1. Read out of class book 30 minutes
2. Creative Book Report due January 19th
3. Continue assignment from yesterday
4. Punctuation problems--comma
According to Mark Twain, what are some incorrect views/problems that
people in the South had?
Story The Problem Twain is Criticizing
1. New judge is gullible He doesn't think. It's good to be kind, but . . .
2. Huck tells Jim he was dreaming Huck betrays his friend's trust
3. Grangerfords & Shepherdsons They don't think about why they're killing; grudges,
pride, think they're better than others
Like Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet (Sophia Grangerford marries Harney Shep.)
Like Civil War (1861-1865) . Twain felt that the Civil War was senseless
*Tangent: How many people died in the Civil War and other wars?
Civil War deaths 620,000 (The U.S. population in 1860 was only 31,000,000 so that's 2%)
WWI 116,000 17 million total English, German, French, U.S., etc.
WWII 420,000 85 million total including 12 million from Germany and Poland (6 million Jews) and 8 million people who starved to death in the Soviet Union and 15 million
in China. See Wikipedia link: WWII deaths
Korean War 36,000
Vietnam 58,000
Iraq 6,600 (500,000 Iraqis!)
4. Jim is sold Racism/cruelty/inhumanity toward fellow human beings
5. Pap is ruined by alcohol Alcoholism
6. Pap tried to kill Huck Child abuse
7. Colonel Sherburn is coldhearted
8. Buck Harkness and townspeople are cowards
9. Willing to take advantage of people's gullability (King and Duke)
Examples of comma-splice and run-on sentences
Exercise: Fixing comma-splices
If you were absent, you make click on the link and watch 25 minutes at home:
Read quietly, 25 minutes.
Discuss book up to chapter 22
HOMEWORK: Finish chapter 31 (55 pages) Sorry
Emily Dickinson, pages 300-306
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