Huckleberry Finn quotes.
"Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing. Not for pie, he wouldn't."
This quote is similar to the first two quotes that I responded to. It is proving the thought that Huckleberry Finn wants to be like Tom Sawyer. He gets the oppourtunity to board a wreck in the river where murderers are, and decides to go just because he thinks that Tom would go. He doesn't even talk about his safety. The first thing that comes across his mind is Tom. Further on in the book, I predict that Huck will realize his "dependence" and that will make self-reliance that much more meaningful to him once he finds out who he is.
"It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither."
In this quote, Huckleberry Finn finds out a little more about himself, although he may not realize it. He understood that he did something wrong to Jim but he didn't want to apologize to Jim because of Jim's race. After a little while though, this mistake began to eat at him and eventually drove him to apologize. This not only shows that Huck has a conscience, but it also shows that Huck has himself somewhere inside of him and that he isn't Tom Sawyer. This is shown when he actually apologizes to Jim. At this point in history, black people were still slaves. Jim would have been considered lower than a normal slave because he had run away from his master. Huck showed originality in apologizing to Jim because he would not have learned that from anyone around him. Him seeing Jim as somewhat equal to him was something that he created inside of himself because he thought it was the right thing to do.
Thursday, October 25, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
numbereleven[11]
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Quotes
"I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving."
Before this section of the reading, Huck Finn speaks of his loneliness. This quote is about Huck Finn trying to find himself. He is comparing himself to the ghost who wanders alone trying to preach an unknown message that even he doesn't know. Huck Finn feels like he doesn't know what to do. He knows generally what he likes and dislikes, but doesn't know how to go about using that information. I have a feeling that this is setting up for the rest of the story in that he doesn't know what do with himself so he feels pressure to join the gang because it is different than what happens at home.
"Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?"
Tom Sawyer subconsiously feels pressure to live up to what he reads in the books. Since Tom is the leader of the gang, I predict that Huck Finn will begin to look up to him and find a sense of adventure. While Huck looks up to Tom, they both are unsure of who they are as shown by Tom looking for guidance. This will create a bond between the two and in their adventures they will find not only new experiences but also themselves.
"I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving."
Before this section of the reading, Huck Finn speaks of his loneliness. This quote is about Huck Finn trying to find himself. He is comparing himself to the ghost who wanders alone trying to preach an unknown message that even he doesn't know. Huck Finn feels like he doesn't know what to do. He knows generally what he likes and dislikes, but doesn't know how to go about using that information. I have a feeling that this is setting up for the rest of the story in that he doesn't know what do with himself so he feels pressure to join the gang because it is different than what happens at home.
"Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?"
Tom Sawyer subconsiously feels pressure to live up to what he reads in the books. Since Tom is the leader of the gang, I predict that Huck Finn will begin to look up to him and find a sense of adventure. While Huck looks up to Tom, they both are unsure of who they are as shown by Tom looking for guidance. This will create a bond between the two and in their adventures they will find not only new experiences but also themselves.
Monday, October 8, 2007
numberten[10]
Would you label Dickinson as Transcendental? Why or why not?
Emily Dickenson is not transcendental. While she employs a majority of transcendental beliefs, her poetry is dark, dry and almost pessimistic. The main belief that she isn't in accord with is all people are inherently good. Through out the poems that we read tonight she spoke of human nature being greedy. In her poem "In Shadow," she says, "I could not bear the bees should come/ I wished they'd stay away/ In those dim countries where they go:/ What word had they for me?" She is pretending to be society in saying that she wishes the bad would simply go somewhere different than where she is at that time. This brings pain and suffering to others and "contentment" to her. She also says, "I dared not meet the daffodils/ For fear their yellow gown/ Would pierce me with a fashion/ So foreign to my own." This quote is also anti- society. She is saying that people arn't self reliant and that they are scared of new ideas. The yellow gown of the daffodils could be shockingly good or extremely bad in success, but society is not willing to take the risk and find out like nature does. I suppose whether it was successful or not doesn't have any signifigance to anything other than proving that society is not self reliant and that they are caught up in what is thought of them.
Emily Dickenson is not transcendental. While she employs a majority of transcendental beliefs, her poetry is dark, dry and almost pessimistic. The main belief that she isn't in accord with is all people are inherently good. Through out the poems that we read tonight she spoke of human nature being greedy. In her poem "In Shadow," she says, "I could not bear the bees should come/ I wished they'd stay away/ In those dim countries where they go:/ What word had they for me?" She is pretending to be society in saying that she wishes the bad would simply go somewhere different than where she is at that time. This brings pain and suffering to others and "contentment" to her. She also says, "I dared not meet the daffodils/ For fear their yellow gown/ Would pierce me with a fashion/ So foreign to my own." This quote is also anti- society. She is saying that people arn't self reliant and that they are scared of new ideas. The yellow gown of the daffodils could be shockingly good or extremely bad in success, but society is not willing to take the risk and find out like nature does. I suppose whether it was successful or not doesn't have any signifigance to anything other than proving that society is not self reliant and that they are caught up in what is thought of them.
numbernine[9]
Walt Whitman Quotes.
"Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd... Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground."
This quote speaks of time and pressure. As Ben Franklin said, "Lost time is never found." As time goes on, present becomes past. This is the step that is most worrying. The crowd gathers in time and also diminishes in time. As the plougher and the mower put effort into their fields, they are rewarded when harvest comes. Success finds them at that time. This is all caused by space. Everything comes from space and everything goes to space. Today, maybe I will get a test back and it is space that has brought it to me. Future will become present, however, before I can find out whether it was successful or not.
"The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, The old husbandd sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;And these tend inward to me, and i tend outward to them, And such as it is to be on of these more or less I am, And these one and all I weave the song of myself."
This quote is about inspiration. Whitman is able to look around and find inspiration from everything. Even from time, while others fear it. He finds satisfaction in the fact that he will become older. He accepts that someday he will permantently sleep. He does not fear time and space, he is intregued by them. Whitman realizes that things must die in order for others to proceed. When I woke up this morning, i did not want to wake up but in orcer for my day to go on, my sleep must not exist anymore. In a way though it still does exist because whether or not I slept enough will affect me positively or negatively throguhout the day.
"Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gather'd... Seasons pursuing each other the plougher ploughs, the mower mows, and the winter-grain falls in the ground."
This quote speaks of time and pressure. As Ben Franklin said, "Lost time is never found." As time goes on, present becomes past. This is the step that is most worrying. The crowd gathers in time and also diminishes in time. As the plougher and the mower put effort into their fields, they are rewarded when harvest comes. Success finds them at that time. This is all caused by space. Everything comes from space and everything goes to space. Today, maybe I will get a test back and it is space that has brought it to me. Future will become present, however, before I can find out whether it was successful or not.
"The living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, The old husbandd sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife;And these tend inward to me, and i tend outward to them, And such as it is to be on of these more or less I am, And these one and all I weave the song of myself."
This quote is about inspiration. Whitman is able to look around and find inspiration from everything. Even from time, while others fear it. He finds satisfaction in the fact that he will become older. He accepts that someday he will permantently sleep. He does not fear time and space, he is intregued by them. Whitman realizes that things must die in order for others to proceed. When I woke up this morning, i did not want to wake up but in orcer for my day to go on, my sleep must not exist anymore. In a way though it still does exist because whether or not I slept enough will affect me positively or negatively throguhout the day.
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
numbereight[8]
Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes.
"...That they longed for a breath of wind to blow aside the veil, almost believing that a stranger's visage would be discovered, though the forn, gesture, and voice were those of Mr. Hooper."
This quote is very ironic. The viewers of Mr. Hooper's veil saw him as a different person than he was. The church- goers wished to see what they did not know. They were thirsty for knowledge. Since they didn't know what was under the veil, they guessed and assumed that what they conjured up was correct. These judgements changed who Mr. Hooper was. Such a simple thing making such a big impact. The irony is that something that is not at all Mr. Hooper, became him.
"Strange and bewildered looks repaid him for his courtesy."
This ties into the quote above this. The viewers of Mr. Hooper didn't understand him, but they very much wanted reasons as to why he draped the black cloth over his face. This made him far more mysterious than he actually was. The mystery mixed with the dark nature of the veil and it made him appear far darker than he was. This is not who he was however. One could argue that his sadness actually was love since love is what caused his sadness. This quote shows how the townspeople were unfair to Mr. Hooper, because they did not bother to find out the real reason why he wore the veil. Their assumptions, they thought, were sufficient. The teachings of Mr. Hooper did not finally get out until he reached his deathbed, which is ironic in that he was teaching to treasure what you have even until he had nothing. At first I judged him hypocritical for preaching one thing and doing another, but then I realized that the purpose of the veil was not to hide his face but to teach others not to. This makes him a very strong teacher as opposed to the feeble one I assumed he was.
"...That they longed for a breath of wind to blow aside the veil, almost believing that a stranger's visage would be discovered, though the forn, gesture, and voice were those of Mr. Hooper."
This quote is very ironic. The viewers of Mr. Hooper's veil saw him as a different person than he was. The church- goers wished to see what they did not know. They were thirsty for knowledge. Since they didn't know what was under the veil, they guessed and assumed that what they conjured up was correct. These judgements changed who Mr. Hooper was. Such a simple thing making such a big impact. The irony is that something that is not at all Mr. Hooper, became him.
"Strange and bewildered looks repaid him for his courtesy."
This ties into the quote above this. The viewers of Mr. Hooper didn't understand him, but they very much wanted reasons as to why he draped the black cloth over his face. This made him far more mysterious than he actually was. The mystery mixed with the dark nature of the veil and it made him appear far darker than he was. This is not who he was however. One could argue that his sadness actually was love since love is what caused his sadness. This quote shows how the townspeople were unfair to Mr. Hooper, because they did not bother to find out the real reason why he wore the veil. Their assumptions, they thought, were sufficient. The teachings of Mr. Hooper did not finally get out until he reached his deathbed, which is ironic in that he was teaching to treasure what you have even until he had nothing. At first I judged him hypocritical for preaching one thing and doing another, but then I realized that the purpose of the veil was not to hide his face but to teach others not to. This makes him a very strong teacher as opposed to the feeble one I assumed he was.
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