Julia Nail pages 1-100 Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, two young boys living near the Mississippi River pre- Civil war, found a cave with treasure and make $6,000 each, received over a period of time by Judge Thatcher. After Huck became wealthy, the Widow Douglas took him into her house to raise him properly and to ‘civilize’ him. Huck was taught about God and learned proper manners. Miss Watson, the widow’s sister, homeschooled Huck. Huck reveals that he is slightly superstitious. Huck meets up with Tom late at night, and barely sneak out past Miss Watson’s black slave, Jim, who is infatuated by magic. Tom and Huck meet up with some other boys, and they start the Tom Sawyer Gang, a band of ‘robbers’ and ‘murderers’ and overall rabble-rousers. However, this gang was all talk and no action. Four months later, Huck was in school, and had learned how to read, write, multiply numbers. He visits Judge Thatcher to claim some of his fortune. Instead, Huck ends up giving the judge his entire fortune. Jim claims he has a magic hairball, and Huck gave him a counterfeit quarter to make it talk. It prophesied about Huck’s father. When Huck goes up to his bedroom, his father is there, waiting for him. Huck’s abusive father is an alcoholic, who picks on Huck out of jealousy because he thinks Huck is better than him because of his nice clothes and his new literacy. Huck’s father, Pap, steals a dollar off of Huck and uses it to buy alcohol. Pap goes to Judge Thatcher, drunk, to claim Huck’s money, which the judge refuses to give to him, and Pap sues Judge Thatcher, taking the matter to court. Pap forbids Huck from attending school, but Huck continues. Pap kidnaps Huck, and keeps him in a cabin by the river. In the cabin, Huck is locked up and abused by his drunk father. Eventually, he finds a saw and escapes. Huck finds an abandoned canoe and puts the supplies from the cabin in the canoe. He grabs Pap’s shotgun, shoots and kills a pig, then drags the pig into the river to make it look as though Huck had been murdered. Then, he escapes down the river and lands at a Jackson’s Island, hiding. Bread with mercury is sent out on the river to find Huck’s body. A loaf of bread floats over to Huck, and he eats it. The island is filled with abundant berries and fish. After a few days, Huck runs into Jim, who escaped, a fugitive slave. He ran away from Miss Watson because he overheard her talking about selling him for $800. They stick around the island together and find a cave. Jim is very superstitious and is bitten by a rattlesnake when Huck puts a dead snake in Jim’s bed. They discover an abandoned house with a dead man inside, and loot it. There are women’s clothes in it. Huck goes to the mainland, dressed as a girl in hopes to acquire information. The woman he talks to for information catches Huck’s secret, and eventually discovers that he is really a boy. She noticed smoke coming from Jackson’s Island, and she told Huck that she was going to alert her husband to investigate. Huck realizes that he and Jim need to leave. They travel down the river at nights, hiding during the day. They come upon a shipwreck, with two robbers and a victim in a boat. Huck tells the ferry watchman, pretending that his family is on the boat and they are wealthy. The watchman investigates, and Huck and Jim continue down the river in the robber’s boat, which contained the loot from the shipwreck. On a foggy night, the duo become separated, and Huck tries to convince Jim, who was asleep at the time, that he dreamed up the entire thing. Eventually, Huck, a white boy, apologizes to Jim, a black slave, which was very humbling. Jim becomes very excited because they are close to Cairo, a river leading to the free states. Jim is looking to make it to a free state so that he can be a free black. Jim dreams of saving enough money so that he can purchase his wife, also a slave, and their children, and they can be free. Jim is grateful that Huck helped him escape slavery. Huck is not happy about Jim’s plans.
Pg. 100-125 Huck was going to give up Jim on their way to Cairo, his conscience kept on telling him the “right thing” to do. He was so closed to give Jim up but his heart got softened every time when he hears Jim calling him “his only friend that has kept a promise to him.” They encounter some men searching for escaped slaves. Huck tricks them into thinking his family in the raft s suffering miserably from smallpox. The men believed him and even gave him forty dollars in gold. Huck’s conscience kicked in again. After struggling internally and fighting with what society believes is “right” (Slavery) and what he thinks is right (Equality). Huck decided to do what’s handiest next time he encounters conflicts. Another foggy night, their canoe got stolen. Steamboat collided with the raft. Jim and Huck were separated, once again. In chapter 17, The appearance of a new character made the story more interesting because he saved Huck (who goes by George Jackson now, sneaky sneaky)’s life after him being viciously attacked by a pact of dogs. Once again, he had lied about his past as an “orphan”. and weirdly enough, he’s been questioned his identity once again but not because the family that so welcomely invited him in thought he was “Huckleberry FInn” but because he was suspected to be a part of the Shepherdsons family. Buck, a boy in Huck’s age, aggressively said he would have killed a Shepherdsons if there were any present, meanwhile Huck enjoys †he family warmth and kindness (and their generous offering of food and dried clothes) and the accompaniment of Emmeline Grangerford, the daughter of this family. Grangerfords said that Huck can stay with them starting from now on.
Chapter 27: Have you ever just wanted money so bad that you would have done anything for it? Well that is what happens to Huck when he steals $6,000 worth of gold from the duke and dauphin to return it to the Wilks sisters, and he ends up hiding the money in their deceased father, Peter Wilks’, coffin. To Huck’s luck, the coffin is sealed while he is not paying attention, and he worries that he will never be able to get the money back. Later, the duke and dauphin get busy selling off the Wilks’ estate and slaves to keep the proceeds for themselves. Also, Twain describes the heartbreaking scene of the slave family being split up after the duke and dauphin auction them off.
Chapter 28: The day after their father’s funeral and the slave auction, Huck finds one of the Wilks sisters crying. In order to console her, Huck explains that the slave family will soon be reunited, but he then realizes he must divulge the truth about the duke and dauphin; however, Huck keeps Jim’s identity and secret and still makes the Wilks sisters promise to be quiet. Conflict arises later that day though, when the two men the duke and the dauphin were posing as show up.
Chapter 29: When the real Wilks brothers make an appearance to claim their property, they cause quite an uproar throughout the town. Doctor Robinson attempts to settle the matter by simply claiming that the duke and dauphin are frauds. Each pair goes through a series of tests to prove whether or not they are really Peter Wilks’ brothers, which ends up in the exhumation of his coffin. In the excitement of discovering the gold, Huck, the duke, and the dauphin all manage to escape.
Chapter 30: Obviously at this point, the dauphin is livid about Huck exposing and trying to abandon him, which escalates into the dauphin attempting to strangle Huck. The duke however, comes to Huck’s rescue. Once they settled their problems with Huck though, the duke and the dauphin accuse each other of hiding the gold in the coffin, but they quickly settle the quarrel.
Chapter 31: As they are traveling down the river, the duke and dauphin begin to secret conversations in front of Huck and Jim, which worries them. One night, all of the group goes ashore besides Jim, and when Huck comes back, Jim has disappeared. A bystander tells Huck that a man took Jim because he recognized him from a runaway slave poster, but Huck quickly realizes it is the dauphin that sold Jim. At this point, Huck is faced with a tough choice, either write to Miss Watson describing Jim’s whereabouts, or have the story get out that he helped a fugitive slave. Huck eventually decides to take matters into his own hands and search for Jim, whose location is accidentally revealed when he runs into the duke.
Summary: The plot thickens in pages 235-300 of Huckleberry Finn, but the main characters are largely just thickening a non-existent plot. First, the duke and the king sell Jim back into slavery in their attempts to get money, and it forces Huck to face the moral dilemma of whether to save Jim by returning him to Miss Watson (what he believes to be the morally right thing, as Jim is considered property at this time period). Finn finally decides that even if he is doing the wrong thing, he won’t sell Jim back into slavery, but instead will help him escape and gain freedom. He goes to Silas Phelp, who has Jim in captivity to be sold. Finn pretends to be Tom Sawyer, the Phelp’s nephew, and when Sawyer himself arrives he pretends to be his own brother. The real Tom Sawyer wants to add finesse in their plan to help Jim escape, and so the two plan several intricate schemes to mimic a prison escape, even though they could have easily escaped with Jim through the window they used to enter the shed. This includes sneaking Jim a rope, spoons, tin pans, and other materials--which the Phelps notice go missing in the house. At one point, Tom even suggests putting snakes in the shed so Jim can befriend them like a true prisoner would, but Jim fiercely protests, and the snakes get loose in the Phelp's house on accident.
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Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, two young boys living near the Mississippi River pre- Civil war, found a cave with treasure and make $6,000 each, received over a period of time by Judge Thatcher. After Huck became wealthy, the Widow Douglas took him into her house to raise him properly and to ‘civilize’ him. Huck was taught about God and learned proper manners. Miss Watson, the widow’s sister, homeschooled Huck. Huck reveals that he is slightly superstitious. Huck meets up with Tom late at night, and barely sneak out past Miss Watson’s black slave, Jim, who is infatuated by magic. Tom and Huck meet up with some other boys, and they start the Tom Sawyer Gang, a band of ‘robbers’ and ‘murderers’ and overall rabble-rousers. However, this gang was all talk and no action.
Four months later, Huck was in school, and had learned how to read, write, multiply numbers. He visits Judge Thatcher to claim some of his fortune. Instead, Huck ends up giving the judge his entire fortune. Jim claims he has a magic hairball, and Huck gave him a counterfeit quarter to make it talk. It prophesied about Huck’s father.
When Huck goes up to his bedroom, his father is there, waiting for him. Huck’s abusive father is an alcoholic, who picks on Huck out of jealousy because he thinks Huck is better than him because of his nice clothes and his new literacy. Huck’s father, Pap, steals a dollar off of Huck and uses it to buy alcohol. Pap goes to Judge Thatcher, drunk, to claim Huck’s money, which the judge refuses to give to him, and Pap sues Judge Thatcher, taking the matter to court. Pap forbids Huck from attending school, but Huck continues. Pap kidnaps Huck, and keeps him in a cabin by the river. In the cabin, Huck is locked up and abused by his drunk father.
Eventually, he finds a saw and escapes. Huck finds an abandoned canoe and puts the supplies from the cabin in the canoe. He grabs Pap’s shotgun, shoots and kills a pig, then drags the pig into the river to make it look as though Huck had been murdered. Then, he escapes down the river and lands at a Jackson’s Island, hiding. Bread with mercury is sent out on the river to find Huck’s body. A loaf of bread floats over to Huck, and he eats it. The island is filled with abundant berries and fish. After a few days, Huck runs into Jim, who escaped, a fugitive slave. He ran away from Miss Watson because he overheard her talking about selling him for $800. They stick around the island together and find a cave. Jim is very superstitious and is bitten by a rattlesnake when Huck puts a dead snake in Jim’s bed.
They discover an abandoned house with a dead man inside, and loot it. There are women’s clothes in it. Huck goes to the mainland, dressed as a girl in hopes to acquire information. The woman he talks to for information catches Huck’s secret, and eventually discovers that he is really a boy. She noticed smoke coming from Jackson’s Island, and she told Huck that she was going to alert her husband to investigate. Huck realizes that he and Jim need to leave. They travel down the river at nights, hiding during the day.
They come upon a shipwreck, with two robbers and a victim in a boat. Huck tells the ferry watchman, pretending that his family is on the boat and they are wealthy. The watchman investigates, and Huck and Jim continue down the river in the robber’s boat, which contained the loot from the shipwreck.
On a foggy night, the duo become separated, and Huck tries to convince Jim, who was asleep at the time, that he dreamed up the entire thing. Eventually, Huck, a white boy, apologizes to Jim, a black slave, which was very humbling. Jim becomes very excited because they are close to Cairo, a river leading to the free states. Jim is looking to make it to a free state so that he can be a free black. Jim dreams of saving enough money so that he can purchase his wife, also a slave, and their children, and they can be free. Jim is grateful that Huck helped him escape slavery. Huck is not happy about Jim’s plans.
Pg. 100-125
ReplyDeleteHuck was going to give up Jim on their way to Cairo, his conscience kept on telling him the “right thing” to do. He was so closed to give Jim up but his heart got softened every time when he hears Jim calling him “his only friend that has kept a promise to him.” They encounter some men searching for escaped slaves. Huck tricks them into thinking his family in the raft s suffering miserably from smallpox. The men believed him and even gave him forty dollars in gold. Huck’s conscience kicked in again. After struggling internally and fighting with what society believes is “right” (Slavery) and what he thinks is right (Equality). Huck decided to do what’s handiest next time he encounters conflicts. Another foggy night, their canoe got stolen. Steamboat collided with the raft. Jim and Huck were separated, once again. In chapter 17, The appearance of a new character made the story more interesting because he saved Huck (who goes by George Jackson now, sneaky sneaky)’s life after him being viciously attacked by a pact of dogs. Once again, he had lied about his past as an “orphan”. and weirdly enough, he’s been questioned his identity once again but not because the family that so welcomely invited him in thought he was “Huckleberry FInn” but because he was suspected to be a part of the Shepherdsons family. Buck, a boy in Huck’s age, aggressively said he would have killed a Shepherdsons if there were any present, meanwhile Huck enjoys †he family warmth and kindness (and their generous offering of food and dried clothes) and the accompaniment of Emmeline Grangerford, the daughter of this family. Grangerfords said that Huck can stay with them starting from now on.
Pages 200-235
ReplyDeleteChapter 27: Have you ever just wanted money so bad that you would have done anything for it? Well that is what happens to Huck when he steals $6,000 worth of gold from the duke and dauphin to return it to the Wilks sisters, and he ends up hiding the money in their deceased father, Peter Wilks’, coffin. To Huck’s luck, the coffin is sealed while he is not paying attention, and he worries that he will never be able to get the money back. Later, the duke and dauphin get busy selling off the Wilks’ estate and slaves to keep the proceeds for themselves. Also, Twain describes the heartbreaking scene of the slave family being split up after the duke and dauphin auction them off.
Chapter 28: The day after their father’s funeral and the slave auction, Huck finds one of the Wilks sisters crying. In order to console her, Huck explains that the slave family will soon be reunited, but he then realizes he must divulge the truth about the duke and dauphin; however, Huck keeps Jim’s identity and secret and still makes the Wilks sisters promise to be quiet. Conflict arises later that day though, when the two men the duke and the dauphin were posing as show up.
Chapter 29: When the real Wilks brothers make an appearance to claim their property, they cause quite an uproar throughout the town. Doctor Robinson attempts to settle the matter by simply claiming that the duke and dauphin are frauds. Each pair goes through a series of tests to prove whether or not they are really Peter Wilks’ brothers, which ends up in the exhumation of his coffin. In the excitement of discovering the gold, Huck, the duke, and the dauphin all manage to escape.
Chapter 30: Obviously at this point, the dauphin is livid about Huck exposing and trying to abandon him, which escalates into the dauphin attempting to strangle Huck. The duke however, comes to Huck’s rescue. Once they settled their problems with Huck though, the duke and the dauphin accuse each other of hiding the gold in the coffin, but they quickly settle the quarrel.
Chapter 31: As they are traveling down the river, the duke and dauphin begin to secret conversations in front of Huck and Jim, which worries them. One night, all of the group goes ashore besides Jim, and when Huck comes back, Jim has disappeared. A bystander tells Huck that a man took Jim because he recognized him from a runaway slave poster, but Huck quickly realizes it is the dauphin that sold Jim. At this point, Huck is faced with a tough choice, either write to Miss Watson describing Jim’s whereabouts, or have the story get out that he helped a fugitive slave. Huck eventually decides to take matters into his own hands and search for Jim, whose location is accidentally revealed when he runs into the duke.
Summary: The plot thickens in pages 235-300 of Huckleberry Finn, but the main characters are largely just thickening a non-existent plot. First, the duke and the king sell Jim back into slavery in their attempts to get money, and it forces Huck to face the moral dilemma of whether to save Jim by returning him to Miss Watson (what he believes to be the morally right thing, as Jim is considered property at this time period). Finn finally decides that even if he is doing the wrong thing, he won’t sell Jim back into slavery, but instead will help him escape and gain freedom. He goes to Silas Phelp, who has Jim in captivity to be sold. Finn pretends to be Tom Sawyer, the Phelp’s nephew, and when Sawyer himself arrives he pretends to be his own brother. The real Tom Sawyer wants to add finesse in their plan to help Jim escape, and so the two plan several intricate schemes to mimic a prison escape, even though they could have easily escaped with Jim through the window they used to enter the shed. This includes sneaking Jim a rope, spoons, tin pans, and other materials--which the Phelps notice go missing in the house. At one point, Tom even suggests putting snakes in the shed so Jim can befriend them like a true prisoner would, but Jim fiercely protests, and the snakes get loose in the Phelp's house on accident.
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