Jims breakdown

Jim has a huge breakdown at the end of this chapter. Huck wakes up to find him in tears and he tells Huck about his daughter. His daughter had scarlet fever and went deaf because of it. Jim goes on crying and says how he hit her when she didn’t do what he wanted her to do, but she couldn’t do it because she couldn’t hear him. He feels so bad about what he did, and this just shows how compassionate and caring Jim is.  He wants to be the good guy and after punishing his own daughter before really understanding the full story, he is a much more caring and patient man 

What do you make of the Duke and the King?

 Huck and Jim are floating down the river and they come across two men, who claim to be a Duke and a King. Huck is able to tell straight away that they are lying, but Jim on the other hand; cannot. This shows a huge contrast between them and how they are developing. Huck wants to avoid conflict and is trying to do the right thing, yet is able to read people much better. Jim has a hard time seeing through people’s lies and is very, very gullible.

In what ways are Buck and Huck similar?

Huck and Buck are very similar in many ways. They are both impatient and are very similar in size. They are both love the outdoors and when they are together they spent much of their time outside. Bucks family, the Grangerfords, are in a war with their neighbors. They have been killing each other longer than either family can remember and neither side knows why they are doing it. Huck finds this fighting stupid and when he asks Buck why he takes part in the fighting he replies with “It’s just what we’ve always done.” Buck ends up dying in the fighting and Huck knows that it will never end.

The raftsman

There were 13 raftsman that had been drinking and they were trying to show off how 'manly' they are. They were acting like animals just arguing and trying to make themselves seem bigger than the other. One of them said that he could "lam any thief in the lot" which made everyone a lot more angry. They raftsman that said this was about to get jumped when the biggest of the raftsman stood up and said that he was his meat. This stopped the fighting but the arguing kept on going. 

man on the wreck

These people had their boat wreck, and even though they were bad people, Huck saved them. He knows that bad people will get their punishment when their time comes and its not up to him to play decide when they get their punishment. This shows that Huck has a great heart and has peoples best interest in mind. 

What trick does Huck play on Jim? Why is he tricking him now when he didn’t want to before?

Huck kills a snake and puts it by Jims foot so that when he wakes up he will freak out. The only problem is that when a snake dies, the mate will find it and curl up around it. This happened and it resulted with Jim getting bitten by the snake. Jims foot swelled up really bad but eventually went down with proper treatment. Huck decided to trick him now because they are friends now and he felt like it was okay to trick him and not be racist because they're friends. 

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• Blog – Why does William leave Mr. Sands? Do you think his actions were justified or rude?

Mr. Sands gets into congress so he takes a trip up there. Mr. Sands bring William, Lindas brother, with him. Mr. sands tells William that he will set him free after five years of being with him, but that isn't good enough for William, so he bails. His actions were rude, because for the first time, a white man is trying to do some good for a black man, but the trust isn't there yet. William couldn't risk getting stabbed in the back, so he had to leave. If Mr. Sands were trustworthy, which we've seen he isnt' because he didn't follow Lindas wishes with the kids, then it would be very rude. But because we've seen how un trustworthy he is, I feel that William was justified.

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• Blog – How does Mr. Sands come to get possession of the children? Why does Linda trust him? Do you feel he’s trustworthy?

Mr. Sands gets possession of the children when Linda runs away by getting someone else to buy them off of Dr. Flint. Dr. Flint knows that the slaves are Mr. Sands children also so he would never sell them to him, and Mr. Sands knows this. So he pays another man to buy the slaves and then sell them to him and that he would pay him very well. Linda trusts him because he promised that he would free their kids, and she values family so much that she thinks that he must do too. I don't think that Dr. Sands is very trustworthy because he is a white man in the south. The south corrupts even the nicest people and once he gets a family he will want to provide them the best things he can. Also he might want to keep the kids with him, so they would have a nice life style..but never truly be free.

11-13

Lindas daughter is given a necklace to wear and it really really upsets her. Linda gets upset because she says that she doesn't want her daughter to ever feel the shackles of slavery even if it is a golden necklace. She feels this way because in slavery there can be no nice gift. Because even if their owner is trying to be nice to them, they are still in slavery and therefore no happiness. The fact that you are not free and that someone owns you is so bad that nothing they can do will ever justify putting you in slavery.

11-13

• Blog – Pick a passage you found interesting and explain why you liked it

The beginning of chapter twelve was 'interesting' to me. I say it in quotes because it's a horrible thing that happened but it's something that shows how horrible it was to be in the south as a colored person. People in the north didn't know what horrible atrocities were going on and they thought that there were some people of color living happily down there. This story shows the honest brutality of the South and how horrible whites were to them. Not even the people of color that wern't owned as property were beaten up and tortured horribly just because that day had a name put to it. It was called a muster and the whites would just run rampid around beating up any person of color that looked to be happy or with another person of color. It's a horrible thing that happened but also it shows the true horrors of the south.

5-8

Love for a slave is very restricted. It's restricted because usually when they are actually in love with someone they are not allowed to be that person except to have children. The owners want the children because then they get more slaves that they can sell. Slaves are also forced into relationships with their owners, and Jacobs even says that it is bad to be pretty because then the owners will want to pursue a relationship with them. Jacobs was lucky that her owner, Dr. Flint, did not try to force anything with her. He wanted it to be sincere which was very surprising for that time period. It makes the story seem so much more real that Jacobs doesn't just say he's an animal and lie about what happened she shows that there was compasion but that there is no such thing as happiness or kindness when you're in slavery.

Chapters 1-4

Jacobs presents slavery as it really was. It's incredibly powerful because she tells it from her point of view instead of making an avatar and making up a story akin to hers. Her view is very broad because she can relate it to other slaves and can talk about how it was for other slaves but it's an individual story because she saw it all first hand. She shows the sacrifices the slave had to make while in slavery to attain freedom or just to have some fake sense of happiness. Jacobs is also honest with everything and she isn't going to lie about anything she did. She is going to tell the truth so that people can see what she went through. Jacobs admits she didn't like sharing all the harsh things she went though, but it was necessary for the good of the story.

chapter 9

– React to the attendance at Gatsby’s funeral. Why do the people who come, come? What is it meant to show us?

Gatsby's funeral wasn't the most exciting funeral that I expected it to be. Not many people showed up there. This was shocking at first but then you realize how many people Gatsby had round at his house for parties but how none of them personally knew him. It's a very upsetting thought, that because of how obsessed Gatsby had become with getting with Daisy he had nothing else in his life. Owl Eye was there and all he had to say was "That poor son of a bitch' The proverbial God in this book even had no sympathy for Gatsby. It's meant to show us that even though you can have the biggest house, throw the most extravagant parties, get the coolest people at your house, it doesn't mean that you are going to be happy. Gatsby died un happy. He died with his life long dream, Daisy, gone from reach and all he was left with was his money.

Chapter 8

This chapter and chapter 7 are the climax of the novel. Explain how something mentioned earlier might have hinted at these climatic events.

Gatsby's, Myrtles and Wilsons death were all mainly involved in the myopic view of Daisy and Tom. Daisy and Tom have shown throughout the book to be very in the moment people. Daisy does seem to be very interested in Gatsby but I always felt like there was something not quite right about it. She didn't care enough that Tom was noticing, she didn't care enough at how much it would destroy her life to leave for Gatsby and I felt like Gatsby wasn't looking at the same person I was. That proved to me that Tom and Daisy were going to run over as many people as possible in their path, but I wasn't sure who was going to die. Gatsby's death was given away in chapter two when Nick told us that it wasn't what Gatsby did but what he left behind him that got him. Tom really caused Myrtle's and Tom's death by having an affair with Myrtle. This affair caused the row between Myrtle and Tom which is why she ran into the street. The book did give a lot of foreshadowing but it is only after the fact that you can really look at what happened and say "oh I see now how that came about."

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Nick tells us the truth about Gatsby in this chapter. Speculate why Gatsby makes up the lie, and why Nick decides to tell us at this point in the book as opposed to earlier.

Nick tells us the truth about Gatsby, and how he became rich by stealing now because he wanted us to be able to see Gatsby in the light that he saw him in. Nick is able to sympathize with Gatsby because he knows how good of a guy he really is. If at the beginning we were told that Gatsby is a criminal and used that as a way to get this girl that he was supposedly in love with, then this book would never have the same impact it did. From a very shallow standpoint, Gatsby's life was pathetic. It is only when you really analyze it and look at the deeper meaning behind those that made it pathetic and the way that Gatsby tried to get to Daisy is when you realize how important the morals of this story are. The only way for Nick to get us hooked into this book is to created the mystery around Gatsby that Nick felt, so he had to recreate that mystery for us.

Chapter 5

• Blog – Nick says in this chapter that Gatsby’s “count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”. What is he referring to? How has Gatsby lost it?

Nick is referring to the fact that Gatsby has lost Daisy. Gatsby has lost this enchanted object because he has built her up to be something so great that she will never live up to it. Gatsby idolized the green light that symbolized his love for Daisy, but the idea of Daisy is better than how Daisy really is. Gatsby lost it when he had the meeting with Daisy and started to value her more than all of his possessions. He got all this 'stuff' so that he could impress her and built himself up to be this great, amazing, wealthy man but it was all for Daisy. But, Daisy can never live up to his expectations that he has of her, so he has lost that enchanted object. So now that his dream of Daisy has been killed, so has the Green Light. His only driving force in his life is now gone, everything that he looked to for inspiration, to get to Daisy is gone.

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Jimmy gets IV's at home.