i love hidden meanings! (and making people think otherwise!)

Mysterious things happen every day without anyone ever knowing except the one person that causes it: in china today somebody tapped a person on the shoulder pretending that they were on the other side of that person so they would look in the opposite direction that the person who tapped them on the shoulder actually was! After which the person who did the tapping ran around the corner before the person who was tapped had time to look back to see who his/her tapper was!..........although, being half way around the world from them nobody here would have even thought of such an event. (except me!) >8) 

            Even if your personal yellow bird passed by you today, who says you would even recognize it? Even though the yellow bird that your life requires is probably one of the most important things you need. Without it, you might as well feed a foxglove to a java rice finch! We need to learn to recognize where all of our mind boggling clues are. Otherwise, unknown.

HUCK FINN

Taylor Hardman

Period 3

Huck Finn Antic. Guide

11-29-10

HUMANS

Personally, I truly despise humans, for the very reason which I am being an example of. I hate the fact that it is possible for us to feel such negative feelings like hate, and jealousy and greed. I hate the very nature of humans. We destroy the insides of our own kind just to get a sense revenge. Humans….are….DISGUSTING! This has been shown to me again in Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain.

Two characters known as: “The Duke” and “The King” run around to various town conning and scamming people out of their money. In chapter 21, The King and the Duke are putting on a fake play just to scam people out of their money. They combine all these lines from different Shakespeare plays to make one big giant lie. Then again they put on a different “play” to get money for doing nothing. Not to mention the hook they use to get people to come to see it: “Not for Women and Children” showing how awful humans can be and that they most certainly do not always strive to do the “right thing”.

Another example that Mark Twain provides us with, is the fact that even though Tom Sawyer is confronted to do the right thing in chapter 34, when Huck tells him about trying to free the runaway slave, Jim, Tom jumps right in and tells Huck that he would be more than happy to assist him, and just for the sake of a mere adventure. Even though Tom knows that to do so would be against the law, against his relatives, and against everything he's been taught, he is willing to cause tons of trouble just to have a little fun, showing us that many humans wouldn't think twice but to satisfy their own selfishness.

On the other side of the coin, the coincidentally more shadowed side (haha? Other side of the coin? Side that's in the dark? Punny? Haha?........Oh alright) Huckleberry Finn is a much more developed, inner-thinking character that Twain has produced. In chapter ___, Huck is confronted with an inner conflict: he's been taught that freeing a slave is wrong and that slaves are pretty much just things that don't matter that much, but at this point he is starting to recognize Jim as being not so much a beast of labor, but as more of a human that thinks and feels just like himself. So he must decide to do either the “right” thing, and turn Jim in, to the Widow Douglas, or he can do the right thing and do what he feels to be correct and go to free Jim. Although one may think that this is just another selfish choice, doing what HE wants to do, the difference between this and all the other choices that I have brought forward, is that Huck is willing to “go to hell” to do it, he is willing to sacrifice the “gain that he would get” to do what he feels is right.

Even though I have said things that would contradict my first opinion that I have stated, I still believe that humans are scum deep within. I believe that Huck was a naive little boy who had no real sense of right and wrong he just went with what he felt that he wanted. He got his sense of right vs. wrong with what he had been taught. For example, when he says that humans can be awful cruel to one another as he saw the townsfolk carrying off the duke and dauphin, he only knew that was wrong because he had been taught that hurting others humans was bad.

As I have said before: I believe HUMANS...ARE...DISGUSTING.....>=/......=)

Me as a Writer! A Case-Study!

As a young boy beginning fourth grade, we were required to copy already-written paragraphs on to another paper containing a picture of an Idaho history pastime. At the time I was a terribly distracted child who had no desire for writing in the slightest. I would end up getting distracted because I didn’t want to write, but it still had to be done. Just about every time, I was the one who had to stay in from recess because I had not finished my paper. As a young child this was the worst possible punishment in the history of punishments. I liked my recess. It was my moment of freedom from containment. I began to associate writing with the lack of fun.


Round about the seventh grade when we started keeping journals, I found that I somewhat enjoyed writing as long as it was something that I wanted to write about. This led to my writing all over the place! Including walls! (just kidding…..) I asked my mother for a journal that I could write in myself.(Unfortunately I didn’t write in it much though because I didn’t have the patience.)

Since I started writing all the time I started getting better at writing, at least I think. I also started reading a lot and I think I may have been copying their writing style…….I should test myself on that sometime and see if I write like myself and not someone else. Although I’m not sure that I will be able to tell the difference between myself and someone else if my writing is just like theirs because I’ll have no identity and won’t even know if I exist!………………..Anyway…..as I have just demonstrated, I tend to puke whatever I’m thinking on to the page and then go back and fix it, but I won’t fix that because I just used it as a transitional tool……! I write what I think so that’s what goes on the paper.

In case you’re wondering, yes, that has got me into trouble on occasion. In an English journal, I had basically once said that I didn’t like my English teacher’s teaching style. We began to share so I shared mine. As I continued reading I got to the rude spot and my teacher kind of gave me a surprised look because we were kind of…not.. enemies. I didn’t really have anyway of explaining except that I didn’t mean for it to come out so insultingly. I don’t think he really liked me much after that. Although it was through him that I developed my love of reading. I really enjoyed, and was proud of the thought that I liked to read and write. So I began saying to myself that I was going to write a book one day. Skepticism galore from many. I often made movie watchers the enemies of book lovers but I knew that I really liked movies too, sometimes more than books. So to be honest with myself, I realized it wasn’t the books or the writing that I loved it was the stories. Now I have this amazing, fantastic story in my head that all I have left to do is write it down. Except the one problem of finding a beginning..............! =)