An Analysis Of Two Key Passages In 'The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn'
Examination of Two Key Passages in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This assignment is meant to prepare you for the second World Literature paper (2c) that will be assigned in your senior year. You need to be exposed to the specific kinds of papers on which you will be assessed in the future. Junior year is the time when you learn the basics of analysis and commentary. In senior year, you will refine these skills, increase your sophistication as a reader and a writer, and then be tested on your abilities. In this assignment, I am giving you the two passages to compare; next year, you will have to select the passage(s) on your own.
An analysis of two key passages from the same work may be “selected to explore, for example, contrasting …show more content…
Why are they key passages?
Analysis:
Explain why these passages can be seen as characteristic of the writer’s central concerns and/or techniques.
Explain how the two passages are pivotal: i.e. how they cause the plot or character to pivot or turn from one direction to another. Explain differences and similarities in the passages. Explain why the passages are central to our understanding of the work.
Focus OUTWARDS on the larger work [the novel as a whole] from which the passages have been taken, to show their relationship to the development of the plot, and to examine what they show about elements such as theme, style, and …show more content…
But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking; thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking; thinking over our trip down the river, and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow, I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, stead of calling me—so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around, and see that
This assignment is meant to prepare you for the second World Literature paper (2c) that will be assigned in your senior year. You need to be exposed to the specific kinds of papers on which you will be assessed in the future. Junior year is the time when you learn the basics of analysis and commentary. In senior year, you will refine these skills, increase your sophistication as a reader and a writer, and then be tested on your abilities. In this assignment, I am giving you the two passages to compare; next year, you will have to select the passage(s) on your own.
An analysis of two key passages from the same work may be “selected to explore, for example, contrasting …show more content…
Why are they key passages?
Analysis:
Explain why these passages can be seen as characteristic of the writer’s central concerns and/or techniques.
Explain how the two passages are pivotal: i.e. how they cause the plot or character to pivot or turn from one direction to another. Explain differences and similarities in the passages. Explain why the passages are central to our understanding of the work.
Focus OUTWARDS on the larger work [the novel as a whole] from which the passages have been taken, to show their relationship to the development of the plot, and to examine what they show about elements such as theme, style, and …show more content…
But I didn’t do it straight off, but laid the paper down and set there thinking; thinking how good it was all this happened so, and how near I come to being lost and going to hell. And went on thinking; thinking over our trip down the river, and I see Jim before me, all the time, in the day, and in the night-time, sometimes moonlight, sometimes storms, and we a floating along, talking, and singing, and laughing. But somehow, I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind. I’d see him standing my watch on top of his’n, stead of calling me—so I could go on sleeping; and see him how glad he was when I come back out of the fog; and when I come to him again in the swamp, up there where the feud was; and such-like times; and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was; and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had small pox aboard, and he was so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he’s got now; and then I happened to look around, and see that