Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Huck Finn Reader Response # 3 (Ch. 14- Ch. 18)

What impressed Huck about the Grangerford’s house is the type of style the house was and how it had no a iron latch but a brass knob instead of a wooden one with buckskin string and the brick of the big fire place were kept clean and red. This says a lot about Hucks view of success and how he would like to live. Huck Finn would like to live in the country and would like to have a nice amount of land. Also would like to have a nice house like the Grangerford’s house and earn a good living.

The books in the house had to do with educating the people about helping yourself to be a better person and how to get relationships with other people. Huck is interested in poetry and other topics he believes to be beautiful and interesting. This says that he probably did not get exposed to that kind of literature before he read some of the books there or that he understands a lot of the poetry and that he pretty smart when it comes to this kind of thing. Mark Twain view of education varies when it come to a selection of topics like literature.

All of the drawings and poems talk about how for example how beautiful some one was before they died and how nobody would be able to hear or see them again. Like in all of her poems she talks about people that are dead and how beautiful they were in some way. The significance of the painting were the girls on a edge of a bridge is how she looks probably relates to how the girl that panted the picture was feeling at the time and she wonted people to see that. It says that she was in a great deal of pain in ether emotionally or physically near her death. She relates the pain near her death to suicide in the picture, the girl seaming that she is going to kill herself in the picture relates the suicide of a way to relief pain. She relates the pain she has to a way to relief it in the picture. Huck probably sees how she felt before she died like I just explained.

By: Patrick Sweeney 3rd 10/24/07

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