Huck Finn 1&2

"I went down the front garden and clumb over the stile, where you go through the high board fence" (25).  Stile- a series of steps by means of which a person may pass over a wall or fence that remains a barrier to sheep or cattle

“The awfulest nabob in the State” (37).  Nabob- any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person 

“She said the thing a body could get by praying for it was “spiritual gifts.” This was too many for me, but she told me what she meant-I must help other people, and do everything I could for other people, and look out for them all the time, and never think about myself" (19). 

• Miss Douglass seems to really care for Huck.  She is trying to teach him to be a good human being.  She is teaching him to be a good person with good morals. She believes that he can change.  She treats him much different from how his father treated him.  She is nice to him and teaches him without physical abuse to be a better person.  Huck is probably confused about how this will help him, but most people at his age would be.  He is slowly changing, and is even now going to school.  Hopefully he will become a much better young boy with better moral values.  
  

“And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he’d been a fool, and fooled away his life; but now he was agoing to turn over a new leaf and be a man nobody wouldn’t be ashamed of” (31). 

• Huck’s father says he will change, but I don’t believe him.  His words make the judge and his family cry, but the words are coming from a man who has been greatly troubled throughout his life.  He is an illiterate drunk.  Huck’s entire family was illiterate, and it doesn’t seem like any of them have amounted to anything in their lives.  Huck’s father saying these words are not very convincing since there is no reason for him to change this far into his life.  He is only saying this to escape more trouble, and this is obvious when he leaves the house in the middle of the night, sells his new jacket, gets drunk, and falls and breaks his arm.  I also do not understand why the judge was going to leave Huck under his father’s control.  If these actions do not change his view I don’t know what would.