Huck Finn Reader Response #3 (Ch 14-18)

In the Grangerford’s house what impressed Huck was how the family was more loving then he had ever seen. In Huck’s family well the who he lives with that type of family togetherness bond Huck has not experienced before. People in the house were all kind and sweet especially on how they took a complete stranger into their home and welcome him as if he was in the family. Also the family has a security with each other so that harm won’t come near .The death of Emmeline Grangerford had put an impression on Huck how the family would on her birthday every year they would place flowers on her picture to show their love to her. “Why bless you, Saul, the poor thing’s as wet as he can be; and don’t you reckon I may be he’s hungry?” (Ch 17, par 5, page 73)

Seeing the books in the house has gave him a better perspectives on education at first Huck had felt that you don’t need an education and that it is just a waste of time. The books had made Huck read them and want to know more about them. By the books being stacked up all nice and perfect that’s what made then catches Huck’s eyes. To me I feel that Mark Twain’s view on education was very high and that maybe he might feel that by having an education it can take you further in the future. Huck feeling change and that he is starting to believe that if you have an education then you can have the better hand you can get more valuable things in life such as a nice house and cars. “They had pictures hung on the walls-mainly Washington’s and Lafayette’s, and battles, and Highland Mary’s, and one called “Singing the Declaration”.” (Ch 17, par 3, page 76)

Huck looking through all the poems and pictures in the scrapbook he can see that Emmeline was obsessed with death. The uniqueness in them pictures were how they were all black every single color in the pictures were black neither type nor sense of happiness. The painting is what has caught Huck’s eye how the picture shows a girl on the edge of a cliff with three arms one set pointing up towards the sky and one set pointing out and the last set is pointing down. Mark Twain describe this picture so specifically because I’m guessing that it’s all about choices that you have to make during life whether you choose god, your self, or others. “It was a mighty nice family, and a mighty nice house, too. I hadn’t seen no house out in the country before that was so nice and had so much style.” (Ch 17, par 5, page 75)