Reader Response 2: Huck Finn (7 - 13)

The way Huck is influenced by tom sawyer is because there both young and they can understand another. Tom sawyer is suppose to be Huck’s best friend, so if you have a best friend your best friend should be able to listen to the things you have to go threw. Your best friend should be the one that’s helping to get into stuff and helping you get out of things. Tom sawyer is one of those best friends who gets you into trouble and persuades you to do thing that you know is wrong but do it anyway. But then he is a friend that stays with you even though you know you might get into trouble.

The way Widow Douglas influences Huck is by taking care of him while his father is out and about. “The Widow Douglas, she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me”. Widow helps Huck by providing him with shelter and other good life living. But Huck did not like the fact that widow was so strict. But because widow Douglas was so strict it helped Huck to be a very strong and smart boy.

The way pap was an influence on Huck is because he showed Huck how to be strong and wise and how to do man things like carry loads of food and make a camp fire. But the again pap was kind of a bad influence on Huck because he showed Huck the bad ways of life such as stealing and being drunk which is not a good example when your a kid.

The way Jim was an influence on pap is because he showed him how to do things such as make a shelter, camp fire, food, boat, and other materials while your outside in the wilderness. Jim also was kind of a bad influence because they stole things that weren’t there’s, but Jim put it in a way to say that it was borrowing instead of stealing so if you borrowed it would not be such a bad thing technically. Jim has been taking care of Huck so technically he’s not a bad person, but they will be punished for there wrong doing.

Reader Response1: Huck Finn ( 1-6 )

Tom Sawyer- "Now we'll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer's Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood." . . . . " And if anybody that belonged to the bad told the secrets, he must have his throat cut, and then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around, and his name blotted off the list with blood and never mentioned again by the gang, but have a curse put on it and be forgot, forever."(ch. 2, p.15, par 6)



The quote to me means like Tom sawyer was a big influence on huck. Tom was suppose to be a huck's be friend. he was not mentioned in the book alot but the parts that he were in was big. Such as the par when him and huck were sneaking around and nessing with big jim. That part made a big influence because that showed how him and characteristics were in the book.

Mark Twain's opninon on the quote was that he thought that making the characters in the book how they are would show you how real life experirences are. The abussive parents part in the book was big because it shows that despite how huck's father abused him in many ways he still kept his pride and head and moved on. Mark Twain was showing a lesson and a moral in the book and quote's.