Wednesday, September 16, 2009

TAoHF notes. Forgot about the assignment and left my book in my locker. Yay google?

The way Jim speaks is a critique of the south and their uneducated black population:
"'Yes-en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no''" (52). Even though Jim is an adult, it's very hard to even understand what he's saying. He's so uneducated that it's difficult to get what he's saying.

Huck's bad grammar and mixed up tenses seem to be a critique:
"I knowed he was white inside" (301). He's only a kid, but he should be old enough to be able to speak properly. Because he had lived with a father who hadn't wanted him to become smarted than he was, Huck grew not liking school and not being interested in it, and therefore he spoke ignorantly.

Racism, even in Huck, who was young and inexperienced was a critique:
"Conscience says to me 'What had poor Miss Watson done to you, that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you, that you could treat her so mean?...' I got to feeling so mean and so miserable I most wished I was dead" (97). He had grown up around racism and so he really didn't know any better. It was so deep-seeded into his mind and everyday life that it took his long adventure to realize that all people were equal.



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