On page 251, "Jim, don't act so foolish. A prisoner's got to have some kind of a dumb pet, and if a rattlesnake hain't ever been tried, why, there's more glory to be gained in your being the first to ever try it than any other way you could ever think of to save your life." I can recall that back towards the beginning of the book, Jim was bit by the rattlesnake and there was a big discussion between Huck and Jim about the snake being bad luck. I guess my question is, why would they be talking about Jim keeping a pet snake when the snakes are bad luck. Every single time something bad happened in the book, Huck and Jim always blamed it on the bad luck of the rattlesnake. Now, they are talking about Jim having one as a pet!!! I am so confused by this; wouldn't they not want bad luck? It's as if they are just asking for bad things to happen to them if they are getting a rattlesnake pet!?
One takeaway I got from these chapters was that when Jim and Huck were talking about the coat-of-arms, and Jim decided to write down a few things that he was going to put on his coat-of-arms. On page 249, it shows the things he chose to write down. "1. Here a captive heart busted. 2. Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life. 3. Here a lonely hear broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity. 4. Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV." I guess my take away with this was, it sounds like poetry. The way he had written this, it sounds as if he is writing his final life speech or a poem to be read after he dies. It's actually quite pretty in a sort of way. I think a lot of the writing in this book that is suppose to actually stand out to the readers and mean something sounds a lot like poetry.
I really enjoyed reading page 248 and 249 because Huck and Jim were talking about a coat-of-arms. The thing I mainly thought about while reading it was just about Mr. George's world history class my sophmore year where we had to make our own coat of arms. I remember that each color and animal and symbols meant something different. I had strong visual images of what I could see Jim's coat-of-arms to look like.
One takeaway I got from these chapters was that when Jim and Huck were talking about the coat-of-arms, and Jim decided to write down a few things that he was going to put on his coat-of-arms. On page 249, it shows the things he chose to write down. "1. Here a captive heart busted. 2. Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted his sorrowful life. 3. Here a lonely hear broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity. 4. Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV." I guess my take away with this was, it sounds like poetry. The way he had written this, it sounds as if he is writing his final life speech or a poem to be read after he dies. It's actually quite pretty in a sort of way. I think a lot of the writing in this book that is suppose to actually stand out to the readers and mean something sounds a lot like poetry.
I really enjoyed reading page 248 and 249 because Huck and Jim were talking about a coat-of-arms. The thing I mainly thought about while reading it was just about Mr. George's world history class my sophmore year where we had to make our own coat of arms. I remember that each color and animal and symbols meant something different. I had strong visual images of what I could see Jim's coat-of-arms to look like.