Characters Transformations
Ernest J. Gaines wrote A Lesson Before Dying in the 20thcentury: even though Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written in the 19th century. Yet, both show how characters from the novels transform. Ernest J. Gaines even though some of it was fictional he used people from his real life to relate the book too which is talked about in Bill Ferris in Meeting Ernest Gaines. Twain’s Huck Fin is about a young Huck Finn, son of a drunk father, leaves and goes on adventures down the Mississippi River, likewise, during Gaines, which is place in Louisiana Grant Wiggins, a young teacher who had returned from college to teach at the local church is sent to the jail to help out Miss Emma, who is Jefferson’s godmother, …show more content…
Jeffrey J. Folks Communal Responsibility in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying shows us how Paul is someone that Gaines saw as a person to fix the bad things in life and to understand what is good.
What people believed in and what they thought was right was very important to many of the characters in the story. Religion is brought up in both books to help bring a character in Huck Finn to religion and to help Grant come back to the Religion his family and community believes in. However there is a difference between the two on their religion. Huck is not that interested in religion, “After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn 't care no more about him, because I don 't take no stock in dead people” (14) Huck became interested as the Widow was trying to teach him however he lost interest as he found out that he was no longer alive and that would mean Huck could not look up to him like he did others, …show more content…
Miss Watson and Widow Douglas tried to instill good moral and religious beliefs in Huck because he had never learned because he had a drunken father. In Heather M. Schrum’s paper she talks about how Huck Finn gave problems to the too women who were only trying to teach him the good; “Huck displays his determination and independence in striking contrast to the regulated, proper ways of the women. They are constantly in conflict with Huck’s vulgar habits and uncivilized mannerisms” (Schrum 2). Huck was being taught how to learn about religion but he choose not to take that path with them.
In a paper by Leslie Gregory she wrote; “Twain completed Huckleberry Finn in 1884, at a time when black identity in American society was undefined. Even though blacks had been granted citizenship in 1870 by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, Southern white society still looked upon them as sub-human creatures without souls or feelings” (Gregory) this showed that when Twain wrote Huck Finn he did so relating to what was happening in his time period.
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Ernest J. Gaines wrote A Lesson Before Dying in the 20thcentury: even though Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was written in the 19th century. Yet, both show how characters from the novels transform. Ernest J. Gaines even though some of it was fictional he used people from his real life to relate the book too which is talked about in Bill Ferris in Meeting Ernest Gaines. Twain’s Huck Fin is about a young Huck Finn, son of a drunk father, leaves and goes on adventures down the Mississippi River, likewise, during Gaines, which is place in Louisiana Grant Wiggins, a young teacher who had returned from college to teach at the local church is sent to the jail to help out Miss Emma, who is Jefferson’s godmother, …show more content…
Jeffrey J. Folks Communal Responsibility in Ernest J. Gaines’s A Lesson Before Dying shows us how Paul is someone that Gaines saw as a person to fix the bad things in life and to understand what is good.
What people believed in and what they thought was right was very important to many of the characters in the story. Religion is brought up in both books to help bring a character in Huck Finn to religion and to help Grant come back to the Religion his family and community believes in. However there is a difference between the two on their religion. Huck is not that interested in religion, “After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn 't care no more about him, because I don 't take no stock in dead people” (14) Huck became interested as the Widow was trying to teach him however he lost interest as he found out that he was no longer alive and that would mean Huck could not look up to him like he did others, …show more content…
Miss Watson and Widow Douglas tried to instill good moral and religious beliefs in Huck because he had never learned because he had a drunken father. In Heather M. Schrum’s paper she talks about how Huck Finn gave problems to the too women who were only trying to teach him the good; “Huck displays his determination and independence in striking contrast to the regulated, proper ways of the women. They are constantly in conflict with Huck’s vulgar habits and uncivilized mannerisms” (Schrum 2). Huck was being taught how to learn about religion but he choose not to take that path with them.
In a paper by Leslie Gregory she wrote; “Twain completed Huckleberry Finn in 1884, at a time when black identity in American society was undefined. Even though blacks had been granted citizenship in 1870 by the 15th Amendment to the Constitution, Southern white society still looked upon them as sub-human creatures without souls or feelings” (Gregory) this showed that when Twain wrote Huck Finn he did so relating to what was happening in his time period.
Pearson