Reader Response Journal Entry – Satires In class, we went over the definitions of a satire and began to talk about what elements of a satire are seen in Huck Finn. A satire is described as the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. As I began to think more about what a satire means, I realized that in modern day TV shows, politics, and other sources of entertainment, elements of a satire are often brought in. For example, Family Guy
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Mark Twain uses effective techniques to create sympathy for his characters in his writing of the novel Huckleberry Finn. These techniques include, dialect and use of dialect to portray strong emotions. The main emotions that Mark Twain emphasized were those of shame, loneliness, bitterness, and the love of family. These techniques created the most sympathy for the slave character, Jim. They are truly effective because the readers do sympathizes for Jim because of his run away slave life and the separation
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risk his own life for Jim. This friendship develops throughout the story as Jim and Huck spend increasing amounts of time together while facing many different problems, most of them having to do with their own morality. Huck starts our story as a young, racist, white fourteen year old boy trying to escape his former identity while taking advantage of any help he can get from a runaway slave by the name of Jim. Huck slowly makes the transition from using Jim to further help himself to going against
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greatness of the book. As a narrate you feel a bit mislead throughout the book. The end makes us feel like Tom Sawyer is the antagonist in relation to Huck, which perepetia involves going from cute boy to destroyer of lives. How is the book narrated and what consequences does it have? Answer: The book is narrated by Huck, 1st person, intra-diegetic –> homo-diegetic, it’s a story with several stories in it. It starts of in media res, we are thrown in the story
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Azar Nafisi writes about how she believes that through empathy we have deep connections to everyone. In her This I Believe Essay, she explains that empathy cannot be accomplished unless we enter someone else’s world through imagination. During the essay empathy is described as the “shock of recognition.” I guess I see why she called it a shock, we take in a huge amount of emotion when we begin to empathize. She talks about the “mysterious connections that link individuals to each other despite their
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“The Adventure of huckleberry Finn” is one of the greatest of American literature book by Mark Twain. As far as we know, this book has been heated debate in America whether it should be taught in school or not. Many people challenged and banned this book. But I think it should be taught in school because it teaches kids about racism and slavery of that time period. People who against this book misunderstand what important information Twain wants to talk about, they criticize Mark Twain
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Ewen Wang In Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain targets Southern selfishness and ignorance by ironically imposing cruel treatments on Jim’s compassionate and logical character, supporting his goal to satirize racism. Twain embeds his criticism of racism in Jim’s human characteristics and cruel fate in order to avoid denunciation himself. Early in the novel, Huck and Jim debate about whether the French talk the same way. Huck does not think so, but Jim convinces him otherwise by contrasting a cow
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consequences of their actions. Huck Fin, was a good ol’ boy. Always tryin’ to help ol’ Jim. Huck was only tryin’ to free Jim. The king told him I was bein’ held down on Phelps Plantation. He had come prentedin’ to be Tom, and did a pretty good job at foolin’ the ol’ Sawyer family. He say he was feelin’ comfortable until he heard that steam boat comin’ down the river. He knew that Tom Sawyer was gonnabe on that steam boat. So with Huck bein’ as educated as he was, he left to go and
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OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN ~ Study Questions ANSWERS Chapter 1-11 Ch 1 1. How did THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER end? Tom and Huck found ($6,000 each) from robbers 2. With whom did Huckleberry (Huck) live? Widow Douglas 3. What is Twain satirizing in Huck’s attitude toward Moses? Religion-“faith” wisdom from dead people 4. Who is Miss Watson? Widow Douglas’s sister 5. What did Huck like to do that the Widow Douglas would not allow? Smoke 6. Why did Huck decide to go back
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The GED Language Arts, Reading Test Passing the GED Language Arts, Reading Test Jean Dean ABE/GED Teacher Mentor Teacher California Distance Learning Project www.cdlponline.org 1 GED Video Partner #11 Passing the GED Reading Test In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr. TEST OVERVIEW: Time: 65 minutes The test consists of fiction and nonfiction readings. • Fiction excerpts include readings
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