The AP English Language and Composition course is designed to enable students to become skilled readers and writers in diverse genres and modes of composition. As stated in the Advanced Placement Course Description, the purpose of the Language and Composition course is “to enable students to read complex texts with understanding and to write papers of sufficient richness and complexity to communicate effectively with mature readers” (The College Board, May 2007, May 2008, p.6).
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
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Read and try to finish Huckleberry Finn for Friday, Monday at the latest. We'll be starting Transcendentalists next week!
Tom doesn't necessarily cognitively empathize with Jim's fear of spiders and snakes because in Tom's mind he doesn't see why spiders and snakes are scary. I account Tom's lack of sensitivity for Jim's feelings as a failure of his Theory of Mind. Tom is not a cruel person he is just very honest and straightforeword. He does the same thing with Huck when Huck doesn't think straight about ways to help Jim escape and Tom interperets this lack of insight as stupidity in this area.
Chapter 32-33 1. To Huck, the raft represents ultimate freedom: on the raft, Huck and Jim would “have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time…It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened” (100-101). By contrast, the Phelps’s farm has “sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like and old hat with the nap rubbed off” (185). This depressing scene is also home to the hum of a spinning-wheel, which is, as Huck describes it, “the lonesomest sound in the whole world” (184), a sentiment that holds extra meaning when it is taken into account that Huck is lonely, having just lost Jim.
Life on the plantation and life on the raft are completely different in Huck's eyes. On the raft he is able to hide Jim without being judged or taking blame for corrupting society. Taking in a slave is definitely frowned upon where Huck is. On the plantation, he was taken control of, almost bringing him back to life at the widow's, except he wasn't learning but working. It made him eager to leave the Phelps Plantation and experienced the freedom on the raft. A character such as Huck, he feels more comfort from not being protected since he lived the majority of his life this way. Then he looks at life from a different perspective as he impersonates someone to be in a family. He is simply trying to find a balance between being free and feeling secure.
Tom is supposedly a high memeber in society in Hucks eyes, because he has this grand ol' family. Tom views Jim as a slave but thinks it would be a grand adventure, asldo that he is a prisoner. Tom thinks hes smart and all-knowing.
Tom doesn't necessarily cognitively empathize with Jim's fear of spiders and snakes because in Tom's mind he doesn't see why spiders and snakes are scary. I account Tom's lack of sensitivity for Jim's feelings as a failure of his Theory of Mind. Tom is not a cruel person he is just very honest and straightforeword. He does the same thing with Huck when Huck doesn't think straight about ways to help Jim escape and Tom interperets this lack of insight as stupidity in this area.
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1. To Huck, the raft represents ultimate freedom: on the raft, Huck and Jim would “have that whole river all to ourselves for the longest time…It’s lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky, up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened” (100-101). By contrast, the Phelps’s farm has “sickly grass-patches in the big yard, but mostly it was bare and smooth, like and old hat with the nap rubbed off” (185). This depressing scene is also home to the hum of a spinning-wheel, which is, as Huck describes it, “the lonesomest sound in the whole world” (184), a sentiment that holds extra meaning when it is taken into account that Huck is lonely, having just lost Jim.
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ReplyDeleteLife on the plantation and life on the raft are completely different in Huck's eyes. On the raft he is able to hide Jim without being judged or taking blame for corrupting society. Taking in a slave is definitely frowned upon where Huck is. On the plantation, he was taken control of, almost bringing him back to life at the widow's, except he wasn't learning but working. It made him eager to leave the Phelps Plantation and experienced the freedom on the raft. A character such as Huck, he feels more comfort from not being protected since he lived the majority of his life this way. Then he looks at life from a different perspective as he impersonates someone to be in a family. He is simply trying to find a balance between being free and feeling secure.
Tom is supposedly a high memeber in society in Hucks eyes, because he has this grand ol' family. Tom views Jim as a slave but thinks it would be a grand adventure, asldo that he is a prisoner. Tom thinks hes smart and all-knowing.
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