Book Report Of The Great Gatsby Dialectical Journal

This young boy’s name is Huckleberry Finn, and he is brave and yearning for adventure. He begins the story with a newly acquired fortune, but goes back to living in rags and in a barrel. Huckleberry is convinced by his best friend, Tom Sawyer, to go back to living with “The Widow” so that he can join Tom’s newly created band of robbers. The Widow Douglas is a woman who takes Huckleberry as her son and does her best to “sivilize” him: teaching him how to behave and forcing him to go to school. Huckleberry slips off and joins “The Tom Sawyer Gang” and pretends to rob people for about a month before he resigns. All this time, Huckleberry is getting used to living with the widow, even admitting that he likes it a little bit. Then, one day, his father shows up, demanding his fortune and eventually taking him to his log cabin, hidden in the woods. There Huck hunts and fishes, but is not permitted to leave. Eventually, “pap got too handy with his hick’ry” so Huck escapes down the river when his father is drunk. Huck hides on Jackson’s Island and meets Jim, The Widow’s slave. Huck learns that Jim had run away from The Widow and so they decide to help each other out. But when Huck learns of a plan to search the island, they leave down the river. Several days later, they almost run into some robbers on a wrecked steamboat and manage to escape with their loot. When Huck and Jim land on the bank

In chapter six Tom meets the new girl whose name is Becky Thatcher. They “get engaged” then Becky finds out that he was “engaged” to Amy Lawrence. Becky did not take it very well so she left him (Twain, 70-71). After he had his heartbroken, Tom ran away and did not return to the afternoon class. He waited for school to be out, then Huckleberry Finn, Joe Harper, and he went to a nearby island to be pirates. When they showed up missing the town put up a search group to look for their bodies in the river. After a few days had passed Tom went to Aunt Polly’s during the night and found out that there was going to be a funeral for Tom, Huck, and Joe. When Tom got back to the island he told the others that they were missed and that there would be a funeral for them. Now that they know that there is going to be a funeral, which was the whole reason they ran away, they were planning a surprise entrance to their funeral. That Saturday Tom, Huck, and Joe made their entrance to their funeral, after they heard all of the nice things people said about them they pop up out of hiding and surprised everyone. In chapters nine and ten Tom and Huck go exploring in the grave at night and they witness Injun Joe’s murder of Dr. Robinson. They swear to each other that they would never say a thing about

Huck a 13 year old boy, son of the towns drunk runs away from the real world where his father is constantly drunk and only pops up on him from time to time and the the widow Douglas who is trying to civilize him and teach him morals. Huck sets up his own murder and runs away onto an island miles away from where his town is, where coincidently he runs into a runaway slave named Jim who works for the widow Douglas who also happened to run away the same time Huck did. In result so both Huck and Jim running away, Jim is accused of murdering Huck

The primary relationships of Huck with the Widow Douglas and Miss Watson as well as Huck with Pap and Huck with Jim are established. Throughout the novel, Huck takes on different identities to further his attempts at freedom. In this section three of these identities are seen. One is Huck, the dead boy when he “kills” himself in order to cover his escape from Pap at his cabin and the other is Sarah Mary Williams whom he disguised himself as when he attempted to get information and later George Peters emerges when Sarah is discovered to be a boy.

Huck shows his growth through his ability to understand that their religious beliefs are in conflict with their own actions. Huck learns even more about his own morals during his encounter with the King and the Duke. The King and the Duke lie about being the Wilks brothers in order to get money. For Huck, they cross the line when they lie to Mary Jane. Huck watches them cry for

The escapee, Jim, burdens to Huck at the beginning. Huck views him as just another uneducated slave (70). He wishes he had never promised keep his mouth shut about Jim running away (77-78). As time passes, they begin look out for each other. Huck creates stories to protect Jim from being turned in to the authorities (78-81). Jim tells a lie so Huck does not come into a house and see his father is dead (238).

When Huck leaves with Jim he experiences an entirely new world. He was taught that slaves were property not a human being. As the two boys were escaping, they floated down a raft on the Mississippi River. One foggy night Huck

After encounters with bandits and slave catchers, they save two con-artists that claim to be European royalty. With them at their side, they scam every city they come across, when trying to steal an inheritance that gets thwarted by Huck feeling guilt. In retaliation, the two sell Jim to a farmer, and Huck fixes on getting him out. In the luckiest of all coincidences, he was sold to Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle. Both mistake him for Tom, who supposed to be visiting around then, again very lucky, and Huck rolls with it. When Tom does arrive, Huck let’s him in on the plan and Tom agrees to play along as younger brother Sid.

#1. Huck chose to stay on Jackson’s island with Jim, rather than go back to his home. This implies Twain’s stance on racial issues, where Twain is opposing against unreasonable

As a runaway slave and a rumored dead boy, Jim and Huck’s friendship blossoms because of the fact that they are both in exile. Jack’s job, which takes the better of him, consumes his time and personality hindering his relationship with Adam. When Huck finds Jim, he is “ever so glad to see [him]” because Huck can now share his isolation with Jim (31). Jim is loyal to Huck, shelters him from his father, and risks his life to help the doctor save Tom’s life. His acts of love show that he genuinely cares for Huck through and through.

Thought to be dead, they make a dramatic entrance at their own funeral. Even Aunt Polly said she was “glad to see him” (118). This is a big turning point for Huck because people begin to see him as courageous and brave, instead of merely “gaudy”(42) and

Huckleberry and Tom hide behind a tree when they see three grave robbers digging up a grave and stealing stuff. One of the grave robbers killed the other with a knife so Tom and Huckleberry ran to a factory and spend the night there. While they are in the factory they hear a noise at the other end of the factory. They go over to the noise and find out that it is a drunk guy. Later, Huckleberry and Tom make a raft out of logs, and with two other guys set sail. They sail and land past the town and it is dark so they make a fire and go to

Huck finally gets rid of them, but is left to find his friend Jim, who got sold by the King. He ends up at Tom Sawyer's Aunt Polly’s house, where Tom and Huck rescues Jim.

Miss Watson is also the owner of Jim, she was planning to sell him south so Jim ran away. Miss Watson dies but sets Jim free feeling sorry that she was ever going to sell him. Miss Watson was kind and very compassionate towards Huck and his wellbeing.

Huck goes with Jim down the river. They help 2 men who are being followed by bandits. These men say they are a duke and the king. They continue traveling with the two, though Huck knows they are con artists. They scam people along the journey to get money. They hear of Peter Wilks a dead man who left his inheritance to his two brothers. The king and duke pretend to be the dead man’s brothers. The dead man’s three nieces welcome the duke and king, and Huck decides to mess up the scam for them. Huck takes the gold and puts it in the dead man’s coffin. He tells one of the neices about the scam. His plan is about to unfold when Wilks’s real brothers come from england. The townspeople try to decide who is really the brothers. The gold is found by the nieces. and Huck, Jim, the duke, and the King escape. Many scams later, the duke and king sell Jim to a local farmer, telling the farmer that Jim is a runaway with a large reward. Huck finds him and tries to free him.Where Jim is found. a woman sees Huck and calls him Tom. The people with Jim are Tom’s aunt and uncle, Silas and Sally Phelps. They mistake Huck for Tom, who should be coming there at the time, and Huck doesn’t tell them who he actually is. He finds Tom who acts like his little brother. After lots of useless preparing to free Jim, and stealing from the Phelps’s, they free Jim but someone shoots Tom in his leg. Huck gets a doctor, and Jim nurses Tom instead of escaping. They go back and Jim is