Monday, December 13, 2010

Finally Huck has come to an end.

1. His behavior towards Tom shows how strong his feeling are, and he does not care anymore about his freedom to help his friend. In the last chapters Jim's character is finally complete: his being kind, not having bad attitudes and instead having good feelings toward people make him one of the purest souls.

2. The doctor's speech helped people to understand Jim. All his words saying how good Jim had been make their judgment, and they "don't cuss at him no more". Although this shows how easily people were influenced and did not have their own idea, at the same time shows how actually his behavior was better than many white peeps'.

3. The bullet is seen by Tom as a trophy, he makes a necklace out of it and shows it off. This is significant because it's Tom's dream - he had always wanted to have this kind of adventure and the bullet, to him, is the proof that he actually is one of his books' characters... of course he is: he is a part of the Romantic society.

4. Huck decides to leave again and have more adventures because he does not feel as part of the society. He IS NOT part of it. He does see the society as corrupted and he does not want to be a part of it, therefore the only solution is escaping.

5. The book is built up with Huck's point of view. His impressions and sensations are used to give the reader the exact idea of what HE feels like. He describes things and events as he sees them, sometimes not actually as they are: his naivety makes things look a way that they might actually not be. For instance in the circus, it was hard to understand what actually was going on: in fact if Huck's perception helps us to understand HIM, on the other hand it's harder to get what is going on. Of course a third person narrator would have changed the whole book: the story would have not been as funny and ironic because it would have been a normal sequence of actions, and a lot of turnups would not have been so surprising, given the omniscence of the narrator.   

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