Category Archives: Personal Entry #4

Journal #8: Violence in Huck Finn

There has been a great deal of violence in the Huckleberry Finn novel.  The first significant violent act was when Huck’s Pa chased him around their hiding spot in the woods.  This domestic violence is typical for Huck when his … Continue reading

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Journal #7

1. Huck has a habit of forgetting his alias when he is lying. Huck doesn’t feel comfortable with the king and duke’s plan to rob the three orphan girls. We see that through his conversation with the hare lip girl, … Continue reading

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Journal #10

Within the chapters I have read, in Huckfinn, there already has been dozens of memorable parts.  Out of all of them my favorite scene would have to be when Huck met the Grangerford family. I believe the introduction of the … Continue reading

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Journal Entry #6, Personal entry #4

Twain delievers a powerful message with his opening notice. He wants the reader to take the novel on it’s merits. Perhaps because it is almost impossible to refrain yourself from analyzing a story, he goes to extreme lengths with violent … Continue reading

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Journal#8

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain portrays many violent acts. Author uses Huck Finn’s point of view to reveal the dark sides of human nature in the society. First of all, the children in the novel were not … Continue reading

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Journal 6, Pesonal Entry 4, HTRG

At the beginning of the book, Gen G, Grant wrote a notice about for the book that states persons attempting to find a motive in it[ Huck Finn] will be prosecuted; Persons attempting to find a moral in it will be … Continue reading

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Personal Entry #4, Journal Entry #7 by Shumana Ashique

I would just like to start off by saying that I’ve read this book once before in an academic setting, but there are still new things that I have been noticing in this book. Granted that I wouldn’t be able … Continue reading

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Three Thoughts: Huck and Jim’s Relationship

Jim and Huck’s relationship is very unique in my eyes. Jim is a black man in a society set prior to the Civil War. He is considered to be the lowest kind of human being during this time. He is … Continue reading

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Journal #5

We were born in an age of information and technology. That is, we are born with our digital responsibility as well. I think the responsibility of our digital citizenship is quite similar with the social citizenship responsibility. For me, as … Continue reading

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What Violence in Huckleberry Finn means So Far

I must be perfectly honest here – we are given no concrete meaning of the violence so far.  I have a few guesses, but they are grounded in the fact that they have been senseless! The two great acts of … Continue reading

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