Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal

Have you ever seen a “girl” steal before? Well, I have while I was reading a very intriguing book known as The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain. The story tells of a young boy by the name of Huckleberry Finn or some may call him, Huck Finn for short; He lives with two wonderful (mean) woman by the name of Miss Watson and The Widow Douglas. They try to civilize him, even though he wants to be a free man. Then he sneaks out the house to be with his best friend Tom Sawyer, who has a very different personality compared to Huckleberry Finn; His gang, which is called The Tom Sawyer Gang which they had to take an oath and have to write their name in blood. Their main objective was to go out and rob townsfolk of their money and they also …show more content…
Loftus, he used stretchers to get out of tough and vulnerable questions that would have made him get noticed. To demonstrate, “No’m, I ain’t hungry. I was so hungry I had to stop two miles below here at a farm; so I ain’t hungry no more. It’s what makes me so late. My mother’s down sick, and out of money and everything, and I some to tell my uncle Abner Moore. He lives at the upper end of the town, she says. I hain’t ever been here before. Do you know him?”( Twain 58). As stated by Huckleberry Finn, he told a huge lie just so Mrs. Loftus would believe that he wasn't from there and that his family is really sick, and to make her feel bad. “What did you say your name was, honey?”,“M—Mary …show more content…
Quoted by Huck Finn “She showed me a bar of lead twisted up into a knot, and said she was a good shot with it generally, but she’d wrenched her arm a day or two ago, and didn’t know whether she could throw true now.”(Twain 61). In this quoted it shows how people back then would use a bar of lead to kill rats. As stated by Mrs. Loftus “Goshen, child? This ain’t Goshen. This is St. Petersburg. Goshen’s ten mile further up the river. Who told you this was Goshen?”, “Why, a man I met at daybreak this morning, just as I was going to turn into the woods for my regular sleep. He told me when the roads forked I must take the right hand, and five mile would fetch me to Goshen., “He was drunk, I reckon. He told you just exactly wrong.”,“Well,,he did act like he was drunk, but it ain’t no matter now. I got to be moving along. I’ll fetch Goshen before daylight.”,“Hold on a minute. I’ll put you up a snack to eat. You might want it.”, So she put me up a snack, and says: “Say, when a cow’s laying down, which end of her gets up first? Answer up prompt now—don’t stop to study over it. Which end gets up first?”, “The hind end, mum.”,“Well, then, a horse?”, “The for'ard end, mum.”,“Which side of a tree does the moss grow on?”,“North side.”, “If fifteen cows is browsing on a hillside, how many of them eats with their heads pointed the same direction?”, “The whole fifteen, mum.”, “Well, I

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