when he gets to a free state. Huck really showed courage when he had to lie to the man who was a skiff that Jim was a white man. 'Well there's five niggers run off to-night ,up younder above the head of the bend. Is your man white or black.' (Twain, 111). He tells the man that he is white so they won't take Jim away. I think that Huck did the right thing by standing up for Jim because they have been traveling for a while together, and he can't lose him! One last thing that was interesting was when they mentioned in the story that slaves cause bad luck. This bad luck led to Huck having the feelings towards why the snake attacked them.
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Nice job Vicky, but keep trying to delve deeper into the literature!
I agree, it is understandable to see why Huck was having thoughts about helping free Jim, it was not common. But, him thinking this made me sad. I felt that he should of been straight forward with Jim, straight off the bat and not second guess during the journey. Yeah, when Jim does talk about his family it is sweet, because he only wants the best for them. Huck was right for defending Jim, to me that showed that he was maturing up and becoming more serious about helping Jim(no second thoughts). I loved how you included the slave bad luck superstition, and one can see why Huck must of thought so after snacks attacked him (to me it was just all in his head).
Nice pointing out that they said slaves are bad luck, it went back to how superstitious Huck is. When you say that "he cant lose him", do you think that Huck sort of depends or relies on Jim? Just because he is older and wiser? Or do you think he just values his company?
I agree that Huch did the right thing by not ratting out Jim. Even though he was still a slave and it kind of went against his values, Huck did the right thing. I also liked how you mentioned his family. When I was reading and Jim said he ran away leaving his family behind so he wouldn't get sold, i thought it didn't make sense. But it was sweet how his goal is to buy them freedom at one point.
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