Missing Huck Quote Responses

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Pages 35-69:

1. "I was powerful lazy and comfortable- didn't want to get up and cook breakfast."

This quote kind of speaks to the fact that the hard-working Huck, who had just escaped, had a lazy side. Huck usually pushes himself in every possible way to get the job done, but this scene speaks to the fact that Huck does have a side that people can really relate to. Huck says he's feeling lazy after escaping by sawing through a roof and killing a pig, quite contradictory.

2. "Well, I b'lieve you, Huck. I-I run off.
"Jim!"

This is the first sign of Huck questioning Jim's running off, not a second after he found out. If Huck were supportive or just didn't care he might not have reacted as such. Huck continues to struggle with the morality of not turning in Jim, at that time considered the right thing to do. Huck seems to know that if he doesn't tell, he's an accomplice, so he eventually accepts this and accompanies him, still questioning right and wrong along the way.


Pages 71-91
1. "Watchman your grandmother!"

This comes outright and says that Huck knows how to diss someone. This seems to be related to the modern phrase of "your mom," considering he is actually using a female member of a family to ridicule a statement made by someone else. This truly displays Huck's inner rebellious teen, and this comment surely shows his angst.

2. "Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it."

Huck battles here with the opinions of his abusive father and his adoptive widow. Somehow he continues to choose his father's opinions over what seems right, "borrowing" goods withot giving back anything, much less with permission. Huck takes chickens, watermelons, corn, and all kinds of things. However, there is a reason to this, and it is because this food is necessary to keep him and Jim alive, therefore it is wrong in less aspects.


Pages 109-134

1. "He didn't ever have to tell anybody to mind their manners- everybody was good-mannered where he went."

Huck shows respect for high authority figures here, this particular example being Colonel Grangerford. Huck is usually rebellious when it comes to authority figures, but when he meets one that is so high up in the ranks he simply feels inclined to respect him, and it shows in Huck's description of him. Unlike many other people, Huck turns his somewhat bad qualities, like the undeniable anger that he often shows, into good ones.

2. "Well," says he, "dat's all right, den. I doan mine one er two kings, but dat's enough."

I found this Jim quote quite funny, as he says that he doesn't want to meet any more kings because of the already had such an odd experience with them. I'm sure I might react the same way, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't find it funny. Jim seems to have a sense of humor that even he doesn't seem to know of.

Huck Finn Quote Response

1. "I reckoned he beleived in the A-rabs and he elephants, but as for me I think different."

This quote refers to Tom getting his friends together to make a band of robbers, and, more specifically, their greatest heist, stealing diamonds, gold and other valuables. After pulling the heist, which was actually on a group of Sunday School children, Huck tells Tom that he doesn't believe him, and Tom makes a fuss about them only looking like Sunday school kids because wizards made them look like it. This is a clear sign the Huck does not always trust his friend's judgement.


2. "I've seen it in books; and so of course that's what we've got to do."

This quote actually points out that popular culture still influenced people back in the days of Tom Sawyer. He wants to ransom people because they do it in books, whcih can be compared to a modern child wanting to do something because it's in a TV show or movie. It also points out that Tom Sawyer himself, though a leader, can be just as influenced by media as anyone else.

Topic for Essay #2

And The Scott's choice is....:

Essay Topic #3) Look closely at either “Young Goodman Brown” or “The Minister’s Black Veil” and identify the dominant tone (the author’s attitude) of the short story. Then set about answering how Hawthorne goes about achieving this tone. When writing this paper, you may find it helpful to discuss literary devices and techniques such as foreshadowing, irony, figurative language, narrative pace, etc. Please include a number of quotations to back up your answer.

Song of Myself

Quote #1: "The lunatic is carried at last to the asylum a confirm'd case, (He will nevre sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bed-room;)"

This quote has almost no deeper meaning, as it basically comes out and says that it is about an insane criminal being convicted and proven guilty being taken to the asylum. Although there's a lack of deeper meaning, there IS a moral to the story. Th moral is that crime doesn't go unpunished, shown in the line "(He will never sleep any more as he did in the cot in his mother's bedroom;)" which means that he will never have as good living conditions as he did before he commited a crime.

Quote #2: "The past and present wilt - I have fill'd them, emptied them. And proceed to fill my next fold of the future."

This is probably my favorite quote in the book so far, because it's so deep but so understandable. He means what he say, that the past and present do not matter to him, only what the future holds. Yet it is much deeper. It says that Whitman refuses to look back on his past because there's obviously something horrible that he never wants to think about again, and he had to be going through a tough time because he's trying to forget the present as well, and he's looking to the future to stop his sorrow.

Young Goodman Brown Quotes

Quote #1: "With heaven above and Faith below, I will yet stand firm against the devil!"

I think that, though the direct meaning is that he will do what he must to resist the evil that may happen, this quote has a far deeper meaning. I think that, though he is mostly refering to Faith as his wife, he is probably also refering to his supposedly devout religious faith as well. This is also stated when he refers to heaven and Faith together in the same quote.

Quote #2: In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown.

This line, although it has a bit of deeper meaning, basically comes out and states that he is imagining all these horrifying things happening. It says that he is the most frightful thing in the forest not because he is frightfu,l but because there's not actually anything else there. It also means that he is afeared of himself, which was why he was so scared.