English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
November 02, 2003 - November 08, 2003
07 Blog assignment
Category: 07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Mark Phillipson
Seventh blog (07 Blog): Must be posted before class on Tuesday, Nov. 11. Make sure you assign your post to two categories: '07 Blog: Huckleberry Finn' and 'your name'. Assigned postings should be 100 – 200 words long. Be concise and specific: quote details to back up your claims. Keep...
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Posted by mphillip on November 06, 2003 at 12:01 PM
Huck's Own Honesty
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Alex Smith
Huck makes “allowances” for people he knows are “frauds” and “liers” because he knows he is not always honest himself. In fact, Huck seems almost envious at the king’s and the duke’s ability to lie, as Huck is excited by the new adventures that are coming his way when these...
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Posted by asmith9 on November 04, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Fellow Scamming Experts
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Europa Yang
Huck is not as taken aback as Jim is by the Duke/King duo, which he calls “the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that I ever struck (175)”. Unlike Jim, Huck does not look down upon them but instead makes allowances for their behavior because he accepts that while one can...
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Posted by eyang on November 04, 2003 at 10:00 AM
Huck Hankers for Community
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Liz Button
Huck Finn seems resolved to put up with the King and the Duke even though he is aware that their scams are hurting innocent people. At one point he even asserts that the two men make him "ashamed of the human race." However, it is the sense of community...
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Posted by ebutton on November 04, 2003 at 09:58 AM
Huck’s Accommodation of the Dukes
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Mike Stratton
The Dukes, like Tom Sawyer are a source of elaborate stories, lies and adventure for Huck. The Dukes first arrived on the raft, with the dogs of men they conned chasing after them. This introduction combined with their claims to be Dukes alerts Huck that “these liars warn’t no kings...
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Posted by mstratto on November 04, 2003 at 09:51 AM
Love/Hate Relationship
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jim Light
For Huck, the presence of the King and Duke is a constant reminder of Pap. As if the discovery of his father, dead, polluting the sanctity of the river was not enough of a foreshadowing, the King and Duke presage a return to the corrupt social order. Huck knows the...
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Posted by jlight on November 04, 2003 at 09:43 AM
Afraid to death of conflict
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Meredeth Lammert
Aside from death, Huck’s greatest fear is conflict. Huck goes out of his way, making allowances that often hurt himself, in order to avoid conflict. The duke and the king symbolize Huck’s strong desire to keep his life devoid of personal drama simply through his constant need to accommodate...
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Posted by mlammert on November 04, 2003 at 09:37 AM
Huck and the Duke and the King
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jeff Nolin
Because the duke and the king are both free white men, capable of turning both Huck and Jim in for running away, Huck has to treat them well despite that he knows they are frauds. Huck himself scammed people when he told the men looking for runaway slaves that his...
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Posted by jnolin on November 04, 2003 at 09:36 AM
A Little White Lie Never Hurt Anyone...
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Merrie Railsback
Huck makes allowances for these people because though he calls them “low down humbug and fraud” (142), he does not honestly believe that what they are doing is that bad. Huck himself we have seen is particularly fond of telling stretchers and playing different characters. He has done more than...
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Posted by mrailsba on November 04, 2003 at 09:29 AM
Was Huck Right or Wrong?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Drew Fulton
Huck allows the Duke and King to stay on the raft because he thinks that these two frauds have been relatively harmless up until this point in the story. The only thing that they have done to Huck and Jim is to fake royal lineage to gain superior treatment while...
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Posted by afulton on November 04, 2003 at 09:20 AM
Socially inept
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Monica Ruzicka
Life on the raft provides both Huck and Jim the opportunity to experience a sense of freedom that they would not be able to enjoy under the normal constraints of society and the social hierarchy that existed at the time. As a young boy and a runaway slave, they...
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Posted by mruzicka on November 04, 2003 at 07:55 AM
Tom?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Aki Makino
The reason why Huck “makes allowances” for the “low-down humbugs and frauds” (Twain 142) can be traced as far back as chapter 3. In chapter 3, Huck shows us Tom Sawyer’s tendencies to make things up on the spot to make himself appear superior. Such was the case when...
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Posted by amakino on November 04, 2003 at 07:13 AM
Scam..Scam..Scam
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jannelle Richardson
The novel is saturated with the presence of con artists Pap, the Duke and Dauphin are the most prominent. Pap is Huck father and Huck’s primary source to the scamming gullible individuals; however, Pap is not a successful con artist. Pap’s lack of success is evident in his scam on...
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Posted by jrichar2 on November 04, 2003 at 06:18 AM
Keeping an Eye on the Enemy
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Dan Herzberg
Huck tells Jim that though he doesn’t like Dauphin or Duke, “we got to remember what they are, and make allowances” (170). Why on Earth would Huck ever say this? After all, Duke and Dauphin essentially barged their way onto the raft, took control over the vessel, commandeered Huck and...
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Posted by dherzber on November 04, 2003 at 04:17 AM
"nothing but sword-fighting and rehearsing"
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jennifer Bernstein
Huck is mystified by the appearance of the Duke and Dauphin. Although he knows they are not real royalty, they act as if they have walked off the pages of a magnificent tale of adventure, robbery and riches, and this makes Huck happy enough. “And besides, it was just as...
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Posted by jbernste on November 04, 2003 at 03:45 AM
There has to be an explanation!
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Torri Parker
The reason why Huck can make allowances’ for the King and Duke is because he can relate with them. Just like they get a thrill out of fooling other people, he does too. Huck is proud of his own fraudulent behavior in faking his death. He is not alone though,...
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Posted by cparker on November 04, 2003 at 03:30 AM
I'm better than you Tom!
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Dro Joseney
Huck has an interesting ability in learning from people that are around him in order to gain an edge in his quest to have better “adventures’ than Tom Sawyer. Huck shows this ability when he lodges with his dad. Although he was forced to stay with his dad at first,...
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Posted by cjoseney on November 04, 2003 at 03:20 AM
What's the Big Deal?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Julie Calareso
Huck makes allowances for “low-down humbugs and frauds” on his raft for different reasons. Huck understands that the Duke and King behave the way they do, because of the manner in which they were raised and he accepts them for it. He declares, “Take them all around, they’re a mighty...
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Posted by jcalares on November 04, 2003 at 03:13 AM
Go with the Flow
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Eric Davich
When Huck first meets the Duke and the King, they introduce themselves by their “trade” rather than as their title. The Duke says he’s a “Jour printer… do a little in patent medicines; theatre-actor…” (p. 139), and the list goes on. The King also has a long list of trades...
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Posted by edavich on November 04, 2003 at 02:50 AM
Huck's idea of family
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jeb Bobseine
The first scam that the Duke and the King try to pull is to convince Huck that they are a duke and a king. Huck is aware that the Duke and the King are “low-down humbugs and frauds,” but still he has “no objections” to them staying aboard the...
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Posted by jbobsein on November 04, 2003 at 02:39 AM
Parallels, Familiarity, Company, and Learning
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Alex Krippner
Despite Jim’s and Huck’s dislike for the likes of characters such as the duke and the king, Huck allows them to remain on the raft with them. Although Huck acknowledges that these men are “low-down humbugs and frauds,” he does not pass judgment or attempt to rid the raft of...
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Posted by kkrippne on November 04, 2003 at 02:23 AM
Yeah... about those guys on the raft
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Greg Pearson
Throughout the novel, as he moves from one “adventure” to the next, Huck is always altering his identity. This could be as extreme as faking his own death or as innocent as changing his name to “Charles William Allbright” or “Aleck James Hopkins” (108). In this way he is strikingly...
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Posted by gpearson on November 04, 2003 at 02:09 AM
Huck's Subconscious
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Erica Michel
“I made up my mind I wouldn’t forget I was a girl,” (66) Huck thinks to himself as he performs one of his many cons of the novel. Huck feels like he should make allowances for con-artists like the Duke and King because he knows subconsciously that he himself is...
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Posted by emichel on November 04, 2003 at 02:02 AM
Why did you go and do that?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ryan Hurd
Huck “makes allowances” for the king and duke because he feels that he has had to deal with people like this before in his life. Huck considers his dad a “low-down humbug and fraud” as well and Huck feels that he knows how to deal with these people, “If I...
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Posted by rhurd on November 04, 2003 at 01:46 AM
Promoting Huck's Self-Respect
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Chris Johnson
Huck “make[s] allowances,” (p. 170) for the King and the Duke because he not only has a sort of respect for them, but also because they allow him to have a certain respect for himself. Though Huck realizes that both men are “low-down,” (p. 142) at heart, he admires the...
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Posted by cjohnso2 on November 04, 2003 at 01:44 AM
Huck's Similarities
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kelsey Hughes
Huck has always identified with robbers or con-men, since he in one way considers himself one. He constantly strives to be an adventurer like Tom Sawyer, and can associate with many criminals they come in contact with. He also, in some ways, seems to look for these adventures. Often times,...
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Posted by khughes2 on November 04, 2003 at 01:42 AM
Who Needs Games When You Have Real Con Artists?
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Katie Mitterling
While Huck despises the king and the duke for their fraudulence, he also seems to admire them for their aptitude at spinning stretchers and capacity for creativity. At the beginning of the book, Huck becomes disillusioned with Tom because he truly believes that they will be attacking a band of...
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Posted by kmitterl on November 04, 2003 at 01:32 AM
Twain's Satire at Work
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Nicole Colucci
Huck recognizes the debauchery of the Duke and the King’s behavior. For example, Huck describes the con men’s scheme to swindle the Wilks sisters out of their inheritance as “just sickening” (178). Nevertheless, he allows them to continue down the river on the raft. Huck behaves this way partly out...
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Posted by ncolucci on November 04, 2003 at 12:39 AM
Huck Is Looking For Adventure
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Eli Maitland
When Huck decides that he and Jim must "make allowances" for the Duke and the King, and allow them to stay on the raft, it initially seems like a potentially self destructive decision. These two men are "low-down humbugs and frauds" and can only cause more trouble for Huck and...
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Posted by emaitlan on November 04, 2003 at 12:24 AM
Avoiding Trouble
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Alix Roy
Huck learns to avoid trouble from an early age. Pap is always after him for something whether it’s money to buy whiskey or simply a subject to abuse. Rather than waste his time fighting with Pap and trying to rebel, Huck does everything that is asked of him. “The...
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Posted by aroy on November 04, 2003 at 12:19 AM
Playing Along
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Matthew Roy
Huck makes “allowances” for the two men even though he knows they are “low-down humbugs and frauds” (p. 142) due to the suggestion that he finds them entertaining and interesting. He feels this way because they can change the identity of their characters smoothly, and Huck can genuinely relate...
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Posted by mroy on November 03, 2003 at 11:49 PM
"Liars? I'm over it"-Huck
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kendall Brown
From the moment that Huck joined Tom Sawyer’s band of robbers the reader has been made aware of Huck’s love of adventure. His fake death and his willingness to join Jim on a raft ride to freedom also back this up. While Huck and Jim’s trip has not been uneventful,...
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Posted by kbrown2 on November 03, 2003 at 11:36 PM
King of wishful thinking
Category: 05 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kendall Brown
As a young boy who is prone to fits of the imagination, Huck tends to create fantasies, which involve the people who are closest to him. Because of his unstable childhood, he craves the comfort of living with one person whom he can call his family. While Pap’s background in...
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Posted by kbrown2 on November 03, 2003 at 11:15 PM
Living with Liars
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Dan Yingst
Despite the fact that the Duke and the King are “low-down humbugs and frauds” (142) Huck allows them on the raft and, in fact, allows them the run of his little craft. Huck is used to lies and false identities and often uses them himself. Yet the lies of the...
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Posted by dyingst on November 03, 2003 at 11:13 PM
Fascination and Deceit
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Frank Chi
Like previous iconoclasts in Huck’s life, he allows the King and Duke to dominate his mindset with their intriguing presence. While Tom Sawyer permanently occupies an aura of awe in his mind, the King and Duke convey a similar sense of excitement for Huck. As portrayed in their continual scams,...
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Posted by fchi on November 03, 2003 at 11:07 PM
just like me
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jin-Sun Kim
The Duke and the Dauphin are completely untrustworthy, yet, Huck allows them to stay on his raft and travel with them. “Jim pitied him ever so much, and so did I. We tried to comfort him, but he said it warn’t much use, he couldn’t be much comforted” (140). Huck...
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Posted by jkim3 on November 03, 2003 at 11:04 PM
Huck just wants to be happy
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Emily Hubbard
Huck has learned his tolerance for lousy men from his father. Because Huck never had a real family it seems that all he wants in his relationships with other people is harmony. Therefore, when the liars come and perpetuate themselves as the Duke and the Dauphin Huck does not...
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Posted by ehubbard on November 03, 2003 at 10:47 PM
Lessons in Adventure
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Kira Chappelle
Beginning with Huck’s night escapade with Tom Sawyer in chapter one, it is evident that adventure is thrilling to Huck, and the element of escape essential to the success of his adventures. Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer entertain themselves by pushing limits and seeing how much they can get...
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Posted by kchappel on November 03, 2003 at 10:37 PM
Allowances for Fellow Stretchers
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Tasha Graff
“If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way” (142). Though Huck is an adventurer, he likes to avoid being amidst trouble, and usually makes every effort to...
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Posted by tgraff on November 03, 2003 at 09:34 PM
Watch and Learn
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Niki Alvarez
Since Huck lived with the widow for a while, it could very well be that she instilled in him the need to be accommodating in some way to the robbers even if they are frauds. Huck in a sense feels somewhat sorry for the robbers, and probably wants to aid...
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Posted by nalvarez on November 03, 2003 at 09:29 PM
Intriguing Deceit
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Britta Bene
Although Huck quickly sees through the King and Duke’s scheme, he nevertheless makes allowances for them due to their theatrical qualities and deceptive abilities. During the previous chapters Huck assumed various roles himself, while always pretending to be a child in need. One of his most notable transformations was one...
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Posted by bbene on November 03, 2003 at 09:01 PM
Frauds and Fathers
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Taneisha Wilson
Huck allows the king and the duke to stay on his raft because he feels he has no choice, “If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way”(chp...
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Posted by twilson on November 03, 2003 at 08:56 PM
Pap and the Pirate
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jade Dunn
“…he was going to start right off and work his way back to the Indian Ocean and put in the rest of his life trying to turn the pirates into the true path…” (148) This line is from one of the first scams played out by the Dauphin –...
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Posted by jdunn2 on November 03, 2003 at 08:48 PM
Chained to the Places He Never Wished to Stay
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Sophie Wiss
Huck’s tolerance of the king and duke’s antics is not a choice made in response to what he wants, but in response to what he fears most. While he shows that he has a sense of duty to help those that cannot help themselves, it is not his conscience that...
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Posted by swiss on November 03, 2003 at 07:24 PM
Huck's Sympathy for the Life of the D. and D.
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Emily Sheffield
Although Huck and Jim have proven themselves to be much more honorable and kind individuals in their actions and manner than the Duke and the Dauphin (they never lie to make money off of others, but only to secure their safety), Huck feels he must make "allowances" for the swindlers....
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Posted by esheffie on November 03, 2003 at 06:07 PM
Let ‘Em Pretend
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Jason Lewis
Huck is a boisterous youth who enjoys and admires the ability to deceive and scam for personal gain. Although he immediately realizes that the Duke and the King “warn’t no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds,” (142) Huck makes an “allowance” for them because he...
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Posted by jlewis2 on November 03, 2003 at 03:35 PM
Preaching from Pap and The King
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Meghan Gillis
Huck knows from experience that the “preachin” (p.121) type of person is seldom the most trustworthy. Previously in the novel, Huck had experiences with Miss Watson’s religious preaching as well as Pap’s preaching to the judge about becoming a better man. Pap’s declaration of “rebirth” is strikingly similar to the...
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Posted by mgillis on November 03, 2003 at 03:09 PM
Deception for a Personal Gain
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Alex Paul
As I mentioned in my previous Blog, Huck chooses to “make allowances” for the King and the Duke, because he sees nothing to gain by contesting their fallacious claims: “If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn’t no objects, long as it would keep peace in...
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Posted by apaul on November 03, 2003 at 02:40 PM
A Mutual Enjoyment of the Theatrical
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Andrew Morrison
While the king and the duke are certainly “reglar rapscallions,” (p. 146) and scam people out of large sums of money, Huck has been every bit as devious. Even though his scams are created for different purposes and are much less malicious, he too may be considered a con man....
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Posted by amorriso on November 03, 2003 at 02:03 PM
Huck’s Admiration of Transformation
Category: 06 Blog: Huckleberry Finn | Ged Wieschhoff
Huck makes “allowances” for the king and the duke because he is amazed by men’s abilities to change their identity effortlessly and successfully. Though Huck realizes “that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds,” (p. 142) he allows the con men to...
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Posted by gwieschh on November 02, 2003 at 02:20 PM