Thesis

The grandma plays the most important role in Jeanie’s life, before she dies her words set Janie down the right path.

chap. 7-12 6-8 sentences response

Chapter 10 was a blast for me, I loved the meeting of Tea Cake and how you see the two of them react:

"Why ain't you at de ball game, too? Everybody else is dere."
"Well, Ah see somebody else besides me ain't dere. Ah just sold some cigarettes." "They Laughed again."

Ever since he walks into the store it is nothing but good news. She thinks he looks fmailiar, he knows her name, and they end up playing a game of checkers. They don't go to the game, she doesn't close up they end up laughing with each other. After the game of checkers and the bits and parts of their flirtatious conversations, he stops and says, "Anyhow it's time for a Coca-Cola,..." He wants to treat her now. Just reading this short little chapter it is oone of the merrier ones, and for a memory retell, this is obviously one that stood out to me in the book hence far.

FIRST RESPONSE

The first quote I beleive starts off discussing a bit of the ignorancy out there of men. And back in her time I beleive women were treated with less respect. "The dream is the truth" That is a significant line, the dream is what matters to all the people in general. That is what they all look foward to no matter what things they need too forget or remember.

The second quote is discussing a sweet moment with Janie. "..the thousand sister-calyxes." Which I am guessing has something to do with flowers coming together. It is the beauty in her marriage, the beginning of her marriage. This whole quote is about how she feels about the marriage. "She has summoned a revelation."

Quote response 3 huck finn P. 197-214

""Sold him?" I says, and begun to cry; "why, he was my nigger, and that was my money. Where is her?-I want my nigger.""
(P.206)

Huck has realized that the men were con-men and he has been tricked. He is worried sick that his partner - Jim, has been taken, and they have been getting tricked this entire time. Despite their precautions, and Huck using his chance to escape, he finds out Jim has been sold. The man who orignally was going to sell him for the reward of 200$, sold Jim to another man for 40$, and now someone else has him.

"We blowed out a cylinder head."
(P.211)

Since Huck has arrived at the house where Jim is supposedly being held, he meets the white lady of the house. Her name is Aunt Sally. She thinks that Huck is her nephew, and he starts to play along with it all to secure being safe. She is wondering where he has been, and he tells her that something on the boat-(the cylinder head has broken.)

number two huck finn

"I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such,..." (P.83)

Huck tells Jim a whole lot about kings and dukes, and he tells him stories. Jim doesn't know anything about the stories at all. It's interesting the questions he asks to Huck, because he seems confused all the time, but almost gasped at the fact of some of the parts of the stories.

In chapter fifteen, the fog comes in when they are drifitng, but Jim and Huck drift different directions. They end up finding each other, but JIm flips out and gets angry. He than makes up with Jim, but he feels bad about hurting Jim with the things he said to him. "...and I wouldn't done that one I'd 'a' knowed it would make him feel that way." (P.91)

First Huckleberry Response

"He said he reckoned a body could reform the old man with a shotgun, maybe, but he didn't know no other way."

The pap in this previous chapter (V,) has obviously shown that he is a drunk still. He has stolen Huck's dollar to buy whiskey, an dhe has ended up injail on a "drunken spree." Throughout the return of Pap, Huck is scared. He used to be beat by him even when he wasn't drunk. After this drunk incident, Pap is sent to stay with the judge-hopefully to beome a chnaged man, but it doesn't seem to work.

"Everybody said it was a real beautiful oath, and asked Tom if he got it out of his own head. He said, some of it, but the rest was out of pirate-books and robber-books, and every gang that was high-toned had it." (P.19)

Now that they are starting the gang, and what they expect out of it, you see the group of kids do not really know what they are getting into. Obviously, Huck is influenced by what he reads, and now shares it with the whole gang. I thinkt his line might be of some foreshadowing that because he doesn't know much, and they are all talking tough about what to do, that somethign real bad could end up happening to the group of them.

Emily Dickinson response #1

"There's a certain slant of light, on winter afternoons, that opresses, like the weight of cathredral tunes."

I picked this quote because I didn't really understand it. Opressor means to keep down severly with unjust force, but Emily Dickinson compares this to cathedral tunes, which are happy, and fill up the church with a loud melodic tune. The oppesion n this context though, is the "slant light," on winter afternoons. The beauty-maybe-of the light in winter afternoons are as powerful in sight, as oppresive a cathredal tune will take on you in a church.

"This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me,"

This is a quote form the same poem actually-But this quote set the tone of the poem for me. It is kind of depressing and angry. She is angry throughout the course of this poem. She is ticked off at life, and using metaphors to express her problems at hand.