All the groups presenting for the Huck and Hash tags project brought up some very relevant and interesting points that recurred throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Here are my thoughts for each individual hash tag.
Out of all of the presentations, Huck’s father, referred to as Pap, came up a lot. Therefore, I will proceed to begin with the hash tag #DaddyIssues. What stood out to me the most in this hash tag was how they related Huck’s problems with his father to the journey that he pursued in the novel. Of course Huck was at a coming of age period of his life, therefore he was bound to try to make some changes or just want change in his life. However, by using his father as a driving force of that change, I felt, was a clever way to put things together. Huck is trying to find him self in this novel and by finding him self he wants to be his own person. By being his own person, he wants to make sure he is not like his father. This is what I got from this group presentation and I cannot agree anymore with what the group is trying to say.
Another hash tag that relates to his father in a way is #FamilyForHuck. Although I do not feel this was Huck’s ultimate goal in the novel, I do believe that to some extent, Huck did crave for a family of his own. Since he did not have a stable relationship with his father, it only made sense for him to want some nurturing from a real family who actually cared about him because at the end of the day he was merely a child. At the end, Jim does end up finding his own family, just like the group pointed out. Jim becomes Huck’s actual family and while it greatly represents the hash tag #FamilyForHuck, I believe this brings us to the bigger picture of Huck making his own decisions and becoming his own person.
A not so positive hash tag would have to #TooGoodTooBeTrue. By saying it is not positive, I don’t mean that the hash tag does not have accuracy, because it does. Through out the novel, it is very evident that nothing ever really goes right. The fact that Huck and Jim’s journey brings them back to square one is the perfect example of that. While Jim tries to escape, he can never escape being a slave by the end of the book. What stood out to me in this presentation was when one of the group members said that this book is a struggle. I definitely agree that this book was a struggle, considering the fact that Huck and Jim were travelling down the Mississippi instead of up. That is just a symbol of things being to good to be true. Huck and Jim have every intention of freeing themselves from their own kinds of oppression, but they never realize the fact that they are just running to them instead of running away from them.
The next hash tag is one that resembles my groups hash tag a lot. It is the hash tag #sivilization. First of all, I thought the name of this hash tag was very creative since it just shows the hypocrisy within it and maybe even moral confusion of what is being civilized in the first place. This group brought up a lot of good points that my group brought up as well such as the people who are religious, but fail to follow certain moral codes, like not having slaves or dehumanizing people through slavery. While this hash tag was very similar to my groups hash tag, it had a lot that our groups hash tag did not. For example, the foreshadow in the beginning structured the entire presentation, sort of like it structured the entire novel. By giving the warning, Twain made the readers take on a moral impartial role. However, as we read the book, we see that the people are nothing but immoral and impartial. Therefore, this foreshadow played a very big role through out the novel and it was something that really tied everything up in my opinion.
