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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
HUCK FINN
Mark Twain's HUCK FINN is noted for its wisdom through wit. Share with us a passage that you found humorous but prophetic. Tell why.
Pap warn't in a good humor--so he was his natural self. (27) I find this funny in the face that his pap is not in good humor, and it is prophetic in the fact that it is true about a variety of people. There are those who are always in a horrible mood and the people around them just get used to it. IH
A prophetic yet humorous passage occurs after Mary Jane tells Huck she will pray for him. "Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take on a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same-she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion-there warn't no back-down to her, I judge" (194). It's amusing that, though Huck feels he will never be civilized, he is touched by an act as simple as a prayer request. It shows that people in general are touched by simple acts of kindness. KW
I think the most humorous part in the novel is when Huck and Tom are planning to dig Jim out and help him escape. Tom insists on using case-knives instead of picks and shovels. "It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's the right way--and it's the regular way"(chapter 35). I believe that many people have to do things the hard way just because everyone else does it that way or because it is tradition. KS
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Pap warn't in a good humor--so he was his natural self. (27) I find this funny in the face that his pap is not in good humor, and it is prophetic in the fact that it is true about a variety of people. There are those who are always in a horrible mood and the people around them just get used to it. IH
A prophetic yet humorous passage occurs after Mary Jane tells Huck she will pray for him. "Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take on a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same-she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion-there warn't no back-down to her, I judge" (194). It's amusing that, though Huck feels he will never be civilized, he is touched by an act as simple as a prayer request. It shows that people in general are touched by simple acts of kindness. KW
I think the most humorous part in the novel is when Huck and Tom are planning to dig Jim out and help him escape. Tom insists on using case-knives instead of picks and shovels. "It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's the right way--and it's the regular way"(chapter 35). I believe that many people have to do things the hard way just because everyone else does it that way or because it is tradition. KS
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