Sunday, May 20, 2012

#30

The sources that I used were very useful for this project. They helped me be able to learn more than I even knew after reading the book and before reading the book. It was pretty hard trying to find some good resources for The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The ones that were the most useful were the ones that didnt really give a summary of the book but talked about the book itself . All the ones that I had used were pretty trust worthy. Now i didn't quite find any that were bias.

#28

         During my research here there was a lot of things that I found interesting and not interesting. From some of this research i found out a good bit of things about Mark Twain. I learned that he love the outdoors and had a great family. Yes all the research i have found has surprised me a lot. One thing that I am glad I found because it was the most interesting was that Mark Twain was a another name for Samuel Climions.
         During my research I felt fairly good about it because I taught me a good amount of knowledge. I felt like it was a good thing that i learned a lot about this book because it helped me understand the book easier. I didn't quite have as much difficulties with this project with research project. I happen to  find it as an easy project to do. Now if i was to have this project to do again i would probably do it a lot earlier and come up with an organized plan to get it done faster.

Thursday, May 17, 2012

# 29

"Censorship." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 05 Mar. 2012
       <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/cite.html?qh=censorship&ia=etymon>.

 James Topham. "About.com." Classic Literature. 2012.  They New York Times Company. 19 March 2012. http://classiclit.about.com/od/tomsawyercrit/fr/aa_tomsawyer2.htm



"Mark Twain Quotes." Notable Quotes. Web. 23 Mar. 2012. <http://www.notable-quotes.com/t/twain_mark.html>.


"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." About.com Classic Literature. Web. 17 May 2012. <http://classiclit.about.com/od/tomsawyercrit/fr/aa_tomsawyer2.htm>.



"The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Book Review." Kidzworld. Web. 17 May 2012. <http://www.kidzworld.com/article/5962-the-adventures-of-tom-sawyer-book-review>.


 "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer." SparkNotes. SparkNotes. Web. 23 Apr. 2012. <http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/tomsawyer/quotes.html>.
  
"The First Amendment in History", Illinois First Amendment Center, Illinois Press Association Guide to First Amendment & Access Laws (1995), 2012. 21 February 2012.

Monday, May 7, 2012

#27

There were a lot of people in this book that had to do with Mark Twain. For this example, The Adventure's of Tom Sawyer, was based among Mark Twain's childhood. Tom had a best friend named Huckfinn, they did everything together, which would relates to me by me and my best friend and we also do everything together. According to this passage from chapter 35, "Huck Finn’s wealth and the fact that he was now under the Widow Douglas’s protection introduced him into society—no, dragged him into it, hurled him into it—and his sufferings were almost more than he could bear. The widow’s servants kept him clean and neat, combed and brushed…. He had to eat with knife and fork; he had to use napkin, cup, and plate; he had to learn his book, he had to go to church; he had to talk so properly that speech was become insipid in his mouth; whithersoever he turned, the bars and shackles of civilization shut him in and bound him hand and foot." this shows how his friend Huck basically lived and was like.

#26

This book is such a great book for anyone to read. Now there was a question that I had asked at the beginning was, "Is Tom always in trouble or causing a lot of trouble?" after reading I found that he was basically getting his own self in trouble instead of everyone else causing him to get in trouble. "I ain’t doing my duty by that boy, and that’s the Lord’s truth, goodness knows. Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I’m a-laying up sin and suffering for us both, I know. He’s full of the Old Scratch, but laws-a-me! he’s my own dead sister’s boy, poor thing, and I ain’t got the heart to lash him, somehow. Every time I let him off, my conscience does hurt me so, and every time I hit him my old heart most breaks." (chapter 1) this quote explains that Aunt Polly is trying to take care of Tom  but he is getting himself in trouble and she feels bad to punish him.

#25

      In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, there were a lot of things that went on during the book I felt that this book was known all over. Love to hear that other people have read so that way I knew what to expect. There was one of my search questions that I had found out, which was, "For one thing is that how did he end up having to paint the fences and what does painting the fence have to do with anything?" and the quote that I found was important that could probable back this question up, " Oh come, now, you don’t mean to let on that you like it?”
The brush continued to move.
“Like it? Well I don’t see why I oughtn’t to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?”
That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom swept his brush daintily back and forth—stepped back to note the effect—added a touch here and there—criticized the effect again—Ben watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more absorbed. Presently he said:
“Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little.”" ( off of my kindle) You see Tom got punished to paint the fence because he had gotten into a fight and his clothes were spoiled so she punishes him by making him paint the fence. But he convenes his friends to do it while he goes and travels down the river with Jim.