Anna Edgren Sophomore English Period 3 Mrs Burdette 28 April, 2017 Quote Journal #1 Revision Project Throughout the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the readers are able to see the protagonist Huck change his views on society and being able to distinguish right and wrong. The end of chapter fifteen reveals a great deal about Huck and Jim’s relationship. In the chapter, Huck and Jim are on the river on a raft trying to get to Cairo. During this journey, Huck and Jim get separated by the fog when Huck goes ahead to pull the raft.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is both a play and a story. There are many differences between the two, but they have many similarities as well. They are both the same and different. The play 's main difference is that it didn 't have the story within the story.
One time the king took huck into town to with him and found out that the townspeople were at a church meeting. So the king and huck went to it and the king said that he was a pirate. The townspeople believed it. The king started preaching and crying which made the townspeople do the same thing.
The narrator in The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County does very little storytelling. He introduces us to Simon Wheeler by a barroom stove in an old tavern; then we spend the next three full pages listening to him (Twain 662-665). The narrator interrupts Wheeler and he ends our story (Twain 666). In The Outcasts of Poker Flat the narrator is outside the story and we do not know who it is. The narrator follows John Oakhurst from the beginning when he becomes an outcast (Harte 674) to the end when he dies (Harte 684).
Smiley, an author of many books and magazine essays, writes her own criticism of Huckleberry Finn, “Say It Ain’t So, Huck”. Smiley has very strong arguments as she compares her own opinions and backs them up with Twain’s words from the book. Smiley argues that Twains real meaning behind the book is based off of racism. Twain never allows Jim to become a real human, as Jim will always be a slave whether he knows it or not. Although Huck and Jim end up creating a very strong relationship like brothers, Smiley believes that “Twain thinks that Hucks affection is a good enough reward for Jim” (Smiley 460).
And don’t go about women in that old calico. You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe.” (Twain 63). Huckleberry Finn uses his skill at lying to save Jim from men that were searching for slaves. When two men approach their raft the following exchange takes place:” ’Boy, that’s a lie.
In Mark Twain’s The Celebrated Jumping Frog Calaveras County; Which was written about a man named Simon Wheeler who asked to be told about the myth of a man named Leonidas W. Smiley by a friend of his. In confusion the friend instead told Wheeler about Jim Smiley. Smiley was a man who had a big gambling problem , willing to bet on almost anything. As you read the famous folktale you will see that Mark Twain uses imagery to create many visuals throughout the folk tale , so that you may paints a visual image as you read. “I noticed that the he was fat and bald- headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity up his tranquil.”
A few cowboys try catching the horse with no success. But then he sees this cowboy step up and tries next and realizes that he is different from everyone else there. This man is wearing nice clothing and even though it shows signs of work and travel it still looks nice on the man. The man then catches the horse with little trouble. When the narrator gets off the train he again sees the man talking with another well-dressed man.
Narrator and Doodle tell each other crazy stories. Doodle had the craziest stories,he would have people who flew and had wings. Doodle tells his favorite story about a boy named peter that has a ten-foot tail. "Doodle and I spent lots of time thinking about our future. We decided that when we were grown we'd live in old woman swamp"(599).
“‘Doodle!’ I screamed above the pounding storm and threw my body to the earth above his” (426). In the short story “The Scarlet Ibis” by James Hurst, the narrator, known as Brother, brings his younger brother, Doodle, to his destined death a little earlier in his life. Brother, being only thirteen, does not think very highly of his six year old younger brother Doodle. Doodle’s real name is William Armstrong but the narrator discovered his nickname when he sees him crawling backwards like a doodlebug.
The dramatic irony of the story is how we can infer from the beginning that something bad was going to happen to Doodle because of the way the narrator treats him. From the start of the story when the narrator forces Doodle to walk, run , swim and climbs trees to when the narrator forces Doodle to row the boat and run even though he was exhausted. His forcefulness is the main clue that something bad was going to happen to his brother. The Scarlet ibis also was a clue that Doodle was going to die. When the bird fell from the tree outside the family’s porch, you can infer that the same thing was going to happen to Doodle.
I read the story Hangovers by Jennifer Pashley. This was not my first option as I first tried to read The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain but I gave up after reading the third paragraph. As my second option, I chose the Hangovers based solely on its intriguing title. To be honest, It´s difficult to me to say what the story is about. I would say the author describes some hangovers she had in her youth, then in a metaphor; she compares those hangovers with all the struggles that we have to face in life.
Whereas in Washington’s story,” Under one of these gigantic trees, according to old stories, there was a great amount of treasure buried by Kidd the pirate. . . . The old stories add, moreover, that the devil presided at the hiding of the money and took it under his guardianship; but this, . . . , and there hanged for a pirate. ``( paragraph 1) Irving way of using foreshadowing to explain how there was an old folktale about a pirate treasure. Which is guarded by the devil, the devil is known for witchcraft that leads to Tom’s wife being killed.
The use of language in writing is a form of self-expression and is a way to reveal key things about narrators’ characters. The narrators in “The Notorious Jumping Frog” and “Baker's Bluejay Yarn” by Mark Twain, have a very specific style of language which reveals things about their characters. In “The Notorious Jumping Frog” the narrator’s name is Simon Wheeler, The story takes place in Calaveras County, a mining town in California. Wheeler is originally asked about a man by the name Leonidas W. Smiley, but Wheeler started talking a completely different man by the name of Jim Smiley, a man with a gambling problem, who once lived in town. In “Baker's Bluejay Yarn” the narrator's name is Jim Baker.
In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain often portrays townspeople to negatively criticizes society. This theme continues in Chapter 21 of the novel which relays the death of the town drunk named Boggs. Twain manipulates the language of narrative to juxtapose the public and private intentions of the bystanders who weakly attempt to prevent the murder for their cynical entertainment. Twain’s initial depiction of the townspeople appears virtuous.
