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chapter 21-35 study questions

2012-02-02T16:36:00.000-08:00

Chapter 21-23

1. He doesn’t want to cheat people and the duke and the king didn’t ask him to help them.

2. Its making fun of the southern law/ how the southerners take the law into there own hands.

3. The circus is really a performance that takes practice and talent they actually try and work for their money/ where as the play is just the duke and the king scamming people in to think that they are these professional performers when they really aren’t.

4. He is shocked. It seems as if he has not gone to a circus before. But he is just as shocked as the ringmaster when clown comes out of his disguises. Huck misses the point of the performance.

5. The crowd will come if there is expected to be content which is not appropriate for women and children because they will want to know what is so bad.

6. Huck thinks it is easier to keep their identities, because if Huck tells on them they could tell on Jim and Huck doesn’t want anything to happen to Jim.

7. It shows that Jim cares about his family and kids, because he shows remorse for beating his child.

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Chapter 24-27

1.    We see Jim get disguised as a sick Arab so the group doesn’t have to tie him up any more. Then they all by new clothes which help with the kings new persona to make it more believable

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3.    The girls are young and innocent and haven’t thought about how not everyone will have their best interests at heart.   This is also because they are orphans.
4.    The family has her eat in the kitchen because of her deformity. They don’t want others to see it and they treat her like a servant because of it.
5.    Believing in something romantic because the town wants to believe the lies that the duke and the king are saying instead of listening to the Doctor.
6.    Because the duke is preying on these three innocent girls and this goes against what Huck believes in, and he likes one of the girls.

Chapter 28-30
1.    One of the things that Twain does is he makes fun of the dead which you are not suppose to do. Then at the funeral the undertaker kills a dog because it is barking profusely at the funeral and at funerals you should be morning.
2.    It is Irony because he wants to tell the truth because he has been lying through out the whole story.
3.    Huck likes to protect the girls, but he feels that he should just tell them the truth, which is funny because that is not within Huck’s character.
4.    Because if Jim were with the group then he would have figured out that the king and the duke where not royalty, which would make a worse situation then just leaving Jim tied to a tree.
5.    Hines is stupid when he sees the money, because he forgets about Huck.
6.    Huck loves Mary Jane that is why Huck helps her so much.

7.     Even though the Duke and the king are lying, and the town believes them over someone who has proof.
8.     A truthful man who is actually trying to help the girls.
9.     Because they are still lying and they are still swindling money from the town, so they are still villains.

            Chapter 31-35
1.     Yes because Huck decides to go against society to rescue Jim.

2.    It is ironic because Huck is really doing the right thing but in his mind he is committing a crime. In reality he is saving Jim, which is the right decision.
3. The symbolism is the fact that Huck is describing this plantation and the fact that even in these small peaceful town there is slavery going on.

4. He believes in God to help him come up with a plan to save Jim. She would disagree with what Huck is doing because he isn’t following the true path of God.

5. Because Miss Watson asks if any one got hurt. Huck replies with just a Nigger, and it is funny because they don’t care about the fact that a black man got hurt.

6. Realism vs. Romanticism Huck lives in reality where as Tom and his plans live in a fantasyland.   Tom thinks that all of his plans will work because society is not as smart as he is.

7. Huck’s motives make a lot more sense because he wants to save Jim. Tom just wants to have a crazy adventure.

8.    Huck was still sympathetic when he saw what had happened to the king and duke even though they have done all that terrible stuff.

9.    That Tom says that they can go out and steal all of this stuff, but they have to help with Jim’s escape.   When Huck takes a watermelon, Tom makes him go pay for it.

10. Because Huck thinks that Tom’s plans are better, because Huck looks up to Tom as a role model.

questions 1-12

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1.    ?
2.    Huck felt bad after he played the prank on Jim. In this society people are taught from a young age to treat black people as “trash” without respect or that they might have feels just like other people. Huck as a young person has been brought up in this society. Being at a young age and hanging around Jim for so long has made Huck want Jim’s respect and when he hurt Jim he lost his respect. So, it took a long time for Huck to build up the nerve to apoligize to Jim. It was because of what society had taught him about how to treat black people.

3.    A.) Huck feels he has stolen widow Douglas’ valuable property when he helped Jim escape.   B.) The irony is that the children where born as Jim’s but he has to either steal them back or pay for them. In our society children belong to their parents until the age of 18. In the story Jim’s children where sold into slavery as someone else property. C.) Huck has been thinking about turning Jim in but he is having second thoughts. Society says that Jim is someone elses property but Huck is fighting the belief that Jim should be free to live as an equal. So, Huck is struggling with the decision of what to do. D.) Jim’s superstition about Huck touching a rattlesnake is why they are still having bad luck.

4.    The bounty hunters give Huck money because they think Huck’s father has smallpox. The irony is that Huck is a very rich boy. These men give him money to help but they should be checking/helping Huck’s father instead of allowing a young boy to take care of his sick father.

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6.    Mark Twain put the book aside for several years because he didn’t like where the story was headed at the time. He stopped the book to look for a new way to continue Huck’s character. He went to New Orleans and traveled the waterways. Where the book was very dark before, it became even darker after he experienced the life in the real south.
7.    The Granger’s house is filled with paintings of the civil war and art that expresses dark themes. The family is rich and live by their own law.
8.    Huck’s persona name is George Jackson and he doesn’t know how to correctly spell the name. He cons Buck into spelling it for him but Buck doesn’t know how to spell it either. So when Buck spells it wrong he doesn’t realize it.
9.    Huck doesn’t believe in dead people. Huck doesn’t understand jokes or riddles. So, when Buck tells the Moses story, it irritates Huck because Buck tells Huck the answer to his question. This makes Huck irritated.
10.    The hogs think the church is cool and they go there to sleep under the floor. People go there because they are forced to go their every Sunday.
11.    The fued symbolizes
12.    The life on the raft is without rules or consequences. Life on land is with rules and consequences. On the raft Jim is free and Huck is the boss of himself. On land Jim is treated as a slave and Huck is to young to do as he pleases without permission.

Huck he thought that he was okay weth taken jim but then jim starts talking about how he is going to steall his kids huck starts fealing bad

Episode 3 chapter 8-11

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Episode 3 chapter 8-11
This episode starts on chapter 8 when Huck is sad and thinking of his family. Then he remembers about how they put quick silver in bread and send it down river to find the dead body, so he goes and fishes for bread to eat. Then Huck meets up with Jim, who ran away, and they stay together from then on. Together they go to the house of death, and find a dead person, clothes, candles, and other necessities. Next, when they move to the cave Huck puts a dead rattlesnake into Jim’s sleeping bag as a prank, but when a rattlesnake dies its partner curls up next to it, so Jim ends up getting bitten by the snake. Because Huck stole Pa’s whiskey, Jim is able to drink the whiskey to heal the wound. Then Huck dresses up as a girl and sails down to town to get information on what is happening in the town since he left. He finds out there is a bounty out for Jim and Pa. Pa has left and taken some of his money. Then Huck gets caught and has to change his disguise because he is not a believable girl. Huck also finds out that the lady sent her husband to Jackson’s Island to hunt for Jim.

Characters – Huck, Jim, the Old Lady, the Old Lady’s husband, Pap, Judge Thatcher, Bessie Thatcher, Joe Harper, Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly, Sid, Mary, Ship’s Captain

This Episode is important because it shows how Jim and Huck work together.

Superstition is a theme in this episode because of bad luck. For example when Huck picks up the dead rattlesnake it brings forth bad luck. Like when Jim gets bitten by a rattlesnake, and the old lady sends her husband to the island to hunt for Jim.

A symbol would be snakes which represent bad luck/Satan/evil and Jim.

chapter 5-8 questions

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1. Pap doesn’t want Huck to become smarter the him because if Huck is smarter then pap then he would make his father look bad in the town. This is ironic because most parents want their kids to pass or exceed them in learning but pa wont have any of that

2. The society wants Huck to stay with his pa but in reality he should be staying with Widow Douglas.   It is good that society wants families to stay together, but the fact that pa is a drunk and beats Huck means that Huck should be taken away.

3. Huck wants to stay with his dad because he feels more at home. He goes out hunting and fishing where at the Widow Douglas’ house he would have to go to school.   Huck likes not to have to do anything and to be lazy. The theme of this section would be the quest for freedom.

4. This is ironic because pa did not do any of the things that he is cussing and making a big fuss about. In fact Huck learned everything from the Widow Douglas and Judge Thatcher. Pa doesn’t try to change society he is just a drunk, where the black person is actually trying to get somewhere in life.

5. Death and Rebirth because Huck fakes his death and he is reborn in the fact that he is living by himself in the wild with no civilization to tell him what to do.

6. It’s ironic that Huck wants Tom there because usually when Tom is there things are blown out of proportion. If Tom had been there it would have been so over the top that people would have uncovered that Huck faked his death. Therefore the plan would not have worked.

7. It is ironic that Huck finds bread, because when they put quicksilver in the bread it is supposed to find a dead body and Huck is supposed to be dead. Huck thinks that praying works, but only for the right type of people like the Widow or the minister.

8.   Jim’s reaction is that he thinks Huck is ghost, which plays into the theme of superstition because ghosts are a part of superstition and Jim is really superstitious.

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10. This quote is significant because it shows Huck growing into someone who doesn’t agree with how civilization treats slaves and so he disobeys society by not telling where Jim is.

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12. Huck puts a dead rattlesnake on Jim’s sleeping bag to scare him. Yes it is typical of Huck’s character, because he always plays pranks. He learned that Jim was right that touching rattlesnakes’ bodies when they are dead brings bad luck.

13. He plays a very bad role as woman.

14. Huck doesn’t care that she gets the story wrong, and doesn’t tell her that he and Tom found the money.

15.   The fact that Jim’s reward is higher than Pa’s which is racist because they don’t have any evidence involving Jim. Also Pa has motive to kill Huck because of the money and Jim doesn’t have a motive what so ever.

Chaps 1-4: 1st episode "Papa Returns"

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Themes
Superstition - when he kills the spider and his pa comes back
gullibility- when the gang charges after Sunday school kids believing that the elephants and the a-rabs.
The role of the outsider- when the lady teaches Huck about praying

allusions

bible- moses
Arabian nights
Don Quixote

                      characters
Aunt Polly, Mary, Widow Douglas, tom, Judge Thatcher, Huck, pap, Tommy Barnes, miss Watson, Joe Harper, Ben Rogers, Jim

                     part of plot
exposition

                   summary
In this episode Huck gets adopted by Widow Douglas and she tries to teach Huck about manners and how to be polite. She tries to tame him. She also teaches him about the bible and how praying will help him. Huck doesn't understand how praying will help him. He prays for a fishing pole and hooks and gets the pole but not the hooks and gets mad. Then Huck meets up with Tom Sawyer and the two start a gang with Tommy, Joe Harper, and Ben Rogers. They decide they are going to go rob a group of a-rabs that have elephants and camels that are stocked with diamonds. Huck decides to go because he wants to see an elephant, but when they get there there is no one there but Sunday School kids. So they decide to rob the Sunday school kids, and then they get yelled at by the teachers. Then Huck asks Tom where the elephants and the A-rabs were, and Tom said they were there but they were cloaked by wizards. Which just means that Tom was using his imagination where Huck was not as educated as him and didn't know what imagination was. After that robbery the gang decided not to be a gang anymore. Then Huck a few days later goes outside and finds footsteps that are his father's footsteps, and then Huck runs down and tells Judge Thatcher that he wants him to have all his money. And he gives Judge Thatcher $6,000, but Judge Thatcher doesn't truly take the money but tells Huck he does. Huck goes to Jim and asks Jim to have the hairball tell Jim Huck's future. The hairball tells Huck complete nonsense, except he tells Huck to stay away from water. Which is a foreshadow to a later chapter when Huck gets on the raft and sails the Mississippi River. Then Huck finds out his papa isn't dead, and he is sitting in Huck's room.

journal 43 chapter 22 pg 208

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"Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!" whispered her mother. "We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."

What this is saying is that Hester doesn't want Pearl to talk about Dimmesdale and Hester's plan to leave so that they can be together and be free to be a family.

journal 42 chapter 22 pg 207

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"Hester Prynne gazing stedfastly at the clergyman, felt a dreary influence come over her, but wherefore or whence she new not; unless that he seemed so remote from her own sphere, and utterly beyond her reach."
This is saying that Hester Prynne is looking at Dimmesdale who is off in his own world, thinking about different stuff. Then Hester is thinking about the woods and how they were holding hands and all that stuff, and then she starts thinking about their future and wonders if Dimmesdale will act the way he acts in the woods in the new society or if he will act they way he acts as the minister towards her in the new society.

Journal 41 Chapter 21 pg 199

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" What a strange, sad man is he!""said the child as if speaking partly to herself."In the dark night-time, he calls us to him. and holds thy hand and mine, as when we stood on with him on the scaffold yonder!......."
What this is saying is that Pearl is putting together the pieces of the puzzel to why Dimmesdale wont be seen with them in public but in the woods he has a different personality. Dimmesdale will claim them as his family when it is dark and no one can see them.

journal 40 chapter 20 pg 189

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" It was the same town as heretofore; but the same minister returned not from the forest"
What this is saying is that the events that had occurred in the forest had changed Dimmesdale, but the town while he was gone had not changed at all. Dimmesdale has changed because he is going to leave with Hester and Pearl and go to move to England and start a whole new life and not worry about what he was doing before.

journal 39 chapter 20 pg195

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"I think to need no more of your drugs my kind physician, good though they be, and administered by a friendly hand"
What Dimmesdale is saying is that because he has figured out how to take care of his problems he does not need the drugs to help him cope with his secret.

Journal 38 Chapter 19 pg181

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"It was strange, the way in which Pearl stood, looking so steadfastly at them through the dim medium of the forest-gloom; herself, meanwhile, all glorified with a ray of sunshine..." (181)
Pearl is standing on the side that the sun is shining down on where as Hester and Dimmesdale are standing on the side where it is dark and shadowy. This is because Hester and Dimmesdale have a secret that they are hiding from everybody, and Pearl is pure and has no secrets.

Journal 37 Chapter 19 pg182

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"...this brook is the boundary between two worlds..." (182)

Hester and Pearl have had this world that they have had since the very beginning. Where before Pearl was born Hester and Dimmesdale had a world that they had created, and now Hester wants to bring Pearl into the world that Hester and Dimmesdale have created. The side of the brook that Pearl is on right now is the side of the world that Pearl grew up with, and if she crosses over she is saying yes to the world that Hester and Dimmesdale created.

Journal 36 Chapter 18 pg178

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"...the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child." (pg 178)
The creatures in the woods and the plants all like her, they treat her as family, they are not afraid of her, where as the animals are afraid of other people.

Journal 35 Chapter 18 pg 176

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"With this symbol, I undo it all, and make it as it had never been!" (176)
Hester is saying she is going to become a new person, she is not going to let anything from the past hold her back, for example the A. She is going to start a new life with Dimmesdale.

Journal 34 Chapter 17 pg167

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"...the contrast between what I seem and what I am!" (pg 167)
What Dimmesdale is saying is that he is truly a sinner but the society thinks that he is perfect and never committed a sin. This is important to Dimmesdale because he wants society to think he is a perfect human being and hasn't sinned. He wants everyone to like him.

Journal 33 Chapter 17 pg166

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"...they glided back into the shadow of the woods..." (pg 166)

Hester and Dimmesdale have to go into the woods to talk because Dimmesdale doesn't want to be found out for being a sinner like Hester. In society people will judge them where as in the woods there is nothing there to judge them.

Journal 32 Chapter 16 pg163

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"...he has his hand over his heart! Is it because, when the minister wrote his name in the book, the Black man set his mark in that place? But why does he not wear it outside his bosom, as thou dost, mother?" (163)

Pearl is asking Hester why hasn't Dimmesdale revealed his sin like her mother has.

Journal 31 Chapter 16 pg 162

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"'Once in my life I met the Black Man!' said her mother. 'This scarlet letter is his mark!" (pg 162)
What this is saying is when Hester decided to commit her sin she is saying she was tempted by the Devil to have sex with Dimmesdale, and because of it the Devil marked her with the letter A.

Journal 30 Chapter 15 pg 153

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"...a circle of ominous shadow moving along with his deformity, whichever way he turned himself?" (153)

That is saying that there is a dark shadow following Chillingworth that is showing his darker side.

journal 29 chapter 15 pg 156

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"It is for the same reason that the minister keeps his hand over his hear!" pg 156

Pearl knows that there is a connection between the letter A on her mother and Dimmesdale always touching his heart. She doesn't know what the connection is, just that there is a connection between the two.

journal 28 chapter 14 pg 151

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"..the whole evil within him to be written on his face features," (pg 151).
This means that because of Chillingworth wanting to torment Dimmesdale, it is being shown on his body even though he is not telling anybody about his revenge. They can tell through his features that something is wrong.

Journal 27 Chapter 14 pg151

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"for the hatred that has transformed a wise and just man to a fiend!"

What this is talking about is how Chillingworth in the pursuit of trying to seek revenge, has lost his wise and caring self and has turned evil and bad.

Journal 26 Chapter 13 pg139

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"Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy."

Hester has changed the meaning of the letter "a" from adulterer to able because she has been helping out around the town.

Journal 25 Chapter 13 pg 142

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"...the scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom. It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness, which enabled her to walk securely amid all peril."
Hester is changing the meaning of the "a" on her chest by doing good deeds. She used to get laughed at and mocked because of the "a", but now she can go into to homes and tend the sick. It has the sacredness of a cross on a nun.

journal 14 pg 92

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"The brilliancy might have befitted Aladdin's palace, rather that the mansion of a grave old Puritain ruler."
This is comparing the governor's house to Aladdin's palace, which is bad because Governor Bellingham having all these nice things is going against what the Puritains believe.

journal 15

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"where now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time,was the scarlet letter so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. It had the effect of a spell taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and inclosing her in a sphere by herself."
Which is saying that she is not trying at all to hide the letter, but instead she is just not letting it bother her. The punshment of wearing the "a" is truly brought out to show that she is different from the rest of the people and they will forever rember that.

journal 24 chapter 12 Pg 136

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"All the time that he gazed upward to the zenith, he was, nevertheless perfectly aware the little Pearl was pointing her finger towards old Roger Chillingworth, who stood at no great distance from the scaffold."

Chillingworth sees, because of the the letter A that is above their head that is glistening with light that illuminates, the form of Hester and Pearl and Dimmesdale holding hands. It gives Chillingworth proof of what he has suspected, which is Dimmesdale is guilty.

journal 23 ch 12 Pg 134

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"'Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, to-morrow noontide?,' inquired Pearl.
Nay; not so, my little Pearl!"
This shows how Dimmesdale will not show/tell the town about how he has sinned. He won't tell exactly what he has done to sin either, he only tells that he has sinned when no one is really paying attention. It shows that the scaffold has the power to control people becouse if he goes and confesses to his sin up on the scaffold then every one will judge him. If he continues to confess without the details, then it just seems like he has done something small.

Journal 22 chapter 11 Pg

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He had told his hearers thet he was altogether vile, a viler companion of the vilest, the worst of sinners, an abomination, a thing of unimaginable iniquity; and that the only wonder was, that they did not see his wretched body shrivelled up before their eyes, by the burning wrath of the Almighty!
What this is saying is that Dimmesdale confessed to a sin that he has done, but he is not telling them what he really did. So the church people think that he is confessing to a minor sin which makes them feel closer to him knowing that he had sinned as well. If he is saying that his sin is so bad that they are just thinking that he didn't open a door for a lady or something else minor then their sins are much worse than that.

journal 21 chapter 11 Pg 125

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"....mr Dimmesdale was thinking of his grave, he questioned with himself wether the grass would ever grow on it, because an accursed thing must there be buried!"
What this is saying is he is trying to think of what type of thing will grow on top of his grave if he decides to keep his secret from every one. In his life Dimmesdale is concerned with what pepole think about him, will he be concerned with what they will think about him in his grave or what grows on top of his grave?

journal 20 chapter 10 Pg 115

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"...that these black weeds have sprung up out of buried heart to manifest an unspoken crime?"
What this is talking about is how Chillingworth is trying to scare Dimmesdale into telling his secert. He is telling him this story of how another man did a crime and he had never confesed to it. So when he died the secret grew out of him in the form of a plant.

journal 19 chapter 10 Pg 114

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Chillingworth pursues many careful but insistent conversations, trying to find a way to get Dimmesdale to confess to his sin, but also making very sure that he does not let Dimmesdale suspect. Chillingworth is trying to do anything of the sort Chillingworth senses a secret animal side in Dimmesdale and wishes to reveal it. Dimmesdale, unfortunately cannot recognize what Chillingworth is doing "Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.

journal 16 chapter 8

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"I am my mother's child,answered the scarlet vision, and my name is pearl."
these is inportant becouse pearl is showing that she isent like the rest of the kids she wont be pushed aroun. also the other kids whould be afred of standing up to him but pearl not being like the other kids and its sorta like she is not a kid i think thet she is alot older then what is semes

vocabular sl

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1) Dearth- noun -an inadequate supply; scarcity; lack
There is a dearth of kind caring people in the world.

2) Magnate-noun a person of great influence, importance, or standing in a particular enterprise, field of business, etc. The conductor on the train is the magnate because he runs the howl operation.

3) Opaque-adjective -not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through.

4) Veneration noun-the feeling of a person who venerates; a feeling of awe, respect, etc.; reverence: They were filled with veneration for their priests.

5) Florid-adjective reddish; ruddy; rosy: a florid complexion.

6) Esoteric-adjective understood by or meant for only the select few who have special knowledge or interest; recondite: poetry full of esoteric allusions.

7) Malleable-adjective capable of being extended or shaped by hammering or by pressure from rollers.

8) Evanescent-adjective vanishing; fading away; fleeting.

9) Vitiated noun-to impair the quality of; make faulty; spoil.

10) Propensity noun a natural inclination or tendency: a propensity to drink too much.

journal 4

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"where now impressed as if they beheld her for the first time,was the scarlet letter so fantastically embroidered and illuminated upon her bosom. it had the effect of a spell taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and inclosing her in a sphere by herself."
which is saying that she is not trying at all to hide the letter but insted is just not leting it bither her. but what is going on but the punshment is trully brought out to show that she is defrent from the rest of the pepole and the well forever rember that

Journal #12 page 80

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Pearl is so beautiful that no matter what she wears she looks angelic to the human eye.

Journal # 11 page 80

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The child Pearl is beautiful and she worthy of being in Eden the perfect place for all mankind. Pearl would be allowed to live in God's heavenly place on earth; Eden. She would be allowed to interact with God's angels. The worlds's first parents is in reference to Adam and Eve. They were cast out of Eden because they ate the forbidden fruit. Eve was deceived by the devil in the guise of the serpent. She then deceived Adam by coaxing him into eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge. They lost their innocence and had to leave the garden of Eden. Pearl is still considered an innocent and would be welcomed in Eden.

Journal 10 Pg 78

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Hester believes she was given a 6th sense that allows her to now if someone in the Puritan community has done or is thinking about doing something bad according to their church laws. She doesn't know if the 6th sense comes from God or a dark angel. This is very scary or unwanted to her becous she grow up being like every one els and if she has another sense then every one els the that gives.

Journal # 9 Pg 69

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Hester is talking to the doctor. The doctor is determined to find the man who brought about the degration and humilitation of one of the towns finest young ladies by getting her pregnant and leaving her to face the puritans all alone. This is shown when the doctor states, " I shall seek this man as I have sought truth in books; as I have sought gold in alchemy. There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him."

Journal 8 "pg 66-67"

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In order to calm the child down the docter made Hester some medicine that made the child go to sleep.
Hester did not at first approve of giving the child the medicine. She even went so far as to tell the doctor he was trying to harm her child. But when the doctor said he would give it to his own child. Hester gave the medicine to her daughter which calmed the child down.

Journal 7

2011-10-12T16:47:00.000-07:00

Hester is not going to tell her daughter who her biological father is because she doesn't want Pearl to search for him or tell someone by accident who he is which would get the man into trouble with the church. She is going to have her daughter rely on God in heaven to be her guiding father. This is shown in the book when Hester is telling Mr.Wilson the following: Hester says to the man " My child must seek a heavenly Father; she shall never know an earthly one!"

journal 13

2011-10-12T16:35:00.000-07:00

The Govner Bellinghams machine is so colorfully the furniture has rethes of oaken flowers sculpted so finely in it that it looks like something that would be found in Aladden's palace which is weired because the Puritan home settings are suppose to be bland and plane to the viewers eye.

journal 6

2011-10-12T12:05:00.000-07:00

the stranger says "thus she will ... but he will be known!- he will be known!-he will be known!"
we now that the stranger is a liar, but then wy is he saying these lines over and over "he will be known"?
is it posobly becouse he nows or is the one who inpregnated Hester.

journal 5

2011-10-12T10:57:00.000-07:00

"who is these this woman?-and wherefore is she here set up to public shame?"
this is saying that their is a person who is pretending not to know who Hester is because he is described as like a snake which is evil and is a symbol of a sinner. but Hester recognized the person so that means they have met before and he is lying.

journal 3

2011-10-10T22:13:00.000-07:00

who religion and law were almost identical and in whose character both were so throughly interfused that the mildest and the severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful.
which means that the religion and low are the same so if you get caught braking the lows of the church then the the elders in power well be the judge and jury and well carry out your sentence.

journal 2

2011-10-07T11:03:00.000-07:00

what is the rose bush doing out side of the jail?
"a wild rose-bush covered, in this month of June, with delicate gems which might be imagined to offer their fragrance and fragile beauty to the prisoner as he went in and the condemned criminal as he came forth to his doom in token that the deep hart of Nature could pity and be kind to him."
the rose bush is there to give a moment of happiness to the condemned before there trial and then after it. why is the nature being so nice to every one but all the humans are not being kind? that is because nature doesn't care who you are it just is nice to every one. all the society dos judge you but nature is nice to everyone and it doesn't judge you.

journal 1

2011-10-07T10:41:00.000-07:00

Why is the jail so old and every thing else is portrayed as new? Every society has a prison and a cemetery in it.
"the founders of a new colony whatever utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery and another portion as a sit of a prison." What they are saying is now mater how new your society is there well all was be a cemetery and a jail that well look old because they have been around for so long in every society. That is saying that now one can make the perfect society because there is in human nature to be bad. If you always have bad people then you can never have a utopia.

2011-10-07T10:16:00.000-07:00

1) Obsolete adjective no longer in general use; fallen into disuse: an obsolete expression.
The game pong became obsolete when the xbox360 came out they where all thrown away.

2) Paucity adj smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness: a country with a paucity of resources.

Nick bank account was so paucity from not working he could not by a new car.

3) Philistine adj a person who is lacking in or hostile or smugly indifferent to cultural values,intellectual pursuits, aesthetic refinement, etc., or is contentedly commonplace in ideas and tastes.
Hitler was a philistine to the jews in the fact he wanted them all dead.

4) Meticulous adjective taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough: ameticulous craftsman; meticulous personal appearance.
The quarter back was vary meticulous in geting the timing of the runner back to be perfect so they could score a point.

5) Officious adjective objectionably aggressive in offering one's unrequested and unwanted services, help, or advice; meddlesome: an officious person. The officious chilled, when told to put down the toy, bit the teachers ear off.

6) Peruse verb to read through with thoroughness or care: to peruse a report.
Nick mad sheer to peruse hes nots be four the midterms and in return got a B.

7) Mitigate verb to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate.

8) Perfidy noun deliberate breach of faith or trust; faithlessness; treachery: perfidy that goes unpunished.

9) Morose adjectiv gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
Obama after saying is wife's name wrong got a morose look that made Obamas spin shever

PG157 1-4ab

2011-09-27T14:10:00.000-07:00

1. using debate to arrive to the truth /he believes it is his duty and if he dosent he isn't doing his duty

2.the enemy is already there and waiting on us to get there/ because they are smiling and nodding there heads like bob a heads.

3.give me liberty or give me death /they would be come slave

4. the british just brought there solders in and used forsed and the colonist wanted to do it peacefully by petitioning the king but sadly the king ignored theme /to take the British out of bosten

compound sentence 4

2011-09-26T12:33:00.000-07:00

The big bear broke open the garbage and it ate the lefter over pizza; Dan cried becuse Dan's father shot the bear.

compound sentence 2

2011-09-21T13:43:00.000-07:00

The history of espionage goes back over two thousand years; espionage was started in china by Sun Tzu; espioage is the secret collection of intelligent information.

combo sentences

2011-09-20T13:44:00.000-07:00

John loves to wear hats, Johns hero is john Wayne; his girl friend loves it when he wears hats, especially cowboy hats.

Vocabulary 2

2011-09-19T22:59:00.000-07:00

1) Disdain-verb- to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn. Nick really wanted to show disdain to a annoying little girl who would not stop sining but he didn't.

2) dogmatic-adjective-asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated. Anna and her dogmatic views on life mad every one mad at her.

3) Egregious-adjective- extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar. The boys egregious foul language got him bet up by the school bullies.

4) Emulate-verb to try to equal or excel; imitate with effort to equal or surpass: to emulate one's father as a concert violinist. All the pizza place should emulate how Papa Jons makes there pizzas.

5) Dissipated-adjective- scattered or dispersed.: The rain dissipated and the runners went to there meat and NIck did not have to practice.

6) Diminution-noun-the act, fact, or process of diminishing; lessening; reduction. The cross-country team diminution on hell ya days because they dont like that

7) Disparage–verb-to speak of or treat slightingly; depreciate; belittle: Do not disparage good manners. Nick

8) Effervescent-adjective-vivacious; gay; lively; sparkling. The boy was effervescent when he saw the cheerleading squad in the panther uniformes.

9) Distraught-verb to make lucid or clear; throw light upon; explain: an explanation that elucidated his recent strange

the distraught teaching of the class mad he get the best teach award.

10) Distraught-adjective- mentally deranged; crazed. The man being distraught plead insanity was the reason he merderd 7 people.

pg 108

2011-09-06T16:15:00.000-07:00

1a. over 200 grim men and wemon stod they had there sholders painted red. but Powhatan who was dreased in his finest robs mad of racon

2a Powhaten was the won who orderd the execution, Pocahontas saves john by lying over him so her head covered his head.

3a. food so they dont die of hunger. it helps by keeping the men full so the dont start eating of there mussels and die.

1b. to show how powerful and mighty he is that is why he whore his greatest braveries. Becouse he killed so many of the natives he feels they should think of him as a monster. its a natrol reaction to think of somthing as a monstrer becouse some one kills other people so natroly you would be afrad of it.

2b. Becouse pocahontas has a kind soule and dosent feall like john deserved to die not. It was just a family ritual to show him he is now part of the family and his family would save him.

3b. becouse the pepole where dieing and ther only other pepole weth food where the natives so they nead to fgo get food so they whould not die. in order to get the food they had to have a mmeting weth the nateves in order to get it.

5a. i think that he whated 15 yers later so that the other men from his tribe whould have ether forgot about what had happend or whould have died so there whould be now one there to say what was the trueth and what wasent so he whated to tell it so he could get moor fame and not have there be any one that could have taken it iaway from him.

english 11 vocabulary

2011-09-02T14:23:00.000-07:00

1) Callous (adj) showing or having an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.
Nick was callous tourds the basketball coach when he said he played like a drunken hobo, so the coach suspended him from the team.
2) Capricious(adj) given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior. Nick after geting back from his vacation had a vary capricious week from geting to fare behind on work.
3) Cajole (verb) persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery. Nick having being behind in work he had to cojole his boss into giving him more time by .
4. Censure-(v)-express severe disapproval- nick censured the fact that people could smok in family restaurants.
5. Catalyst-(n)-speeds up something with out changing itself- the army was catalyst on how Nick need to clean his room.
6. Caustic-(adj)-sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way- Mr. Feilding, after reading Nicks homework, was vary caustic about how bad Nick did.
7. Capitulate-(v)-surrender- Nick after holding out for five years final capitulate his reading strick.
8. Celestial-(adj)-positioned in or relating to the sky, or outer space as observed in- nick when he was locking up in the sky so a celestial star moving at hight sped's.
9. Catharsis-(n)-the process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.-nicks catharsis of running cross-country went down every day he ran.
10. Carping-(v)-complain or find fault continually, typically about trivial matters - the carping of nicks thoughts to cross-country gave him a headache.