Tuesday, February 15, 2011

"Options Lead to Insanity"

Name a decision Huck has had to make so far in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Which motif is this choice related to? Describe a time when you have had to make a similar decision. (at least 80 words total)

20 comments:

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Joe Petraccione said...

Huck made the decision to dress as a girl and go into town. The motif this relates to is false identity.

white matthew said...

Huck went into town dressed as a girl, which relates to false identity. i dont know how you want 80 words. But its false identity because huck is a boy not a girl

julia burch said...

Huck made the decision to run away from the town and his Pap, for his own freedom. This is noncomformity vs comformity because Huck is a noncomformist and wants to live his own life the way he wants. I have been in a situation like this when I have ran away from my parents to get away from rules and to have my own freedom.

maddy said...

When Huck decidedes to run away from his town to be free and live his own life the way he likes to by pretending to be dead he is being a noncomformist. When i was little i used to try to run away, but never really worked out..

Nick Dummar said...

A choice that Huck made was when he fooled the slave traders into believing that Jim was his Pap and that he was sick with smallpox. This shows false identity and how Huck really does care about Jim

Austin Hackett said...

Huck made a decision when he fooled the slave traders by fooling them into thinking that they had smallpocks so they let him go. The motif is false identities.

Richard M. Smalley said...

One decision decided to make related to a motif would be when he fakes his own death to escape. This is related to false-identity; in my life, one instanse where I did something similar to false-identity was when I took the name Wicky and tricked people into not believing I was Ricky, pretty funny.

Juan said...

Huck has the choice of staying with Miss Watson in a nice home and has the oportunity to be educated. He chooses his freedom and runs away instead. This shows conformity vs noncomformity. He does not conform to Miss Watson's rules. I had to make a similar decision when i conformed to follow the driving laws in Connecticut.

james m said...

noncomformity
becasue when he met the slave traders instead of going along with what any other person wouldve done he doesnt turn jim in he lies to them to keep jim safe he doesnt just give in and tell

jack said...

Huck and Jim believed in the superstions, such as the hair ball oracal that can answer any question, the snake skin can give you bad luck, Jim could ask the birds for the wether, Huck killing a spider could give him bad luck, or spilling salt. The motif is superstions. Jack

chris carr said...

Civilization vs. Freedom:Huck made the decision to fake his death with the bloody axe and escape with Miss Watson's slave Jim, as they adventure down the mississippi river.

mcapone said...

Freedom
HUck decides to fake his death and leave Pap to live on his own.Along with Jim who is a runaway slave lookingfor his freedom in another state.

D. Ordóñez said...

Huck and Jim's aversion to snakeskin reminds of a decision I made. Their superstition makes them afraid to even look at it. Huck doesn't really believe it until one thing which led to another had him decide to believe it. This is like a time I got a mousepad from my dad. What I didn't know at the time is that it was modeled after a Ouji Board. My mom was so afraid of me calling spirits and such that she used to hide it when ever she came into my room. But I need a mouse pad and all... I still use it and she seems satisfied I won;t wake the dead anymore. That's superstition for ya!

Kristina Du said...

Huck made the decision to run away from Miss Watson and the widow. He said ''it was rough living in the house all the time'' (13). It relates most to the motif of conformity vs. nonconformity. I had to make a similar decision because if I were to live under my parent's roof, I had to follow their rules and do things they ask of me. I chose to conform to their rules whereas Huck did not.

Elyssa said...

a good motif from huckleberry finn was when huck did not want to turn jim in. this motif would be comformity vs. non comformity, this happened once in life where, on a tv show law and order a victim did not want to say who killed that old woman when she was asked by the FBI because the criminal said that "if you identify me to the FBI and tell them that i killed this old lady for her money, i will kill you" this is the form because she didnot want to be killed and did not want to turn him in.
Elyssa Whiteman

Anonymous said...

Huck made the decision to not tell the slave hunters where Jim was. He was going to tell them but then he decided against it. He did this because Jim had told him how he thought of Huck as a friend. The motif in this decision is conformity vs. nonconformity. Huck chose nonconformity by not going along with society’s rules to turn in a runaway slave. You can see conformity vs. nonconformity in school systems. Students either listen to the rules of the school or face the consequences.

Jandy grande said...

When huck went into town dressed as a girl to get stuff and find stuff out is a false identity and that is the motif.

Liz Taylor said...

A decision that Huck has had to make so far in Huck Finn, is that he had to decide many times if he wanted to turn Jim in, Jim and Huck have gotten very close throught the book so far, they are all eachother has. Huck has the will to turn Jim, but he doesnt because Jim says that they are best friends. Huck is just a kid, and he believes everything Jim tells him. Another decision that Huck has to make is that he runs away from Pap, he could just stay with him and hope for the best, but he wants freedom and wants to be able what he wants, when he wants. He is tired of being abused by Pap, and being left alone without food, and other. This is an example of civilization vs. freedom. Another decison that Huck had to make was to believe in the supersitations that Jim believed in. This is an example of Supersition and earthy. There is a time when I had to make a simliar decision to the Huck and Jim situation. Once my friends were doing something bad, that could put them in danger. I had the choice, to keep quite or tell someone. In the end I told someone, they were mad at first, but then they understood that I was only looking out for their safety and because they were all close to me.

cpalmieri said...

this is comformity vs nonconformity because he wants to live on his own without rules or regulation, but everyone wants him to live with miss watson so instead he ran away from the town