Seventh Huck Finn response

What I make of the last chapter is that The end is more of the beggining for all of them. Jim is free, Huck is able to get back his money and live his life without worry of his father finding and hurting him. I truly like the last chapter because it sums up the book, and gives Huck and Jim a new chance in life,a great ending indeed!

Sixth Huck Finn response

The way that Huck starts treating Jim now is more of respect and care, for he has to protect his friend even when Jim is a run away slave. The interesting part is that to actually save Jim he had to act horrible to Jim, so that noone would suspect Huck of wanting to rescue, or even be nice to Jim.

Fifth Huck Finn Response

"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another". When Huck said this, I believe he was talking about when the two Idiots, The King and Duke, getting tarred and feathered following that by getting chased out of town. One of my all time favorite parts of the book I do say. What I believe Mark Twain meant for Huck to say that, even though we aren't supposed to find the point says Twain, that Huck, a mischief maker, still believes that Human beings can be too cruel to one another, showing once again another interesting side of Huck.

Fouth Huck Finn Response

What Huck decides to do about Jim was one of the most appalling moments in the story for me. Huck wanted to tell Miss Watson about Jim and give him back to her.He wanted to because he felt like during his whole trip with Jim that there was nothing illegal about them just traveling, but for Jim to become free sort of made Huck's brain just jolt for he didn't want to do anything illegal, and helping a slave become free was definitely not legal. But thank God that Huck came back to his sense and refused to do that, but when he went to go get Jim, he was gone, and was captured by the King and The Duke! So Huck went off saying "All right then, Hell it is!" to save Jim.

Third Huck Finn response

The way that the Duke and the King swindle the family at the funeral is that they pretended to be long their long lost sons, if you will, and try to obtain the fortune. When you really compare Huck to the two idiots, King and Duke, they both have similar qualities but also different. The alike ones are that they are all mischievous, sly, chronic liars, and like to do bad deeds. The different qualities are that Huck also does good deeds, protects his friends, and uses his lies for good reasons as well. The overall bad guy/s are obviously the two idiots, King and Duke.

Second Huck Finn Response

The reason why Huck wants to help the men on the wreck is quite unlike Huck. He wants to help those men, thats it, he wants to help them just because it was the right thing to do. This act shows us that even though Huck is what can be considered a bad guy, he is really more then anything mixed. When I say mixed is that he like to do bad things, but he also is a good person, thus mixed.

First Huck Finn response

The trick that Huck plays on Jim was quite funny to Huck; he put a dead rattlesnake in Jim’s bed. For Jim that was probably the scariest moment of his life. The reason why Huck tricked Jim now even though he wouldn’t do it before was that Huck was bored. When someone gets bored, hey anything can happen, even getting bitten by a snake.

Last American Man Chapter 8 response

The reason why the apprentices dislike Eustace so much revolve around a few key things. The first is that Eustace is a hard worker so he naturally demands that his workers do the same, or even more. And second is that Eustace has extremely high standards and hates it when any of his apprentices make such a big screw up that costs him a lot of money, that when he tells them they should pay him back for the costs they get extremely offended by why Eustace cares more about a possession then them. I would definitely not like to work for him because of all that he demands, and the amount of money I might owe if something goes wrong and I mess up. I can see why anyone would want to for him, they would learn intense skills that only a person like Eustace could teach, but at the price that Eustace makes anyone pay, price as in physical and mental pain and only money if you screw up and break something, is just too big, I could not stand one week out with Eustace, I would probably go insane.

Last American Man Chapter 7 response

The reason why Eustace wants to ride across the country on his horse is an interesting tale indeed. Eustace has always devised plans on breaking down walls and enter the consciousness of every kind of American. He had traveled across America on foot but never experienced the intimacy as traveling by horse, the horse was the ultimate icebreaker and was also the one way he could break down these walls easily. One significant thing that happens to Eustace, his brother, and Susan on their trip is the incident of Peter Rabbit the mule. Peter, like all mules, was intelligent to the point that he made some decisions that caused Eustace to go literally ape on Peter. It was after Peter had kicked Judson that Eustace and Peter faced off each attacking the other until Eustace got Peter tied up and did some things that to a person just walking by, would seem like Eustace was beating this animal to death. This event was important because it showed how Eustace’s relationship with nature is so strong that he can tango with a mule and win.

Last American Man Chapter 6 response

It’s been a rocky road for Eustace as he continues to run Turtle Island. But as he continues to run the island, things start happening, he starts losing his control on things and starts stressing out to the point that it is affecting other people. The pressure is affecting Eustace in many ways, but mainly it’s affecting his ability to operate Turtle Island. To others though, the increased pressure that is affecting Eustace is starting spread and is making other people hesitant and unwilling to come. With these things occurring due to Eustace’s increased stress, only more stress comes from it.

Last American Man chapter 5 response

When Eustace starts Turtle Island, he has a rough time before he actually gets anyone to come, but even a harder time getting the money to buy up the acres that made Turtle Island. But what Eustace accomplished through building Turtle Island was amazing. He first talked to his dad for the first time in a while for giving him a loan to buy the acres, and succeeded. Second is that Eustace worked so hard to build up his land, and his promotion to the public so that he could get people to come to Turtle Island. In the end Turtle Island made Eustace a much stronger and confident person, even though he was extremely confident to begin with. The building of Turtle Island also allows him to teach the multitudes of Americans about what being a true American is all about. In one passage he tells a child when he was teaching a group how to set up traps to get food that no animal is harmless, unlike some humans I know of. All of these things help Eustace solidify his dream, and his purpose in life.

Emerson First Response

After I finished reading from Ralph Emerson’s Nature, I found that Chapter 1 was very intriguing to me. I must confess that this was some of the most mind wrenching literature I have ever read, and I found Shakespear to be somewhat difficult, but what made me so fascinated were the quotes that Emerson wrote.“Man beholds somewhat as beautiful as his own nature.” This quote truly spoke to me as when translated, it means that man holds the glory of nature within all of us, even though we can’t touch it, we still all have it. Another quote that just jumped right out at me was,” The sky is less grand as it shuts down over less worth in the population.” This quote when translated means that as we humans grow and our technology advances to new levels, we stop paying attention to the wonder that sparked the inventions, only the inventions matter now. With all of the splendors of nature around us, when did a blooming rose become less interesting then a new iPod? Time will only tell.

Minority group thoughts and responses

While I began thinking of ideas for the minority empowerment paper and what kind of group I would choose to write about, I needed to get a good idea of what kind of groups were actually in Indianapolis, and the rest of Indiana. My first thought was about the downtown area of Indianapolis, and the condition it is in for the people who live there, so I thought about choosing a group that would empower the minorities there so that they could get aid and someday grow beyond that point. A good group that I considered choosing, and is very possible my actual choice, is the Indianapolis urban league, which is about making a change for the minorities in the downtown area.

Fourth of July response

After reading What the A Slave is the Fourth of July, I came to understand what Douglous meant during his passage. Douglous believes that The Fourth of July to a slave is a figurative slap in the face because when the colonies gained independence from Britain, only the colonists obtained their freedom, while the slaves went from slaves to Britain and then to the colonists, to just being slaves to the colonists, they gained absolutely no independence. With this thought, The Fourth of July is a day to hate for the slaves and when making a slave bear through a day that celebrates someone else’s independence while you are still shackled to the oppression of slavery, while you are expected to smile and celebrate in a very limited fashion. That is what Douglous thinks about the Fourth of July.

Personal Slave response

The passage that I feel most represented slavery in the book was when Linda met Luke. Luke was another slave but with a terrible master who beat him for the most moronic and superfluous reasons. And when Luke’s master started to get weak from sickness and barely had any energy to do anything at all but to survive, he still, still found some energy to beat Luke for stupid and moronic reasons, or calling someone else to do it for him. After Linda saw this she was extremely appalled by this act, especially all the beatings when this old sick man was on his deathbed. That is what I feel is the passage that represents slavery most in the book.

Final Slave response

Finally at the end of Incidents in the life of a Slave Girl, Linda gets her freedom, but in a interesting way. Linda finds out that she was sold for $300 and that she was now free and would not be hunted again. Which would make one think,” I am finally free! Nothing can go wrong from here on out!” But instead Linda has some conflicting and mixed up feelings over the matter. The reason why she has these mixed feelings is because she doesn’t know what to do with her life, she is now free, when the only thing she has know was slavery and running away from being enslaved again, what is there to do now that this thing that was ruling her life is now gone? And that is why Linda has some mixed up feeling at the end of the book.

Slave Fifth response

The chapter that I felt was my favorite and that I can talk about is The Fugitive Slave Law. This chapter to me felt like it was giving me more about what slaves went through then other chapters. The main reason was Luke. Luke was what I consider a person I could almost hear when he spoke. The things that Luke went through while he was a slave was to me almost beyond cruel. The master even though he kept getting weaker and weaker still had some energy to beat Luke, and I can’t grasp my mind around that. This man is dying, and barely has energy at all, except for when it comes to beating Luke, that is just sick. That is why this chapter just jumped out at me as the chapter I can say is my favorite, not because of the beating, but of the reality.

Incidents in the life of a slave girl fourth response

Linda and her brother William are very close but the relationship is more then that. William and Linda were always close, even though they had tough lives; they still had time to bond as siblings. But what makes this relations ship so interesting, is what happened to each of the siblings. Linda was stuck moving from master to master, and even her children are expected to become slaves because that’s what happened to children whose mothers were slaves, they became slaves, if the father was a slave and the mom was not, the children would be free. But what happened to William was different; he was given the ability to find out what freedom was about.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Third response

When Linda’s daughter is given a gold chain to wear, Linda gets upset at this matter for many reasons. First off Linda thanks her old mistress for the chain, but truly she despises the thing, for what Linda believes that chain symbolizes is the chains of slavery, and she wants her child to never feel the weight of that chain, even if it is made of gold. I agree with this comparison because the mistress is literally telling that child you are going to be a slave no matter what you ever do and let this chain symbolize your initialization into the world of slavery. The mistress knew what she meant, the only reason she chose the chain to be gold was so Linda would keep it, even if it symbolizes everything she hates, it is still worth a lot of money.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Second response

“There is danger in love for a slave.” When Linda said this she meant many things. This quote was Linda’s way of stating that love only brings problems to a slave, whether that person loves another slave, or one of their owners, all that love leads is to complications and harder times. I agree with Linda because so far through the book even the word love feels to me like a taboo. And Linda felt what happens when you let your love be known, in the chapter Lover, Linda confesses her love, and is stricken on the face for it. This is one of the reasons why I believe that love only brings problems for a slave.

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl First response

The importance that Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is defined as truth rather than fiction is because of what the overall story is about. This story is about an African- American slave thus it would only defeat the purpose of the book to make up things that would depict a horrible act in history. Then there is the fact that the editor didn’t clean up the book in terms of both language and content. The reason why I believe he did that was to almost make the book more realistic in terms of how it should of sounded to the main character when they went through it. Which is how it should be, the book should be as close to truth as possible and with the way the book is written, it is easy to feel the main points of the book by reading it in this fashion.

Notes to the State of Virginia Response

Thomas Jefferson was one of the greatest men if the history of the United States, but after reading Notes to the State of Virginia, I am starting to see a new light to the man that created the Declaration of Independence. Even though Thomas Jefferson seems completely different in each of these documents, it only natural for a human to be unpredictable. But these two documents were actually supposed to be part of the same one. The things that Jefferson talks about in Notes to the State of Virginia, mainly about slavery, don’t seem to resonate when you think about Thomas Jefferson, but really he couldn’t of cared more about the topic. Jefferson seems radically different in Notes to the State of Virginia rather then in the Declaration because no one knew about that side of him, even though he was still the same Jefferson we all know and respect.

Declaration of Independence response

When I was reading the Declaration of Independence, one sentence seemed to just stand out. That sentence was, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.” Throughout that entire sentence, it sounded like he was a pirate going along from town to town raiding and pillaging. But this is not the case. The king did not hop on a pirate ship and go to the colonies to raid and pillage. What that sentence really means is that the King had been using the force of his military to control the seas of the colonies, which has caused a loss of trade thus plundering their seas. Ravaging the coast and burning our towns mean this meant by the fact that the British terrorized the colonists with their might and during the war burnt down their homes literally. Finally what destroying the lives of our people means is self-explanatory, the British army did kill many colonists during the war and even before that. And that is what is meant by, “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.”

The Crisis, No.1 response

Panics can produce as much good as hurt. This came from Thomas Paine’s “The Crisis, No.1”. When Paine says that statement what I think he is trying to say is that panics, even though deadly and hurtful, bring things to light that would previously had never been found out at all but because of the panic, these things are discovered. Another reason for why Paine states that panics can produce well is that panics are the literal touchstones of sincerity and hypocrisy. Along with that the true thoughts of a traitor come to light as the panic almost sifts out the inner thoughts of the man and holds them up for the public to see. This shows that panics can do as much good as bad.

Sinners in the hand of an Angry God response

The picture that Edward is trying to paint to us about early American Puritan religion is that the Puritans were a very judging and stubborn people. The Puritans were also very easy to sentence a person to eternal hellfire and that there were no second thoughts about it. These Puritans just saw in black and white, right and wrong, if you did something immoral there was no room for repentance, thus no disagreement among the Puritans. Which leads that to our discussion about the tolerance of early settlers, which was that you were either tolerant or you were exiled for your radical thoughts. These Puritans were so passionate about what they worshiped, and were not tolerant, for they have multiple times exclaimed their hate of Jews. These Puritans were quite opposite then the early settlers like Roger Williams who accepted all religions.

Great Gatsby discussion response

During the discussion on Tuesday one of the themes was God / religion. During this time we talk about how some of the people in The Great Gatsby viewed who they thought was their God. We talked about how Gatsby thought that he was his own God, TJ Eckleburg thinks that advertising is his own God, and that Owl eyes believes that god is clueless. While looking at these views from Gatsby, TJ, and Owl eyes we can see that each of them have definite different views. But overall these views after looking at the book, they are all correct, Gatsby believes that just because he has money he is all powerful, TJ uses his advertisement to make sure people go only to him for glasses, and Owl eyes being clueless doesn’t have any idea of what God should be.

The Green light response

At the end of the book we read about Nick looking at the green light and how we all are striving for something. And I agree because we as humans have a natural tendency to want what we can’t have. Throughout all our lives we see and think about things that would make our lives better, some light that we look at and yearn for, even though we may never get it. And then there are some of us who look at that light and say,” I’m going to get that light, I am going to get that someday.” This thought states that even though this thing that we want is not entirely in our grasp we still fight against a current, a current that we try to overcome and one day claim this light. Why in the first do we think of this light, do we ever think that we need to get it, well I think that the reason we need it is because of our insecurities and our overall need to have what we can’t have. With these things set in place we as humans try to fight against that current to claim that light and get what we have always wished for. But the light is also a two way street, if your light is something that is not possible to attain, like control of the universe, there is no point in trying to get that light, but if your light is possible to attain, then you should go for it, no matter what.

The Final Great gatsby response

At the last chapter of The Great Gatsby we read about Gatsby’s funeral, which was pretty darn pathetic if you ask me. The only people that came to Gatsby’s actual funeral that Nick arranged for him were Nick himself, Owl eyes, some of Gatsby’s servants, and His father Henry Gatz. The reason I believe that only these people show up is that through out the story, we have had a certain importance of eyes, so it was only natural for Owl eyes to attend, the reason some of his servants came was because they respected him and wished to visit his funeral, it was only polite for their old boss, and finally Gatsby’s father who was very proud of his son and only wanted to do what any father would do if their child had died and that is to visit their funeral. The real reason for these people attending is respect, and that is what Nick is trying to convey, every other person who knew Gatsby did not actually like him, they liked his parties, house, and money, not Gatsby himself, that why these people are the only ones to show up for his funeral.

The Climax Great Gatsby response

During these chapters we see so much happening between Gatsby, Daisy, and Tom that it is almost scary. Along with the craziness of these chapters, Tom realizes the love between Gatsby and Daisy, then confronts Gatsby and thoroughly wins back Daisy. And then finally at the end of the chapters Daisy runs over Myrtle in a car, and Wilson thinks Gatsby did it, so at the end Gatsby is shot by Wilson, and then shoots himself. As you look back in the book there are some foreshadowing on the part of Tom winning back Daisy, because he had a feeling that Daisy was in love with another, and knew that he had to win her back. On the account of Gatsby being killed, I really did not see that coming, the fact that Myrtle died then Gatsby got shot, they both surprised me, because I had no idea tat Gatsby would die in that sort of manner.

The sixth chapter Great Gatsby response

During this chapter we finally find out that Gatsby was lying about where he came from and much more. Not only this but Nick finally divulges this information now, at chapter six instead of earlier in the book. The reasoning why I think Gatsby lied about where he came from and also about his money is because I believe that Gatsby didn’t think that his own true story was exciting enough, so he wanted to spice it up a bit. But on the topic of why Nick told us this now, I believe that if Nick would of told us earlier, the plot would have been pretty much useless because we would of known that he was lying. Another reason could be that Nick only realized it at this specific moment, that before this he had no clue.

The Fifth Chapter of the Great Gatsby Resonses

Gatsby's count of enchanted objects has diminished by one, what does Nick mean by this? What Nick means by losing an object is that over the cross of the chapter Gatsby is appearing more and more pitiful and desperate, he keeps trying to please Nick no matter what the event is, and then gives him a reward that doesn’t even constitute for the action. But what Nick truly means by losing something is that Gatsby has some of the most exotic and rich items that Nick has ever seen, but what Gatsby has lost is something different then something that you can touch. Gatsby lost his head, he has been so obsessed with the thought of meeting Daisy after all these years that he has lost what remained of his composure and has gone completely over board and lost his common sense, for he would do anything to get Daisy back, anything.

The Fourth Installment of The Great Gatsby Responses

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the bust and the tired, this is the last sentence of chapter four. To me what Nick is trying to say is that in the world of The Great Gatsby there are many types of people, the ones who pursue after their dreams, the ones who are being pursued by what once they wanted, and the ones that have no initiative anymore. The one who I believe exhibits the pursued is Myrtle, because even though Tom has a wife he stills needs something more and that is Myrtle. The one who exhibits the pursuing is Tom, for he is pursuing what he thinks he needs, and he is. And finally the one who exhibits the bust and tired is Gatsby himself, for even though he is rich, he has grand parties, where no one even actually knows what he looks like, and he just walks around in a haze, as though he doesn't need to do much to accomplish anything.

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