Creative Post- a different perspective

This section from the perspective of the Duke-

"Come back here!" "No-good thieves!" "Cheats!" I heard the crowd yell behind us.

"Go, faster!" I yelled to my partner, the crowd was gaining on us.

A little scam gone wrong, in the wrong town, had put us in a compromising position. The town that we had chosen for our latest scam was not a town that enjoyed being messed with. Tarred and feathered as we were, we continued to run.

Scamming was all we had ever known together, our tight little partnership. We had made our millions together, which was hidden where no one would ever find it. Lot of good it was to us now though. It couldn't help us out of this situation.

I took a split second to turn around. The crowd was getting closer, if that was even possible.

"They're gaining on us!" I yelled, urging my partner to run faster.

As we ran, I saw a little boy, and it was like I was seeing a ghost. It looked like little Huck, that boy that had abandoned us. He looked well off. I wanted to kick him in his little tush, for kicking us to the curb like that. We wouldn't be here right now, fighting for a nickle and our lives if it weren't for that little twerp. But that was all I could think before it all went black.

the End.

Tom's Ideas: Unnecessary and Thoughtless Trouble

Tom's showy and unnecessary tactics for rescuing Jim from the shed are too much. They don't show true greatness at all. The greatness lies in their idea and their actions. Their decision to rescue Jim despite the ideas and prejudices against is where their greatness lies. Their showiness, however, detracts from their greatness in my mind, because it shows that they, or at least Tom, are just doing it for the sake of the popularity and legacy. I would have enjoyed it much more if they would have just gotten Jim out, the simple way.

The Duke and the Dauphin, tarred and feathered.

The last time that we see the Duke and the Dauphin, they are being chased by members of a town, being tarred and feathered. Huck replies to the scene by saying that "human beings can be awful cruel to one another". He feels pity for the Duke and Dauphin, despite everything that they have done to him and to countless other innocent people. However, I think Huck is able to see something that the rest of us miss. I don't know about you, but I see justice in the final end of the Duke and Dauphin. I feel as if they deserve it; that they got what is coming to them. But Huck sees that no matter how much people do that is wrong, everyone deserves forgiveness and a second chance. I think that that is a very important take away from this section. There was a better way to handle the Duke and the Dauphin, and different measures could have been taken to punish them, or rehabilitate them. Huck realizes that no one deserves to be treated like that, and that regardless of what they've done, they're human beings. No human would want that to be done to them, so why do we do it to others?

Creative Post

Poem on Jim's escape-

Deep in the dark, black
Southern night
Two young boys creep towards
A dim shed light
They peek through a crack on
The side of the door
And see a young black man sitting
On the floor
Ratt-a-tatt-tatt
The door swings forward
Recognition is met in silence
Ratt-a-tatt-tatt
The door swings back
Leaving them to work in
Silence
Scratch and clang, like an untrained band,
The black man's chains clank against the hard ground
Elaborate, showy the escape should not be,
But, alas, what is one to do, with two boys
Who have spent their lives,
Living a show?

Huck's decision to save Jim

While, I agree that Huck should try to save him, I don't know that his decision was morally correct. Jim is a runaway slave, and while the duke and the dauphin didn't necessarily have the right to sell him, in this situation, he is still someone else's property. While that isn't necessarily right, it is man's law, and we're supposed to obey our superiors on earth. Jim was sold by the duke and the dauphin to a man, who paid for him. Jim is a runaway slave. There's so much legally and some morally wrong with this whole situation that it's harder to say what is right and wrong. I think that in this particular situation, I would have acted as Huck did, but I don't think it was morally correct.

Mary Jane: courageous or naive?

When Mary Jane is constantly warned by the good doctor about the fake Wilks brothers, she decides to go ahead and give them her entire inheritance to invest as they see fit. She seems to see this as a courageous and heroic act, showing the entire town that she will do as she sees fit and that she has faith in her "family", regardless of the facts presented against them. However, rather than being courageous, I think Mary Jane is being naive. She seems to think that they could not have tricked her, regardless of the evidence that the doctor presents against them, and the fact that they seem to have no real proof of being her family. She puts her entire inheritance, and her sisters, in the hands of relative strangers, family or not. This action is just downright foolish. I think that the smarter action would have been to defend her "uncles" and to continue to care for them and house them, but to have kept the money to herself. She got extremely lucky that Huck decided to steal the money back for them, otherwise the sisters would be completely poor and all alone, thanks to Mary Jane's decision. So, I think that Mary Jane wasn't being courageous, but she was being foolish.

Creative Post #2

Dual Creative Post between Emily Campbell and Laura Horton.

Seriousness mixed with humor

When writing a story or novel, it is important to vary the type of tone that the author uses. When Mark Twain is talking about Emmeline and the feud, he uses seriousness mixed with humor. This is important because it keeps the readers attention. If the tone of the entire passage had been serious, with no breaks, the reader would be very bored. It is never good to be too serious. However, the flip side is also true. You cannot spend an entire passage, or an entire book for that matter, just focusing on humor. You will lose the audience very quickly, because it would get boring. Regardless of it's humorous nature, endless humor begins to get dull. Also, it's not a realistic portrayal of life. All of life is not humorous, and all of life is not serious. It's a mixture of both. Even at serious times, humor pokes through, and even at the funniest of times, seriousness can make it's way into a conversation. For the sake of the book, the author and the reader, a book must have an equal balance of humor mixed with seriousness in order to make it an enjoyable read.

Who are the duke and the dauphin?

The duke and the dauphin are introduced in this sections reading. Huck invites these two mysterious characters onto his raft. One introduces himself as the duke of someplace in England and the other as a dauphin. One claims to speak French, which he actually doesn't, which proves Huck's point from his earlier arguments with Jim. Jim, curiously, instead of being defiant, accepts that the character speaks French. However, his French is fake. Soon, we find out that the duke and the dauphin are actually two scam artists.