Yartel Brooks
October, 24, 2007
3rd hour
Huck Finn Reader Response#3(Ch14-Ch17)

“It was a mighty nice family and a mighty nice house too. I hadn’t seen a house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style” (Ch 17 Pg 75 Pr 5)
What impressed Huck about the house was that it was out in the country and he had never been to a house in the country so nice. He said he like the style and the family was nice. Huck’s view on success and happiness is having a nice family that works together and gets along and a nice home for you and your family.


The books are special because they had either American history or poetry in all of them. Huck likes history and He was looking through some books and saw poetry about dead people that he thought was pretty good. Huck’s view on education is that he thinks it’s important and fascinating to learn about history. Mark twain also thinks that it is important to get and education and gain knowledge. Also Mark is a very educated man too.


“This girl used to keep a scrape book when she was a live and paste obituaries and accidents and cases of patience suffering in it out of the Presbyterian Observer”. (Ch17 Pg77 Pr2)
The poems and drawing in the scrapbook are unique because they are all representing death. The deceased girl would collect obituaries of random dead people and make a nice poem for them. And she would also collect thing that had a sign of suffering in it. The girl seems to be obsessed with death and suffering. Because it looks like one set of arms is reaching out to God the second set is hugging herself. And the third set is reaching out to someone. And it looks like she is bout to commit suicide. Mark twain wanted people to get a vivid image of the painting. This says that Mark’s view of death is sad. And his view of suicide is wanting to reach out to God for forgiveness but also wanting something in the world u probably can’t have and trying to love yourself. Because he felt sorry for her and he thought her poetry was good.