Makenzee Cleveland English Book review The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, is about an adolescent boy named Huck. Using the shores of the Mississippi River Huck escapes to find freedom. Most of Huck’s life he was raised by a widow who cared for him by providing him with clothes, food, and teaching him how to read and write. Pap, Huck’s drunken father, takes him from the widow because Huck has something Pap wants… Six thousand dollars that Huck got from the treasure he found. Huck soon gets away from his father by faking his death and floating down the Mississippi River.
Watson telling her the whereabouts of “her runaway nigger” and how to get to him. He primarily wrote this note so he could talk with God, however, he tore it up and threw it in the river after deciding that he doesn’t care about the right thing versus the wrong thing and that he just wants to help Jim escape slavery and free his family. He even says, “All right then, I’ll go to hell!” and resolves to “steal Jim out of slavery.” When this is happening, Huck is confused and is mixes his head with his heart and truth with loyalty. After he resolves to save Jim, he feels ready to make
Huck feels torn about giving Jim up, but does not. “What’s the use you learning to do right. “When it’s troublesome to do right and no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same” (Twain 81). Huck does not feel right about hiding Jim, but does not feel right about giving him up either. Ultimately, Huck hides Jim from the slave catchers by leading them to believe he is hiding his sick father with the smallpox under the tent.
He abuses Huck verbally as well as physically and soon shows that he is a brutal drunkard. After his father keeps him locked inside a cabin in the woods, Huck decides to escape and uses a pig’s blood to fake his own death. This act indicates that Huck’s moral development is still at its beginning and that he doesn’t care about the emotions of other people. This attitude will change later when he plays a trick on Jim on the river. But for now, while he is carrying out his plan, he doesn’t even think about what all his friends and family will go through when they hear about his death.
Grandpa Bobby tells his story: some people offered him a job smuggling emeralds from South America, but later double-crossed him, tried to kill him, and stole his beloved fishing boat. Ever since then, he's been trying to track them down and get back his boat. It hurt to think that everyone thought he was dead, but it was necessary. First, he didn't want the guys he was looking for to know he was still alive; second, he also knew that if his son found out, he would, true to form, drop everything and rush down to South America without another thought. Grandpa Bobby was in a bar in a small fishing village in Colombia when he saw Paine's interview on the satellite TV.
When on land, Huck's father, Pap kidnaps Huck in order to keep Huck from being “better [than] him [and to keep Huck from] fooling around [in] school” (19) because he never went to school, illustrating a very poor example of parenting and a closed-minded way of thinking. As a parent, he should want what's best for Huck, wanting him to be civilized and be a decent human being. Like the land, which is physically slow-changing, Pap doesn't want Huck to surpass him. When Huck is imprisoned within the shed, Pap beats him and suppresses him, keeping him unchanged and unable to improve physically or mentally. Huck escapes suppression by fleeing to the river, where he finds his ticket to freedom; “a canoe... riding high like a duck” (30).
The movie is based around a young rapper called Jimmy B-Rabbit Smith, who is stuck a rut and is struggling to make a success of his life. He has been brought up with racial abuse and is surrounded my violence and drugs everyday of his life. He lives with his mum and her boyfriend in a trailer park due to his dead end job. His family doubt this potential and don’t offer him a great deal of support to achieve his dreams. Life does start to look brighter when he meets an old friend called Wink who has contacts who can get Jimmy deal to record a demo of his music that can possibly lead to a rap career.
“The Colfax Massacre” by Leeanna Keith starts off early describing the conditions of which the Red River Valley existed and how Captain Henry Shreve affected it. There was a massive logjam on the river more than 100 miles long. The removal of the jam led way for Shreve to turn the watershed into a highly usable river for steamboats to deliver and make towns along it to become highly profitable. The growth of the Red River plantation in the 1830s represents the surfacing of the cotton and sugar fortune by immigrants from South Carolina, along with the transportation of slaves. An associate of Shreve, Senator William Smith steps into the picture by influencing Shreve on river management and development.
Huck should have told the officials about the runaway slave, Jim, immediately as he found him. Yet throughout the story Huck grows a strong bond with Jim which is unheard of in those times. Jim gets taken and Huck debates on trying to save his friend or let a slave go rightfully. “All right then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 214) This is one of the most powerful statements in the book because its Huck accepting the fact that he is willing to go to give up his immortal spirit in order to help his friend, Jim, and do what is right. Huck completely now views Jim as more than just property, but as a person.
His clothes are tattered and his appearance is not very good since he is a runaway slave without many clothes. He is kind to Huck and acts as a father to him during the trip down the river. His purpose is to gauge the growth of Huck and to cause him to see slaves as people. “... [Jim] would steal his children -- children that belonged to a man ... a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm.” Tom Sawyer - Tom is a friend of Huck. He is a little older than Huck.