Hurray you are done with the second
novel!!!! Now honestly, would you have
actually read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Finn: A Novel by this
point in the summer if I hadn’t forced you to do the summer blog posts? There are only 12 words to make flashcards
for this week. I tried to keep the
flashcards and blog response limited as to give you time to write your summer
assignment compare and contrast essay for the novels. I promise to have about the same number of flashcards for the following post as well.
Part #1-Blog Response
This week you were expected to have finished reading
Olshan’s novel. For this week’s blog write a list of at least 15 similarities and a
list of at least 15 differences between the two novels by Sunday at midnight. I will not
approve your posts until Monday morning so that all responses are presented at
the same time…Hence
it is REALLY IMPORTANT for your post to be on time.
Next week make sure you have written your
essay for the summer assignment and read the first eight chapters of Black Elk Speaks.
Part #2-Flashcards
Q
Qualifier
/ qualification A statement that modifies or limits the
meaning of a claim.
R
realism
A loose term that can refer to any work that aims at honest portrayal
over sensationalism, exaggeration, or melodrama. Technically, realism refers to a late 19th-century literary movement that aimed
at accurate, detailed portrayals of ordinary, contemporary life.
reason
A statement offered as an explanation or justification for something;
also a sufficient basis for believing something or a logical defense.
red
herring Something that distracts attention from the
real issue.
reflective
Thoughtful, deliberative.
refutation
The process of proving something wrong by argument and evidence.
register
One of the varieties of language appropriate to particular social
situations. The four stylistic registers
most commonly referred to are formal, informal, colloquial, and slang.
retrospection
A narrative technique in which some of the events of a story are
described after events that occur
later in time have already been narrated; also called analepsis and flashback.
rhetoric
The art of persuasion, or the art of speaking or writing well. Rhetoric involves the study of how words
influence audiences.
rhetorical
context The circumstances in which a text is written,
including the intended audience, the author’s aim or purpose in writing, and
the audience’s preexisting ideas and opinions.
rhetorical
device An extraordinary use of language to achieve a
certain effect on an audience. Examples
are chiasmus, parallelism, rhetorical question, and synecdoche.
romantic
irony An author’s persistent presence in his or her
work, meant to ensure that the audience will maintain critical detachment and
not simply accept the writing at face value.
Similarities Between Both Novels
ReplyDelete1. Both stories contain a main character who is a young adult.
2. Both stories involve the main character going on a journey that spans the whole book.
3. Both stories involve the main character being accompanied by a companion that is looked down upon by the society at the time.
4. Both stories involve the main character being kidnapped by one of their parents.
5. Both stories involve the main character having a best friend who helps them in their journey near the end of the story.
6. Both stories have the main character pretend to be the opposite sex.
7. Both stories have the main character escape their kidnapping by feigning their own death.
8. Both stories have the main character venture on a raft at one point in the story.
9. Both stories reveal in the end that the main character’s companion was free/legal since the beginning.
10. Both stories involve main characters that utilize lies in order to get ahead and be safe.
11. Both stories begin with the main character living with someone who is not their parents.
12. Both stories involve the main character and their companion being accompanied by another pair of companions for a portion of the story.
13. Both stories involve the main character pretending to be their best friend near the end of the story.
14. Both stories involve the main character going against society’s values by helping out their companion.
15. Both stories have the main character’s companion be someone who worked for their family before.
Bibliography
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Print.
Olshan, Matthew. Finn: A Novel. Baltimore, MD: Bancroft, 2001. Print.
Differences Between Both Novels
ReplyDelete1. In Finn, the main character’s companion is Mexican whereas in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character’s companion is Black.
2. In Finn, the main character is kidnapped by her mother while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character is kidnapped by his father.
3. In Finn, the main character spends most of their journey in the city while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character spends most of his journey in the country and on a river.
4. In Finn, the main character’s disguise of being the opposite sex lasts longer than the main character’s disguise in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
5. In Finn, the main character’s main internal conflict is coming to terms with her father’s death while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character’s main internal conflict is learning between right and wrong.
6. In Finn, the main character lives with her grandparents while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character lives with someone who is not related to him.
7. In Finn, the main character feigns her own death by the use of a fire while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character feigns his own death by using an animal’s corpse.
8. In Finn, it is revealed in the end that the main character’s kidnapper is in Mexico and will be arrested. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it is revealed that the main character’s kidnapper is dead.
9. In Finn, the main character finds her companion in a burning house while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character finds his companion on an island.
10. In Finn, the main character’s main form of transportation is through car and on foot. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character’s form of transportation is a raft or other kinds of aquatic vehicles.
11. In Finn, the main character’s companion is deeply obsessed with Christianity while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character’s companion is deeply obsessed with voodoo and superstition.
12. In Finn, the main character finds out that she is thought to be missing by looking at the back of a milk carton. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the main character realizes that he is thought to be dead when he sees a search party looking for him.
13. In Finn, the other pair of companions in a portion of the story are street performers while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the other pair of companions are con artists.
14. In Finn, the main character’s companion was a housemaid while in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character’s companion was a slave.
15. In Finn, the main character goes back to living with her grandparents in the end and in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn the main character reveals that he is being adopted but has plans to travel to Indian Territory.
Bibliography
Olshan, Matthew. Finn: A Novel. Baltimore, MD: Bancroft, 2001. Print.
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1948. Print.
Similarities
ReplyDelete1. The main characters were both kids who exhibited bravery and kindness to a person who was socially below them.
2. Silvia and Jim both cared for the person that were helping them and were an example to them.
3. Tom and Marian both saw Huck's and Chloe's hardship as simple adventures.
4. Both the protagonist had to deal with people who were a harm to their being. Huck with the king and duke for a long period and Chloe with Clark but for a short period, with a physical risk.
5. Mississippi River/Underground River
6. Huck was kidnapped by his pap and to escape he came up with an elaborate plan to fake his death. Chloe did the same. She was kidnapped by her mom and husband and in order to escape, she had to burn the house to fake her death.
7. Both the protagonist had someone who cared for them. Huck had the widow and Chloe had her grandparents.
8. Huck and Chloe had many "annoying rules" when they were with the widow and grandparents and none with pap and mom.
9. Their hardship to save their friend could have been spared. In knowing ahead of time, Huck could have saved the risk of being caught and labeled as a lawbreaker if he would have known that the widow had set Jim free in her will. Now, Chloe's hardship began as a means to escape her kidnappers but it turned into a journey to help Silvia get to California to Roberto and in the means helping her avoid deportation. Yet, we come to know that she was secretly married to Roberto, who had a visa.
10. Huck and Chloe came from bad homes.
11. Huck and Chloe had fake identifies for a while.
12. Racial discrimination.
13. Huck and Chloe experienced death in their lives.
14. Huck and Chloe both seemed to put themselves down for their past, thinking they were evil or could never become something nice.
15. Huck and Chloe helped other people. Huck helped Mary Jane by telling her the truth and Chloe helped James by escaping from Clark.
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Differences
1. Huck grew up around nature so he seemed a bit more capable to follow his instinctive.
2. Setting. Huck's setting was around Mississippi River in the late 1800s and Chloe's around the suburbs and inner city area in the late 1900s.
3. Racial differences.
4. Huck had slept in several houses while Chloe slept in a boxcar and a playground.
5. Huck, with the king and duke, coned a myriad of people in different places.
6. Chloe and Silva had help from James and King D, while only Huck had help from families along the journey, leaving Jim by the canoe because he was a runaway
slave.
7. Gender changes for most characters.
8. Chloe hit Clark because she could, because she let her past take over. Huck never demonstrated such actions.
9. Chloe had a previous thought who Huck was and followed some of his ideas, such as faking her death and helping a person below their social level.
10. Huck and Tom manage to torture Jim at the end of the story to make it seem like a real escape.
11. Unlike Huck's admiration for Tom, Chloe didn't really like Marian because I guess she was jealous of her zeal and cleverness.
12. Chloe didn't have in any doubts in helping Silvia go to California because she felt guilty for getting her fired, unlike Huck where he had doubts if he was doing the right thing in helping Jim get away.
13. Huck encountered more life experiences, such as death and saw how the human nature could be awful.
14. Huck didn't seem to talk about his mother, if she was deceased or if she ran away, while Chloe still hasn't dealt with the loss of her father.
15. The grandparents of Chloe demonstrated their racist views when they fired Silvia and other conversations but the widow caring for Huck didn't seem to have a negative view of Jim, even after he ran away because she set him free in her will.
15 Similarities
ReplyDeleteThe characters go on multiple adventures within their journey.
Both novels start off with the main character describing themselves.
In both stories, the main character grows a relationship with someone unlikely.
The characters begin to be protective of one another.
A race is mistreated because they are not white.
The character of the mistreated race becomes one of the general public at the end.
The younger characters (Chloe and Huck) are running from their past.
Lying gets these characters a long way on their journeys.
Both characters (Chloe and Huck) come to a realization.
An abusive parent kidnaps the child from a more well-off household, where they lived.
Both dress up as the opposite sex.
Both stories have happy endings.
They have the same plot.
A body of water is used as means of transportation.
Both Jim and Silvia, in the beginning, feel that Huck and Chloe aren't as harsh to them as the rest of the world.
15 Differences
The characters are different by name and gender.
Chloe and Silvia travel within the same city, whereas Huck and Jim travel across states.
The two men Huck and Jim encounter are mean liars, whereas the two people Chloe and Silvia meet are different. One likes women too much to the point where he would rape them, and the other shows patience and compassion toward them.
Finn is more relatable because it's more modern and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place decades ago with language some people might not understand.
Finn has the female element to it, so there is another dynamic to the novel.
Jim does a lot to help Huck and his friends, whereas Silvia can't do much because she is pregnant.
Chloe and Silvia had some kind of guide for their trip, but Huck and Jim didn't.
In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn they cheat people out of their belongings, whereas in Finn they dig out of the trashcan and don't take from people as they go.
Chloe makes up a fake name, but Huck actually uses other people's identities.
Huck realizes lying is bad, but lying is the only way that Chloe knows so it's not one of her top priorities to stop.
Huck's abusive father dies, but Chloe's abusive mother goes to Mexico.
Chloe's grandparents are alive at the end and she lives with them, but the woman Huck was living with died and he goes on his own again.
Finn was more about the journey and Chloe, but The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was more about Huck growing as a character.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was more detailed and precise about everything that happened, but it seemed Finn just told about the journey.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic and Finn is not.
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Similarities:
-The inclusion of racial stereotypes and their impact on Americans.
-The adventures of a minor and their friend that is unaccepted by Americans.
-Both protagonists are highly nonchalant about their dark past and broken families.
-Both novels are full of multiple lies that help get the pairs through their various acts of deceit.
-Neither Huck nor Chloe fully understand the religious faith of their friends. Despite their lack of belief, however, they participate in the various practices to appease them.
-Both pairs encounter two men who bring great turmoil.
-Chloe and Huckleberry sacrifice for Jim and Silvia. This is highly significant because the two normally keep their distance from most people. This is especially true in Chloe’s case.
-Both main characters risk going to jail for the people they are running away with.
-Huckleberry and Chloe both have highly abusive, neglectful parents that force them to grow up too fast.
-Despite the attempts of Miss Watson and Widow Douglas as well as Chloe’s grandparents, the main characters of each novel cannot be protected from their harmful parents.
-The two characters both have a dead parent due to illness.
-Despite the many stereotypes, Silvia and Jim care deeply for Chloe and Huckleberry and are a lot smarter than the racist characters think.
-Chloe blatantly takes Huck’s idea to fake her death. Both main characters do this in order to get away from the hardships in their lives.
-Although Chloe and Huck had thoughts about turning their backs on Silvia and Jim, they remain loyal to their friends until they are no longer in need of their help.
-While Finn: A novel and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are separated by several decades, the two novels both contain an odd relationship between people that are seemingly incompatible. They have common themes as both pairs learn to look past color and simply love one another for who they are on the inside.
-Marian and Tom Sawyer play the same roles in the protagonist’s lives.
-Both Silvia and Jim are separated from their families.
-Both pairs have a destination in mind that would lead to the freedom of Jim and Silvia.
Differences:
ReplyDelete-Arguably the most obvious difference is the fact that the sexes are reversed. The main characters of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are males whereas the main characters if Finn: A novel are females.
-Jim is an African American slave while Silvia is an illegal immigrant from Mexico.
-Chloe has to pretend to be a boy in order to hide her true identity while everyone thinks Huckleberry Finn is dead.
-The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in the 19th century while Finn: A novel is set in the 21st century.
-Chloe runs away from the safety of her grandparents while Huck is leaving the danger of his father behind.
-Chloe and Silvia struggle more than Huck and Jim in some aspects because Silvia is pregnant.
-Jim and Huckleberry spend most of their time on their raft and away from civilization while Chloe and Silvia rely on many outsiders such as Rosaria for help.
-Finn: A novel contains more if an urban setting while The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is more rural and has more of a country feel to it.
-Chloe is more upfront about her dark past whereas Huck usually expresses little or no pain when referring to his past.
-Huck doubts his decision to help Jim more often than Chloe does throughout the novel. This probably has something to do with the circumstances of Huck’s time. It was seen as a betrayal to the white race when acts such as Huckleberry’s were performed.
-In Finn: A novel, everyone is aware that Chloe is alive. In fact, most characters in the novel suspect Silvia is her kidnapper. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, though, most characters are convinced that Huck is dead.
-Adding to the reverse of sex in both novels, Huck’s father is alive and his mother is dead while Chloe’s mother is alive and her father is dead.
-Silvia and Chloe have to deal with the danger of being raped by the two con men in the story while Huck and Jim only have to be concerned about being gulled by the two men.
-Finn: A novel includes a wider variety of races (Blacks, Latinos, and Whites) rather than just Blacks and Whites.
-Silvia had more to offer to Chloe such as the ability to drive and a friend to provide shelter while Jim had next to nothing to offer Huckleberry.
Similarities between Finn by Matthew Olshan and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
ReplyDelete1 Both of the main characters lost a respected parent and are left with a neglecting parent. Chloe lost her father and Huck lost his mother.
2 Both characters dislike the parent that they are left with.
3 The "sidekick" in each book is a member of an oppressed minority. Jim is African American and Silvia is Mexican.
4 Both of the characters live in a more stable household for a certain amount of time. Chloe lives with her grandparents and Huck lives with the Widow Douglas.
5 Both characters fake their own death. Chloe blows up her grandparents' kitchen and Huck kills a pig and spreads its blood around the house.
6 Both characters "deaths" involve the destruction of something. Chloe destroyed her grandparents' house and Huck killed a pig.
7 Both characters are kidnapped. Chloe is kidnapped by her mother and step father and Huck is kidnapped by his father.
8 Both characters are held hostage. Chloe is held in a spare room for 3 days and Huck is held in his father's small shack.
9 Both characters are being taken advantage of. Chloe's mother, Claire, uses Chloe's knowledge of her grandparents' behavior to decide a good time to rob them and Huck's father uses Huck's trust fund.
10 Both "sidekicks" later find out that they are no longer illegal citizens.
11 Both characters are very smart and cunning, especially when devising the plans to fake their deaths.
12 Both characters impersonate someone of the opposite sex.
13 Both characters are breaking rules in order to be able to stay with their "sidekicks". Silvia is not supposed to be at Chloe's grandparents' house and is supposed to be back in Mexico because she is an illegal immigrant, so Chloe is breaking her grandparents' rules and the law by staying with her. Jim is an escaped slave, so Huck is breaking the law by being with him.
14 Both characters are technically kidnapped by a man. Chloe is kidnapped by her stepfather and Huck is kidnapped by his biological father.
15 Both "sidekicks" believe in a higher power. Jim is superstitious and Silvia is very religious.
Differences between Finn by Matthew Olshan and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
ReplyDelete1 The most obvious difference between the characters is their differences in gender. Chloe is a female and Huck is a male.
2 The setting is a drastic difference in both novels. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is set in the "Antebellum Era" while Finn is a modern novel, most likely set in the 2000's.
3 The main characters' "sidekicks" are of different nationalities. Silvia is mexican and Jim is black.
4 The main characters' "sidekicks" are of different genders. Silvia is female and Jim is male.
5 The main characters' caretakers are different. Chloe is staying with family (her grandparents) while Huck is just staying with generous widows.
6 The main characters had different destinations. Chloe and Silvia wanted to go west while Huck and Jim wanted to go north.
7 The characters had different means of transportation. Huck and Jim had a raft while Chloe and Silvia had a car.
8 Chloe and Silvia had some money to live off of while Huck and Jim had nothing.
9 Chloe has a search party looking for her while everyone is convinced that Huck is dead.
10 Huck's father dies later in the book while Chloe's mom just goes to Mexico.
11 The main characters have different social lives. Huck is in a gang with a lot of friends and Chloe has no friends.
12 Huck is adventurous while Chloe is more relaxed.
13 Chloe and Silvia have to worry about being raped.
14 Chloe is more sensitive about her past, especially her father's death.
15 Chloe actually got a little hurt as a result of faking her death while Huck was fine after he faked his.
Similarities
ReplyDelete1. Is a story of growth for both characters
2. Both characters are in their mid-teens
3. Both have abusive parents
4. Both have people under slave like conditions
5. Both see past the stereotypes of society
6. At the end both minority workers were free (or legal)
7. Both Chloe and Huck faked their death
8. Both dressed up like the opposite sex
9. Both have adventurous friends
10. Both have deceased parents
11. Both generally have an apathetic approach to religion
12. Both run away
13. Both are adopted
14. Both have dreams of going West
15. Both have friends that help them reach a happy ending
Differences
ReplyDelete1. One is a female while the other is a male
2. One minority worker was considered property
3. One minority worker was a worker who was payed with room and board
4. One minority worker was of African origins
5. One minority worker was of Mexican origin
6.Huck walked from his faked death unscathed, while Chloe was hurt
7. Chloe was much more successful in her impersonation of the other sex, than Huck
8. Huck's mom had died, while Chloe's dad had died
9. Chloe actually was adopted by relatives
10. Huck's father had been killed,while Chloe's mother had escaped to Mexico
11. One of the con artists Chloe met, actually helped her
12. Huck eventually seeks out God, while Chloe, doesn't tend to think about God
13. Huck tries to repent for his lies, but Chloe is proud of her lies
14. Silvia knows about her legality, while Jim doesn't know until the end
15. Chloe speaks in much better English than Huck