Huck Finn Dialectical Journal, Chapters 17-21 PDF

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Name: Diana Anderson Date: January 15, 2020 Period: 1 Mr. Powers, AP English Language & Composition

Huck Finn Dialectical Journal, Chapters 17 -21 Dialectical Journals are two-sided ledgers with quotations on the left and student responses to the quotations on the right. This version is a guided dialectical journal; the quotations are already listed for you. As you come across these passages in the novel, write your reactions/responses/thoughts to it on the right. Here are some examples of Twain's most familiar quotes from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. In these examples, you will see how Twain's masterful use of dialog serves to put the reader right into the middle of this exciting and complex story. Everybody was sorry that she had died, because she had laid out a lot more of those pictures to do, and a body could see by what she had done what they had lost. But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard. Chapter 17

In this quote it can be seen that there is sympathy for Emmeline when she died. This was because of the fact that Emmeline was not done drawing her pictures, and everyone thought it was such a waste for her death since she had potential. However, Huck thought that she was better dead than alive.

If Emmeline Gragerford could make poetry like that before she was fourteen, there ain’t no telling what she could ‘a’ done by and by. Chapter  17

This quote represents that Emmeline Gragerford had a lot of potential when it came to poetry, that he thought if she was good when she was 14, there was no telling how good she would have been when she got older.

Col. Grangerford was a gentleman, you see. He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family. He was well born, as the saying is, and that’s worth as much in a man as it is in a horse, so the Widow Douglas said, and nobody ever denied that she was of the first aristocracy in our town. Chapter 17

In this quote, Huck was stating that Colonel Grangerford was a gentleman and continues to praise him. He additionally states that he was a pure gentleman, his family was just as noble and he was of good breeding. He then adds on an expression that was used back in the day, which was that breeding is just as valuable for a man as it is for a racehorse. He then ends praising him by stating that everyone agreed he was the best man in town.

"There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to

This quote is a satire quote, and the point being made was that people are somewhat hypocritical, only attending church when it was seen as socially necessary. Mark Twain adds the part about hogs for humor purposes and states that at least pigs do

church only when they've got to; but a hog is different." Chapter  18

what they need to do.

"It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain't agoing to tell all that happened it would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wished I hadn't ever come ashore that night, to see such things . . ." Chapter  18

This quote showcases Huck’s reaction when Buck's dad gets killed. Twain showcases the tragedy of petty fighting. Huck, in this quote states that when he saw what happened at the scene he felt so sick he almost fell out of the tree and he wished he never came to the shore that night. After this experience, it made Huck hate men who were a danger to society, because they did nasty things which reminded Huck of his father.

I hadn’t had a bite to eat since yesterday, so Jim he got out some corn-dodgers and buttermilk, and pork and cabbage and greens—there ain’t nothing in the world so good when it’s cooked right—and whilst I eat my supper we talked and had a good time. . . .We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. Chapter  18

In this quote, Huck has just escaped from the Grangerford-Shepherdson feud and is sick of society. Compared to the incidents onshore, the raft represents an escape from the outside world, with simple pleasures and good companionship. Even the minimal and simple food Jim offers Huck is delicious in this atmosphere of freedom and comfort. Twain’s portrays life on the raft and the river as an romantic one, but tempered by the realistic knowledge that the evils and problems of the world are inescapable. Both Jim and Huck agreed that the raft was their happy place.

It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it’s the best way; then you don’t have no quarrels, and don’t get into no trouble. Chapter  19

In this quote, Huck states that he thinks that people in society are kings and respectable, but more like frauds and con artists. Huck kept his opinions to himself however, because that was the way he stayed away from trouble. It can be shown that Huck's development is on a pause because he does not want to be included in something that would lead him into trouble, rather than sticking up for justice/what is right.

When we got back to the raft and he came to count up he found he had collected

In this quote, Huck states that when he and Jim returned to the raft, Huck sees that the

eighty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents. And then he had fetched away a three-gallon jug of whisky, too, that he found under a wagon when he was starting home through the woods. The king said, take it all around, it laid over any day he’d ever put in in the missionarying line. Chapter 20

king has been collecting and counting his money to a total of 87 dollars and 65 cents. Additionally, the king had also been stealing, like a three gallon jug of whiskey, and in the end the king said that this was the biggest haul he has ever made. Huck was shocked by this when the king could just steal so easily and helped his position on why society sucks.

Then he showed us another little job he’d printed and hadn’t charged for, because it was for us. It had a picture of a runaway nigger with a bundle on a stick over his shoulder, and ‘$200 reward’ under it. The reading was all about Jim, and just described him to a dot. Chapter 20

This quote showcases the theme that racism and slavery is apart of society. In this quote Huck is narrating that he saw a picture that was going to be given for free, and in that picture there was a photo of Jim with an $200 dollar reward. This showcases the mistreatment towards Black people and even Huck admitted it when he said that it described him perfectly.

"To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin,That makes calamity of so long life." Chapter 21

This quote is an allusion to Hamlet’s soliloquy, and the dule showcases his knowledge regarding Shakespeare which leads to him reciting Hamlet’s soliloquy. Even though Shakespeare is known to be an upper class, the duke knows it well even though he is in the lower class and is even teaching it to others. This quote is important because of the fact that misery can make life seem longer, which relates to how both Huck and Jim are miserable and are in hopes for their freedom.

“Come out here, Sherburn! Come out and meet the man you’ve swindled. You’re the houn’ I’m after, and I’m a-gwyne to have you, too” Chapter 21

In this quote, Boggs threatens Huck and states that he will be taking care of Sherburn and starts looking for him and insults him. Then later on, Sherburn had enough of Boggs nonsense and shot Boggs in front of his daughter. Because of this the town becomes against Sherburn....