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Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal

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AJ Nieves Mrs. Revor Honors English 11 8-22-15 St. Petersburg: The novel begins in a small riverfront town named St. Petersburg. The main character, Huckleberry Finn, starts off the novel living with the Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson. Huckleberry Finn despises living with the Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson, and would much rather go back to his old way of life. They constantly teach him better manners, and overall civilize him to their way of life. We soon learn that even though Huck doesn’t like his new life, but it is a lot better than his old one because he has a drunken/abusive father. I believe deep down that Huck is grateful for what the women are trying to do, and is trying to change for them. Jim, one of Mrs. Watson’s slaves, is …show more content…

His father yells at him for being able to read and go to school. He dislikes how Huck is trying to be better than he will ever be. Huck is forced to move in with his father in a cabin away from the Widow Douglas and Mrs. Watson. Hucks dad continues to torment him and take money for alcohol. One night Huck’s father is so drunk he almost kills Huck, in defense he holds a gun all night just to be safe. With no other way out, Huck fakes his death by making it look like Pap killed him and runs away without telling anybody. This stop is significant for Huck because it reminds him of what his old life was like. Just as he was starting to like his new life and getting used to being civilized, he had to revert back to his old ways. Finally, this stop showed that Huck was so desperate to get away from his father that the only thing he could think of doing was to fake his own …show more content…

He then ends up in the Grangerfords household, they ask him abounch of questions seeing if he is a Shepherdson. The grangerfords realize that he is not a Sheperson and welcome him into their home. Huck befriends the Grangerfords son named Buck, he tells Huck that they have had a fued with the Shephersons for a long time. One day a battle broke out between the two families because a grangerford daughter and Shperhson son ran away together. Mr Grangerford and his two brothers were gunned down, and buck and his brother were being shot at. Huck watches buck and a boy be ambushed by shepherdsons on top of a tree. Huck is emotionally hurt by bucks death, They were becoming really good friends and he had to watch him be killed. Additionally, this event is significant because Huck sees how the Grangerfords treated him so well and they didn’t deserve the death that came to them. When Huck see Bucks body in the river he has to cover it up because it is the least he could do for him after all buck did for him. At this oint I believe Huck thinks their journey cant get much worse than it already is, he has witnessed death and disappointment too

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