family

family At the start of __The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn__ we see that Huck’s sense of family really isn’t present. This partly due to the fact that he has no motherly figure, no siblings, and an abusive and alcoholic father. Also at the beginning of the novel we see that the widow is Huck’s primary family. For example in chapter 1 Huck says, “The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it.”(Twain2) This shows how the widow was more like family to him then his own blood family. Then as we continue to watch Huck grow through the book we see his sense of family change drastically. One turning point in Huck’s sense of family is his “death” and how everyone related to him or not was concerned by it. “By and by she comes along, and she drifted in so close that they could a run out a plank and walked ashore. Most everybody was on the boat. Pap, and Judge Thatcher, and Bessie Thatcher, and Jo Harper, and Tom Sawyer, and his old Aunt Polly, and Sid and Mary, and plenty more. Everybody was talking about the murder.”(Twain51) This shows the concern of everybody toward Huck. At the end Huck’s entire belief of the word family has changed completely since the beginning of the novel. We notice that at the end of the novel Huck is craving for a family that will be there for him. We also see him doing things that don’t seem to fit his characteristics to achieve the family he wants. For example “But she was on my mind and Tom was on my mind, so I slept very restless. And twice I went down the rod away in the night, and slipped around front, and see her setting there by her candle in the window with her eyes towards the road and the tears in them; and I wished I could do something for her, but I couldn't, only to swear that I wouldn't never do nothing to grieve her any more. And the third time I waked up at dawn, and slid down and she was there yet, and her candle was most out, and her old gray head was resting on her hand, and she was asleep.”(Twain151) Alex and Jaime

Some good things that we observed throughout the paragraph were context and material such as incorporating quotes in your sentences in a nice way. However, your “paragraph” lacked transitions, use of examples, and minor details that shouldn’t be overlooked.

Is there anything you thought you could of improved before posting?

Eli & Raul We could have worked on the transition between each of our sentences. Also we could have provided our examples and quotes in a more advanced way. Alex and Jaime