"She grew absolutely ashamed of herself. Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think, without feeling that she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd [...] But vanity, not love, had been my folly. Pleased with the preference of one, and offended by the neglect of the other, on the very beginning of our acquaintance, I have courted prepossession and ignorance, and driven reason away either were concerned. Till this moment, I never knew myself" (205).
Elizabeth has been too vain to see Darcy and Wickham for who they really were. She know realizes that what she detested in Darcy, is what Wickham really is, and what she admired in Wickham, is what Darcy really is. Elizabeth's actions relate to first title of the book which was First Impressions and the title of the book now, Pride and Prejudice. Elizabeth had too much pride in herself and her vanity, that she took her first impressions of Darcy and Wickham and made both men out to be what they were right off the bad, which, in turn, made her prejudice.
From what we know of Mr. Wickham and Mr. Dacry's relations, the reader can infer that Mr. Wickham was so interested in Elizabeth because
I) Elizabeth was extremely handsome
II) Elizabeth was very amiable
III) Elizabeth could provide Wickham with money
IV) Elizabeth could provide Wickham with happiness
a) II and IV
b) I and II
c) just III
d) just IV
Monday, March 30, 2009
P&P 7 6-10
"His eyes had been soon and repeatedly turned towards them with a look of curiosity' and that her Ladyship, after a while, shared the feeling, was more openly acknowledged, for she did not scruple to call out-". (174)
Lady Catherine interrupts Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam when they are speaking. She had been eyeballing them since they started their conversation, and later when Elizabeth and Mr Darcy are speaking, Lady Catherine interrupts again. It seems that Lady Catherine does want her nephews to be talking to Elizabeth alone, at all. It seems that Lady Catherine is afraid that one of her nephews will come to have feelings for Elizabeth, and to Lady Catherine, Elizabeth would not be suitable for either of them to marry. Elizabeth is too inferior.
From the way that Elizabeth does not answer Lady Catherine directly on page 165, the reader can infer that:
a) Elizabeth does not feel so inferior to Lady Catherine
b) Elizabeth likes Lady Catherine very much
c) Elizabeth does not want to reveal her age
d) Elizabeth was just joking
Lady Catherine interrupts Elizabeth and Colonel Fitzwilliam when they are speaking. She had been eyeballing them since they started their conversation, and later when Elizabeth and Mr Darcy are speaking, Lady Catherine interrupts again. It seems that Lady Catherine does want her nephews to be talking to Elizabeth alone, at all. It seems that Lady Catherine is afraid that one of her nephews will come to have feelings for Elizabeth, and to Lady Catherine, Elizabeth would not be suitable for either of them to marry. Elizabeth is too inferior.
From the way that Elizabeth does not answer Lady Catherine directly on page 165, the reader can infer that:
a) Elizabeth does not feel so inferior to Lady Catherine
b) Elizabeth likes Lady Catherine very much
c) Elizabeth does not want to reveal her age
d) Elizabeth was just joking
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
P&P 5 ch: 21-1
"Why do you think so? It must be his own doing, he is his own master" (117)
Jane seeing the good in everyone is evident here. She won't even consider that Miss Bingley is the one who's saying Bingley has to say, not himself. This is becoming quite a fault for Jane, only seeing the good in everyone makes you blind to any manipulation they do to you and I think Miss Bingley has figured that out and she will use it to her benefit. She can manipulate Jane into thinking that Bingey is not around or that he doesn't want to see her, and if Jane is not around, neither is Elizabeth and Miss Bingley can have Darcy to herself.
After hearing the New Of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, Elizabeth is:
a) shocked
b) livid
c) ecstatic
d) apathetic
Jane seeing the good in everyone is evident here. She won't even consider that Miss Bingley is the one who's saying Bingley has to say, not himself. This is becoming quite a fault for Jane, only seeing the good in everyone makes you blind to any manipulation they do to you and I think Miss Bingley has figured that out and she will use it to her benefit. She can manipulate Jane into thinking that Bingey is not around or that he doesn't want to see her, and if Jane is not around, neither is Elizabeth and Miss Bingley can have Darcy to herself.
After hearing the New Of Charlotte Lucas and Mr. Collins, Elizabeth is:
a) shocked
b) livid
c) ecstatic
d) apathetic
Sunday, March 22, 2009
p&p 3: 11-16
"She attracted him more than he liked; and Miss Bingly was uncivil to her, and more teasing than usual to himself. He wisely resolved to be particularly careful that no sign of admiration should now escape him" (60).
Mr. Darcy clearly is beginning to be attracted to Elizabeth and people are starting to notice especially Miss Bingly. Darcy does not want people to notice that he is attracted to Elizabeth because he thinks, and has made it quite clear, that the Bennet girls didn't leave up to his standards, which he portrays as very high. However, we can see that his standards are not so high after all because of his attraction to Elizabeth but, he doesn't want that to be known because it would be completely contradictory to everything he has ever said.
The reader can infer that Mr. Collins' high manners are because of
a) politeness
b) arrogance
c) rudness
d) nerves
Mr. Darcy clearly is beginning to be attracted to Elizabeth and people are starting to notice especially Miss Bingly. Darcy does not want people to notice that he is attracted to Elizabeth because he thinks, and has made it quite clear, that the Bennet girls didn't leave up to his standards, which he portrays as very high. However, we can see that his standards are not so high after all because of his attraction to Elizabeth but, he doesn't want that to be known because it would be completely contradictory to everything he has ever said.
The reader can infer that Mr. Collins' high manners are because of
a) politeness
b) arrogance
c) rudness
d) nerves
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
P&P #1 3/18 ch. 1-6
"'If I can but see one of my daughters happily setlled at Netherfield," said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, "and all the others equally well married, i shall have nothing to wish for'" (11).
Here we can see just how much wealth in Mrs. Bennet's daughters' marriages means to her. All she wants is for her daughters to marry wealthy men, and it is just a plus if the men are handsome or amiable. Mrs. Bennet has a terrible disposition to think of money before anything else when it comes to her daughters' marriages and thay may cause a problem further on. One of her daughters may fall for a man with little wealth and Mrs. Bennet will clearly not approve.
Mr. Darcy is a very ______ man.
a.) Propitious
b.) Affable
c.) Haughty
d.) Diffidence
Here we can see just how much wealth in Mrs. Bennet's daughters' marriages means to her. All she wants is for her daughters to marry wealthy men, and it is just a plus if the men are handsome or amiable. Mrs. Bennet has a terrible disposition to think of money before anything else when it comes to her daughters' marriages and thay may cause a problem further on. One of her daughters may fall for a man with little wealth and Mrs. Bennet will clearly not approve.
Mr. Darcy is a very ______ man.
a.) Propitious
b.) Affable
c.) Haughty
d.) Diffidence
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
huck finn
It's been a while now since Jim and me have seen no towns but I don't mind. By-and-By we just go a floatin' down the river and talk. We talk about all sort of things, me and Jim do. I like talkin' with Jim, I get to know where his thoughts be a comin' from. At first I though I knowed he didn't know nothin', no there warn't noway nohow Jim knowed anythin', but by-and-by I got to know that he does know some things I just never gave him a chance, I shoulda though. The widow always was tellin' me to give everyone a chance because you never know when your gunna meet someone that could change you life. That's always what she was a telling me but I never really gave no one a chance and I never really listened to the widow much nuther.
I wonder how the widow is, and Miss Watson too. They're probably worryin' cinsiderable about me, I mean they knowed I like the outdoors and not bein' sivilized as they call it, but I knowed they don't think I'm this smart at it. They probably think I'm well gone and dead, but I ain't that's for sure. I think I should write to them when I get off the river, I don't want to leave them a wonderin' for the rest of they life. That'd be horrible, I know I wouldn't wanna be wonderin' about what had happened to a body for the rest of my life, noway nohow. I'd wanna know for sure. So I'll write to them and tell them everythin about me and Jim on the river and the Duke and the Dauphin. They'd be mighty proud of me lettin' the Duke and Dauphin on our raft and helpin' them out. They'd think is was considerbaly nice of me and Jim.
I wonder how the widow is, and Miss Watson too. They're probably worryin' cinsiderable about me, I mean they knowed I like the outdoors and not bein' sivilized as they call it, but I knowed they don't think I'm this smart at it. They probably think I'm well gone and dead, but I ain't that's for sure. I think I should write to them when I get off the river, I don't want to leave them a wonderin' for the rest of they life. That'd be horrible, I know I wouldn't wanna be wonderin' about what had happened to a body for the rest of my life, noway nohow. I'd wanna know for sure. So I'll write to them and tell them everythin about me and Jim on the river and the Duke and the Dauphin. They'd be mighty proud of me lettin' the Duke and Dauphin on our raft and helpin' them out. They'd think is was considerbaly nice of me and Jim.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
writing in character
Jim:
What do you think ‘bout family, Huck? Family is mighty ‘mpotant to me. I’s think e’ryone needs a family wid dem at sum poin’. I’s can’t wait ta get my family back. I’s always thinkin’ ‘bout what I’s is gwyne to do wid dem. We’s gwyne have so much fun t’gether. En you can come too, Huck ‘siderin you don’t got no family no more. You’s can come live wid me en my family Huck en we’s live on da river Huck. Just like we’s is doin’ now ‘cept we gwyne have a house en mo’ food and mo people ‘round us bekase we gwyne be’s a big en happy family Huck. I’s woud really like if you would come wid me, Huck bekase you’s is de bes’ fren’ I’s ever had. If I’s didn’ have you’s I’s wouldn’t I’s a wouldn’t be Jim. I’d miss you considerable Huck I’s swears I’s be a cryin’ all de time wid out you. I’s couldn’t have no fun wid out you’s Huck.
An’ you’s been a helpin’ me so much Huck, I’s got to help you, it jus’ wouldn’t be right if I’s didn’t. I’s wuz thinkin’ ‘bout dis fo a while now, but I’s just didn’t knows when I’s shud it, but I’s thought I’s shud jus’ tell you right ‘way bekase what if sumfin terr’ble happened and I’s didn’t let my bes’ fren’ no dis. I’s be a damn foo’ if I’s didn’t tell you en I’s would feel terr’ble all de time bekase you’s is always tellin’ me er’thing an I’s would be mighty than’ful if you’s did come wid me and my family. Dey would really like you’s I’s jis know it bekase I’s like you so dey gotta like you bekase dey family and soon you’s is gwyne be family I’s hope. So Huck, wha’ it a gwyne be? You’s can have sun time to think ‘bout it. I’s know it’s a mighty thing to akse a body out of de blue. Jis keep a thinking’ ‘bout it Huck.
Huck:
I though it all over awhile and by-and-by I got to more liking the idea of living with Jim and his family. And every time I thought about it I got awful excited I couldn’t wait to do it. But I didn’t tell Jim that I wanted to go yet because I didn’t want him too excited about it because I knowed that was all he’d think about and that would get us nowhere nohow.
When we was tired from our long day out on the river we would lay down and stare at the stars, but I wasn’t really staring at the stars anyway I was really thinking about living on the river with Jim. It would be considerable nice. It would be just like living here on the raft just better. We would have a house and everything and by-and-by maybe we would be rich. There warn’t no way I could say no to all that and I just couldn’t wait to tell Jim, but I was gwyne tell him yet for his own good. He’d get considerable happy and that would all he would think about, I just knowed it. So I kept my mouth shut, didn’t say a word, and just waited for the right time to tell Jim.
The widow would be awfully proud of me for doing such a good thing. Not telling Jim yet for his own good. The widow was always saying how you should does things and shouldn’t do things, whatever ever was right the situation and she was always telling me to look out for others. So, here I am looking out for Jim and not saying a word. No, no way nohow was I gwyne say anything to Jim because I was looking out Jim and doing it for his own good. I knowed Jim would be mighty happy about me being so nice and all so I knowed I was doing the right thing.
What do you think ‘bout family, Huck? Family is mighty ‘mpotant to me. I’s think e’ryone needs a family wid dem at sum poin’. I’s can’t wait ta get my family back. I’s always thinkin’ ‘bout what I’s is gwyne to do wid dem. We’s gwyne have so much fun t’gether. En you can come too, Huck ‘siderin you don’t got no family no more. You’s can come live wid me en my family Huck en we’s live on da river Huck. Just like we’s is doin’ now ‘cept we gwyne have a house en mo’ food and mo people ‘round us bekase we gwyne be’s a big en happy family Huck. I’s woud really like if you would come wid me, Huck bekase you’s is de bes’ fren’ I’s ever had. If I’s didn’ have you’s I’s wouldn’t I’s a wouldn’t be Jim. I’d miss you considerable Huck I’s swears I’s be a cryin’ all de time wid out you. I’s couldn’t have no fun wid out you’s Huck.
An’ you’s been a helpin’ me so much Huck, I’s got to help you, it jus’ wouldn’t be right if I’s didn’t. I’s wuz thinkin’ ‘bout dis fo a while now, but I’s just didn’t knows when I’s shud it, but I’s thought I’s shud jus’ tell you right ‘way bekase what if sumfin terr’ble happened and I’s didn’t let my bes’ fren’ no dis. I’s be a damn foo’ if I’s didn’t tell you en I’s would feel terr’ble all de time bekase you’s is always tellin’ me er’thing an I’s would be mighty than’ful if you’s did come wid me and my family. Dey would really like you’s I’s jis know it bekase I’s like you so dey gotta like you bekase dey family and soon you’s is gwyne be family I’s hope. So Huck, wha’ it a gwyne be? You’s can have sun time to think ‘bout it. I’s know it’s a mighty thing to akse a body out of de blue. Jis keep a thinking’ ‘bout it Huck.
Huck:
I though it all over awhile and by-and-by I got to more liking the idea of living with Jim and his family. And every time I thought about it I got awful excited I couldn’t wait to do it. But I didn’t tell Jim that I wanted to go yet because I didn’t want him too excited about it because I knowed that was all he’d think about and that would get us nowhere nohow.
When we was tired from our long day out on the river we would lay down and stare at the stars, but I wasn’t really staring at the stars anyway I was really thinking about living on the river with Jim. It would be considerable nice. It would be just like living here on the raft just better. We would have a house and everything and by-and-by maybe we would be rich. There warn’t no way I could say no to all that and I just couldn’t wait to tell Jim, but I was gwyne tell him yet for his own good. He’d get considerable happy and that would all he would think about, I just knowed it. So I kept my mouth shut, didn’t say a word, and just waited for the right time to tell Jim.
The widow would be awfully proud of me for doing such a good thing. Not telling Jim yet for his own good. The widow was always saying how you should does things and shouldn’t do things, whatever ever was right the situation and she was always telling me to look out for others. So, here I am looking out for Jim and not saying a word. No, no way nohow was I gwyne say anything to Jim because I was looking out Jim and doing it for his own good. I knowed Jim would be mighty happy about me being so nice and all so I knowed I was doing the right thing.
Monday, March 9, 2009
Huck Finn: to pg 157
"If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people s to let them have their own way" (137).
Huck has two sides to his moral process, one side is pap and the other side is the widow and they intertwine with each other. Here we see the side of pap's influence come more into the light and it surprisingly is not bad advice at all. I think that the parts of what pap says and the parts of what the widow says that Huck chooses are usually for the better. He seems to be able to pick up on the good things they both have to offer and either put them to use separately or together, which is best fit for the situation. Huck may not make the best choices but his process behind them are always in good intentions.
"Make the best o' things the way you find 'em, says I - that's my motto" (136).
I agree with this statement. I think that when you come to a situation you always just have to make the best of it. It may not be your first reaction to make the best out of it and you might actually make it worse at first, but that's just a little more work. Still try to make the best of the situation because when you have a bad situation circling you, it is all you think about and everything you is because of that and it makes you miserable. But, if you try to make the best out of it, you can let it pass you by without affection you much and maybe even learn a lesson or two from it.
galluses - a pair of suspenders for trousers.
"He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woolen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot tops, and home-knit galluses-no, he only had one" (132).
galoot - an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.
"Next you'd see a raft sliding by away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping" (130).
Huck has two sides to his moral process, one side is pap and the other side is the widow and they intertwine with each other. Here we see the side of pap's influence come more into the light and it surprisingly is not bad advice at all. I think that the parts of what pap says and the parts of what the widow says that Huck chooses are usually for the better. He seems to be able to pick up on the good things they both have to offer and either put them to use separately or together, which is best fit for the situation. Huck may not make the best choices but his process behind them are always in good intentions.
"Make the best o' things the way you find 'em, says I - that's my motto" (136).
I agree with this statement. I think that when you come to a situation you always just have to make the best of it. It may not be your first reaction to make the best out of it and you might actually make it worse at first, but that's just a little more work. Still try to make the best of the situation because when you have a bad situation circling you, it is all you think about and everything you is because of that and it makes you miserable. But, if you try to make the best out of it, you can let it pass you by without affection you much and maybe even learn a lesson or two from it.
galluses - a pair of suspenders for trousers.
"He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woolen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot tops, and home-knit galluses-no, he only had one" (132).
galoot - an awkward, eccentric, or foolish person.
"Next you'd see a raft sliding by away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping" (130).
Sunday, March 8, 2009
Huck Finn 89-127
"If he got a notion in his head once, there warn't no getting it out again" (90)
This quote shows how gullible and stubborn Jim is. With his lack of education, Jim doesn't really know when something is far fetched so he pretty much believes everything he hears and he won't let anyone try to tell him otherwise. Jim does have one exception for when he is not gullible though, when something personal or emotional is told to him. When Huck tells Jim that everything that happened on the river was all a dream, Jim doesn't believe it because it has touch him emotionally and he doesn't let it slide with Huck either. Still Jim is stubborn with not letting Huck off the hook right away so, Jim is just a really stubborn person.
"says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?" (104)
Here Huck has come to the notion that it doesn't matter if he does right or wrong anymore because either way he still feels the same. He stills feels horrible about it. If Huck tells about Jim Huck will feel extremely bad about selling Jim out like that, considering the way Jim feels about him, but if Huck doesn't tel about Jim Huck will feel extremely bad about lying and helping a a runaway. So now, Huck doesn't really care what he does, and what choices he makes because he feels like he'll get the same outcome in the end. With Huck being careless about his choices, it could lead him into some trouble in the future when he makes the wrong decison.
reticule - a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.
"she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow, and her other hand hanging down her side holding a white handkerchief and a reticule" (113)
gumption - initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness.
"Does I shin aroun' mongs' de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill do b'long to, en han' it over to de right one, all safe en soun', de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would?" (90)
This quote shows how gullible and stubborn Jim is. With his lack of education, Jim doesn't really know when something is far fetched so he pretty much believes everything he hears and he won't let anyone try to tell him otherwise. Jim does have one exception for when he is not gullible though, when something personal or emotional is told to him. When Huck tells Jim that everything that happened on the river was all a dream, Jim doesn't believe it because it has touch him emotionally and he doesn't let it slide with Huck either. Still Jim is stubborn with not letting Huck off the hook right away so, Jim is just a really stubborn person.
"says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?" (104)
Here Huck has come to the notion that it doesn't matter if he does right or wrong anymore because either way he still feels the same. He stills feels horrible about it. If Huck tells about Jim Huck will feel extremely bad about selling Jim out like that, considering the way Jim feels about him, but if Huck doesn't tel about Jim Huck will feel extremely bad about lying and helping a a runaway. So now, Huck doesn't really care what he does, and what choices he makes because he feels like he'll get the same outcome in the end. With Huck being careless about his choices, it could lead him into some trouble in the future when he makes the wrong decison.
reticule - a small purse or bag, originally of network but later of silk, rayon, etc.
"she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow, under a weeping willow, and her other hand hanging down her side holding a white handkerchief and a reticule" (113)
gumption - initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness.
"Does I shin aroun' mongs' de neighbors en fine out which un you de bill do b'long to, en han' it over to de right one, all safe en soun', de way dat anybody dat had any gumption would?" (90)
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Huck Finn 2: to pg 88
"I says, now I reckon the widow or the parson or somebody prayed that this bread would fine me, and here it had gone and done it. So there ain't non doubt but there is something in that thing. That is, there's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me" (48)
Huck now does believe that prayer works. He believes that if you pray for something to someone, your prayers will be answered, but only for the right kind of people. Huck doesn't think he is one of those kind of people. Huck doesn't think that he is good enough for prayer. He thinks that he is not good enough for prayer to work for him, so he is not going to bother with it, but that might come back to haunt him later when the one thing he needs is prayer and he thinks he can't have it. Huck needs to realize that he can pray, it doesn't matter what kind of person you are. Pray is for everyone.
"Yes- en I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars" (57).
Jim is happy with himself and knows that he owns himself and no one else does. Even though Jim doesn't have the 800 dollars, he still considers himself worth it. He is able to realize that even though he has a little, he still has something, he still has hope. Maybe with all of Jim's hope will rub off on Huck if and when he needs it. Jim's hope will give Huck hope, hope for prayer.
brash - impertinent; impudent; tactless.
"When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain't no time to be fooling around" (50)
fantods - a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies
"It most gave me the fan-tods" (51).
Huck now does believe that prayer works. He believes that if you pray for something to someone, your prayers will be answered, but only for the right kind of people. Huck doesn't think he is one of those kind of people. Huck doesn't think that he is good enough for prayer. He thinks that he is not good enough for prayer to work for him, so he is not going to bother with it, but that might come back to haunt him later when the one thing he needs is prayer and he thinks he can't have it. Huck needs to realize that he can pray, it doesn't matter what kind of person you are. Pray is for everyone.
"Yes- en I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars" (57).
Jim is happy with himself and knows that he owns himself and no one else does. Even though Jim doesn't have the 800 dollars, he still considers himself worth it. He is able to realize that even though he has a little, he still has something, he still has hope. Maybe with all of Jim's hope will rub off on Huck if and when he needs it. Jim's hope will give Huck hope, hope for prayer.
brash - impertinent; impudent; tactless.
"When I got to camp I warn't feeling very brash, there warn't much sand in my craw; but I says, this ain't no time to be fooling around" (50)
fantods - a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies
"It most gave me the fan-tods" (51).
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Huck Finn 2: 28-46
"I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much. I reckon i was scared now, too; but in a minute I see I was mistaken" (28).
Huck is no longer afraid of his father anymore because he knows what to expect out of him. Huck pretty much knows how things will go and what his fathers routine will be. Huck knows that his father is going to beat him when he gets drunk, but it doesn't scare him anymore because it has happened so much. He obviously doesn't want to get hit and it obviously hurts him, but he's not afraid of it anymore. He doesn't let it phase him anymore. If he can let a beating from his own father for no reason not phase him anymore, he can pretty much not let anything else phase him. The beatings have made him stronger.
"This shook be up considerable, because I didn't want to go back to the widow's any more and be so cramped up and sivilized, as they called it" (35).
Here, Huck says so himself that he doesn't like to be cramped up civilized. He doesn't want to go back to the widow's, but he doesn't want to stay with his father. Huck just wants to be free, away from anyone who can restrain him. But I think he is going to get awfully lonely sooner or later. He may be very independent but that doesn't mean he doesn't need or want friends or someone around. He can still have people around and depend on himself and no one else.
nabob - any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
"He had a gold watch and chain, and a silver headed cane-the awfullest old gray-headed nabob in the State" (37)
palavering - to talk profusely and idly.
"'Well, all right. Don't stand there palavering all day"' (40)
Huck is no longer afraid of his father anymore because he knows what to expect out of him. Huck pretty much knows how things will go and what his fathers routine will be. Huck knows that his father is going to beat him when he gets drunk, but it doesn't scare him anymore because it has happened so much. He obviously doesn't want to get hit and it obviously hurts him, but he's not afraid of it anymore. He doesn't let it phase him anymore. If he can let a beating from his own father for no reason not phase him anymore, he can pretty much not let anything else phase him. The beatings have made him stronger.
"This shook be up considerable, because I didn't want to go back to the widow's any more and be so cramped up and sivilized, as they called it" (35).
Here, Huck says so himself that he doesn't like to be cramped up civilized. He doesn't want to go back to the widow's, but he doesn't want to stay with his father. Huck just wants to be free, away from anyone who can restrain him. But I think he is going to get awfully lonely sooner or later. He may be very independent but that doesn't mean he doesn't need or want friends or someone around. He can still have people around and depend on himself and no one else.
nabob - any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person.
"He had a gold watch and chain, and a silver headed cane-the awfullest old gray-headed nabob in the State" (37)
palavering - to talk profusely and idly.
"'Well, all right. Don't stand there palavering all day"' (40)
Huckleberry Finn 1: 9-27
"I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags, and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied" (9).
Huck Finn seems to be a very free and independent person. He doesn't like to be held down and feel restrained. Even though when he lived with his father, his father beat him and he had a very bad life, he still likes to go back to the way he used to be when he did live with his father. The memories of his drunk father don't seem to phase him that much, Huck seems to be the kind of person that doesn't let anyone or anything bother him too much, because if he let things bother him he would have a burden to carry and wouldn't be free, therefore he wouldn't be satisfied.
"She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn't so. I tried it. [...] I couldn't make it work. By-and-by, i asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn't make it out no way"(19).
Huck thinks that Miss Watson meant that no matter what you asked for when you pray you will get it. Miss Watson calls Huck a fool for asking her to help pray but she doesn't tell him why, she wants him to figure it out on his own. Huck does not understand that Miss Watson meant spiritually. That if you pray for spiritual gifts you will get them. But since Miss Watson wouldn't tell him why, Huck didn't bother trying to figure it out so he just gave up. This shows how young and naive Huck is and maybe him being naive is the reason why something might go bad further on.
ornery - ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper
"I thought it all out, and I reckoned I would belong to the widow's, if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was agoing to be any better off than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant and so kind of low-down and ornery" (20)
tanyard - An enclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.
"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" (16).
Huck Finn seems to be a very free and independent person. He doesn't like to be held down and feel restrained. Even though when he lived with his father, his father beat him and he had a very bad life, he still likes to go back to the way he used to be when he did live with his father. The memories of his drunk father don't seem to phase him that much, Huck seems to be the kind of person that doesn't let anyone or anything bother him too much, because if he let things bother him he would have a burden to carry and wouldn't be free, therefore he wouldn't be satisfied.
"She told me to pray every day, and whatever I asked for I would get it. But it warn't so. I tried it. [...] I couldn't make it work. By-and-by, i asked Miss Watson to try for me, but she I was a fool. She never told me why, and I couldn't make it out no way"(19).
Huck thinks that Miss Watson meant that no matter what you asked for when you pray you will get it. Miss Watson calls Huck a fool for asking her to help pray but she doesn't tell him why, she wants him to figure it out on his own. Huck does not understand that Miss Watson meant spiritually. That if you pray for spiritual gifts you will get them. But since Miss Watson wouldn't tell him why, Huck didn't bother trying to figure it out so he just gave up. This shows how young and naive Huck is and maybe him being naive is the reason why something might go bad further on.
ornery - ugly and unpleasant in disposition or temper
"I thought it all out, and I reckoned I would belong to the widow's, if he wanted me, though I couldn't make out how he was agoing to be any better off than what he was before, seeing I was so ignorant and so kind of low-down and ornery" (20)
tanyard - An enclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; a tannery.
"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" (16).
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