Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal

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1. P1 The Widow Douglas attempts to civilize Huckleberry Finn which most likely including religion. Her calling him a lost lamb probably alludes to that theory.
2. P2 The way it’s written, it seems that slaves are a commonality in the South during this time period.
3. P3 With Mark Twain making fun of the South’s odd rituals and superstitions, the reader can tell that Huckleberry Finn is not too religious.
4. P4 Mark Twain mocks the fact that people in the South regard African American slaves and unintelligent.
5. P5 With the amount of times that Huckleberry Finn says “niggers” you could infer that he was no problem saying it because everybody else does.
6. P6 Using his wit, Huckleberry Finn used Miss Watson as the person to be killed if he
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P7 When talking about ransoming, it shows that the group doesn’t exactly know what they’re doing an only doing things like ransoming because they’ve seen people do it in fictional children’s books.
8. P8 The boys are fine killing people but not on Sundays. This shows that the boys are religious, but only when it suits them.
9. P9 When talking about the discovery of the dead body, Huckleberry Finn says that men float on their front and women on their back but humans, whether they are male or female, float the same way. This shows Huckleberry Finn’s lack of intelligence and logic.
10. P10 When Huckleberry Finn couldn’t “see” the diamonds, elephants, or A-rabs that Tom Sawyer “saw”, demonstrates Tom Sawyer’s imagination and Huckleberry Finn’s lack of
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P21 Mark Twain uses cartoon-like elements and intense imagery to describe Pap taking the fall.
22. P22 Pap calls Huckleberry Finn the Angel of Death, yet he doesn’t seem religious. Twain having Pap call Huckleberry the Angel of Death could allude to the fact that Pap may die due to the hands of Huckleberry.
23. P23 Huckleberry is comfortable now lying to Pap as he knows he would be abused further he were to tell the truth.
24. P24 The audience learns that Huckleberry Finn has really good survival skills and wit as he knows what to take when escaping the cabin.
25. P25 This is another example of how much Huckleberry Finn looked up to Tom Sawyer and how much he idolized him.
26. P26 The fact that Huckleberry said that it smelt late shows that he does have a slight imagination as time cannot be smelt. He must choose when and when not to use his imagination.
27. P27 Huckleberry Finn relates the island to a steamboat without lights imply that each would be abandoned.
28. P28 Instead of getting scared of the hunting party, Huckleberry Finn sees it as an opportunity to have some fun, which demonstrates his outlook on life.
29. P29 It seems that Huckleberry Finn has a need to stay in the village but isn’t telling u why. He most likely would be long gone by now if this wasn’t the

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