Archive for January, 2008

Huck Finn

River provides freedom for Huck

You can certainly say that the river provides freedom for Huck. Without it Huck would not have a good way to escape from his father. The fact that he lived just beside the shore, makes it a good route to runaway for. He must have known the river from earlier experiences and known how he could maneuver down the river.

If the river hadn’t been there, going by land would be his only option to escape. The river then gives him a feeling of freedom. Not only would walking by land take more time, his father could also more easily catch him. When you consider his dad was drunk most of the time, I would not believe the chances of being caught by him to be so big, but it had been a larger chance anyway.

The river is the clear option for an runaway, and it gives Huck the freedom he wants. It gives him a new home, but a home for him is not freedom. Freedom for Huck is being free to go where ever he want, when ever he wants. The river gave him the option to get freedom and he used it.

Short Answers:

1. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884.

2. The adventures of Huckleberry Finn can best be described as one of America’s most famous novels, and one of Mark Twain’s best work.

3. Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer each received 6000 dollars ( $ ) when they found money that the robbers had hidden in the cave.

4. Huckleberry Finn’s father returns because he want the 6000 $ that Huckleberry Finn got in a reward.

5. When Jim first sees Huck Finn on the island, he thinks Huck is one of the white men that search for him to get a reward.

6. Jim runs away from Miss Watson because she wants to sell him to a slave trader from New Orleans, and there slaves got threaten very bad.

7. Huck escapes to Jackson Island and discovers that he is not alone there, Jim has escaped to, and they plan to build a raft and go down the river to the Ohio River, and from there take a steamboat to the northern states where slavery is illegal.

8. Mark Twain’s approach to the issue of racism in Huckleberry Finn is that racism is a bad thing, that should not be allowed. Everyone should be treated as equals, and that the slaves tried to escape was not so bad, even if they broke the law.

Mark Twain

Mark Twain is just a pen name, his real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

He is an humanist, writer, humorist, satirist and lecturer. 

His most famous work is Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Samuel Langhorne was born in Florida, Missouri. The date was November 30, 1835. Missouri is south west of Illinois that our great teacher comes from:)

In Samuel’s late life he got much depression, which began in 1896 when his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis. Meningitis is an bacterial infection in the meningeal surrounding the brain.

Mark Twain died of a heart attack on April 21, 1910 in Redding Connecticut.

Mark Twain got buried in his wife’s family plot in Elmira, New York.

Mark Twain got rich through his writing, but spent most of it in bad investments, mostly in new inventions.

Henry Huttleston Rogers had a close friendship to Mark Twain. When Mark lost three of his four children and his wife, Rogers family became more like a surrogate family for him.

Mark Twain used the last twenty years of his life as an “outspoken anti imperialist and anti-capitalist. That means he was working against the development that maid the large nations and global companies more and more dominating in the world. Maybe he did this because the poor nations and the poor people suffered because of this development.

Lennie

Lennie works in a farm. His biggest dream is to start a farm with George. He is extremely strong, and when he gets mad he can’t control himself. When he stroke a puppy he accidentally killed him, so he is very scared that George get mad at him, and will not start a farm with him. Lennie likes to stroke soft things, rabbits mice etc. I think he got a little problem with his head, he doesn’t seem quite right. Like a big baby that it stood in the book. He don’t understand the causes of his actions, but like a person he is really nice.

Little Red Riding Hood

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature who was ever seen. The skin may betray you, she was hard as stone, something you don’t catch with the first eye. As a three year old girl, she was recruited in the National Elite Force and later became the king personal bodyguard. After two years there she quited the job and went home to watch for her mum and grandma. Her mother was excessively font of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman had a little red riding hood made for her. It suited the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding Hood.One day her mother, having made some cakes, said to her, “Go, my dear, and see how your grandmother is doing, for I hear she has been very ill. Take her a cake, and this little pot of butter.” ” Don’t forget the gun dear!” her mother said. It have been a war lately and you could not go out without any protection.

Little Red Riding Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.

As she was going through the wood, she met with a wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some woodcutters working nearby in the forest. He asked her where she was going. The “poor” child said to him, “I am going to see my grandmother and carry her a cake and a little pot of butter from my mother.”

“Does she live far off?” said the wolf

“Oh I say,” answered Little Red Riding Hood; “it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village.”

“Well,” said the wolf, “and I’ll go and see her too. I’ll go this way and go you that, and we shall see who will be there first.”

The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path. What he didn’t know were that the little girl was extremely fast and got there before him. The wolf arrived a little later at the old woman’s house. He knocked at the door: tap, tap.

“Who’s there?”

“Your grandchild, Little Red Riding Hood,” replied the wolf, counterfeiting her voice; “Who has brought you a cake and a little pot of butter sent you by mother.”

The grandmother, who was in bed, cried out, ” But.. ooh Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up.”

The wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened. “Well grandma, what’s for dinner?” The wolf walked to the terrified grandma, ready to eat her in one second. He was extremely hungry for it been more than three days since he had eaten. Suddenly Little Red Riding Hood came out from the closet with a heavy machine gun in her hands. The wolf tried to run for the door, but he was to slow. Little Red Riding Hood filled him with 20 bullets, 5 in his head. He slowly fall down on the floor, with blood  floating everywhere. It was a terrible sight, but grandma just said ” Good aiming dear!”, go say to one of the woodcutters that we got a wolf.

“Oki grandma”, said Little Red Riding Hood

So the story about the wicked wolf ended,  and Little Red Riding Hood lived happily ever after, with her mom and grandma.

10 setences with prepositions

The bottle is in the kitchen

I am in the living room

He sits beside me

My room in next to the bathroom

saw him yesterday

The tv is beside the table

The people started running towards me.

He came into the room one hour ago.

The cookie is beside you.

Can you send me the food next to you?

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