1/9/07
In these next two paragraphs I'll explain why Huck Finn in the terms of the Id, Ego, and Superego he's the Ego. I'll explain why Huck's always torn between two sides constantly from making a small fib to a huge lie like in the movie where he was with two con men who tried to rob three heiresses of their inheritance. Another case is when in the book where Huck goes to school and the Widow tries to make him into a good kid. But the Id as it always does lures him off track to cut class and wear rags trying to live life his way.
In real life there are people who always follow their Id to do unspeakable things such as murder, stealing and con people. Like in the story two men were mistaken for brothers of a deceased man who in fact had a great fortune from property values to gold coins. So they ran into Huck and Jim and forced them to go along with their plan since Jim was a runaway slave. So since they were told they'd get their cut if they play along for a while until they take the money. So Huck was an English valet and Jim a Swahili Warrior and they conned everyone in the town except the youngest sister and the doctor. Until Huck's superego came into play and makes him do the right thing and tell the sisters all that he knows which leads to the two men being tarred and feathered.
The second case is when the Widow makes Huck go to school and at the time his Ego let play along and try to better himself by being a young man until Huck's Id over powers his Ego. So then he cuts school to hang out with Tom Sawyer and the rest of the gang, lies to the Widow and Miss Watson by saying he went to school even though he hung out with friends. Playing games such as highwaymen robbing rich folk taking their possessions and other things. But then his Pap came back and his Id went back to sleep making his Ego gain control and tell him to escape.
So to summarize my entire essay Huck is basically torn between to mindsets the Id and Superego. From time to time his Id gets loose thus making do bad decisions that he soon regrets later on and then he settles down which finally releases his Superego to which makes Huck do the right thing and set things straight thus, clearing his conscience and helping people out.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Should Huck Finn Be Taught In School
1/9/08
I believe that Huck Finn should be taught in high school. One reason is because even though high school kids are immature they could learn from this book. Two is because this book is a good read if you can read between the lines for example interpreting what Jim really had intended to do.
My first reason for why Huck Finn should be taught in school is because high school kids can learn life lessons from this book. They learn how true friends look out for each other from saving the other friend from a slave catchers to helping the other get away from bad family members. Look out for the other when one is bit by a rattlesnake and can't travel for days. Or making sure the other friend stays out of trouble when he lies.
Now on to my second reason why Huck Finn: should be taught in high school. No one happens to read between the lines anymore but just read what's in front of them and no further. The first example is when Jim wants to go north besides being sold he wants to be free and go up North to get a job and to buy his family from this unequal servitude. That’s one of the many things that you can put together before the character talks about it more deeply.
So that's my opinion of why Huck Finn should be taught in high school in my honest opinion. But that's my opinion so you don't have to believe it. So read the book put together all the things I said and see if I'm right.
I believe that Huck Finn should be taught in high school. One reason is because even though high school kids are immature they could learn from this book. Two is because this book is a good read if you can read between the lines for example interpreting what Jim really had intended to do.
My first reason for why Huck Finn should be taught in school is because high school kids can learn life lessons from this book. They learn how true friends look out for each other from saving the other friend from a slave catchers to helping the other get away from bad family members. Look out for the other when one is bit by a rattlesnake and can't travel for days. Or making sure the other friend stays out of trouble when he lies.
Now on to my second reason why Huck Finn: should be taught in high school. No one happens to read between the lines anymore but just read what's in front of them and no further. The first example is when Jim wants to go north besides being sold he wants to be free and go up North to get a job and to buy his family from this unequal servitude. That’s one of the many things that you can put together before the character talks about it more deeply.
So that's my opinion of why Huck Finn should be taught in high school in my honest opinion. But that's my opinion so you don't have to believe it. So read the book put together all the things I said and see if I'm right.
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Links
NHD Links
http://candst.tripod.com/boston3.htm
http://www.aoh61.com/history/bible/phila_riots.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm
http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/philadelphia.htm
http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html
http://candst.tripod.com/boston3.htm
http://www.aoh61.com/history/bible/phila_riots.htm
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08677a.htm
http://www.irish-society.org/Hedgemaster%20Archives/philadelphia.htm
http://www.quaker.org/wmpenn.html
Annotated Bibliography
1/8/08 Ryon Willis
Bible Riots
Feldberg Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.
This source talks about how Irish Catholics were the targets of Nativists aggression, which was torching two of their churches a mob pillaged and wrecked the homes of Irish Catholic residents who ran away with anything they could carry.
Geffen M. Elizabeth,” Violence in Philadelphia in the 1840’s and 1850’s.”
Pennsylvania History 36 (1969): 381-410.
This source also talks about how mobs attacked Irish weavers in Kensington after displaying a banner outside their workplace. It also points out how African Americans were also targets through the 1830's like the anti-slavery activists.
Johnson R. David, Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the
Development of the American Police, 1800-1887. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1979.
This site talks about how police in this time period created night watch for criminals, fires, and drunks and how thousands of drunks, vagrants, and disorderly were beaten for not "moving along". So as a result beggars and kids playing in the streets ran away when the police came.
Johnson R. David,” Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840–1970,” in The Peoples of
Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790–1940, Ed.
Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1973: pp. 89–110.
This source talks about how the disgruntled laborers resorted to violence during rapid industrialization in the 1820's. So rioting to them countered the mechanization of their trade voicing their anger at the growth of manufacturing and surplus threatened to lower their wages.
Lane Roger, Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-
Century Philadelphia. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
This source talks about how the usefulness of suicide, accident, and homicide measures to human behavior, which is violence and how it’s connected to the impact of population growth, and other behaviors.
Bible Riots
Feldberg Michael, The Philadelphia Riots of 1844: A Study of Ethnic Conflict.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1975.
This source talks about how Irish Catholics were the targets of Nativists aggression, which was torching two of their churches a mob pillaged and wrecked the homes of Irish Catholic residents who ran away with anything they could carry.
Geffen M. Elizabeth,” Violence in Philadelphia in the 1840’s and 1850’s.”
Pennsylvania History 36 (1969): 381-410.
This source also talks about how mobs attacked Irish weavers in Kensington after displaying a banner outside their workplace. It also points out how African Americans were also targets through the 1830's like the anti-slavery activists.
Johnson R. David, Policing the Urban Underworld: The Impact of Crime on the
Development of the American Police, 1800-1887. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 1979.
This site talks about how police in this time period created night watch for criminals, fires, and drunks and how thousands of drunks, vagrants, and disorderly were beaten for not "moving along". So as a result beggars and kids playing in the streets ran away when the police came.
Johnson R. David,” Crime Patterns in Philadelphia, 1840–1970,” in The Peoples of
Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790–1940, Ed.
Allen F. Davis and Mark H. Haller. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1973: pp. 89–110.
This source talks about how the disgruntled laborers resorted to violence during rapid industrialization in the 1820's. So rioting to them countered the mechanization of their trade voicing their anger at the growth of manufacturing and surplus threatened to lower their wages.
Lane Roger, Violent Death in the City: Suicide, Accident, and Murder in Nineteenth-
Century Philadelphia. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1999.
This source talks about how the usefulness of suicide, accident, and homicide measures to human behavior, which is violence and how it’s connected to the impact of population growth, and other behaviors.
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