Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)

Huck Finn was influenced by Tom Sawyer by not ever giving up or backing down once starting something. An example of this is in when Huck and Jim was going aboard the abandoned ship to look for things, when they discovered the 2 men about to kill this man who was tied up, Jim wanted to go back to the skiff and Huck says “Tom Sawyer wouldn’t back out now, and so I won’t either.”(chap 12,page 51,par 3)

Huck Finn was influenced by Pap by being polite and nice to people and thinking about the well being of others. An example of this is when Huck and Jim was going along the river and going into the little towns and by food and taking a chicken that wasn’t roosting comfortable. Pap said that “it warn’t no harm to borrow things, if you was meaning to pay them back.”(chap 12,page 49,par 3)

The Widow Douglas influenced Huck Finn by teaching him good manners and to be polite to people. The Widow showed Huck that it’s not alright to steal/borrow things. An example of this is when Huck was going around borrowing food from towns and small villages. The widow said “ It warn’t anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.”(chap 12,page 49,par 3)

Huck is influenced by Jim because he looks at him as close a friend and he respects him and listens to what he has to say. An example of this would be when Jim said "I reckon the widow is partly right and Pap is partly right, so the best way would be for us to pick two or three things from the list and say we wouldn't borrow them anymore- then he reckoned it wouldn't be no harm to borrow the others.(chap 12,page 49,par 3)

I think that Tom Sawyer has the most negative influence on Huck because he was kind of persuading him to do bad things and saying that they were OK to do. I think that Jim had the most positive influence on Huck because he's helping to keep Huck's head straight and trying to show him the right things to do.

Reader Response 1: Huck Finn (1 - 6)

Relationship to Parents

"Here's Huck Finn, he hain't got no family- what you going to do 'bout him?" "Well, he's got a father?"says Tom Sawyer. "Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him, these days. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more." ( ch.2,p.6,par4). Here's Huck Finn he don't have a family, what are you going to do about him? Well don't he have a father? says Tom Sawyer. Ys, he has a father, but nobody can ever find him. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but nobody has seen him here for a year or more.

What i think about the quote and this theme is that Huck dosn't claim his father because he was never there for him when he needed him and he might be ashamed of his father becuase he's a drunk and thats what everybody see's him as. I can't relate this to my own life becuase I have a good relationship with my parents.

What i think Mark Twain thinks about this quote and is that not all kids get along with their parents.They don't along with their parents because they're not there for them and so they dont't care weather they die or not. I think maybe Mark Twain didnt get along with his mother or father so he maybe wrote that quote the way he did.