Thursday, April 9, 2009
Blog#8 Huck
My response to Huck is that he is a poor child living in white society as kind of an outcast. He goes through the process of being reformed, but he is reluctant to change. Since he has grown up not knowing the "normal" rules of the white society in the South, he doesn't understand or accept many of the things his reformers teach him. He sees many things in society he dislikes, along with his fathers behavior, and decides to run away. Huck is a character that challenges stereotypes by thinking for himself and casting aside many rules of white society in the South. But he is also not without his fault, which included having some wrong ideas about race and slavery, which were taught to him by society.
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Great response I'm going towards the same direction..with Huck and I agree with your outlook on Huck. I like how you pointed out that Huck's character challenges stereotypes by pointing out that he does think for himself and doesn't care too much what others think. I also like the fact that you point out that he is rebel and does what he wants because he doesn't always accept what people tell him...it seems to me that he is caught between the two of good/bad...!
ReplyDeleteCody, based on your entry, here are the arguments I see you making:
ReplyDeleteHuck is an outsider/outcast which has the following effects:
1. Enables him to have perspective on the normal rules of white society.
2. Enables him to have the freedom to choose his own path (which is a distinctly different point from point 1, because there may be people who have outsider perspectives, but are trapped or constrained in some way to behave like the people they criticize).
Then your arguments seem to focus on the choices that he makes. Running away from his abusive father, not particularly challenging slavery.
Counters could be that Huck is not choosing so much as just being carried along. Ummm... That he... I don't have any good counters for you. But if I think of any, I'll come back.
It seems like it'll be a good read and fairly straight forward to develop into a 3-4 page essay.
I agree with you that sometime Huck was caught between what he was taught by society and what he actually feel as the right way. Isn't it that Huck always followed his instinct? What do you think about his mature level base on his age? Would it be normal for a child like him to go through all these stuffs?
ReplyDeleteCody, I’m so glad we are doing the same topic
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I think you are in the right direction because my paper is about something like that too, but I’m going to talk more about Jim too.
I think I’m going to pick one section or chapter in the book and talk about it.
Good direction. I really like your point which is about the society in Huck’s view. I think Huck is a really “special” character in this story. Maybe Mark created Huck to show his points of view of the society at that time. The things Huck is against to, and the things Huck dislikes are the things that Mark wanted to tell the readers about the society. And the actions Huck has done maybe the actions Mark wanted the people to do at that time.
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