Essay On Sedgewick Bell

In the beginning of the story, when Sedgewick arrives, we learn that Hundert has confidence in his job as a teacher and believes that his students can learn from antiquity. When he is questioned at his work by Sedgewick, Hundert starts to take disciplinary actions to attempt to make Sedgewick a better student, but when all his actions fail, he threatens to call upon his father for his poor behavior. Soon after that, we start to see a change in Sedgwick. For example, for the first time he passed his quiz and even reenacted important scenes from Julius Caesar adequately.

Hundert has big expectations for Sedgewick while he is a student at St. Benedict's which is to do good in school and be taught correctly. In the text it said “It’s my job, sir, to mold your son’s character.” (Pg 163) That is to say, to “mold” Sedgewick is to be guided in the correct path. Hundert has positive intentions. The senator (Mr. Bell) said no, Hundert will not mold him he will simply just teach him. In the short story it said, “he said slowly, but you will not mold him. I will mold him. You will merely just teach him.” In other words this shows Sedgewick's father wants to be the one to “mold” him, but what is his way of molding?

Huck, who is a child in a book, has a lot of room for development. In the beginning, he was taught to follow the rules of society like practicing Catholicism and refusing to associate with slaves. However, during Huck’s journey with Jim, he learns a valuable lesson about respecting people based on their character, despite what he was taught by Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and Tom Sawyer. During the first few days of his journey, he pulls pranks on Jim, like attempting to trick him into thinking that getting lost in the fog was all a dream. However, later on in his journey, he refuses to follow the rules of society in order to save Jim. He even says “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” when he chooses not to tell Miss Watson Jim’s whereabouts (Twain 214). Jim in turn sees Huck as a great friend as well, thus showing how Huck is now seen as a

In the first chapter of Huckleberry Finn, Huck is stuck in a "sivilized" world, when he would certainly prefer to live free. He ends up moving in with the Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson. The widow changes his clothing and makes him learn the bible. Huck disliked the clothing very much saying “She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel cramped up.” (156) Ironically, the widow will not allow him to smoke even though she secretly uses snuff. Miss Watson thinks he should get an education and takes it upon herself to teach him spelling and proper behavior. Huckleberry finds spelling very difficult to learn and hates her lectures so much that he decides that Hell has got to better than Heaven. He states, “Well I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it.” (156) With this reference Twain is reminding us as the reader, of Huckleberry’s childhood innocence. A child would choose hell over heaven.

Furthermore, the important Tournament of Roman History is almost won due to Sedgewick Bell's cheating. The headmaster at the time trickles under the weight of the powers and tells Hundert to ignore the cheating and move on. There were higher-ups at the school as well as Sedgewick Bell's senator father continually badger Hundert and prevent him from taking any action against Sedgewick Bell. Perhaps Mr. Hundert draws some ironic encouragement from his self regard that he has failed to reshape Sedgewick Bell's personal character. But I believe he also overestimates the influence on his character building coaching might have on students like his. Hundert has a clear sense of his own identity that he cannot always stand up to others.

Huck absolutely hated how they are forcing him to follow a bunch of rules. The Widow Douglas teaches Huck the Bible, which he doesn 't mind but he doesn 't like how she 's forcing it on him. One of the rules was Huck was not aloud to smoke. Miss Watson told Huck that he had to get an education. She tried to teach him how to spell but he had no interest. She also gave him lectures on good behavior because she said that 's how he would go to heaven. He told her he didn 't believe that, he thought hell sounded more fun than heaven, so he 'd rather go to hell instead. Even though he doesn 't like either one of the women, he does like Widow Douglas more than Miss Watson. She gave him encouragement even though she had strict rules. And she took care of him, like buying him clothes even though he didn’t want them. Huck respects Widow Douglas because she gives him good advice and is not so harsh on him about certain things. Huck ran away, and they sent Tom to search for him. Tom convinced him to come home, but he still complained about having to wear new clothes and eat only when the bell rang for dinner. He didn 't like their rules because he wasn 't used to it growing up with his Pap. One of the examples is that his Pap forbid him from going to school, yet they want him to be

This caused Hundert to wonder what the point of trying if boys like Sedgwick would never learn. Following this leads to the meeting to Senator Bell, Sedgwick’s father. Upon this meeting Hundert comes to the realization that he doesn’t have the guts to stand up to Senator Bell. “I’m sorry, young man,” he said slowly, “but you will not mold him. I will mold him. You will merely teach him.”(164). This made Hundert realize the fact that the tyrant has a point, that teaching him will make him learn but wasn’t his job to make him to a man. His morals are also broken by letting Sedgwick win all the Mr. Julius Caesar test just to see him cheating up stage.

By doing this, he set up a second "julius Caesar" competitionand a highschool reunion. " intaught a boy who, if not for the vengeful recriminations of the tabloids, would today have been pesident of the United States. That school was my life. This is why, I suppose, I accepted the invitation sent to me by Mr. Sedgewick Bell although I shouldv'e known better" (cannin 156). Hundert knew that he should have not accepted the invitation, this is a bad

In the article "The Palace Thief" by Ethan Canin, Mr.Hundert became more of a teacher that likes a particular student which was Mr. Bells. Through out the story Hundert over looked, emotion towards, and over estimate Sedgewick Bells. When Bells do well in the class Hundert overlooked on Bells which gave him a spot in the Julius Ceaser competition. Hundert express feelings toward Bells after Hundert met with his father because after the meeting Bell's father is a jerk, Bells started doing well, overlooked on Bells.

The king and the duke are full of cupidity and planned to rob the daughters. Huck Finn did the right thing by telling the daughters about the king and dukes plans. This lesson teaches the reader not to follow others blindly and to help others. There are many lessons that can be taken from Huckleberry

In the film Mr Hundert continuously mentors Sedgewick and even gives him his old history textbook. The virtue that is shown in this example is brotherly love. It is brotherly love because Mr Hundert was looking after Sedgewick by continuously trying to help and encouraging him with his studies. The effect this had was that Sedgewick began try in his subjects. His grades rose tremendously and he was able to compete in the Julia Cesar competition. This also allowed Sedgewick’s classmates to improve as Sedgewick was less of a distraction. In this situation I would have acted in a similar way to Mr Hundert. I would have helped Sedgewick with his studies and if I had the resources available I would have given them to him.

In the adventures of Huckleberry finn there are many points in the story that shows how good intentions only serve against Huck and Jim and how doing the right thing actually leads to the hypocrisy of some characters. Good actions can consequently have a bad end result. In the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn you can see how Huck helps Jim escape from being sold to New Orléans even though the result would lead badly for him , Judge Thatcher wanting to improve Paps moral condition towards Huck and himself, but it seems to only drive Pap to further torment Huck in the end, and the hypocrisy of Widow Dougulas scolding Huck on proper manners . First prime example in this essay is how Huck guides alongside Jim as he helps Huck toward their great escape.

Huck Finn grew up in an abusive home in which he has no control over. Huck does not wish to ever go back to such a hell since one knows about such a man to do such harsh things. You’re self-wellness by in which you grew upon throughout the years has turned you into the person you are today. The people you’ve been around, the friends you’ve made, and even the enemies you’ve made have made you who you are today. Huck Finn is like you in such a way. Always trying to figure what’s right and what’s wrong. Always trying to adjust to situations he is in for the better. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer, a young but brave kid, has made a gang in which he would like Huck to join. But in order for Huck to join he needs to start being more and more respectful to Ms. Watson who adopted Huck from his abusive father. Tom Sawyer, Ms. Watson, and other characters use this sort of morality building to help Huck with him being respectful to the other folk. Sounds similar, yes? Most of our parents and friends use these types of morality’s in religion, goals, warnings, holidays, and even sometimes themselves such as if you do what they did then you’ll be just as rich as them. Every Action, every word, everything you have received, felt, and have done build your sense of right and wrong.

Huck hates the idea of respectability and going to school. Huckleberry

Reading the whole story, one can observe that Huckleberry is surrounded by the normal morality of his time and environment. However, when it's time to do something for some reason, Huckleberry behave in the way that appears to be right