Huck Finn reading response #3

Ryan Bednarski
2nd hour
Mr. Hughes

Huck Finn Reader Response #3

What impresses Huck about the Grangerford’s is some of the commodities in the house such as the real door knob instead of an iron latch, the big fire place with bricks that were kept clean, the neatly aligned books, and the pictures on the walls. This means that Huck’s view of success and happiness is having possessions that make you feel at home.

The books are so special because they’re mostly poetry and some of them are educational books. He is so interested in them because he most likely hasn’t done a lot of reading in the past and the books interest him because he is able to learn about someone else’s life and how they live. By this, we can tell that Huck like’s being educated, and Mark Twain thinks of education not as being taught, but being read in a book, not necessarily a text book.

What’s unique about all of the drawings and poems and the scrapbook is that they all have a certain meaning and they all seem to be about death. The girl is obsessed with death and writing and drawing about it. The significance of the girl on the edge of the bridge with three sets of arms is it represents someone that is about to commit suicide and, she was never able to finish it as she died. I think Mark Twain describes this picture so specifically because it deals with death and that’s what happened to the girl that was drawing the picture and it has a significant meaning to everyone that lives at the Grangergord’s house. This says that Mark Twain this as death as art and a deep mystery. I think that Mark Twain thinks of suicide as a sad decision of mixed up feelings. I think that Mark Twain thinks of art as a way to express any feeling that you have. Huck is so touched by this girl’s life and art because the art is mysterious in a way and he will never be able to actually decipher the real meaning of all her art and that’s why it’s so intriguing for Huck.