Thursday, May 7, 2009
Blog 10
the N-word was used in this book to maintain "Historical Realism", that is what i thought before i read Yester. Know i think that realism had nothing to do with this book. since the n-word was the most commond word used back in the days i thought that it was there so that we can get a first glance on how life was during slavery. Yester opened up my eyes to find clues in the book to show me that i was wrong. For example according to Yester "The novel plays with black reality from the moment jim runs away and does not immediately seek freedom," when jim escapes he doesnt run north right away like every other run away slave instead he travels south, down the mississippi river. many will argue that the reason why he traveled down trough the mississippi river was beacuse the river was some kind of protection as to getting caught and they would they would be able to travel to cairo and go to ohio but then why would they sleep as they would travel beacsue they missed the exit they were looking for and run away slave whos live depended on it would not have missed such an important exit.
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Reading other people's point of views really opens up your idea of what really is going on. Like I did gender roles, and i had never really noticed how this book only focused on males, and Twain just had the women nagging on the side.
ReplyDeletei have not read yester's point of view towards huckleberry finn book,,but the way you are describing what Yester said you are amking me think of my essay know,,because i still think that during the 1960's the N-word did represent some type of historical realism.....i like the quote you showed...on how "The novel plays with black reality from the moment jim runs away and does not immediately seek freedoms...!"this quote gives you some evidence that is going to support your reasoning.
ReplyDeletegreat job!!
and good luck!