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What's your reaction to the first three chapters of Huck Finn. Use specific examples to support your ideas.
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The First three chapters of Huckleberry Finn give you an excellent insight of how his everyday life and lifestyles are. He is just like any twelve year old boy who likes to go on adventures and run around with his friends. School and acting like a gentlemen is no interest to him! He has quit the imagination! An example would be when he snuck out! (Haley)

I really enjoyed the first three chapters of Huckleberry Finn. It gave the reader great background on Huck Finn's life and described the main characters well. Huck Finn is your typical young boy, he loves to get down and dirty and hates learning. Tom Sawyer seems like a very interesting boy with the way he believes all stories he reads and acts them out as best he can. We also learn about Miss Watson, Pap, Judge Thatcher, and Jim; all of which are a huge impact on Huck's life. (Emily Barden)

The first three chapters of Huckleberry Finn were very interesting! They showed Huck Finn's carefree lifestyle and how he cared very little about people thought and less about doing what was probably the right thing. He was an adventurous young boy, who loved to have fun and run wild any chance he got. He was not into dressing in fancy clothes and he was more than content with dressing in the sloppy clothes that he had grown accustomed too in his earlier childhood before going off and living with someone besides pap. He would rather be doing something with Tom Sawyer and be with him forever, then even think about trying to pray and go to heaven. (Jenna Pelletier)

The first three chapters of Huckleberry Finn provide a great illustration of his everyday character. He is a normal boy that enjoys having fun and running wild with his companions. Education and acting properly is of no interest to him. He is represented as a character with a great imagination and enormous sense of adventure. Many details describe his environment and various activities he participates in with his friends. (Taryn Miller)

The first three chapters of Huck Finn give you an image of Huck's lifestyle, character, and surroundings. For example, when Huck is describing his sneaking out. He says," We went tiptoeing along a path amongst the trees back toward the end of the widow's garden, stooping down so as the branches wouldn't scrape our heads. When we was passing the kitchen I fell over a root and made a noise. We scrouched down and laid still. Miss Watson's big *slave*, named Jim, was setting in the kitchen." Therefore in this one section you learn of Jim, miss watson's slave, where Huck was sneaking past and what he did while sneaking.(Sarah)

The first three chapters of this book did a really excellent job of fully imersing the reader into huck's world in a very short amount of literature and despite my short length into the book, it is already quite easy to see the wonderful simplicity of Huck and his ways.

After i read the first three chapters I picture Huck Finn having "The Life." Not necessarily everything went as planned but when does it ever for a young teen. I remember when my friends and I would builf forts and such in the woods behind the house. We never really had any intention on doing bad stuff but let me tell you we sure could talk like we were going to. I remember sneaking out of the house and meeting with "the guys" which included one girl. The thing is we would meet up and do nothing. It was about pointless just like Huck and his gang. All big and bad talk but did nothing to back it up. (Blake M.)

I think Huck is such a funny character. Every time he does something stupid I can't help but chuckle to myself. For example, when he was talking to Mrs. Watson about going to heaven and she said that Tom wouldn't be there so he decided he didnt want to go either, or when he learned about praying and tryed to pray for a fishing rod. (Elisabeth Webster)

From now on, every time I think about **__Huckleberry Finn__** this is what I'll imagine. Resisting authority, running away in the dark of night, and getiing into mischief with Tom are his specialties. (Kyle D)

 I really enjoyed the first three chapters of Huck Finn. The theme I picked up on was imagination. My favorite part is when Tom tells Huck that if he had read Don Quixote he would understand why Tom could see all of the elephants and camels and diamonds. Don Quixote really inspires the reader to use his or her imagination to its fullest potential and that's exactly what Tom wants the boys in his gang to do. Also, when Tom tells Huck about rubbing a tin lamp and genies that give you whatever you want, Huck actually tries to get a genie to come out of a tin lamp. When this doesn't work, Huck gives up and says that the whole scheme was one of "Tom's lies." Huck seems to take a very literal approach to everything while Tom focuses on exploring the imagination. (Lisa Harshman)

 The first three chapters of Huck Finn describe the life that he is living. Huck’s clothes are torn and dirty and he lives with a widow. While I was reading the beginning of the book I hypothesized that Huck didn’t want to act like something he wasn’t. He thinks that even though he’s not “perfect,” he is original. Huck and his friends like acting tough guys aka, robbers. Towards the end of the three chapters, they decided to start a gang and become robbers. Huck loves adventures, no matter what kind they are! (Laura)

I think the first few chapters of Huck Finn are a good character description of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. Tom is clearly the leader and though Huck sometimes questions his decisions he still follows Tom. Both boys are very naive and innocent. They begin their band of robbers and plan to rob and kill people but of course they are never able to actually go through with it. The boys just seem to be highly adventurous and seek an escape from the mundane routine of their everyday lives. I also noticed the dialect in this story, Mark Twain was definately true to his character, especially in punctuation and grammar. (Niki H)

The first three chapters are great example of regionalism. It seems that the boys of the town live very innocent lives full of imagination. They dream of being robbers or pirates. I like how Mark Twain includes sarcasm in his writing that does interrupt the but add to the story. Mark Twain is also able to make a setting without adding too many confusing details that can take away from the story. It is very easy to imagine the setting. It also can be seen that Huck Finn is a follower of the more clever Tom Sawyer who convinces Huck to come back to town. All in all it seems like a very easy read, you don't have to think too much (kind of like watching TV). I think I'll stick to reading Charles Dickens. (Stuart Hamm)

In the first three chapters of the book we begin to see the life of Huck Finn. He is portrayed as the average good old country boy. He enjoys the simple things in life. He loves to pretend robberies with his friends. Though both of his parents are gone, he lives with a widow ,who is always trying to fix him. Huck hates this about her. All he wants is to be a boy and to be left alone to do as he pleases.(Taylor Keene)

The first three chapters of Huck Finn, describe his lifestyle. He has worn out clothes, lives with a widow, and he just wants to get away with his friends. He doesn't want to be proper, he just wants to be himself. Him and his friends like to play robbers, and imagine doing all the things they learn about from the books. They all know they are never really going to be robbers, but the thought of being robbers and sneaking out at night thrills them all. (Kristin King)

Huck Finn seems like a misguided boy. He enjoys wearing torn and worn out clothes and escapes from the widow's house when he gets bored. He does start to like his new life, though. He is only a boy, so the widow makes allowances for him. Huck does not appreciate the widow's trying to help him. He just wants to run around and play with his friends. (Jennifer)

I was actually looking forward to Huck and the other boys robbing someone. It would have been fun to read. So, I was a little disappointed when it said that they gave up being "highwaymen". Also, I thought the other boys might treat Huck as a better individual because he is older than them and has had more experiences in the wilderness. Turns out that Tom Sawyer is the more popular and believes himself to be more important than Huck and the others. Other than that, I enjoyed the first three chapters and I look forward to reading more. (Caron S.)



I've really enjoyed reading the first few chapters of Huck Finn. Seeing a kid not having a care in the world displays the "ideal" childhood, which Mark Twain also experienced as a boy. In the first chapters we learn about the history of Huck, his "Pap" and his life with the widow, learning to be a good child and behave himself in school and church. (William).

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The first three chapters provided a clear idea of what life was like back in 1840s frontier America. Huck Finn, who serves as the stereotypical mischievous little boy of the town, shows this environment through his eyes, which is something I've lately been really enjoying. It's funny to think that several rag-tag boys "ambuscaded" a meeting of A-rabs who really just turned out to be a Sunday School picnic. All in all, it will quite interesting to see this turbulent time period of America through a young boy's eyes. (Danny Sale)

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