Reflection on conscience
Paragraph one: It doesn’t matter whether you are right or wrong, a person conscience doesn’t do anything to help them, and that’s always the way to go. I do not agree with this paraphrased version of what Huck said for some reasons. I don’t agree because if a person has a conscience and they are in a really bad situation then it could help them if they choose the right conscience that is. If a person is in a really bad situation and they choose the wrong conscience then it won’t help you necessarily help the person it would probably make their situation worse. If a person is in a really bad situation and they choose the right conscience then that person will gain from it and feel good about doing the right thing.
Paragraph two: Three examples of how Huck’s conscience influences his decisions are when Huck doesn’t know whether to help Jim escape and become a free slave or not. I agree with this decision because I’m sure he felt good when he helped let a slave free because he did something good. Another example was whether Huck should help the people on the boat when the boat was falling apart. I also agree with his decision because he helped a lot of people and he felt good when he did it. The third example is When Huck told the black slave that he didn’t know Jim when he and Tom tried to save him. I don’t agree with this decision because why would they try to save if they were going to say they don’t know him.
Paragraph three: A time when my conscience helped me was whether I should shovel my neighbor’s snow. I decided to shovel his snow because I thought it was the good thing to do because he was really never at home. I decided to shovel his side walk, driveway and porch. After I got done I felt good inside when I went back to my house. He never said thank you but I think he knew I did it for him. I thought I would get paid money for doing it but after I did it, I didn’t really care anymore.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Battlefield
The Battlefield
During the summer and after school during the fall season, I step on the turf with my battlefield equipment on and my helmet on ready to go 48 minutes with another team. The Thurston football field is my special place to go. I’ve been going to the turf for 2 years now. I go there for the off-season and for practice. The football field is like my home I love to be there. When the football season ends I always can’t wait to step back on the field when the next season comes. When I go high up in the stands I see the big blue and white T in the middle of the field and the 2 white goal posts on both the right and the left side. I take a deep breath and smell the clean air. My fellow teammates like Desmond, Branden, Lamar and my other fellow teammates also step on the battlefield ready to hit someone and to score a touchdown. All of the teammates are my brothers because we always fight and argue but we all have each others back. When it is 7:00 and it is night time I feel like a monster because I am always ready to hit someone on the other line of scrimmage. When I think of this place I think of my future because I plan on going to college and playing football for the rest of my life and I want to go pro. This place means a lot to me because it’s a place I love and I have bonded with a lot of people there. I also made my first touchdown on the Thurston football field and that touchdown meant a lot to me. A lot of big plays happened on that field, like when Gary had the ball and made this one guy fall, it was real funny. That field is like my room, it is some what my domain.
During the summer and after school during the fall season, I step on the turf with my battlefield equipment on and my helmet on ready to go 48 minutes with another team. The Thurston football field is my special place to go. I’ve been going to the turf for 2 years now. I go there for the off-season and for practice. The football field is like my home I love to be there. When the football season ends I always can’t wait to step back on the field when the next season comes. When I go high up in the stands I see the big blue and white T in the middle of the field and the 2 white goal posts on both the right and the left side. I take a deep breath and smell the clean air. My fellow teammates like Desmond, Branden, Lamar and my other fellow teammates also step on the battlefield ready to hit someone and to score a touchdown. All of the teammates are my brothers because we always fight and argue but we all have each others back. When it is 7:00 and it is night time I feel like a monster because I am always ready to hit someone on the other line of scrimmage. When I think of this place I think of my future because I plan on going to college and playing football for the rest of my life and I want to go pro. This place means a lot to me because it’s a place I love and I have bonded with a lot of people there. I also made my first touchdown on the Thurston football field and that touchdown meant a lot to me. A lot of big plays happened on that field, like when Gary had the ball and made this one guy fall, it was real funny. That field is like my room, it is some what my domain.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Chapter 22 Chart/List
Chapter 22 Chart/List
Summary (8):
People were yelling for Sherburn to get lynched for killing Boggs. (109)
Colonel Sherburn said the average man is a coward. (110)
Sherburn talks about Buck Harkness. (111)
Huck goes to a circus and doesn’t really have any fun. (111)
The Duke made handbills about a performance of The King’s Camelopard or The Royal Nonesuch. (113)
Sherburn gave a speech to the mob about human nature and how nobody is going to lynch him. (110 , 111)
After the speech gave by Sherburn, the mob of people broke apart.(111)
Huck was some what amused by the people in the circus. (111)
Vocabulary (8):
· Deliberate-carefully weighed. (110)
· Outgaze-to gaze beyond. (110)
· Scornful-contemptuous. (110)
· Acquit-to relieve from charge of crime or fault. (110)
· Parasol-a light weight umbrella used by women as sunshade. (111)
· Cavort-to prance or caper about. (112)
· Loafed-to pass time. (111)
· Astonishment-overpowering surprise or wonder. (113)
Quotes (5):
“Tear down the fence! Tear down the fence!” (110)
“The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing.”(110)
“The average man’s a coward.” (110)
“The average man don’t like trouble and danger. You don’t like trouble and danger.” (112)
“Knock him down! Throw him out!” (112)
Questions (5):
What did Sherburn’s speech symbolize?
What was Huck doing at a circus?
Why did the clowns kill people at the circus?
Why were the people at the circus chanting; “knock him down! Throw him out!”?
Why is the Duke and the King going to have a different play?
Summary (8):
People were yelling for Sherburn to get lynched for killing Boggs. (109)
Colonel Sherburn said the average man is a coward. (110)
Sherburn talks about Buck Harkness. (111)
Huck goes to a circus and doesn’t really have any fun. (111)
The Duke made handbills about a performance of The King’s Camelopard or The Royal Nonesuch. (113)
Sherburn gave a speech to the mob about human nature and how nobody is going to lynch him. (110 , 111)
After the speech gave by Sherburn, the mob of people broke apart.(111)
Huck was some what amused by the people in the circus. (111)
Vocabulary (8):
· Deliberate-carefully weighed. (110)
· Outgaze-to gaze beyond. (110)
· Scornful-contemptuous. (110)
· Acquit-to relieve from charge of crime or fault. (110)
· Parasol-a light weight umbrella used by women as sunshade. (111)
· Cavort-to prance or caper about. (112)
· Loafed-to pass time. (111)
· Astonishment-overpowering surprise or wonder. (113)
Quotes (5):
“Tear down the fence! Tear down the fence!” (110)
“The idea of you lynching anybody! It’s amusing.”(110)
“The average man’s a coward.” (110)
“The average man don’t like trouble and danger. You don’t like trouble and danger.” (112)
“Knock him down! Throw him out!” (112)
Questions (5):
What did Sherburn’s speech symbolize?
What was Huck doing at a circus?
Why did the clowns kill people at the circus?
Why were the people at the circus chanting; “knock him down! Throw him out!”?
Why is the Duke and the King going to have a different play?
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Blog Spot 2: Huck Finn (Ch.13 - 17)
In Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Huck, the protagonist, Huck, is greatly influenced by four people: Widow Douglas, Tom Sawyer, Pap, and Jim.
Widow Douglas directly influences Huck by telling him he needs to have an education, to be proper, and to believe in God.
Widow Douglas influences Huck indirectly by Huck taking Widow Douglas’s advise and go to school and getting his education.
A quote that goes with how Widow Douglas influences Huck directly is; “because I don’t take no stock in dead people,” on page 2. Huck is saying that he doesn’t believe in Moses. A quote that goes with how Widow Douglas influences Huck indirectly is; “I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to 6 x 7 = 35…..” on page 11. This is saying that Huck is taking Widow Douglas’s advice and going to school.
Tom Sawyer influences Huck by showing him to go on adventures and to be reckless and to lie a lot.Tom Sawyer influences Huck indirectly by Huck going away from home and taking risks while he is with Jim and lying about things during his time with Jim. A quote that goes with how Tom influences Huck directly is; “We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money. Tom was talking about how he and his robbers are going to take a risk and “kill” people when they actually don’t, which was on page 6. A quote that indirectly influences Huck is “Well” says I, a-blubbering, “I’ve told everybody before, and then they just went and left us,” on page 68. Huck is lying to the men that stopped him while he was on the boat, saying that pap had the small pocks.
Pap, Huck’s dad, influences him in a real bad way by always getting drunk, “borrowing” things which is just stealing, and not being educated. Pap indirectly influences Huck by Huck “borrowing” things when he is with Jim and telling him that it wasn’t stealing and by skipping school. A quote that shows how Pap directly influences Huck is “Your mother couldn’t read, and she couldn’t write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn’t, before they died. I can’t; and here you’re a-swelling yourself up like this.” Pap is describing how nobody in their family had an education and he shouldn’t either and this was on page 15. A quote that shows how Pap indirectly influences Huck is “Whenever I got uncommon tired I played hooky, and hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up,” this is on page 11. This is showing that Huck doesn’t want an education.
Jim influences Huck directly by being superstitious, starting a foundation of English, and getting an education from past history.
A quote that shows how Jim directly influences Huck is “And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn’t got to the end of it yet,” this is on page 40. This is saying that Jim thinks touching the snake-skin is bad luck, he is superstitious. In conclusion, without these key influences in his life, Huck would be a very different person.
Widow Douglas directly influences Huck by telling him he needs to have an education, to be proper, and to believe in God.
Widow Douglas influences Huck indirectly by Huck taking Widow Douglas’s advise and go to school and getting his education.
A quote that goes with how Widow Douglas influences Huck directly is; “because I don’t take no stock in dead people,” on page 2. Huck is saying that he doesn’t believe in Moses. A quote that goes with how Widow Douglas influences Huck indirectly is; “I had been to school most all the time, and could spell, and read, and write just a little, and could say the multiplication table up to 6 x 7 = 35…..” on page 11. This is saying that Huck is taking Widow Douglas’s advice and going to school.
Tom Sawyer influences Huck by showing him to go on adventures and to be reckless and to lie a lot.Tom Sawyer influences Huck indirectly by Huck going away from home and taking risks while he is with Jim and lying about things during his time with Jim. A quote that goes with how Tom influences Huck directly is; “We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money. Tom was talking about how he and his robbers are going to take a risk and “kill” people when they actually don’t, which was on page 6. A quote that indirectly influences Huck is “Well” says I, a-blubbering, “I’ve told everybody before, and then they just went and left us,” on page 68. Huck is lying to the men that stopped him while he was on the boat, saying that pap had the small pocks.
Pap, Huck’s dad, influences him in a real bad way by always getting drunk, “borrowing” things which is just stealing, and not being educated. Pap indirectly influences Huck by Huck “borrowing” things when he is with Jim and telling him that it wasn’t stealing and by skipping school. A quote that shows how Pap directly influences Huck is “Your mother couldn’t read, and she couldn’t write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn’t, before they died. I can’t; and here you’re a-swelling yourself up like this.” Pap is describing how nobody in their family had an education and he shouldn’t either and this was on page 15. A quote that shows how Pap indirectly influences Huck is “Whenever I got uncommon tired I played hooky, and hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up,” this is on page 11. This is showing that Huck doesn’t want an education.
Jim influences Huck directly by being superstitious, starting a foundation of English, and getting an education from past history.
A quote that shows how Jim directly influences Huck is “And he said that handling a snake-skin was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn’t got to the end of it yet,” this is on page 40. This is saying that Jim thinks touching the snake-skin is bad luck, he is superstitious. In conclusion, without these key influences in his life, Huck would be a very different person.
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Huck Finn Response (Ch. 1 - Ch. 12)
Paragraph1: In the book, Huck Finn for short, so far there is a boy named Huck Finn. He lives with a lady named Widow Douglas. He doesn't really like all the things she makes him do like go to school and learn about God and other stuff like that. Her sister Miss Walton has a slave named Jim and he basically does everything she tells him, considering he is a slave. Huck's father returns for is money but he doesn't know that Huck gave all the money to Judge Thatcher. Eventually Huck runs away to Jackson island and fakes his death. He also finds Jim on the island too. Huck and Jim find a dead body that was shot and naked in a cabin. Huck's dad goes to look on the island for Huck but he can't find him but he thinks Jim killed him. In chapter 11 Huck dresses up like a girl so that nobody knows who he is in the town. But the woman's house he goes into, she finds out that he is a boy but she doesn't know that it is Huck. The woman tells him that her husband and some other men are going to the island to find Jim because people are offering a 300 dollars to the person who finds Jim. Now Huck went back to Jim and they are now on a boat trying to get away and hide from the people trying to get Jim.
Paragraph 2: I don't really care for the book but I am starting to get into it. I don't like how they use the "N" word so much and how Huck thinks God isn't real and that he wants to go to hell and stuff like that, it kind of bothers me alot. I liked Of Mice & Men better because it was shorter and I could understand what was going on. I understand what's going on in Huck Finn but I understand Of Mice & Men more though. Even though I haven't read the whole book yet, Of Mice & Men has a better theme.
Paragraph 2: I don't really care for the book but I am starting to get into it. I don't like how they use the "N" word so much and how Huck thinks God isn't real and that he wants to go to hell and stuff like that, it kind of bothers me alot. I liked Of Mice & Men better because it was shorter and I could understand what was going on. I understand what's going on in Huck Finn but I understand Of Mice & Men more though. Even though I haven't read the whole book yet, Of Mice & Men has a better theme.
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