Huckleberry Finn Questions Chap 5-11 (Incomplete)

1. Parents should want whats best for their kids, but here Pap wants to be better than Huck, which is the opposite of the American dream.
2. It shows that family is very important to society, that families should stick together unless they absolutely have to get split up. At this point, it seems that Huck should be released to the Widow.
3. He likes the feelingly of being free. Although Pap beats him and locks him in the Shanty, he doesn't have to be civilized, wear nice clothes, and he can smoke and cuss. This plays intot he theme of freedom. 
4. Pap's rant was not so much about the government but to show the racism of that time. He is talking about a man who worked all his life to get where he was and earned everything he had, and all that Pap can think about was the fact that he was black. It is Twain's way of showing the readers the extreme racism of the time.
5. The theme of freedom. At that point, they were both free.
6. At the beginning of the novel, Huck didn't understand Tom's crazy imagination and now he wished he was there to help and put some fancy touches on the scene. With Tom there, his imagination would have gotten away from him and they plan would have become complicated and no longer successful.
7. The bread that people sent was supposed to find Huck's dead body, but instead found alive Huck. Also he thought about people praying for the bread to find Huck, and it did. So he thinks that prayer only worked for the good people.
8. Jim heard about Huck's murder so when he saw him there, he though Huck was a ghost. He was scared and didn't want to be haunted, so he told Huck to just go back in the water. 
9. Jim was the first person to know that Huck is alive. So until then, Huck was dead to society. And  now he isn't all alone. But now, they had to stick together because if Jim wanders off and starts telling people, then Huck will be figured out. 
10. In the North, most people were abolitionists, but because of where they were, you did not want to be against slavery. 
11. Some of the superstitions that Jim talks about are thinks that happen anyway, but he just puts a little spin on them. For example, he said that if a man who owns bees dies, you have to tell the bees that he died before the next sunup or else they will stop working and die. So this isn't the bees retaliating but because the bee keeper died, no one takes care of the bees and then they die. The superstitions are just how Jim interprets life and how he makes sense of it.
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Huckleberry Finn Chap. 1-4 Questions

1. She takes Huck in to live with her and she wants to civilize Huck. She is a good person and wants whats best for Huck. He doesn't take to the story much because he figures that Moses been dead for years so he doesn't matter much anymore.
2. It's Huck's way of trying to make sense of the world, but it falls under the romantic ideas. 
3. He has a loose idea of death, he doesn't really think much of dead people, he thinks that aren't important because they're dead. His idea of the good place and bad place is that he just wants to go where his friends will go. Huck has a violent childhood and he had to become familiar with death early in his life.
4. They boys probably wouldn't have thought about playing a trick on an older white man or woman. They probably would have played one on their friends, but because Jim is a slave they don't have the same respect for him. 
5. It means that Jim now stands out to the other slaves and he has been giving hope. Now he has a confidence that slave owners don't want because it gets in the slaves head and they act out. 
6. Tom left the money for the candles because he maybe felt bad about taking the candles and wanted the leave the owners something in return. Or perhaps the nickle was for Jim because of the trick they played on him. Huck wouldn't have left the money because he doesn't have a grasp on manners so he never would have really thought about it. 
7. Tom has a more romantic idea of life and games. He has a vivid imagination and hasn't really had to worry about life yet. Huck has had a tough life and has had to live life to survive. He doesn't have an imagination and takes everything very literally.
8. He thinks they are cooler. They are more about killing people are stopping people on the road and stealing their things. Burglars go and are sneaky and still cattle and things.
9. Huck doesn't understand prayer. He was told that if you pray,  then you'll get whatever you want. He doesn't this and he gets nothing. He thought about it for a long time and never understood, so he just gave up on it. 
10. Because Tom was trying to explain to Huck about the things that were in his imagination and because Huck doesn't have one, he just couldn't wrap his around the ideas that Tom was trying to explain.
11. Huck doesn't understand the imagination of Tom, so to his, its just a Sunday School lunch. 
12. He doesn't want his father to take his money and spend it on booze.

Lincoln Questions 1-5, 7

1. Because the battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the war and he needed to connect with the people and encourage them to keep moving toward victory. 
2. To preserve the union and to keep America alive with the idea that all men are created equal.
3. Commander-in-Chief, of the Army and Navy of the United States.
4. The proclamation was more of a symbol of Lincolns power and ability to turn the tables of the war. 
5. In the North he had to make sense of all of the deaths and sacrifices that the men who fought made. 

8.  A sense of presidential authority-- Emancipation Proclamation because Lincoln was showing the Confederacy that he can make their lives hell by freeing all of the slaves and that he has the power to do so.

The urgency of the national crisis-- Gettysburg Address because it about how they need to fix their country to make them whole again before it is separated forever.

The value of Freedom -- The Emancipation Proclamation because Lincoln shows that importance of freedom and that freedom won the war for the North.

Lincoln's personal voice-- The Gettysburg Address because the E.P. is more of a formal document and here, Lincoln is reaching out to the people and reassuring them. 

Outline of Lincoln's second Inaugural Adress

• Paragraph 1
• This speech will be quick
• There isn't much new news 
• He holds high hopes for the future
• Paragraph 2
• The nation would have split if not for the war
• Half of the country wanted to avoid war and split while the other wanted war to save it, they went to war.
• Paragraph 3
• Slavery is what caused the war, but it was fought to keep the nation together
• No one anticipate the magnitude of the war and that the conflict was still there
• Everyone worships the same God and reads the same Bible
• God has a plan, and this is part of it.
• No one is to judge God for his plan
• Its over when God says it's over
• Paragraph 4
• His plan is to bind the country's wounds and come together a one stronger country 
•  Everyone should care for one another
• Do whatever it takes to keep peace among the nation. 

Regionals Homework

1. The speaker encounters death in a calm manner.
2. The speaker doesn't agree with the majority.
3. Everyone is calming down before the person actually dies. It's the calm before the storm. 
4. Dickinson thinks deaths is inevitable and also that no one know what come next after death. "Parting is all we know of heaven, And all we need of hell." She is saying that death is a mystery. 
5. She capitalizing words to emphasis her main ideas. For example, "Much Madness is divinest Sense" 
6. The tone of Dickinson's poems is very dark and somber. They make me want to throw myself of a bridge. 
7. Poems
1. Much Madness in divinest Sense
1. Society itself is crazy.
2. My Life had stood a Loaded Gun
1. NO idea
8. The stylistic features of Letter to Mr. T. W. Higginson that are consistent with her work are the short lines and the use of dashes.  

Song of Myself Questions 1-3

1. When people die they just go back into the earth and live on through Nature. 
2. He compares himself to a spotted hawk and dirt.
3. New life being recycled from old life.