June 24th 2013

Exercise 1: 
Many say that animals are often abused by people who have power and control issues. These people want to bully and dominate others, and animals are often the first step, as they are defenseless and cannot speak out. However, animal abusers often progress into more violent criminals. The truth is, it is important for people to understand and acknowledge the fact that animals do have feeling. Reporting any suspicious behavior about animal abuse it important as well.
Exercise 2:

In the Introduction to "They Say, I Say":The Moves That Matter In Academic Writing, Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein provide templates to help basic writing become a better writer. Specifically Graff and Birkenstein argue that the types of templates they offer may be skepticism. Some students say that the templates will take away their originality. As the authors themselves put it "They do not contain the content you put into it, you are suggesting how you say it. Although some people believe that it actually gives you less originality, Graff and Birkenstein insist that even though you may think that the particular template is not giving you your own ideas, it will still help. In sum, then, their view is that it is actually easier to use the template, giving you more originality. 
I agree. In my view the rubric of the templates that the authors recommends are for beginners learning to become advanced writers. For instance,  "They Say, I Say" give you templatesfor beginners or if you are not comfortable with the material. In addition, this book teaches you how to learn to advance your writing with the various templates throughout the book. Some might object, of course, on the grounds that these templates might lack creativity. Overall, then, I believe the given templates help you understand the information.

Chapter 1-2

Pg. 6: "The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come on time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, through there warn't really anything the matter with them.That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swamps around, and the things go better."

Comments and Questions

Huck had to adjust to living the way the widow did. He was not raised this way so the lifestyle was unusual for him. He felt that the widows ways were incorrect. She was very proper and he was not. They were two very different people.

Chapter 3-4

Pg.19: "Shucks, it ain't no use to talk to you, Huck Finn. You don't seem to know anything, somehow -- perfect saphead." I thought all this over for two or three days, and then I reckoned I would see if there was anything in it. I got an old tin lamp and an iron ring, and went out in the woods and rubbed and rubbed till I sweat like an Injun, calculating to build a palace and sell it; but it warn't no use, none of the genies come. So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer's lies. I reckoned he believed in the A-rabs and the elephants, but as for me I think different. It had all the marks of a Sunday-school."

Comments and Questions

Tom is not realistic and Huck is aware that he lies. Huck is practical and mature. Tom is considered the leader of the group, Huck is the follower. This relationship can represent political leaders.

Chapter 5-6

Pg. 36: " They said he could VOTE when he was at home. Well, that let me out. Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? It was ’lection day, and I was just about to go and vote myself if I warn’t too drunk to get there; but when they told me there was a State in this country where they’d let that nigger vote, I drawed out. I says I’ll never vote agin."

Comments and Questions

Huck's father is ranting about free blacks. He is showing his racist and ignorant attitude. Most people had the same attitude towards blacks during this time period knowing it was before the civil war. It is also ironic because the professor is black.

Chapter 7- 8

Pg. 57: "Well, I did. I said I wouldn’t, and I’ll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don’t make no difference. I ain’t a-going to tell, and I ain’t a-going back there, anyways. So, now, le’s know all about it."

Comments and Questions

Huck listens to Jim and is able to understand him. I think Huck knows that racism is wrong so he doesn't treat Jim any differently. The tone in this quote is sympathetic.

Chapter 9-10

Pg. 72: "His foot swelled up pretty big, and so did his leg; but by and by the drunk begun to come, and so I judged he was all right; but I'd druther been bit with a snake than pap's whisky."

Comments and Questions

Huck is showing how little he cares for his Pap, by saying he'd rather be bitten by a snake than be drunk off Pap's whisky. The tone here is apathetic. 

Chapter 11-12

Pg. 82: "You do a girl tolerable poor, but you might fool men, maybe. Bless you, child, when you set out to thread a needle, don’t hold the thread still and fetch the needle up to it; hold the needle still and poke the thread at it—that’s the way a woman most always does; but a man always does it ‘tother way.”

Comments and Questions

This quote is similar to the saying "you throw like a girl". It is stereotyping women. This is when Huck goes to the women's house dressed as a girl. She figures out that Huck is a boy and asks what his real name was. The tone of this quote is insulting toward women.

Chapter 13-14

Pg. 102: "...he judged it was all up with him anyway it could be fixed; for if he didn't get saved he would get drownded; and if he did get saved, whoever saved him would send him back home so as to get the reward, and then Miss Watson would sell him South, sure. Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head for a nigger." 

Comments and Questions

Being raised in the South which was a slave owning society during that time, Huck joins in the common belief that blacks are less intelligent than whites. Therefore, he is surprised that Jim has such a "level head".

Chapter 15

Pg. 115: “En all you wuz thinkin’ ‘bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren’s en makes ‘em ashamed.’ Then he got up slow and walked to the wigwam, and went in there without saying anything but that. But that was enough. It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back. It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a ; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterward, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way."

Comments and Questions

Huck plays a trick on Jim and doesn't realize how much it would hurt him. Jim says how he was so happy he could kiss Huck's feet. This is ironic because when Jim is hurt Huck says he would kiss Jim’s feet to apologize to him.