Dialectic journal entry #1

Quotes:

1. "By-and-by they fetched the niggers in and had prayers, and then everybody was off to bed." (Chp. 1, pg.7)
2. "Well, I got a good going-over in the morning, from old Miss Watson, on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave a while if I could." (Chp. 3, pg. 13)
3. " Don't you give me none o' your lip, " he says." (Chp. 5, pg 21)
4. " I fetched the pig in and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the ax, and laid him down on the ground to bleed- I say ground, because it was ground-hard packed, and no boards." (Chp. 7, pg. 33)
5. " It would get so dark that it looked all blue-black outside, and lovely; and the rain would thrash along by so thick that the trees off a little ways looked dim and spider-webby. " (Chp. 9, pg. 47)
6. " She told me about Tom Sawyer finding the six thousand dollars..." (Chp. 11, pg. 53)
7. " I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in." (Ch. 13, pg. 70)

Comments and Questions:

1. This quote deals with the time period and how different it was back then compared to now. It is very informal to say "niggers" in our society today and it shows the change in the time.
2. This sets the tone for the book. This shows that Huckleberry Finn is maybe a rebel and that he didn't follow the rules. Miss Watson would get him in trouble and scold him.
3. This quote shows the style that book uses. The way that the characters talk to eachother is very different then how we talk to people today including the grammer that they use.
4. The author used imagery in this quote. They explained the killing of the pig very vividly and used imagery to make the reader understand what the character is doing.
5. The author uses imagery again in this quote. They used it to explain what was happening outside and this could make a connection to what else is happening in the book.
6. This quote shows that the person knew Tom Sawyer which is a connection between the two. This could come up later in the book and maybe lead to something.
7. In this quote they use the word "rapscallion" which is part of grammer because that word isn't used that often now and is heard very much.