last huck finn post woo

hey guys so this is my last huck finn blog yay sorry its so late. i suck. but whatever. so we start to see a huge racial issue when it comes to social responsibility. like when everyone found jim they were all like "omg we need to kill him because he's a runaway slave and he broke the law and we all thought he killed huck even though he's obviously alive". no one ever stops to think like "hey wait, he was with huck the whole time and did not even try to kill the kid. maybe jim isn't so bad after all????" but soon thereafter, once everyone actually starts to make sense of things, they're all like, "Hey wait, even miss watson said jim was a good guy. maybe we shouldn't be calling him all these racial slurs. i mean he did manage to keep himself and a 12-year-old kid safe from the dangers of the world including huck's drunk father. woo he's a hero!!!!!" the people of the town are similar to huck for once. huck has always had this internal conflict of how he should treat jim. and even though he has doubts on whether or not to turn the runaway slave in, he realizes how good of a person jim is and doesn't doom him to a terrible fortune. the town is similar because they were quick to jump to conclusions about the type of person jim is, but all they needed was to be enlightened by huck and they saw that jim was a real human being.

Social Responsibility Chapters 31-35

In chapters 31-35, we witness Huck being almost a completely different person. For once, Huck feels responsible to someone other than his own self. He cares about the girls, and cares about their well being. Up until this point in the book, Huck has only ever truly cared about the well being of Tom Sawyer and Jim. And even with those two, it took a very long time for Huck to develop a relationship with them. With the girls, Huck immediately feels responsible for them. He puts himself in a lot of danger in order to save them from getting their money stolen. It's funny though, because Huck still acts a little selfish. He could've easily come out and told on the duke and the dauphin for pulling the prank, but he is also very worried about himself. He does not want to get caught in the middle of the law and all the drama.

Once Huck and Jim are away from all of this, Huck is back to caring about Jim. He tries to get Tom to help free Jim from getting sold. Huck and Tom's relationship is very interesting. They both feel like they owe something to one another after everything they have been through. Tom breaks what he has always been consistent with - following the law and doing what society tells him to do. For once, Tom breaks that. He doesn't care about his responsibility to society, he is mainly concerned with not only helping Jim, but helping Huck. I really like how much Huck's friendship means to Tom. The two boys are very close and are willing to risk it all.

Social Responsibility Chapters 26-30

So one of the biggest issues Huck has to deal with in these four chapters is what he should do about the $6,000 he is trying to con out of the Wilks family. Originally he is part of a plan with the duke and the dauphin to steal the money from the orphaned girls, but after Huck gets himself involved in a friendship with Mary Jane, he starts to question his actions. Most kids of that time, or any time really, would go and tell the police as soon as they hear about the crime that is to be committed. However, because of Huck's screwed-up upbringing, his social responsibility is skewed. He goes along with the plan, and even when he doubts it , he is not doubting the theft of $6,000 because of the legal issue. He is doubting it because of bhow it will affect the girls. He worries about them, and wants them to be okay. He does not feel right lying to these girls who have taken him in and have treated him with respect and have not even questioned him when he was lying straight through his teeth. Even further, Huck steals in order to not let other people steal, a very odd thing to do. He steals the moeny and puts in the coffin, rather than hiding it somewhere the girls can find easily. When the dauphin and the duke realize what has been done, Huck tries to hide from them. If I were Huck, I honestly would have gone straight to the police. But, Huck being the way he is, he continues to keep away from the legal system.

Social Responsibility Chapters 1-20

Huck's confusion about what his social responsibility is a major theme that is reoccurring throughout the novel. Huck's relationship with Jim is a prime example of this theme.

1. The first time there is an interaction between Huck and Jim is when Huck and Tom sneak up on the slave to pull a prank. As opposed to most people of that time, Huck does not wish to harm Jim at all. He makes sure that Tom does not hurt the innocent man. Tom could care less about the well-being of someone who is so beneath him.

2. Huck and Jim are first reunited when Huck finds Jim on Jackson's Island after both of them have run away from town. They find comfort in each other because both are looking for freedom. Huck doesn't realize how unusual it is that he has such a friendly relationship with a slave. It is especially strange when they trust each other to hide their locations. Most people would have reported to the police immediately after finding a runaway slave, but Huck is different. He wasn't raised with that sort of idea in his brain - in fact, he wasn't really raised at all. Huck can't differentiate between a black and a white when it comes to how to treat them.

3. One of the most interesting points to me is when the pair gets to a town after being on the river and Huck is debating on whether or not to turn Jim in. This is one of the few times when Huck actually considers doing something that society would want him to do. He mulls over it for awhile, but his heart wins over his mind, an intriguing thing that would happen to Huck. I really liked the different outlook that Huck had for a little bit. He ends up not turning Jim in, but the fact that he even considered doing such a thing to his friend is something that can be dissected into many different ideas.

Because Miss Watkins told me to

This is me posting my first blog. I wanna go on a picnic. But I can't. Cuz it's cold. Boo