Episode 1

Episode 1

Most Prominent Theme

The most prominent theme in Huck Finn is Racism. This is shown when Twain says "Miss. Watson's nigger, Jim, had a hair-ball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox. and he used to do magic with it" (17). This shows that the whites don't think of blacks as people, by saying that they own them instead of a nicer term like "working for them". Even though they did technically own them since it was the slave times. Since then slavery has been banned, enslaving a person because they have a different color skin is extremely racist. This is also shown when Twain said "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward neither" (86). This shows that people in those days expected that when a "colored" person was around, they should be the lower person, and the whites should be in charge, and never have to apologize, which is extremely racist. I am proud of Huck for being a strong enough person to admit that he was wrong, that was incredibly hard in those days with all of the racial tension.

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the most prominent theme is friendship. Huck and Jim's friendship is a driving force in this book and also it shows that friendship can be found anywhere and can overcome anything. Huck befriends a African American in a racial time and then helps him to escape. Also many times in the book Huck states how he values his friends.

The most prominent theme in Huck Finn by Mark Twain is definitely freedom. It is everywhere. Huck wanted to be free from his oppressive lifestyle both while living with Mrs. Watson and while living with his father. He was never truly free and able to do his own thing like he was after he feigned his own death and escaped. Jim and Huck were able to live freely and do as they pleased. They were to live off the wilderness and provide for themselves, for each other. Even when bad things happened such as the shipwreck, those robbers/murderers still wanted to be free. Jim was wanting to be free from slavery the whole time. The river is a giant metaphor for freedom and how it will take them anywhere freely, free spirited.

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In Huck-Finn, by Mark Twain, the most important theme in the book is humanity. This is shown when both Jim and Huck escape oppressive situations. Huck is escaping his drunk father and the prison-like enviornment that his father created for him. His dad had cut him off from all aspects of society and didn't allow him to communicate with the outside world. Jim, on the other hand, was oppressed in the evils of slavery and racism. This shows that although Jim and Huck come from two very different situations , they both want the same thing, which is to be free. The humanity theme is also shown when Huck and Jim form a friendship that is not based around the color of thier skin. This shows that even in a time of oppression of blacks, the most unlikely of friendships can form.

The Prominent Theme Of Huck Finn

There are many themes in this story but the prominent themes or most well known themes in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are racism and slavery. When this book was written the south was still suffering with racism and slavery. In this book you can really see how Huck has to deal with the racism.  When Huck says, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes"(88) it represents how this is still during the time of racism and Miss Watson, a white lady,
has no problem having a slave and Huck's mind is telling him that he should feel the same way. He is telling himself that he should be like Miss Watson and everyone else and not care about their slaves and be racist. The prominent themes are racism and slavery because Twain purposely wrote this book to take place when slavery was still around to show how people have evolved from being racist to not being as racist. You can see Huck slowly becoming an antiracist when he helps jim run away, and the fact that Jim is a friend to him.

Jim is sold to some of Tom Sawyer's relatives, and Tom and Huck decide to rescue Jim from slavery. This shows how Huck genuinely want to help him. Throughout the whole book you see what Huck's conscience is telling him to do and you see what hisheart is telling him to do. He struggles with fighting slavery and racism with Jim throughout the entire novel, and the entire novel deals with racism and slavery and the novel takes place during the time period where racism and slavery were a big deal, thus making the prominent themes of this novel racism and slavery.

Theme

The most prominent theme in Huckleberry Finn is racism and the fight between right and wrong. This book is set in a time where racism is an acceptable thing. Jim is a slave that runs into Huck after Jim decides he should run away instead of being sold off. Huck decides to stick with Jim even though his conscience kept telling him it was the wrong thing to do. Huck's internal conflict between the rights and wrongs of slavery is evident as they continue their adventure along the river. Huck thought that he could tell, that he'd "go and write [to Jim's] owner and tell him where he was" but Huck couldn't do it(213). In Huck's mind he it's a major sin not to tell a slaves master where his slave is after the slave has ran away.However, Huck decides that Jim's more than just a slave, Jim is Huck's friend and he couldn't turn Jim in, even though he might "go to hell" because of it(214).

Prompt #3
The most prominent theme of the book is racism and slavery. That is because Mark Twain wrote the book after slavery. In the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Jim is a run away slave because of freedom and leaves with Huck. In the novel, Huck had the decision to turn Jim in and get a award for it. That is because Huck thought it would make everyone one happy. The main reason why racism is the theme is because you get to see how things have change with racism and slavery, and that now people would be awarded for helping someone who needs it, instead of turning them in.

The most prominent theme in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" is racism. When Jim and Huck are experiencing their adventures together, Huck states, "Miss Watson, your runaway nigger Jim is down here two mile below Pikesville, and Mr.Phelps has got him and he will give him up for the reward if you send."(213). Huck does not actually tell Miss Watson this, but he wishes he could because his conscience is telling him that running away with Jim was a bad idea. In present times, we see this as a heroic deed, but Huck saw it as sin. When Jim sees a run away slave begging for money he says, "I wonder if Uncle Silas is going to hang this nigger. If I was to catch a nigger that was ungrateful enough to run away, I wouldn't give him up, I'd hang him."(237). This demonstrates the main theme of racism in the book because even Jim is confident that they will hang this run away slave that is begging for money. As a run away slave himself, one would think that Jim would have sympathy for this man, but he shows none.

Post #3 Prompt (for Group A)

What is the most prominent theme in the book? ACECE

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In the book Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses his creativeness to successfuly create somewhat of a character through his vivid imagery used to describe the setting of the story. The setting placed by the river is Hucks get away spot. It is where he goes to do whatever he wants with out care. This is shown when Mark Twain wrote, "We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim mow and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed-only a little kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us all-that night, nor the next, nor the next" (64). This shows the clear discriptions of what it was like for huck being at the river, as an escape from the real world. This is why Mark Twains clear and vivid discriptions of the setting create some what of a character within the story.

The Setting

In the book "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twan, I do not think he develops the setting as though it is a character. This is shown in the way it describes the environment such as when Mark says, "the walls of all the rooms was plastered and most had carpets on the floor, and the whole house was whitewashed on the outside"(104). This shows that he doesn't use much imagery to physically develop his setting. For the Emotional attachments to the setting Mark Twan puts few such as when tom sawyer shows them the secret cave. This may show that everyone keeps secrets just as the world does but, still doesn't develop the setting as much as his characters.

To begin this post, I think we should start by defining Character - noun - "The aggregate of features and traits that form the individual nature of some person or thing." (Dictionary.com)

Mark Twain has a unique way of characterizing anything he includes in his novel, "Huckleberry Finn". I think some of the setting can, in fact, be thought of as a character on its own. Because of the life style and time period this story is placed in, there is a distinct personality of the time period.
That time, in which slavery was accepted, gives the arbitrary feeling that was once accustomed to the people back then. I think this observation proves setting can, and is, a character, because of the feelings and emotions that are brought to attention and acknowledged, unconsciously, while we read through the chapters. That can be referred to as "The aggregate of features. . . that form the individual nature of some person or thing", since that helps create the characters themselves.
Also, the setting allows for Huck's father to beat him. What he does, described in the book, would be considered child abuse nowadays. For example, when Huck is explaining to his father the "sivilized" reform lessons he'd been taught, from ol' Miss Watson. ". . . I'll give something better- I'll give you a cowhide"(29) and the time Huck is telling us about his first few days back with his father, ". . . But by and by pap got too handy with his hick'ry, and I couldn't stand it. I was all over welts."(32) By this happening, Huck gettin' hurt, its almost like the setting is doing it to him, because if this were set in, for example, the 1990's, somebody would find out, and Huck's father would immediately find himself in trouble with the law.

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Mark Twain does an excelent job of giving the setting character and the feeling of it actually being alive. He does this in many ways like when he said "We went winding out amoungst the trees, and sometimes the vines hung so thick we had to back away and go some otherway. Well, on every old broken-down tree you could see rabits and snakes and such things" (49). This shows that the setting has character to it because of the fact that Twain went into such detail that you get a vivid image in your head that you can imagine what the wilderness is like and how it behaves to people. Another section where he shows that the setting has characterism is when Twain stated "i had worn the ground a good deal crawing out of the hole and dragging out so many things. So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside by scattering dust on the place, which covered up the smoothness and the sawdust. Then i fixed the piece of log back into its place and put two rocks under it and one against it to hold it there" (33). This shows the characterisation of the setting by giving the objects in it the sensation of being part of a living organism that can be effected and changed and be made to fool a person when it would normaly not do that.

I do think that the setting in Huck Finn could count as another character in the book. Mark Twain does a good job describing the setting to the point where it feels like your there. For explain when Huck and Jim find the dead man and all of his belongings, he explained what was all there in great detail. And when the two of them find the cave on the island, he explains what it looks like, to where it feels like your there. So I would consider the setting of the book as another character.

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I think that Mark Twain does a good job with the setting in this story. He explains where Huck is and about the scenery. When Huck was on the island Twain helped describe the places Huck hid when the whole town was looking for him. The setting can almost act as a character because of the was it's described and how it helps Huck along the way. " I laid there in the grass and the cool shade thinking about things, and feeling rested and ruther comfortable and satisfied. I could see the sun out at one or two holes, but mostly it was a big tree all about, and gloomy in there amongst them" (36). I think that how Huck explained where he was on the island made it seem as nothing could go wrong, and the tree acted as a blanket of comfort as he layed there in the shade.

Mark Twain does an exceptional job developing the setting as another character. In most books the setting is briefly described, and essentially forgot about because the author spends so much time developing the physical characters. Throughout the book, we learn things about the river as we would learn about the personality of a character.
“Well, all right. Don’t stand there palavering all day, but out with you and see if there’s a fish on the lines for breakfast. I’ll be along in a minute” (30). The setting is a provider. A provider of food, shelter, and entertainment; it is the way of life for these characters. The way of life, itself, is a character. Also, the way that Mark Twain develops this setting helps you really connect with it as you would with a character. In this particular book, the setting is developed to have behaviors as well as characteristics. “The June rise used to be always luck for me; because as soon as that rise begins here comes cordwood floating down, and pieces of log rafts—sometimes a dozen logs together; so all you have to do is to catch them and sell them to the wood yards and sawmill” (30). The June rise is a behavior of the river that Huck would enjoy and look forward to, thus showing a formed relationship between the river and Huck. This setting, also, affects the emotions of the characters. “If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way by yourself in the night, you try it once—you’ll see” (82). The river made Huck feel vulnerable, scared. So far, not many things have been able to affect Huck in such a way. For some reason he saw the river differently than before, and it definitely got to him. The development of this setting is very important because it acts as the character that all of the other characters can relate to. It gives a base for the storyline; it is, ultimately, like the character that is the “glue”.

yes, Mark Twain, created the setting so well it seems to speak whats happening in it, like the animals that act are an extension of the setting. "Some young birds come along, flying a yard or two at a time and lightning. Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain"(45). This is an example of when the setting is acting, in this case by warning Huck and Jim that rain was coming. "Then we hunted up a place close by to hide the canoe in, amongst the thick willows. We took some fish off of the lines and set them again"(48). The setting is making their stay on the island an easy one by giving them good hiding places, an abundance of food and shelter.

In Huck Finn, I think that the setting could be considered another character because he gives so much detail about everything. When they were going down the river, he gives a lot of detail about everything around. For example, he says "then here comes the ferryboat; so I shoved for the middle of the river on a long down-stream slant; and when I judged I was out of eye-reach I laid on my oars, and looked back and see her go smell around the wreck for Miss Hooker's remainders, because the captain would know her uncle Hornback would want them; and then pretty soon the ferryboat give it up and went for the shore, and I laid into my work and went a-booming down the river" (75). Mark Twain really got into detail in that talking about everything around him and saying he shoved in the middle of the river instead of just saying the river. Another example would be when he says "the lightning showed her very distinct. She was leaning over, with part of her upper deck above water, and you could see every little chimbly-guy clean and clear, and a chair by the big bell, with an old slouch hat hanging on the back of it, when the flashes come" (66). He doesn't just say that she's standing in the water, he actually goes into detail about how she looks. He also explains how you could see the guy clean and clear and when he says you could see a chair by a big bell, you can actually imagine what it looks like.

Is Mark Twain's setting a character?

I believe that Mark Twain's setting in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has the detail and importance of any character. This importance gives true nature and life to the story. Not only is it a factor to the story's plot, but it effects all the characters that are involved. An example of the characteristic sense in the story is seen on page 83. The paragraph reads "It was a monsterous big river here, with the tallest and thickest kind of timber on both banks; just a solid wall, as well as I could see by the stars. I looked away downstream, and seen a black speck on the water. I took after it; but when I got to it it warn't nothing but a couple of saw-logs made fast together". Without the visual details and context, we would find this paragraph far less intriguing. Reading multiple passages over other examples of the setting can really set an image in your head. This image can help you not only connect to the setting and story, but also connect with other characters mentioned in this book. When you really think about it, Mark Twain wrote the specifics for his benefits and for your own.

Blog Post #2: Prompt (for Group B)

Some authors are able to develop the setting of their book so well that it can be considered another character. Has Mark Twain done this in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn? ACECE

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