The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Motifs Discussion by Ann Kedrowski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u I would like each of you to share three of your five questions. I would also like for you to share 4 quotes - each one from a different motif. After you have typed in or videoed your 3 questions and 4 quotes, please write a response or a reflections under 3 of the questions and 2+ quotes. I will be checking in on this conversation on Friday. Be done writing and responding by Sunday, September 6. Thank you en-us 2020-09-02 11:54:10 UTC 2026-02-26 09:01:45 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f609.png Welcome to Padlet akedrowski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/714600729 2020-09-02 12:40:02 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/714600729 How is mortality treated in the novel and how does it affect the characters? Heather_Chandlerr https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718470074 2020-09-03 16:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718470074 Is one’s environment a justifiable excuse for their ignorance? (ie: racism) Heather_Chandlerr https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718484329 2020-09-03 16:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718484329 How does one truly find freedom/ be free? Heather_Chandlerr https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718488552 This question came about because it seems both Huck and Jim are trying to find freedom throughout the book. For Jim it's slavery and for Huck it's society/ civility.]]> 2020-09-03 16:14:11 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718488552 Religion Heather_Chandlerr https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718571993 "And I just about made up my mind to pray...I was letting onto give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. (216)"]]> 2020-09-03 16:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718571993 Society Heather_Chandlerr https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718596964 "People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise for keeping mum.. (45)"]]> 2020-09-03 16:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718596964 Superstition Heather_Chandlerr https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718613650 "Some young birds come along, a yard or two at a time and lighting. Jim said it was a sign it was going to rain. (47)"]]> 2020-09-03 16:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718613650 Injustice Heather_Chandlerr https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718628196 "Well, by-and-by somebody said Sherburn ought to be lynched. (147)"]]> 2020-09-03 16:46:10 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718628196 I don't remember if it said throughout the book, but how old is Huck FInn? Especially in the beginning of the book when they were talking about the gang, they seemed to young to be planning a robbery. https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718920070 2020-09-03 17:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718920070 Where was Tom Sawyer when Huck was on the river? They were together when they were in the cave, but where did he go after that? https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718929276 2020-09-03 17:54:58 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718929276 What was Hucks goal of traveling down the river? nkblanz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718948100 2020-09-03 17:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718948100 Religion nkblanz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718970225 "Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet and prayed, but nothing come of it. She told ne to pray every day, and whatever I asked fori would get. (8)"]]> 2020-09-03 18:04:54 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718970225 Superstition nkblanz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718981791 "Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder, and I flipped it off and it lit in the candle; and before I could budge it was all shriveled up. I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch ne some bad luck, so I was scared and most shook the clothes off of me. (3)"]]> 2020-09-03 18:07:32 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/718981791 Question 1- ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719000503 What makes a person titled/noble?]]> 2020-09-03 18:11:50 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719000503 Hyprocrisy nkblanz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719004151 " Well, one night I creeps to de do', pooty late, en de do' warn't quite shet, en I fear ole missus theel the widder she gwyne to sell me down to Orleans, but she didn' want to , but she could git eight hund'd dollars for me, en it 'uz sich a big stack o' money she couldn' resis'. (33)]]> 2020-09-03 18:12:43 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719004151 Question 2- ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719005884 Is the society Huck lives in a more negative or positive influence?


]]> 2020-09-03 18:13:10 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719005884 Question 3- ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719008161 Has Huck matured from the beginning of the story to the end?

]]> 2020-09-03 18:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719008161 Quote 1- freedom ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719011335 ¨Now we´ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer´s Gang. Everybody that wants to join has to take an oath, and write their name in blood. (5)¨]]> 2020-09-03 18:14:32 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719011335 Family nkblanz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719020786 "Goodness gracious, is dat you, Huck? En you ain' dead-- you ain' drownded-- you's back agin? (63)"]]> 2020-09-03 18:16:49 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719020786 Quote 2- family ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719021351 ¨When we got home, Aunt Sally was glad to see me she laughed and cried both, and hugged me, and give me one of those lickings of hern that don´t amount of shucks, and said she´d serve Sid the same when he come. (210)¨]]> 2020-09-03 18:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719021351 Quote 3- superstition ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719035137 ¨After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn´t want to. He said it would fetch bad luck; and besides, he said, he might come and ha´nt us; he said a man that wasn´t buried was more likely to go a-ha´nting around than one that was planted and comfortable. (39)¨ ]]> 2020-09-03 18:20:01 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719035137 Society nkblanz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719039583 "They swarmed up the streets towards Sherburn's house, a-whooping and yelling and raging like Injuns, and everything has to clear the way or get fun over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to see. (109)"]]> 2020-09-03 18:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719039583 Quote 4- injustice ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719050721 ¨It don´t make no difference how foolish it is, it´s the right way- and it´s the regular way. (184)¨]]> 2020-09-03 18:24:08 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719050721 Question 4- ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719059565 Why did Huck decide to flee down the Mississippi River with Jim?]]> 2020-09-03 18:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719059565 Quote 5- society ehkurzinski https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719066318 ¨The widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn´t stand it no longer, I lit out. (1)¨]]> 2020-09-03 18:28:10 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719066318 How can the town say that Hucks dad is dead when it seems like he is just roaming around the down and drinking? nkblanz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719093996 2020-09-03 18:35:42 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/719093996 Quotes and Questions https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/721234371 How can you think pap is dead if he is drinking and wondering around town?  Why did Huck not try to tell anyone sooner about Jim.  If they knew that they were going down stream why did they not try to head the other way or start walking.  “It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.”   “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 again…I says to the people, why ain’t this nigger put up at auction and sold?”]]> 2020-09-04 15:43:02 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/721234371 Quote 1: “Jim was thinking about his wife and his children, away up yonder, and he was low and homesick; because he hadn’t ever been away from home before in his life; and I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their’n” (Chp. 23). Motif: Slavery msamz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723494711 2020-09-06 17:03:32 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723494711 Quote 2: “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” (Chp. 2). Motif: Society msamz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723495419 2020-09-06 17:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723495419 Quote 3: “It was sent for a warning. He said the first towhead stood for a man that would try to do us some good, but the current was another man that would get us away from him… they’s just take us away from him” (Chp. 15). Motif: Superstition msamz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723495639 2020-09-06 17:04:49 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723495639 Quote 4: “He said he’d cowhide me till I was black and blue if I didn’t raise some money for him” (Chp. 5). Motifs: Family (Pap & Huck) msamz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723496002 2020-09-06 17:05:27 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723496002 Question 1: Why are the boys so harsh and serious about killing people in their gang? msamz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723496738 2020-09-06 17:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723496738 Question 2: Was Pap’s death accidental or was it plotted? msamz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723496930 2020-09-06 17:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723496930 Question 3: When Huck and Tom showed up, why were they dishonest about their identities to Sally and Silias? msamz https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723497009 2020-09-06 17:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723497009 Question 1: Would Huck have made it without the help of Jim? cjrieman https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723513174 2020-09-06 17:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723513174 Question 2: Is Huck racist? cjrieman https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723514448 2020-09-06 17:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723514448 Question 3: Why were some of the characters so superstitious? cjrieman https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723514785 2020-09-06 17:38:04 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723514785 Quote 1: "After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn't want to. He said it would fetch bad luck;..." (Chapter 10) cjrieman https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723515440 Motif: Superstition]]> 2020-09-06 17:39:06 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723515440 Quote 2: "Yes, he's got a father, but you can't never find him, these days. He used to lay drunk with the hogs in the tanyard, but he hain't been seen in these parts for a year or more." (Chapter 2) cjrieman https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723517674 Motif: Family]]> 2020-09-06 17:43:19 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723517674 Quote 3: "I says to myself, I can fix it now so nobody won't think of following me." (Chapter 6) cjrieman https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723519607 Motif: Freedom]]> 2020-09-06 17:46:55 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723519607 Quote 4: "He scolded us for everything, and we couldn't seem to do nothing right; he found fault with every little thing." (Chapter 31) cjrieman https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723521440 Motif: Injustice]]> 2020-09-06 17:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/akedrowski/dt00gmj6ys60fa9u/wish/723521440