English 11 compeers:
Today we will begin working as a community on a fresh new level, writing and reaction to HF on this weblog. We'll warm up with passage commentary on this Saturday morning. Our work together comes from these passages, and others you thought to be worth examination. In fresh posts above, select one of the passages, and add your commentary. Then, as read your colleagues work and respond! Click here for the 1st edition text at U.Va. The pagination below comes from the University of California definitive edition we use in class. -- PJClements
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN -- Passage Commentary
Chapter 18.........."I was to blame somehow." (153)
Chapter 22.........."Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the south, and I’ve lived in the north; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward…"(190)
Chapter 23.........."I knowed what it was about. He was thinking about his wife and his chilfren, away up wonder, and he weas low and homesick; because he hadn’t ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for theirn. It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it’s so." (201)
Chapter 26.........."I got to steal that money, somehow; and I got tot steal it some way that they won’t suspicion that I done it…."(226)
Chaper 27.........."I thought them poor girls and the niggers would break their hearts for grief; they cried around each other, and took on so it most made ne down sick to see it. The girls said they hadn’t ever dreamed of seeing the family separated or sold away from the town. I can’t ever get it out of my memory… "(234)
Today we will begin working as a community on a fresh new level, writing and reaction to HF on this weblog. We'll warm up with passage commentary on this Saturday morning. Our work together comes from these passages, and others you thought to be worth examination. In fresh posts above, select one of the passages, and add your commentary. Then, as read your colleagues work and respond! Click here for the 1st edition text at U.Va. The pagination below comes from the University of California definitive edition we use in class. -- PJClements
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN -- Passage Commentary
Chapter 18.........."I was to blame somehow." (153)
Chapter 22.........."Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the south, and I’ve lived in the north; so I know the average all around. The average man’s a coward…"(190)
Chapter 23.........."I knowed what it was about. He was thinking about his wife and his chilfren, away up wonder, and he weas low and homesick; because he hadn’t ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for theirn. It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it’s so." (201)
Chapter 26.........."I got to steal that money, somehow; and I got tot steal it some way that they won’t suspicion that I done it…."(226)
Chaper 27.........."I thought them poor girls and the niggers would break their hearts for grief; they cried around each other, and took on so it most made ne down sick to see it. The girls said they hadn’t ever dreamed of seeing the family separated or sold away from the town. I can’t ever get it out of my memory… "(234)
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