I think this book helped me to have a greater understanding of what life was like in the early 1800s. In the adventure of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain demonstrates Huck Finn’s struggles to find freedom.. The aggressive, inebriated father of Huckleberry Finn who forcibly takes his son to live with him at the beginning of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is known as Pap Finn. He never gave huck any chances to get education. He would also ask huck for money to buy alcohol, a father who took advantage of his child. Eventually he tries to fake his own death so he can escape from his drunken father. He runs into Jim, a runaway slave and they escape. Huck and Jim both wanted freedom. The central issue of the work was the struggle between freedom and a civilized society.
Category: Discussions (Page 5 of 13)
To start off, Huckleberry Finn is poor with a drunker bum for a father and something I found interesting was in chapter 5. Tom Sawyer is a friend of Finn and he found a robber stash of gold and gave some to his friend Finn now they got caught and did not try to admit what they did because they believe it will get things worse. For example “Looky here—mind how you talk to me; I’m a-standing about all I can stand now—so don’t gimme no sass. I’ve been in town two days, and I hain’t heard nothing but about you bein’ rich. I heard about it away down the river, too. That’s why I come. You git me that money tomorrow—I want it.” “I hain’t got no money.” “It’s a lie. Judge Thatcher’s got it. You git it. I want it.” “I hain’t got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher; he’ll tell you the same.” This demonstrates that they were hiding information to not reveal what they have done and keep it all to try to become rich in an easy way for better status.
Reading the Gettysburg Address, I found it to be so interesting. I actually didn’t know anything at all about Gettysburg Address. After reading it, I found so many things amusing and I realized the meaning of the Gettysburg Address is that ideals are worth dying for and that it is up to the living to carry on the work of those who died to protect ideals. The ideals of equality and freedom are the bedrock of the United States as a nation. It also talks about how the Gettysburg Address gave meaning to the sacrifice of over fifty thousand men who laid down their lives in the Battle of Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Address declared that the United States had to stand as a country where all men are created equal and should be treated as equals.
Recent Comments