Huck Finn Episodes Summary

Episode 1: Tom's Gang (chapters 1-4)
a. Huck and Tom want to be a gang
b. They talk about murdering people, but only pretend to
c. They share stories about robbing gypsies who are rich but they actually turn out to be a group of Sunday school children
Episode 2: Huck and Pap (chapters 5-7)
a.Huck escapes his alcoholic abusive father who has basically imprisoned him in a cabin and floats up the river to Jackson island.
b. He then stages his own death hoping his father will not come looking for him.
c. Huck gives money he has acquired to Judge Thatcher to prevent his father from stealing it and spending it on whiskey.

Episode 3: Jackson Islands (chapters 8-11)
 a. Huck and Jim run off to the islands seeking Jim's freedom
b. They come across a flooded house with a murdered man inside 
c. They then rummage the house and take whatever they please, assuming the dead man will not mind
d. Huck runs off to St. Petersburg
e. Disguised as a girl, Huck encounters a woman who shares that her husband is looking for Jim.

Episode 4: Huck and Jim on the River (chapters 12-16)
 a. Huck and Jim continue down the river to encounter a group of gangsters on a boat
b. Two of which have subdued their accomplice who has not paid his fair share of loot
c. They continue on after being cut loose, and Huck boards a different raft that is holding dancing men
d. The men share stories of a haunted barrel that is seemingly following them
e. One man jumps into the water and opens the barrel, finding a small dead infant.
f. Dick Allbright confesses that it is his child and the barrel has followed him ever since he strangled his child not intending to kill it
h. Huck then encounters men who ask who is on the raft
i. Knowing that Jim is on the boat, he shares that it is his father who has small pox
f. The men leave and tell Huck to be on his way

Huck Finn Questions

1. What kind of men do Huck and Jim find on the steamboat? Why are the men there?
They find gangsters who rob and murder people. They are there to kill an accomplice who has been taking more than is fair share.
2. What is the name of the boat Huck and Jim land on?  Why is this funny?
Hookerville,
3. Discuss the difference between "real" adventures and Tom's adventures?
Tom's adventures involved pretending to rob and murder people, whereas the real ones that they are involved in they are actually witnessing gang work and real murders.
4. What is the plan once they reach Cairo? 
 To turn Jim in as a runaway.

Huck Finn Questions IV

1.) The Widow Douglas is Huck's mother-like figure who is very strict. He doesn't care that he's dead.

2.) Huck does things like throwing salt over his shoulder and spinning in circles after killing a spider.

3.) He does not care where he ends up as long as he can be with Tom Sawyer, and neglects unknowingly much of Christianity.

4.) He convinces that their separation in the fog was just a dream.

5.) He is seemingly stuck-up according to Huck

6.) No, because Huck does not realize the worth of money due to the way he was raised.

7.) Tom is much more adventurous than Huck whereas Huck is realistic and always one of several friends involved in Tom's schemes.

8.) Because highwaymen hole people up and burglars just break into houses.

9.) He doesn't understand religion and cannot grasp the concept of playing a harp in the good place.

10.) Because he calls a Sunday School picnic a gathering of rich A-rabs with exotic jewelry and diamonds.

11.) They robbed children at a Sunday School Picnic when he claimed that they were rich arabs and elephants.

12.) Because his dad would take it and use it to buy drinks

Lincoln Inaugural Transcript Outline

1. Lincoln Takes Oath (again)
    a. Lincoln adresses the course to be pursued
    b. declares the shortened length
    c. States that he will progress positively during his four years
2. The Occasion
    a. Lincoln recalls the war
    b. War was harsh but inevitable
3. The People
    a. An eighth of the population was colored slaves
    b. Although government did nothing, Lincoln did
    c. The people who fought believe in the same things and share more similarities than they care to acknowledge
4. United States
    a. Lincoln will require the nation to bind together as one with other countries

Trip Work

1. The speaker dies

2. Disapproving and more supportive of more independent types people

3. Everyone in the room is watching god do the work that is take life away

4. That it is inevitable and mournful but not avoidable

5. Madness, all, chain. Door society majority chariots valves

6. Independent 

7. That the loaded gun takes life away

8. Transcendentalist ideals

1-3 537

1.) Regardless that things die, life goes on and is an endless cycle.
2.) A hawk
3.) Life and the inability to die forever.

Scarlet Letter Essay

Hawthorne uses very many themes in the Scarlet Letter to explain things, one that he uses is Good vs. Evil, and mainly uses it via his character Chillingworth. He uses Good Vs. Evil to describe how he at first is just another character in the story who is seen as good. But after long, when he is not the one who has committed sin, because he continuously tries to make Hester, who has committed sin, a public embarrassment. Although Hester Prynne is viewed by society as the most unlawful character, she is the most honest due to her willingness to admit that she was indeed an adulterer by wearing the letter "A" on her chest. This is showing that although she is viewed to be evil, she is actually good. Chillingworth, knowing of the affair, progressively becomes more and more dark throughout the story. Although he was the one who was wronged, he still is attempting to suppress Hester's life by potentially revealing who her other lover was to society. Hawthorne uses this to show Chillingworth's increasingly harsh evil while the person who has done something wrong, is not as evil because she admits to her mistakes.