Sunday, June 9, 2013
Chapters 1-7
Within the first seven chapters of the novel, the reader gets introduced to two characters that will have a great influence on the character of Huck Finn. Choose either Tom Sawyer or Huck's Father and discuss the influence they seem to have on Huck up to this point. Discuss either the positive or negative aspects of Huck's relationship with either Tom or Huck's Father.
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Tom Sawyer seems to have a more positive effect on Huck than compared to his father. Sawyer seems to try to help keep Huck on a straight path while his father keeps him on the "do or die" path. Even though Sawyer is trying to keep him on the good path it seems like he's attempting to change Huck into someone he may not be. From forcing him to obey the Widow Douglas, to changing his character to a more "civilized" person. That is the effect that Tom Sawyer, so far, has on Huckleberry Finn.
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On the contrary, I believe that Tom Sawyer has had a rather negative effect on Huck Finn. For instance, Huck admitted to himself in the first chapter that he would rather go to hell because he could guarantee that his companionship with Tom Sawyer would continue on there. Also, Tom encourages Huck to sneak out of the house late at night and meddle with Miss Watson's worker, Jim. These events may seem harmless and just plain fun however; throughout the chapter they end up leading to Hucks initiation to Tom Sawyer's Gang, a group of boys who vow to rob and kill. To conclude, Tom Sawyer definitely has a negative effect on Huck Finn because his influences result in Huck completely comprising any morals that he was instilled with.
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I think that hucks father has a very negative influence on him for example huckleberry started out cursing a lot and wearing rags and not caring about school or anything else really but spending time with the widow he began to shape into a well mannered boy. Going to school and not cursing at all but when his father comes back he begins to loose sight of all that and starts cursing again and doesn't care about returning to school and questions why he ever wanted to go in the first place. Overall hucks father brings out a non civilized version of huck because that is how his father acts so huck acts like that when he's with him but when he has a good role model such as the widow he behaves different.
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Hucks father has a negative influence on Huck. His father is an abusive alcoholic that beats him from time to time. His father makes him quit school and takes his money to go buy whiskey. When Huck has been at the cabin with his father for awhile he begins to lose his civilized ways and starts to swear again. His father isolates and neglects him and even threatens to kill him when on one of his drunken sprees. The relationship Huck Finn shares with his father is a very negligent relationship. Huck is usually having to protect himself from his father than his father protecting him.
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ReplyDeleteWhile Tom Sawyer seems to be a major infuence on Huck a this point, i feel his father has left a more scaring mark on him(physical abuse pun not inteded). From The beating to getting a good education he is going down a deep spiraling hole of failure. Think about it, a poor, "un-civilized" boy no family other than a drunk dad who bests him and is lost and cant be found. The pain caused by this makes the root of isolation, this can stem out to(mental/physical) consitan pain and major depression. From a personal, point i think that this "scare" has made one of the biggest infuences on huck, so far and is with out a dought negative.
ReplyDeleteHucks father has a negative relationship with his son. His father is a very temperate person. Pap is selfish and gets mad to whoever is better than him. The only reason he came to see his son was because he heard that Huck had money. Huck also put himself as a slave for his father because he is afraid of him. Hucks father was always beaten him when Pap was drunk. And because of that he always has to protect himself from him.
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Tom Sawyer has a negative influence on Huck Finn mainly because Tom keeps convincing Huck to sneak out late at night and go out walking. Even in chapter 2 Tom wanted to play a prank on Jim (Miss Watson's server) while he was sleeping up against the tree. And when they had left to go to Tom's secret hide out, Tom had convinced Huck Finn and a couple of other boys to great a band of robbers sop they can steal things from people, kill people, and hold people for ransom. Even though this turned out to be a game that they were playing we have yet to see if that game turns out to be something real and they actually go out and steal,kill and hold people for ransom. And all of this would be Toms influence on Huck Fins and the boys where one of them could get in serious trouble.
Leonard A. Lafoe
ReplyDeleteHuck's father is a very negative influence on Huck's life. Huck's father is a drunk, and spends most of his time drinking, ranting about the government (And anyone else who comes to mind for that matter.), and physically abusing Huck. He also does not aprove of Huck's formal education, which was the case for many uneducated parents in the nineteenth century before the Civil War. So between the alcohol, abuse, and the self-induced ignorance, Huck's father is the worst infuence Huck has. He just reappeared in Huck's life just to get the money he obtained with Tom Sawyer, and wouldnt be around if there was nothing in it for him. Huck's father is the prime example of a dead beat father.
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ReplyDeleteHuck's father, "Pap", is very antagonistic towards Huck, forcing him to drop out of school and abusing him verbally and physically for the reason being that he doesn't want Huck to be better than him, which is wrong. Pap is a low-life drunk who doesn't have much, and rarely sees his own son. This is why Huck and his father have an atrocious relationship and why he wishes Pap was dead and out of his life. There's no positive influence that Pap displays with his son, for example in chapter 5 Pap says, "Your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died, I can't. I ain't the man to stand it-you hear?". This quote clearly states that Pap does not want Huck knowing how to read and write, which is obviously a negative influence.
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DeleteTom Sawyer and Huck's father, "Pap", are both negative influences in Huck's life, but Pap being Huck's father has the biggest impact on Huck. Pap as the drunk he is , abused Huck verbally and physically. As well as his disapproval of Huck's decision to educate himself(that is low for any father to not allow their children an education.). Pap not being the role model that Huck needs, forces Huck to grow up learning from friends and the people around him.
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Huck's abusive, and alcoholic father is a terrible influence for Huck of course, he is pretty much the source of why Huck is the way he is, as an ongoing homeless boy. I think Tom Sawyer actually brings that positive influence on Huck in which he needs. Tom is an orphan just as much as Huck is but much more obediant and civilized living. As much as Tom sort of envies the freedom Huck has and wishes to be more adventurous, he still has a more positive form of being.
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ReplyDeleteHuck's father has been a more negative influence than tom sawyer. His father is a drunk who beats on him. He wasnt there for huck when he was younger, causing the negative impact on his childhood. He shows up suddenly and decides to dumb huck down because he seems smarter than his father. huck even tries to escape from his own father and succeeds. This should tell you that his father his not wanted in his life. tom sawyer is not the best influence but he is there more often with huck than his own father.
ReplyDeleteIf it wasnt for huck's father, huck wouldnt be on his own or have the freedom he wants. although his father is horibbly drunk most of the time. It allowed huck to escape and get to jackson's island
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Tom Sawer,Huck's friend has a positive influence on Huck.Tom is helping Huck stay in the right path rather then let him end up like his father,a drunk who does not care.He incourages him to stay with the widow Ms.Douglas, and became more civilized.Tom helps Huck get back on his feet to become a better person.For example, Huck continues going to school and learning the criteria as expresed in Chapter 4.
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ReplyDeleteIt seems like Huck is badly influenced by his father. Some ways that Huck is badly influenced by him is that his father is an alcoholic. Since his father is an alcoholic he takes Hucks money to buy whiskey. Also after spending time with his father at a cabin he starts cussing again. His father also influences Huck in a bad way because he was never there for him when he was a child, which causes a negative impact on his life.
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Tom Sawyer has a negative influence on Huck Finn. Reason being because in Chapter 2, it stated that Tom wanted to hang Jill, Miss Watson's helper, just for fun on a tree. Making Huck Finn take bad steps instead of good ones. Tom had this gang of his own convincing Huck ,Ben, Jo, Jim, and the other boys to be in it. In order to be in this gang you needed to be cruel. if you didn't have family members you couldn't be part of it , because you had no one to kill. Tom also told Huck Finn that once he got to the place , he would see gold, elephants, and everything he dreamed off, but when he got there he realized that it was just a Sunday school in progress. To cover up his lie , he tells Huck that a magician covered everything up so it could look like a Sunday school.
ReplyDelete-Mireya Cardoso
At the beginning Huck talks about his father that just left him and never comes back until he needs money. His father gets drunk and he makes Huck suffer. Huck's father sees him as a worker and not a kid that needs to go to school. By Huck seeing this from his fathers actions he thinks it is normal to act rude too. This is a negative influential to Huck because he doesn't know the right choices.
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The influence that Hucks father has upon Huck Finn is negative. He has a negative impact on Huck Finn because throughout the chapters, the father is demanding for Huck to not go to school all because he wants money for his wiskey. Hucks father is also putting Huck in a life or death situation because he is always threatening Huck to do what he says or the gun comes into place, and Huck recieving negative actions towards him can have a negative impact on who he becomes later in the future.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father is a constant drunk who beats his son more often than not. Huck has reverted back to his old way of not dressing properly, not showering every day, and cussing. Huck's father also hates one's ability to learn. In fact saying that no one in his family ever knew how to read or write, and so his son was not going to the first. It is in these reasons that Huck's father can have nothing but a negative effect on Huck.
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ReplyDeleteHuck would try and be a rebel because he had no male to tell him right or wrong. If Huck needed help the only real person that he could tuurned to would be Tom Sawyer, a very good friend also he was a thief, a rebel, and he lived on his own. Tom was not that great of a role model, for a very young boy like Huck. His father was always away, and never there for him, and when he was around he was always drunk and would always beat him and thought that huck wanted to be better than his father just because he went to school and dressed in nice clothing even though huck didn't like it.
Well obviosuly huck's father could probably use some tips on how to be a parent. That goes from his terrible drinking habbits to his disapproval of hucks education. Within the short amount of chapters there are abosulety no positive aspects in hucks relationship with his father. "Pap" threatens huck on a weekly basis, he even threatens huck to stop going to school because he doesnt want huck to be smarter than him. From these few chapters you can predict that throughout the book huck's father will have nothing but a negative effect on hucks life.
ReplyDeletetom will influence huck alot because he said that if tom was going to the bad place that he will follow him to and that time were they sign a pact to become robers and huck believes that tom is always right just because he makes references to books im kinda cirious to see how tom will influence huck in the story later on
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DeleteHuck's father has horrible drinking habits that make him loses interest on school. As we moved through the chapters you would find that Huck's father it’s a bad influence to Huck. He make him feel bad by telling him that nobody in his family knew how to read and write. He treats him as his dog by telling what to do if he doesn't do it the gun comes out. This tells a bad influence to Huck because he can change his behaviors on the future.
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ReplyDeleteHuckleberry Finn didn’t have the ideal role model to look up to. In that way he didn’t had no one to teach him from right to wrong. The father wasn’t aware of his own son’s life, because all he would do is get drunk, beat his own son just for the hell of it, and let him out on his own. Meaning Huck never had his dad to call up if anything was going on. Now, in the other hand his friend Tom was there with anything Huck needed even though he was up to no good. But, at least Huck had someone that he could rely on if he was in a sticky situation.
Hucks father is a bad influence on him because he doesn't care about him, and just wants the wealth.Also his always drunk and try's to stap Huck and kidnaps him.Tom is a good influence on Huck cuss he always take him in a good path and helps him around.
ReplyDeleteIf I may interject, I do agree that Huck's father is a VERY bad influence on him, because of the fact that he is a drunk and abuses him. This may lead to mental scars over time, and can affect him emotionally in a very bad way, such as suicidal thoughts and depressions. Every one growing up needs someone to look up to, everyone needs that special role model growing up. However I think that Tom is not really a good influence on Huck. He teaches him things that a boy his age shouldn't be taught. Though he does help him stay on the right path of life, he still isn't a very good role model for Huck.
DeleteHuck's father is a bad influence because he beats his son up when he's drunk. All that he has been to Huck is a bad role model and an abusive parent. The only reason he came back for his son is for the treasure he found. When he found him, he took Huck away from a good home and school. Huck's father didn't approve of school because he thought it was wrong that his own son knew more than he did. Whenever he had money he would waste it on drinks instead of food for himself and Huck. Even though Huck likes not having responsibilities, his father is only scaring his childhood.
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"Pap" Hucks father was a bad influence on him because he used to hit his own son when he was sober, because most of the time his father was drunk.Also because the only time when Huck was able to see his dad was when he needed money."Pap" prohit the oportunity for Huck to attended school,nobody in his fathers family knew how to read or write.Also because he wanted the money to buy alcohol. He was badly influence by his dad because when Huck was a little boy he was left behind by his dad which made him felt like he didn't have any adult to look after him when he needed something.
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Hucks father is selfish and a drunk, which is not a good inflence on his son. Huck does not have any guidence or care from his father. This is a negative influence on him becuase he does not have a role model type of dad he can go to whenever he is needed. "Pap" only came becuase he heard about Huck having money, and Huck said he had nothing Pap quickly turned to alcohol. Hucks dad does not provide any help that is needed and has never pushed him to succeed in his life.
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ReplyDeleteAs the story starts Hucks father is rarely mentioned during the flow of the story when everything seems to come in place, hucks father appears back in the picture giving negative advice making huck fail in atempts on becoming successful since he hasnt been himself therefore he has decided is best to give negative advice making huck be the same as he was before.
Huck's relationship with his father "Pap" was a negative influence. Huck's father was not around much; many times Huck never knew were his father was. Huck's father was only around for the money that he needed for his drinking problem which makes him abusive. Also, Huck's father does not approve of Huck getting an education so Huck stops going to school. Huck and his father have a horrible father-son relationship and it is apparent that Huck wants his father out of his life.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father known as, "Pap" is getting to be known as a bad influence on Huck; He is a irresponsible man who only comes back to his son to ask for money. He decides to get drunk with all the money he can get. He also seems to disagree with Huck being successful due to him taking away school from Huck. The book lets us know that Huck's dad has been like this before by showing that Huck is afraid of "Pap" when he sees him again.
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Huck is negatively influenced by his abusive, neglectful, and alcoholic father. His father left him at a young age and his guardian, which is the "widow" took him in and was maternally caring, yet too strict, towards him. His father didn't want him to recieve an education since he never had one and he was upset at him for allowing him to do such a thing. He then takes Huck into his own hands when Huck doesn't want to give him 6,000 dollars. The lifestyle of living with his father was difficult because he was abused and held hostage until pap recieved his money.
ReplyDeleteAnn Coltrane
After reading the first seven chapters of The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, it's clear to me that Huckleberry's father, an abusive alcoholic, has had an extremely negative influence on him. After leaving Huck at a young age, 'Pap' comes back into his life and demands money. When he's not presented with his demands, he takes Huck into his own hands. From there on out, Huck is neglected and abused.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father, Pap is immediately introduce as the town drunk and the widowed, abusive father to Huck. The relationship that Pap and Huck carry throughout the first seven chapters is mostly negative. Pap displays himself as not even being able to manage the responsibilities of taking care of his son. He uses the money that Huck receives to purchase the liquor and become so drunk to the point where he either passes out or becomes emotionally unstable and beats Huck for either no apparent reason or a really dumb reason. The only real positive part to their relationship is what Pap has prepared Huck with in the experiences of being beat and neglected. Huck may be afraid of his father but he has been accustomed to not resort to violence as a comeback because he knows that his father is physically stronger than he is. Princesleah Aguilera
ReplyDeleteHucks father "Pap" is the negative influence in his life. Pap was introduced as a an alcoholic who wasn't around much but when he was it was always trouble. When Pap did come back to Huck after leaving him with the "widow" at a young age Pap came upon to be a drunk who abused Huck both physically and mentally. He would cuss at any and everything that would come his way, he would constantly put Huck down, demanded for him to drop out of school and forced Huck to give him money to buy whiskey. As well as talk bad about the government because he wouldn't get his way and cause trouble to Tom for not speaking of the truth of what had happened to the money Huck once had.
ReplyDelete-Brittany Velasco.
Huckleberry does not have a settled habitat, neither identity. Huck is influenced by those around him. He has Tom Sawyer who tells him to do as his step-mother the widow says, which is to go to school and behave. Then he has his Dad who is an alcoholic and wants his son to be with him, even though he is abusive. Huck with all this confusion and uncertainty cause him to have different personalities; and it is causing him problems. Huck has to settle down to realize who he is and what to do.
ReplyDeleteHuckleberry Finn's father makes a huge impact on Huck's life despite not being around often because he is the only family Huckleberry has. Unfortunately, this relationship is poor and partially built on fear. One day after Huck's father returned after being gone for quite some time, Huck was taken out into a cabin with his father as punishment for attending school. Slowly Huck began to feel comfortable with the life he was forced to live in isolation. Huck's father affects Huckleberry Finn negatively by being an abusive, uncaring, alcoholic.
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Huck Finn isn't your average "emo" city boy. He has the ability to take what he has and make better of it without becoming depressed and helpless. He was raised by his father, an abusive alcoholic man who gave Huck his ability to help himself. While his father can be seen as a hindering negative influence on Huck due to his abusive nature, i believe that his father is the reason he can adapt to what he has in life.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father "Pap" is a bad influence and reveals a negative lifestyle toward his son. Pap displays his careless domination when he declares Huck Finn to end his education. Also Huck's dad forces his son to hand down his money to him, and yet spends that money on his whiskey. Throughout these few chapters Huckleberry Finn has been shaped into his fathers behaviors and habits. With these actions of his father I believe that Huck is being shown a bad way of life and is being pointed down a wrong path that will lead him into trouble in his later life.
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Huck has been negatively influenced by his father "pap". Throughout the beginning of the story, he's been introduced as and alcoholic and who'm left him at a younger age. Still, his father disapproves of his education he now has, by the fact he didn't had one; "Pap" doesn't want to accept to himself Huck's "better than him". Demanding his son's money and his custody, He takes Huck's in his hands and shows him "neglect, and abuse" Which now makes Huck wanting to escape to Jackson's Island.
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Tom Sawyer emits a bad influence on Huck. In the few seven chapters Tom has already devised a gang of friends for killing and robbing. Just to make it worse, Tom gets all his ideas from fictional sources. The reader gets the feel that Tom talks a lot of nonsense to keep his friends interested, influencing Huck to follow along, while assuring Huck it will be fun. Although Tom Sawyer badly influences Huck, the only good thing is that he is Huck's friend.
ReplyDelete"Pap" Huckelberry Finn's father had made a big impact on his life not only because he was never around during his childhood, but also because now with Huck as an adult he not only abuses him, but he doesn't want Huck to attend school anymore. Keeping him in captivity and not letting him free is going to have a negative influence not only now but for the rest of his life
ReplyDeleteAfter reading the first seven chapters, I believe that Huck's father "Pap" has a deep negative influence on Huckelberry."Pap" is a selfish, irresponsible, low-life drunk who abandoned Huck at a young age; but then later comes back for Huck's money he obtained with Tom Sawyer."Pap" makes Huck suffer mentally and physically by neglecting him, beating him, and threatening to kill him.All "Pap" does for Huck is cause trouble; he makes Huck loose interest in school, isolates him in a cabin, makes Huck begin swearing again, and takes his money to go buy whiskey.Since Huck never really had someone to look up to before,he learns from seeing his fathers actions, and starts making wrong choices which ultimately affect his future in a negative way.
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Hucks father has a negative influence on him due to his addiction to alcohol making him abusive. Hucks father wasn't there to be a father for him so that why Huck is the way he is.He was neglected by his father. Hucks father doesn't influence t stay in school so he makes him drop out. Huck father makes him go do thing oir he is going to kill him. for example Huck makes him give him his money to satisfied his alcohol needs. These actions are a bad and they are changing huck.
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ReplyDeleteIn the first seven chapters it seems that "pap" is a very bad influence for Huck. He only cares about himself and is always getting drunk. Huck faces many difficult things because his father only looks for him when he needs money to get whisky or to beat him. Huck's father also doesn't care about Huck's education. Huck doesn't have anybody to support him or tell him the right thing to do and he is becoming just like his father.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father, also know as Pap, has a negative influence on his son Huckleberry Fin, which is the protagonist of the book. He is a part of Huck's life whom Huck does not want him to be a part of. Huck kept saying he did not want Pap to come back to him repeatedly through the chapters. Huck was a bit relieved when he heard that his father had died but soon he realized it was not him and was worried he might reaper to him. In chapters 5 to 7 Pap was discovered to be an alcoholic, irresponsible, uneducated man. Pap is an abusive parent over Huck and tries to prevent him to get more educated for jealousy reasons. When the judge tried to change Pap, he realized that there was no changing him. After kidnapping his son to live in a "old hog" by the Illinois shore, Hock was abused constantly by Pap which only made Hock want to run away. Because of his father, Huck wont get a good education, is unhappy for most of time he is with him, and just wants to run away. As we all know Huck wont benefit from the influence of his father Pap.
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Huckleberry Finn has an already endangered childhood. He becomes apart of a gang and tries to steal and murder people. But I think the greatest influence on Huck is his dad, pap. Pap is seen as an abusive parent, that "tans" him because of his excessive drinking style. He comes back into Huck's life almost seemingly and bombards him with his opinion on education. In chapter 6, Pap kidnaps him and takes him across the Illinois shore. Huck's stay was described as an imprisonment or confinement to just his house when his 'dad' decided to leave to get whiskey. Because of Pap Huck could end up being just like his dad. Being around such a bad influence all the time and seeing a father act the way Pap does, can subject Huck into thinking that, that behavior is acceptable.
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After reading the first seven chapters, I am lead to believe Huckleberry Finn is negatively influenced by his abusive father, Pap. Pap is an abusive alcoholic that only seeks his abandoned son, Huckleberry, for his money that provides for his drinking addiction. By chapter 5, Pap then returns to Huckleberry's life where he insults, brings fear to, and threatens Huck to quit his education. I believe much of Pap's anger comes from jealousy he has on his son due to the fact that Huck is "better than him" because of ability to read and write. Huck then is kidnapped by his father in chapter 6 where he takes him to live with him. There, Huckleberry is exposed to alcoholism, isolation and once more is accustomed to cuss again because "Pap hadn't no objections.", like said on chapter 6. Being around his father's irresponsible parenting badly influences Huck to believe this sort of life style and behavior is adequate.
ReplyDelete-Jennifer Cortes
well, in these first couple of chapters you are introduced to Huck, Tom, Aunt Polly, and her sister Miss Watson. He talks about how Aunt Polly took him in and he tried to leave but came back on account of Tom's offer to be in a gang (IF he got civilized and got an education with her). Late one night Tom and Huck leave to go with the "gang". Tom states that they'll be robbing people, murdering them and holding them for 'ransom'. Huck questions it and wonders why if they don't know how. Later on in chapter 5, we're introduced to Hucks "dad" if you will. By the way he is treated by "Pap", its very prominent that Pap is not fit to be a parent, AT ALL. He's an alcoholic, and abusive. He threatens poor Huck almost on a daily basis, and his education view aren't very supportive of Huck's. While Huck read for about half a minute he knocked the book clean out of his hand and said if he'd ever catch him at school he'd "tan" (beat) him real good.
ReplyDeleteSee the difference between Tom and Pap is that Pap gives off negative vibes to Huck. He isn't a good fatherly figure and Huck could learn from this and be just like him. While Tom on the other hand WANTS Huck to have an education although he's admitting robbery and murder with it. At this point Tom would be the better influence, with being a smart and polite young man, while at the same time being a vicious man causing chaos and trouble. Both contradictory but one better than the other.
-Jordan Ocampo
In this first seven chapters I have noticed that Huck's father Pap has given him a very negative influence. Pap isn't a good role model since he is an alcoholic, and he hits Huck. Tom gives Huck the positive influence since he tries to change him into being a more civilized person, by telling him to listen to the widow. And once Huck starts listening to Tom and starts being a better person, his dad come into his life once again and tell him he has to drop out of school and starts taking his money away. So in my opinion I believe that Pap is the negative influence towards Huck and Tom is the positive influence.
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Huck's father is a negative influence on Huck but also is a benifit to him. Of course Huck's father has a negative influence due to his drinking and abuse of Huck, also his use of language and lack of respect for the law is a horrid way for a father to act. This behavior of Pap is negative because kids often tend to do what their parents do. For example when Huck gets stuck in the cabin with his father, he begins to go back to his old uncivilized ways like swearing. This being said, although Huck's father is a negative influence, Huck also benifits from the way his father acts. Huck in the long run will be a stronger person because of his father. Huck was able to be smart and devise a complex plan to escape, due to his situation and influence of Pap.
ReplyDelete"What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." -Dominique Lopez
Although Tom Sawyer could be seen as a "negative influence" for huck, I think of it more as a positive one. Yes Tom did convince huck to sneak out at night and join a gang of friends that kill people and steal things but keep in mind that they're just kids. I don't think that they are actually going to do anything bad. Tom encourages huck to use his imagination so that he can have an adventure.
ReplyDeleteTom sawyer has a positive relationship with huck because tom is always there for huck. When huck decided to run away, tom convinced him to go back home by saying he can join tom robber gang if he goes back home with the widow and becomes more respectable. Although we can see tom being a negative influence futher into he story, he still is more postivie towards huck life then hucks father. Huck father has a negative relationship with huck because he beats huck for no good reason.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father has a negative influence on Huck mainly because he is abusive especially when he's drunk. Huck's father is always beating him for no reason. Also by stealing his money to buy whiskey and making him quit school. Huck's father also kidnaps him and threatens to kill him and is trying to protect himself.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father Pap compared to his friend Tom is clearly a negative influence but Tom is still a negative influence too. Tom has got Huck to join is gang of robbers. Saying that they have to kill who ever they see and steal. Yes they are kids but still Tom is leading Huck down the wrong path. Tom is only going to cause Huck a lot of trouble and problems later on in the book.
ReplyDelete- Abel Acosta
Huck's relationship with his father "Pap" was a negative influence.Hucks father is selfish and a drunk guy, which is not a good inflence on his son. Huck does not have any guidence or care from his father.Pap is not even able to take responsible for his son.Pap does not what huck to keep studuing, he makes him work t en spends the money that he gets on whiskey."pap" abuses of huck that would later make huck whant to escape.As huck grows up in that life style the onl thing that it does is changeging his mentallity about everything and star making wrong choises.
ReplyDeletemesly galarza
In the book of "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain, Chapters 1-7 , so far the relationship between Huck and his father is very challenging, tough, and crucial. Huck's father tanned him so much , that he was scared of him all the time. He hadn't seen his father for more than a year. "Pap" is a negative influence on Huck, because Pap declares that Huck should drop out of school just because Pap doesn't want his own son to be better than him. Huck's father is an abusive alcoholic that once he got money from Huck, he went to spend it on some whiskey. Clearly, Huck despises his father, because in Chapter 3, he states that he hasn't seen his father and doesn't want to see him anymore.
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I believe that Tom Sawyer is a more possitive influence than his father. His father tends to be more adverse with Huck. On the countrary tom sawyer is more unambigous to huck. In esence Tom Sawyer is a more possible character to sheer Hucks life.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father or better know as "Pap" has influence in a negative way Huckleberry Finn. He comes out as an alcoholic, selfish, envy man that wants its son to dropped school and work to give himself a break. All "Pap" does is get drunk, beat his own son and waste Huck's money in whiskey. Since Huck hasn't had someone to look up to before, he can reflect on his fathers actions, and start making wrong decisions for example, when he stared smoking and cussing; since it was ok with Pap. If Huckleberry continues to seeing and live in this environment, he can follow his dad steps.
ReplyDelete- Jennifer Arreola
In many ways Tom Sawyer is a negative influence on Huck Fin. Tom convinces Huck to sneak out on several occasions and even initiates him into his, "Gang". Although Huck's father isn't a very savory character and he treats his son badly, he's not so much a bad influence; on the contrary, he actually influences Huck to be a better person due to the fact that he doesn't want to end up being like his father. Tom Sawyer, on the other hand, not only bullies him (by calling him dumb and such) but also puts him in very risky situations, like sneaking out and trying to pull pranks on the widow's slaves.
ReplyDeleteI think your wrong about Huck's father. Sure huck doesnt want to be like his dad but because of his fathers negative aspects huck runs away and is now living on an island. Huck's father will most certainly be one of his worst influences throughout the book.
DeleteHucks father, Pap, has a negative impact in Hucks life. Pap is an alcoholic and a selfish man. He only cared about Huck when he had money so he can buy whiskey. He made Huck drop out of school to work to give pap a break. Pap would beat him, and Huck is scared of him. Hucks relationship with his father will never change do to the fact he's done bad things to him. What parent will make them drop out of school to support them.
ReplyDeleteLeslie Salas
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ReplyDeleteTom Sawyer is a bad influence in Huck's life. Reason why, Tom made a gang to rob and kill. He makes him sneak out several times. Tom wanted Huck to join in his gang, but need someone to be used to kill if Huck says a word about this gang. So since Huck knew Tom wanted Huck to take part of this, Huck offered Miss Watson, just to be in this gang. Like what friend does that.
ReplyDeleteAlondra Rodriguez
The influence that Hucks father has on Huck Finn is very negative. Since his father left him at such a young age he had no one to care for him except the widow. Knowing that his father didn't want him to have an education all because the father wanted him to get money so he can buy his alcohol. Also Huck is in danger from his father because of all the threats in telling him what to do with the gun. Living in such a negative environment can impact Huck when his older and the way his going to live his life.
ReplyDeleteCarolina Ramirez
i believe that Huck's father, Pap has a negative influence on him. Pap is an alcoholic and is abusive. He didn't support Huck's education and made him drop of of school. Pap made Huck start working in order to buy him some whiskey. Pap and Huck's relationship is very bad and negative all the way around. He does NOT have a positive influence on Huck.
ReplyDelete-Shandea Linney
By reading these first 7 chapters i can tell Pap, Huck's father, is a negative influence to him. By all that cussing he does, making Huck drop out of school, Huck getting beaten, and all the drinking Pap does sure affects Huck really bad. Pap only thinks of himself and thinks that nobody can be smarter than him. He doesn't really act like a father to him. I believe that is what affects Huck the most.
ReplyDeleteHucks father Pap, has a negative influence on Huck's life. Growing up Huck joins a gang and attempts to steal and murder people. The reason Huck is growing up to be like that is because of his father. Pap is an alcoholic and a low life, he pretty much does not want anything to do with Huck. He only wants him for his money to buy himself whiskey. Pap does not like the idea of Huck getting an education he wants him to drop out of school so he could work . If Huck continues in his father's footsteps it will lead him nowhere.
ReplyDelete-Vianca Ruiz
Throughout the first seven chapters, it is apparent that Huck's Father (Pap)is a great negative influence on Huck. It is no secret that Huck has become accustomed to a sort of luxurious lifestyle with and education, clean clothes, and a little spending money on the side. One of the reasons why Pap is a negative influence on Huck is that he demands Huck quit his education. The reason for this is because he does not like the idea of his son surpassing himself. Pap makes his negative effect on Huck obvious when he calls for money to be brought forward, all of it. The "tanning" of Huck by his father is also one of the main reasons pointing to the negative influence of Pap. This display of violence when both sober, and drunk has proven pap to have a horrifying disregard for Huck's life. The evidence of a negative influence is shown by Huck wanting to leave given circumstances. This desire of freedom from his father shows that Huck too, is aware of the negativity being emitted from his father.
ReplyDelete-Andrea Marie Rodriguez
Huck's father is an abusive drunk who beats him. His own father steals his money to buy himself more whiskey. Since Huck has been with his father at the cabin, he has started swearing again and getting into bad lifestyles. He quits school because of his dad. His dad is so unpredictable and dangerous when he is drunk, sometimes threatening to kill Huck. Huck always has to protect himself when his dad is drunk. His dad has a very negative effect on him.
ReplyDelete-Anthony Lopez
Huck's father is probably the most negative person in Huck's life right now. Pap (Huck's father is a selfish abusive drunk. Pap doesn't want Huck to excel greater than him therefore, making Huck drop off from school. Pap wants Huck to be providing for him, every single last penny he had his father takes it away and spends it all on whiskey. Huck has received the habit of cussing, and with Huck being locked in the cabin for up to 3 days straight and being abused by a drunk can make Huck physically and mentally ill just like his father.
ReplyDelete-Jasmine Vargas
Huck is an abusive alcoholic father that is not the best influence for Huck seeing as his actions have terrible influence on him. He beats Huck and just leaves him to buy more alcohol and does not support him at all. That is how Huck got to be a homeless boy in my opinion. Now Tom Sawyer does have a good influence and maybe that is what Huck needs to be taught another way of life since we all know that Tom is an orphan but one more organized or mature. He could be what Huck needs a role model to look up to even though Tom looks like he is jealous of Huck's freedom in the end he does have a positive influence in Huck.
ReplyDeleteHucks's father "Pap" poses as a very bad influence on his son. Pap is described very early on in the book as a drunk and causes a lot of commotion when things don't go his way. In his first encounter with Huck, he seems very opposed to the idea that his son is getting an education. He is very adamant about him staying uneducated and uncivilized. In the short time that Huck was living with Miss Watson, Huck had stopped cursing and now didn't mind going to school. This however changes once Huck is forced to live with his father in a cabin, away from civilization. Huck is very much negatively influenced by his father, and I imagine that he will continue to be.
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Pap has a negative influence on Huck. His father is constantly drunk on whisky, and does not appreciate the effort that Huck is making towards his education.Pap is extremely selfish, his needs have always come first before his sons.He doesn't act like father, he locks Huck in a cabin for three days and he lets him walk around with ragged clothing. Huck is basically getting rejected and abused mentally and physically by his own father.
ReplyDelete-Eurydice Siqueiros
Pap, Hucks father, has a negative impact towards him. His father is a mess and clearly has no interest in anything but his whiskey. He is constantly drunk, he abuses Huck, forced him to work for his own selfish needs and locks him in alone every night. Seeing all the plans Huck thinks of to try to escape shows how terrified he is of his father and how badly he wants to leave and be on his own. Pap is the reason why Huck no longer has any interest in his education, the way he dresses or even his manners. Huck now enjoys cussing and smoking pot.
ReplyDeleteThroughout reading the first couple of chapters, it was obvious that Huck had been raised with such a negative, horrible father who had no plans or persuasion to make his son a better individual than he was growing up. Pap just visualized Huck's life being exactly like his. For instance, being miserable, abusive and an outraged alcoholic. Pap had no envision on being a great father to Huck where he wanted to see him succeed in life. Huck was better off staying with the widowed woman who saw past his unintelligence, and beholding view he had upon himself. Huck picked up the harsh behavior of his father in months, he started drinking, cursing, and getting out of the genuine habits that the widowed woman had formed for him. Huck's father is the obvious bad influence because of the change in Huck's behavior as soon as "Pap" decided to come into his life.
ReplyDeleteHuck Is influenced negatively by his father,"Pap" he is irresponsible and abusive toward his child . Pap is really selfish as he goes to Huck for money.what also makes him a bad influence is that he wants to end Hucks education.huck sadly doesn't have anyone to support him or guide him thru this hard time and sadly he might become like his dad. Likely make him like his father,as he is comfortable with the life he is living .
ReplyDeleteHuck's father came back into his life with ulterior motives. It is evident that Pap has never and will never be a good father, role model or an outstanding citizen. Pap was constantly abusive and hindering Huck's new lifestyle, including his education and appearance. While living in an isolated cabin with his dad, Huck grows accustom to his father's neglectful and drunken habits. I was glad to see that Huck took the steps to leave his life that he had with his father, and not putting his hard to waste, realizing that there was much more to life.
ReplyDelete-Illiana Placencia
Throughout the seven chapters, anyone could tell that Huck's father was an abusive alcoholic irresponsible guardian to him ."Pap" would emotionally put huckleberry down and make him feel less than himself and threaten him if he didn't do what he was asked to. There was only one real positive approach "Pap" put on Huck, and it is to be used to the negotiation and abusing.I strongly believe that Huck will go down the wrong path and find himself in more trouble than ever .
ReplyDeleteIn chapters 1 through 7 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Huck has two different influences Tom Sawyer an Pap. Tom is a good influence to Huck because he encourages him to read and learn. Pap on the other hand is not he wants him to be like him, uneducated and sad. Pap even kidnaps Huck and turns him like him after a while.
ReplyDeleteHucks father "pap" abandoned him at a very young age, only to return upon discovering that his son might be rich. He wasn't exactly a model citizen or father to say the least. As a matter of fact, he was known as the town drunkard. He was physically and mentally abusive and did not want his son to be educated, for fear of him surpassing his own knowledge, Pap urges him to quit school. For lack of wisdom and parental guidance he takes Huck to live in the wilderness and would often leave him to fend for himself for days at a time. Because of this, he begins to long for freedom. Hucks father has a very negative influence on his life and if he does not to decide to turn from him now, chances are, he will walk the same path of destruction his father has walked all his life.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the first seven chapters Huck's father has negatively been a very bad role model as a father to his son, Huck. Huck's father is just a really bad influence to his son because he is always drunk and is very abusive to Huck. Some of the things that makes Huck's father a really bad person is that he makes Huck quit school. Also he made Huck give him money so he can buy whiskey. But not just that, Pap also locks Huck every night by himself which makes Huck want to escape to Jackson's Island and that's a perfect example on how scared Huck is of his own father.
ReplyDelete-Bryan Chavez
Huck's father has had the biggest influence on him at this point. He is an abusive alcoholic that has made Huck into the "worst" version of himself. He has left school and picked up less than suitable language. His life before his dad is promising, and his dad's negativity has caused him to become a failure in his own right. There is no was Huck will be better because he can not let himself surpass his dad.
ReplyDeleteJoshua Duron
Tom Sawyer and Pap are both negative influences on Huck. Tom's influence is more innocent, seeing as how he only causes Huck to behave mischievously. But still, coercing Huck to sneak off to play robbers in the middle of the night is not exactly a positive influence. But Huck's father, Pap, is downright nasty to Huck. Pap is only coming around after he finds out that Huck has a large sum of money. Because of this, Pap comes howling into town and kidnaps Huck going on and on about the 'govment' and how the 'govment' is ready to take away the son that he went through so much trouble to raise. And after going through gallon after gallon of whiskey and 'tanning' Huck's hide, Huck begins to revert to his lifestyle before the widow and Miss Watson. He begins to wonder why he would ever want to wear such uncomfortable clothes and spend so much time with his nose buried in a book. Pap's negative influence over Huck is so strong that even though he doesn't want to be with Pap, he doesn't mind his behavior so much as before.
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ReplyDeleteBoth Tom and Pap have a negative influence on Huck, however Pap is worse than Tom. Pap is Huck's father, a man that is supposed to support and help his son be succesful. Instead, he neglects, and abuses him. He won't even let him get his education. Being that Pap is Huck's father, he already has more of an influnence on Huck's life than anybody else. Pap is very negative towards Huck. He'll beat him, and down talk him, and even lock him in the house at night. That behavior coming from a a man who is supposed to be a father is demoralizing
ReplyDelete- Alexander Powell
The effects that Tom has on Huck is more positive than his father. Tom, I think, tries to get Huck to see things through his imagination by talking about books he has read. Huck seems to have grown really attached to Tom stating that if Tom were to be in hell, he would not mind being together with Tom. I think he views him as a brother, and that while being kept by his father, he did wish Tom were with him, so I think Tom gave him something to look forward to. Even so, people will not always influence people either positively or negatively, they influence a person by both qualities. Aside from Huck having someone he can consider to be close with, at this point he seems to also learn the feeling of loneliness in the first chapter after Tom told him to be with the Widow if he wanted to join him and the band of robbers and before Tom came back for him.
ReplyDeleteHuck asks Miss Watson if Tom might end up in the "good place" and when she tells him that he and Tom will go to the "bad place" Huckleberry is glad. Tom Sawyer is Huck's mischievous friend. His choice of fun is committing jokes on people, and playing "band of robbers". Even though Tom tells Huck to go back and live with the widow and be respectable he has a negative influence on Huck. It is only because Huck wants to be involved in Tom Sawyer's Gang that he returns to the widow. The "gang" Huck sneaks off to be a part of deals with the idea of murder, robbery, and ransom. As Huck is escaping from his horrid father he can't help but believe Tom can do it better.
ReplyDelete-Celeste Molina
Huck has two great negative influences on his life which are Tom Sawyer and his father Pap. Pap is an alcoholic that is abusive towards his son and has no clear care Huck. Pap has never been a good father or role model for his son Huck. Pap also feels nothing for his sons education and takes all of Huck's money just so he can buy himself more whiskey.Pap also left Huck at a young age and on many occasions when he is drunk has threaten to kill Huck. Pap starts to bring back Huck to his old ways in which Huck began swearing again and begins to get into bad lifestyles. Pap just influences Huck in many negative ways and if Huck decides to follow his father in will lead him no where good.
ReplyDelete~Mark Gonzales
Huck's father has a major influence on Huck's life up to this point In the book. Huck's father has a negative influence on Huck being that he's abusive and a drunk. Huck's father, pap has neglected Huck and only came back to see him for Huck's money. Pap is suppose to support his son in his education. But instead pap thinks that since him and his whole family has never been educated there is no need for Huck to be. Whenever Huck spends more time with his father he becomes less civilized. For example, " It was kind of lazy and jolly “laying off comfortable all day, smoking and fishing, and no books nor study. Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn't see how I'd ever got to like it so well at the widow's, where you had to wash, and eat on a plate and comb up, and go to bed and get up regular, and be forever bothering over a book... I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because pap hadn't no objections.” This shows the negative influence Huck's father has on Huck.
ReplyDelete~Matthew Foley
Huck's father seems to have more of a ban influence on him. He was never there for his kid to the point where Huck even thought he had died. The night that Pap was in Huck's room, he tells Huck that he needs to stop going to school just because his family had never gone to school including himself. Pap is not letting his son get an education, how to learn to read and write just so Huck wouldn't be better than his own father. Even though in the chapter before, Huck had stated how at first he hated going to school but with time he didn't mind it because he knew he was learning. Later on in the story Pap takes Huck away from the widow and takes him to this Cabin where they both stay at and from time to time Pap locks Huck in so that he can go drink and not come back for 3 days like the drunk he is. This is when you know that Huck is being badly influenced by his father because when he was with the widow he had stopped smoking because the widow never allowed it but now that the widow was not there and his father would do it, he had started doing it again. Also with the cussing, he also stopped cussing because the widow never liked it but now he does it again because like he says, "Pap hadn't no objections." This shows how Pap influences Huck in a negative way.
ReplyDelete~ Kimberly Gibson
Huck's father is a very negative influence. He is very abusive and demanding trying to control Huck in many ways. Pap (the father) is a drunk so Huck has to protect himself when he is intoxicated because there has been a point where Pap has threatened to kill Huck. He has led his son to bad habits and even to drop out of school. Huck is forced to work to pay for his fathers whiskey and is told that due to the fact that the whole family is uneducated, there is no reason why Huck should be going to school. In this book so far, Pap is a negative influence that is dragging Huck down
ReplyDelete~Joel Martinez
Tom has a positive role in Huck's life, but a negative influence on the things he's introducing to Huck. Tom was the first person who introduced Huck to the illegal lifestyle when he initiated Huck into the gang. Huck seems to listen and follow Tom probably because he's desperate for another male influence. Tom doesn't seem to care about Huck's safety or well being, he just wants someone to have a good time with. Huck may view Tom positively, but Tom is really leading him to a life he shouldn't want to live.
ReplyDeleteTameka Smith
Huckleberry's father first appeared in the 4th paragraph, he only momentarily startled Huck, but Huck wasn't afraid of him. He did have a negatively abusive relationship with Huck though, he beat him, swore at him, and baked him in the sun. He also influenced Huck in a wrong way, especially by taking him out of an education. His father told him to drop school: "And looky here - you drop that school, you hear?" When his father dragged him into the woods, Huck claimed, "I didn't want to go back no more. I had stopped cussing, because the widow didn't like it; but now I took to it again because my pap hadn't no objections." Huck shows less and less interest in civilized actions such as going back to school, dressing cleanly, and speaking politely (without cussing) because his father abducted him, and made him accustomed to not doing these things.
ReplyDelete- Lorenzo Lambert
After reading chapters one through seven i have come to the the conclusion that Pap is a negative influence upon Huck. Pap has shown no sign of interest in Huck. Pap is to worried about getting drunk he dosent acknowledge the life he is dragging his son into. Huck has been forced to work for his father leaving Huck no chance of having a better life.Throughout the chapters Pap has threatened Huck to leave school. Abandoning the idea of becoming someone better. Huck`s father is to worried about himself he dosent take care of Huck. Leaving Huck no choice but to escape and try to find a better life.
ReplyDelete~Graciela Avila
Huck's father, "Pap" is the towns drunk who is selfish and spends most of his time drinking and doing nothing better with his life. Pap mistreats and abuses Huck ;Therefore their relationship is very poor. The fact that Huck has adapted to the same ways that his father carries has shown that Pap has a negative effect in Huck's life. The simple evidence that Huck is scared and has to protect himself from his own father makes their son and father relationship very unhealthy. Pap does not care about Huck and shows no interest in his life , and that is a disavowing action for Huck's life.
ReplyDelete-Natalia Escobedo
Up to this point there are two male figures that have a negative influence on Huck, Tom Sawyer and Pap (Huck’s father) . Tom Sawyer goes about his days swaying Huck to do illicit things such as theft and murder. However, Huck never believed all the things Tom would instruct their “gang” to do, so he would dismiss all his remarks. Despite the Widow’s efforts, a woman mandated by a judge to care and educate Huck, Pap crushes all her work when he comes in contact with Huck. Along with the physical and mental abuse Huck suffers in his care, his father also encourages Huck to curse, brainwashes him into believing school is useless, and makes him antisocial.
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ReplyDeleteHuck's father "Pap" seems to have more of a negative influence on him. His father is constantly beating him due to his alcoholic issues. His father abuses his power towards him by making him drop out of school and taking his money away from him to buy some more alcohol. His alcoholic issues are so bad that he threatens many bad things to him while he is drunk. The relationship that is between them two is one that no father and son should have. Huck finds him having to defend himself rather than his father.
ReplyDeleteDerek Fuller
Huckleberrie's father, "Pap" has a negative influence on Huck because he lacks stability and alters his future. Huck's father moves Huckleberrie from the widow's stable home to a cabin out in the woods where he leaves Huckleberrie locked inside for days at a time and abuses him. His father is affecting his future by not allowing him to recieve an education due to his family's history and removing Huckleberrie from society. Therefore, Pap enforces unfit morals and patterns upon Huckleberrie leading to his negative impact upon him.
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ReplyDeleteHuckleberry’s father has a greater influence on his life. He is the reason why he is not educated and why he is specializes in the outdoors area. Even though he is an irresponsible father and he does beat Huck and abuses him, he is responsible for Huck’s character. However the fact that "pap" disagrees and makes him quit school by kidnaping him does create a negative impact on his future.
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ReplyDeleteHuck's father definitely has a big influence on Huck but in a very negative way. Huck's father has definitely made Huck into what he is in the book. I believe that all the negativity of Huck's father will definitely have an effect on Huck throughout the book affecting Huck in such negative ways. I really feel that Huck's father is really to blame for Huck's ways and his lack of education I thinks that as the book progresses Huck will more and more begin to resemble his father which will not be good for Huck. Huck's father abuses Huck physically and mentally and he is also a heavy drinker.
ReplyDelete~Joshua Ascencio
Hucks Father "Pap" was a negative influence on Huck. Pap was almost never around Huck and when he was, he was drunk and would beat up Huck. One day when Huck goes in his room Pap is sitting there and looking over Hucks things. Paps only reason for visiting Huck is to get Huck and his money. Pap not only does that but he brainwashes Huck into believing that school isn't important. Pap abuses Huck and pushes negative thoughts towards him, not only adding to the negative thoughts Sawyer also pushes Huck to do. Huck is heading in the wrong direction and its mostly by Pap and Sawyer.
ReplyDeleteAs a fatherly figure Pap is supposed to lead Huck to success. at one point Pap left for so long Huck thought he was dead. That night he showed up to Huck's room is when everything changed. He moved Huck from stable housing to a cabin in the woods where he would leave Huck by himself for about 3 days while he went to go get drunk. He had also demanded that Huck stopped going to school only because nobody in his family had gone to school and Huck couldn't succeed or be better than his father. While he was being taken care of by the widow he had stopped smoking and cussing because the widow didn't allow that. Then when Pap took Huck everything changed. Since Pap had no rules Huck went back to smoking and cussing. Pap never really cared about anything Huck did. Huck is surrounded and intimidated by a lot of negativity, most of it coming from Pap.
ReplyDeletePap was never a great father to huck. What kind of father locks his son in a cabin for three days? He didnt want Huck in school. Everything Huck was doing right, his father thought was wrong. You know somethings wrong when youre trying to run away from your own father. I found some of it kind of disturbing knowing he got so drunk he was chasing after Hunk with a knife.
DeleteHuckleberry's father, Pap, is the worst influence in his life right now. Pap comes back to take Huck and makes him stop learning, live in the isolated woods, and forget his newly found civilized nature. Huck then had to deal with a drunken father, only hunting and fishing, and getting abused. While living there Huck begins cursing again, not bathing everyday, and becomes lonelier. Pap stripped him of his chances of becoming successful due to the fear of Huck becoming smarter than him. Huck's life went downhill from the moment Pap came back. The abuse Huck takes is a huge amount and this influence may make Huck an abusive parent as well in the future. Although Tom Sawyer made Huck a little disobedient he is a better influence than Pap.
ReplyDelete-Sabrina Mannix
Within chapters one through seven, Hucks father,Pap, has had a very negative effect on Huck. Pap has a negative effect on Huck because on how he treats him and how he doesnt want him to have an education because maybe on how Pap doesnt want Huck to be smarter than him. Some examples will be on how Pap has a major drinking problem and this affects Huck mentally because Huck ends up turning into his own dad by getting into alcoholism and also using foul language. This also affects Huck verbally because Pap abuses him when he gets really drunk and also threatens to kill him. Therefore, all that Pap has done to Huck has affected him to the point where his whole future might go in the wrong path.
ReplyDeleteBoth Tom and Pap are bad influences on Huck. Even though Tom influenced Huck to sneak out at night, become a highwayman, and crash a Sunday school picnic, that's just them being young and trying to have fun. Huck is going to run into more boys like Tom throughout his life. Although, Huck will only have one father in his life. His father has more of an impact in his life and so far its been negative and has effected him. Pap is selfish and doesn't want Huck to be successful and have a better future than him. He is holding Huck back on life and the opportunities the widow was giving him by having Huck quite school and life with him. Pap leaves Huck locked at home for hours, sometimes days, while he goes out and gets drunk. This has severely affected Huck's mentality. When he was living with the widow his behavior was getting better and he began to enjoy going to school, but when he went back to living with his dad all of the widows hard work went down the drain. Huck doesn't want to go back to school and began smoking again. Therefore, Pap has been nothing but a negative influence for Huck, only making life more difficult for him. - Victoria Hernandez
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ReplyDeleteHuckleberry Finns father has a negative influence on his life. He isn't in huckleberry's life as much as he is suppose to. His dad is just an drunken slob who rants on the government. His father is a very neglective individual who is also an abusive father when drunk. Huck is not used to following any rules,because as he was growing up his father was never there and his father never established any rules for him to father. All his father established to Finn is that he is a drunk who doesn't care about him. So far in the novel the only influence that Huck's dad has had on him is negative
ReplyDelete-David A. Gomez
Hucks father, Has a very negative effect on Huck, with his drinking problem, and his lack of motivation he gives his son dealing with his education, because he does not want his son to become smarter than him. Soon Huck begins to turn into the monster he calls his father and begins drinking. Huck also begins not bathing everyday and begins using curse words and other bad language. Pap also begins to abuse huck and also threatens him with his life, this turns huck down the wrong road into his future.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father has nothing but negative effects on his life. Pap is an abusive drunk who only uses Huck to get money and go out to get drunk. Pap also wants to hold Huck back and doesnt want him to succeed in life. For example, Pap does not approve of Huck knowing how to read and write or of him going to school simply because no one else in the family had to. Soon Huck has to leave his civilized life behind and live with his father in the woods showing how Pap is very selfish. So at this point in the book, Huck's father has had nothing but negative effects on his life.
ReplyDeleteAlthough both Tom Sawyer and Huck's father both have a negative influence on Huck, it seems as if Huck's father made a greater impact in his life and his decisions. He would hold him back from reaching his full potential and fill his head with his negative, drunken thoughts. Even though Tom influenced him into doing bad things like sneaking out and fooling around, he gave Huck a sense of joy, and adventure, while his father would lick him in for days at a time and get drunk. While Tom may have turned Huck into a mischievous kid, his father turned him into a drunk just like himself. After all the physical and emotional abuse he was put through, Huck beings to drink, use bad language and embody the image of a drunken slob.
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ReplyDeletePap is a very negative person he is a father and is irresponsible he goes out to get drunk while Huck is locked up in his house.Although Huck has a friend (tom) he is a bad influence on him also he made him sneak out at night to go do irresponsible things Pap doesnt want Huck to become better than him. Hucks father one day showed up after so long of being gone only to get some money.Huck was living with the widow he was helping Huck out and giving him a chance to build a future for himself but his dad Pap went and took him to the woods and Huck no longer cared about anything so he started becoming just like his father an irresponsible person
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Tom and Hucks father both have a negative influence on him, but his father's impacts him more drastically than Tom. Hucks father went for him just to take him for granted and to use him. Pap is an alcoholic, and takes advantage of Huck for his money so he can buy more alcohol. Pap is very abusive towards Huck and is iresponsible. He doesn't want him to get an education because he didn't and believes if he didnt then he shouldnt either. This threatens Hucks future and could affect him negatively if it doesnt change.
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ReplyDeleteHuck's father, "Pap", is a huge influence to Huck in the story, verbally and physically abusing him. Pap strides to not have Huck grow up better than him and continues to put him down so it won't happen. He pull him out of school and discourages reading for this very. No doubt he is a negative influence, he does give Huck the liberty and freedom to roam about as he does. Still doesn't change the fact that Pap is a sob drunk only hurting Huck.
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Pap's specialty isn't exactly being a good father. He is irresponsible and displays a bad influence on Tom and Huck. Huck's friend doesn't make the situation any better as well. One night Tom convinced Huck to sneak out of the house. Pap was a worse influence on Huck than Tom because it seems as though Pap does not want Huck to become a better man than him, so he doesn't let him reach his full potential in life. He did this by putting Huck down constantly and trying to make Huck like himself.Huck enjoyed the presence of Tom because Tom showed him his point of view of a good time by doing negative things.
ReplyDeleteI feel that Hucks father has a very bad influence on huck. I say that pap is is a bad influence because not only is he an alcoholic but he is also very abusive. Pap has all the traits of a bad father he threatened to beat huck if he kept attending school. Pap makes huck quite school because he says that huck can't be better than him. Pap also spends all of hucks money on alcohol. Even after all that pap takes huck to live an uncivilized life in a cabin in the woods were huck can smoke, fish, and not have to learn.
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Huck has been majorly influenced by Tom and his father, but i feel that his father has had a bigger impact on him, I feel this way because that his father was always physically and mentally abusing Huck.His father who was the major male influence in his life and has taught him nothing and didn't want Huck to get a good education and to move up in the world because all he wanted to do was use Huck. Hucks father set a bad example as to what to do as a man and how one should act in public. -Aaron Pingo
ReplyDeleteHuck's father has been a bad influence on him telling to quit school,beating him,not caring for what he says and also stealing his money. Huck's father is an alcoholic and every time he would get drunk he would get abusive with Huck. The more time Huck would spend with his dad the more uncivilized he became, the moment he started spending time with his dad he started to cuss again. Huck's dad didn't want him to succeed in life because he didn't know how to read or write. Huck was learning how to be a more civilized person and was getting an education but all that was blown away when his dad found him.
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Throughout the first 7 chapters of Huck's journey we see an impact on Huck by his father have more of a drastic effect on him. So far we have learned that the father is abusive, an alcoholic, and an uneducated jealous character. This has negatively impacted the way Huck lives his life. It's as if Huck tries everything in his power to both please and break free from the bonds of his father. Huck tries to make a good life for himself, yet his father comes along to seemingly ruin it all for Huck by trying to take his money and basically ridicule him for being an educated person. "Pap" we consider an uncivilized person and the more Huck associates with him, the more he draws away from his true self.This is not your average father and son relationship. It's more of a victim trying to break free from a wretched and neglectful life.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that Huck's father "Pap" and Tom Sawyer both were a bad influence on Huck, but Huck's father was more the one that affected Huck dramatically. With his father being a drunk and always taking money, to Huck he is a terrible role model and parent. Pap, carelessly, tells his son to end his education because he doesn't want Huck to become better than him causing Huck to be going in the wrong direction. Huck is now becoming lonely and depressed as the constant beatings and negativity continues. The abuse Huck received led to him having a positive though on his life.
ReplyDeleteI believe that Huck's father is a bad influence on him, needless to say his alcoholic and abusive behavior is not leaving a good impression on the boy . Because of him Huck doesn't seem to want much for himself. Without his father there he was attending school, yes school was not his favorite thing but he atleast had some motivation without him there. With his fathers return, came the loss of Huck's work being pulled out of school and was made to stay in a cabin alone. In conclusion, I believe Huck's father is a bad influence for him.
ReplyDelete- Fernanda Murillo
Huck's father is quite a bad influence because of all he's doing with the kid. He took him away because he was having a better life. He was getting an educatio, clean clothes and a bed. Thanks to this, Huck lost his interest in school and got used to a rough life. The beatings he gave Huck and how he got drunk all the time were also bad influences. Huck is probably gonna grow up and beat his own kids and his wife and probably be a drunk. But, in a way, his father is a good influence as well. Huck knows how to hunt and fish and how to survive on his own thanks to him.
ReplyDelete-Jonathan Garcia
Tom is no bad influence. He's a harmless kid. He says he's gonna do all these things but he doesn't. His imagination is much bigger than his criminal mind.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading I found a sensation of "Pap" being a horrible influence towards his son. He shows no support or care for his son. A father is supposed to want his child to succeed more than he ever has throughout his life. A child's success is a parents success. Pap has no enthusiasm to see his son have a better life, he just wants him to be exactly like him since he or his ancestors were low on intelligence. Pap is a abusive, alcoholic, despicable man who states the obvious that he is the worse example for his son to look up to.
ReplyDeleteHucks father is an atrocious example, role model, and fatherly figure to Huck. Not only physically abused but Huck is also lost due to Pap's problems and influences. As a father "Pap" not only is an abusive drunk, but is also a selfish money taker. He told Huck to leave his education for selfish reasons including Huck surpassing his own intelect. Therefore it is quite obvious of Paps true intentions, emotions and goals for his own flesh and blood.
ReplyDeleteThroughout the chapters I have read I can tell that Huck's father has the most negative influences on him. Pap Huck's father is unsupportive, neglects him, abusive due to the major alcoholic problems he has. He does not push Huckleberry to get an education he is the one that makes him get out of school. He is so distant from Huckleberry that at one point he thinks that his father is died. Pap has the biggest influence and the worst influence on Huck.
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Huck's father is shown to be a horrible father as well as a bad influence on huck. From beating him, drinking all the time , and even influencing huck to stop caring about school it is obvious "Pap" , his father, is no where near being the father he should be. It it known very early that pap just wanted his son back for all the money he has found stripping him away of such a good life he was having to live in the abusive conditions with his father. Hucks father is also an uneducated person who ridicules huck for being educated as it was a bad thing. A father is supposed to guide their child and encourage them to be the best they can be, huck's father is the complete opposite of this for hurting his son emotionally and physically who is not the role model that huck needs in his life
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ReplyDeleteAs reading these 7 chapters, I came to result that Pap has a very negative reflection upon Huck. Huck was living on genuine responsibilities and habits that the widowed woman had put for him, to get an education, dress properly, and be proper. When Pap decided to come back into his life on a random occasion, Huck settled with his father to a cabin, and after months Huck picked up the harsh behavior his father had showed him. Pap had no belief in his son to be better then him, he wanted him to be exactly like himself. Therefore; after seeing all these character changes and behavior Pap was the obvious bad influence upon his son, because no father ever wants to see his child fail.
ReplyDeleteHuckelberry finn, over quite some time he has become a better person, both in his personal life and in his education. Huck's even grown to like school nowadays. but the return of his pap, and him wanting Huck to stop his learning just becaues he himself isnt a bright person. hes a bad, really monsterous father. Instead of being proud of hucks accomplishments in his life his jealousy and grief has led him to be just pure evil to his son. the only real reason pap came back after a year plus, is just because of the money the Huck no longer has, But hucks love for his dad makes him believe pap might have good intentions while pap's may be just using Huck for his fortune. i Think this will have a very negative effect on huck, not just for the loss of his money, which he doesnt own anymore, but Hucks getting his feelings and emotions played with and hes bound to get hurt physically and mentally for trying to substain a "Father-Son" relationship.
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I came to a conclusion that Huck's father, "pap" has a negative realtionship towards Huck.He is selfish and abusive towads Huck, Not only does he abuse him physically but mentally by not being supportive of his education. He abuses him emotionally by not treating him like his son but more like his pet that he is responsible of, somewhat... Because of the poor father and son relationship that they have Huck's father is a very negative influence on Huck, he mistreats him and abuses him. The simple fact that Huck is scared and has to protect himself from his own father makes their relationship unhealthy and Pap's impact on Huck more negative than positive.
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Though Tom Sawyer may be seen as the negative influencer to Huck, I strongly believe that it is Pap who is in his life. Pap has rather scarred Huck as he grew in his childhood, constantly abusing him while sober, and more known as a "town drunk." If, maybe, by chance Pap could have been the reliant father who Huck needed, perhaps Huck wouldn't be in the current situation he's in as of Chapter 7. His father's morbid taste and selfish intentions brought Huck to a condescending matter; more or less, having felt at times his father still had good in him (Hence, good angel and bad angel.) Huck's conflict with his Pap brought him to believe he had no chance in Heaven- a "good place"- due to his bad behavior. This is concluded to the fact that Pap set him up for failure, and Huck was left with no choice but to do whatever his mind told him to do; which resulted in his "accused" death, smoking habit, and his escape to Jackson's Island. Thus, in summation, the negative effect for which Huck's father, Pap, brought on him.
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Huckleberry, to a great extent, is negatively influenced by his father. I noted that when Pap said, “they say…you can read and write. You think you’re better’n your father, now, don’t you, because he can’t?” he was intimidated by the thought of his son getting an education and adapting to the “civilized” lifestyle the widow had introduced him to. He did not want a better life for his son than the one he had lived and threatened to do anything in his power to prevent it; "…if I catch you about that school I’ll tan you good.” Soon he abducted Huck and he was once again subjected to the senseless abuse he associated with his father. “I used to be scared of him all the time, he tanned me so much…But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hick’ry, and I couldn’t stand it. I was all over with welts.” A tipping point before Huckleberry ran away was when his father had drunk himself into “delirium tremens” and tried to stab him with a “clasp-knife.” Huck’s father is jealous of his son’s potential so he mistreats and belittles him. He refuses to let his son become acceptable by social standards.
ReplyDeleteHuckleberry's father has more of a negative influence on him than Tom Sawyer does. Pap reappears into Huck's life after over a year when he hears about Huck being “rich”. He visits Huck claim the money as his own. When education is brought up he says, "And looky here- you drop that school, you hear? I'll learn people to bring up a boy to put on the airs over his own father and let on to be better'n what he is". He wants him out of school because doesn't want his son to be better than him. A couple of times after their conversation, Pap caught him going to school and thrashed him. Huck's father threatened to cowhide him if he didn't raise enough money for him. When Pap got money, it was used to get drowned, which was a good way of keeping him away from the house. In the cabin, Pap chased Huck around with a clasp-knife in attempt of stabbing him. Huck no longer wants to be around Pap or the Widow and wants to become his own person.
ReplyDeleteHuck's father is one of the two characters that has a great impact on his life. His father did not want him in school because he was selfish and didn't want Huck to grow up any differently than he did. Huck's dad was always drinking and treated Huck in a bad manner, physically and mentally. Huck lived around these bad behaviors for such long time that soon he was the one having those bad behaviors. "Pap" took Huck's oppertunities to live a better life for his own selfish reasons which brings the conclusion that he was the bad influence in Huck's life.
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ReplyDeleteAlthough I am not sure how this will play out, I believe that Tom Sawyer has a more positive influence on Huck Finn than his father. Huck’s father seems to be abusive and an alcoholic, two factors that are not high on the list of being a positive role model. Tom on the other hand, is adventurous, was raised strict, but seems to live a care free lifestyle. This conflicts with Huck’s lifestyle, which is more serious and is basically raising himself as his father has walked out on him. Finn, I believe, is more mature at this point that Tom Sawyer. I guess they balance one another and will lead us down an adventurous path.
I believe that Tom Sawyer has a more positive influence on Huck than his father. Even though he is a better influence, I think his father has a greater impact on Huck. Huck knows to stay away and he tries to to that but his father always comes and finds him. His father is not a good influence on his son because he believes that his son should be like him and not be better than him. At first Huck goes against what his father told him to do but aster living with him Huck starts to like his way of living more. His way of living is not good to raise a child. Fathers have great impacts on their childrens lives whether it would be good or bad deep inside the child will, in some way, look up to them and trust them.
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ReplyDeleteTom sawyer has a positive influence more on huck, than his father. Hucks father is not someone who would i consider to be positive influence, being the fact that he is abusive and an alcoholic. Huck has grown up alone for his father doesnt really care about him. On the other hand Tom sawyer great influence on him together they will learn the good and bad thingss about life.
Huck's father known as, "Pap" is a bad influence on Huck; He is a irresponsible person who only goes back to his son to ask for money. He decides to get drunk with all the money he can get. He also disagrees with Huck being successful due to him taking away school from Huck, Huck is scared and has to protect himself from his own father makes their relationship bad and Pap's impact on Huck more negative, so there for Tom has a positive impact on him, by always being there for him.
ReplyDeleteHuck's relationship with his father ,Pap, was a negative influence. Huck's father was not around much. Pap is an alcoholic that is abusive towards his son and has no clear care Huck. Pap has never been a good father or role model for his son Huck. Pap is really selfish as he goes to Huck for money.what also makes him a bad influence is that he wants to end Hucks education.
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Huck's relationship with his father has a negative influence on Huck. Angered by the wealth and education Huck received after leaving his father, he then is harassed because of it. His father's remarks range from, him being smarter than he is, to even wearing nice clothes. Absorbed by his greed, he decided to try to take some of the money that Huck and Tom found. Also because of him being an alcoholic, this can pass on to Huck which can influence him in a negative way.
ReplyDeleteWhile I think both Tom Sawyer and Hucks father mostly had negative affects on Huck, I think Hucks father had more of a negative on him, mainly because his father was a drunk. When sober, his father was abusive and would mistreat Huckleberry. His father was never around or no where to be found. What good affect does that have on Huckleberry other than a bad way of life?
ReplyDeleteHucks father probably had a bigger impact in is life. The reason why I say this is because his father wasn't a very nice man to him. He mistreated Huck a lot. He was always drinking and drunk. And when he wasn't drunk, he would be abusive and mistreat Huck. I think his father just gave him negative vibes and experiences.
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Hucks father is a drunk and just uses his son to get money for his alcohol addiction. He is very violent towards Huck and locks him in a cabin for several weeks to prevent others such as the widow, who has been taking care of him to protect him from him, to try and rescue Huck.
ReplyDeleteAt first Huckleberrys father had a big influence on Huck. He didn't want his father to come back home after he had left several times but he still cared about him. Once his father came back though, Hucks relationship and opinion on his father changed. Huckleberry is a smart kid and knows that his father is a mentally crazy drunk who's just in for the money.That's why he makes it look like someone killed him, just to get away from his father and all the drama he has caused and live his life.
Huck's father has a negative influence on Huck. His father was a drunk who used his money to support his so called addiction, but when sober was verbally and physically abusive. Huck's father also never encouraged Huck to further his education (made him drop out of school). Not only that, but his father was never around. Thus, setting a bad example and influencing H-uck negatively.
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I do believe that Huck feels that Tom Sawyer is positive and a "role model". The truth is that Tom Sawyer is actually not good, he wants to kill and rob people. He says to respect the widows but he is a "gang". Also, Hucks father is a abusive alcoholic that controls Huck. Hucks father doesn't really care about him and Huck is forced to survive on his own. Overall Huck as no where to go so, he doesn't make high goals for himself and he does whatever he has too that he thinks is good enough. Which isn't true about him because he moved on from his father to Tom Sawyer thinking its the best he can do. -Bobbi Cordle
ReplyDeleteHuck is badly influenced by his father. He hears his father cuss a lot so he talks that way too thinking its normal. He's an alcoholic so he used and takes Hucks money to buy more alcohol. He treats him more like a slave than a son because he sees him as a worker rather than to worry about his education.He acted this way for selfish reasons. He didn't want Huck to grow up to be any better than him. His father had a bad life and now he wants Hucks to be the same.Huck thinks its normal to act rude and that's because he receives negative influence from his father.
DeleteHucks father "Pap" is an extremly bad influence towards hes son. Pap is an alcoholic and a bad citizen, he only looks for Huck when he needs money. Pa wants to bring everyone one down when they do something better than him. When Pap finds out Huck is going to school, and knows how to read and writte, Pap gets really mad and obligates Huck to drop off. Therefore in my opinion Pap is a bad influence towards Huck.
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Hucks father is a bad influence in Hucks life. He only goes to Huck whenever he needs money for his alcohol and when he is need of something, otherwise he is never there for him. Huck lives an abusive life with his father. His father doesn't see him as a son he sees him as a slave a worker. For Huck hitting, cussing, alcohol, drugs are normal for him because he was never taught right from wrong, his father wanted him to ruin his life. Due to his fathers selfishness his father makes Huck drop out of school because he was afraid that his son would become a better/educated person than he ever was.
ReplyDeleteBy far Huck's father was the worst role model and influence. He had no sport for Huck and even told him to get out of school. He also was an alcoholic and only uses Huck. he even mentions " They say you can read and write... you think your better than your father." He even attempted to hurt Huck. Because he of all this Huck wants to leave and be an individual.
ReplyDeleteSince Pap (Huck's father) has gained custody of Huck, he has indeed had a rather pessimistic impact on Huck. Huck was locked inside all day while Pap was outside rambling. Huck is also in the center of multiple breakdowns. Pap is the embodiment of pure evil and through him we have certainly seen negativity in these chapters.
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The influences hucks father has on him are disgusting influence and very negetive. For example hucks father locks huck in this little cabin while he (hucks father) would go out and get drunk and come back a complete mess. Then even hit your son unnecessarily. Since hucks personality is different it makes him want freedom instead of revenge on his father. Hucks a rare breed
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The influence that hucks father gives is negative. His father didn't want him to go to school because he wanted money to buy alcohol. He also doesn't want him to become a better educated person. He even threatens to hurt huck. His dad serves as a bad role model. He might learn from his father on how not to act
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ReplyDeleteTom sawyer is a bad influence on huck finn mostly because tom is always telling huck to go out walking when its already late night outside. In chaper 2 tom wants to play a bad joke on jim who is miss watsons server, when he was sleeping on a tree. Next they went to toms secret hide out, and he convinced huck and other boys to join a band of robbers so they can steal from people, and also to kill people. It turned out to be a game but still toms influence can give huck and the other boys some bad problems.
Huck Finn's father, "Pap", influence towards Huck affects him negatively. The first time Huck sees "Pap" in the story, his father describes him as a better, more educated person than himself. He would rather take him down with him for having things he never had. An example would be, that his father thinks he is a rich boy and therefore he tries to take away his money, and waste it by spending it on alcohol and get drunk. He also wants his son to leave school, because if he wouldn't he would beat him. The time where Huck goes with "Pap" in the cabin he is locked in by his father, and that caused Huck to go mentally the way he was when he was "uncivilized'.
ReplyDeleteIn my own personal opinion i believe Huck's father is the greatest negative influence on him, because "Pap" would much rather spend his money on alcohol than sending Huck to school and letting him become a well educated man. Pap not only threatens Huck but punishes him verbally as well as physically. This is why i believe Pap is Huck's greatest negative influence.
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"Pap", Huck Finn's father, negatively influences him by his rash and certainly uncalled for actions such as beating him (while sober) and belittling his right to learn. Throughout the first few chapters, "Pap" is lightly described as a no good drunk, who Huck thinks is better of dead (). Further on into the story (chapter 5) we see that Huck's father without as so much as a greeting begins to bully his son. He says things like "Now looky here, you stop that putting on frills. i will not have it." and "...a boy to put on airs over his own father and let on to be a better'n what HE is." which both show how jealous "Pap" is over Huck because of the he lives and because of the fact that he is educated unlike the rest of his family.
ReplyDelete- Patrick McCoy
Huck's father is a bad influence because he beats his son up when he's drunk. He would rather spend his money on alcohol than sending him to school to be successful. - Christian Ordonez
ReplyDeleteThough Huck's father have a very large impact, negatively, on Huck's life i feel like Tom Sawyer had more of an impact. Tom's influence can be both negative and positive. Tom influences Huck to do bad things for him such as sneaking out, but Huck seems life it is okay, as if he doesn't mind. Huck also mentions that he'd rather go to hell if it meant being with Tom which shows that he likes him very much.
ReplyDeleteRight from the start when Huck's father character is introduced you can tell he is a drunk, doesn't really like his son,and he doesn't want him to have an education because Pap doesn't want Huck to be better than him. Just by these things u can tell that his father is a bad influence on him instead of supporting his son he doesn't treat him good and is a drunk which is all negative influence
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ReplyDeleteHuck's father has a very negative influence on Huck, by him being abusive and alcoholic. His father seems like he's not a good support to Huck at all, because he does make him quit school. The only reason the father became interested in Huck was because of the money. As it is the father doesn't want Huck to be better than him. Huck was treated as a slave by his dad, that would always get beaten up. In conclusion Huck's father is negative on Huck's life.
Huck's dad is the worst influence in his life. Huck is doing doing alright for just starting to get involved in education, but Pap-Huck's father comes back from hearing that the he stuck gold. He was never a good father being abusive and an alcoholic. Pap takes him under 'his wing" into the wood where they hunt and fish and snatches the life of education away from him because Huck is smarter than him..Huck eventually starts turning into his normal self ,sort of,he becomes depressed and lonely.
ReplyDeleteHucks father is a bad influence on Huck. He's an alcoholic, abusive and a bad parent. He is unconcerned about Huck's well being, hes more concerned about alcohol and money than he was about Huck. He didn't want Huck to go to school, he just wants Huck's money so he could go buy more alcohol.
ReplyDelete-Marlene Velazquez
Huck is influenced by his father a great deal, but negatively. Before Huck Finn's father came back into the picture Huck was starting to like the knew life he had with the widow. He wasn't yet fully comfortable but was beginning to like school. For proof in Chapter VI page 25 Huck says quote. "Two months or more run along, and my clothes got to be all rags and dirt, and I didn't see how I'd ever got to like it so well at the widow's."
ReplyDeleteTherefore Huck was influenced negatively by his father, because at the widow's he was beginning to become educated and civilized and properly raised. Untill his father took Huck and began to bring memory of his old habbits of wearing rag clothes and smoking and not studying. Don't forget that Huck's Dad is a drunk and abusive. So in conclusion he was negatively affected by his father.
Huck's father, "Pap" is an alcoholic who abuses Huck. He locked Huck inside a cabbin for two days, he doesn't let him go to school, he is a bad parent to Huck. Pap, is the complete opposite of a real parent, who wants the best for their child. Huck knows what a parent is like so he tries to run away from his father. Pap only takes him back for Huck's money to by alcohol. He is most definately the biggest negative influence in Huck's life.
ReplyDeleteAt the beginning Huck talks about his father that left him and never comes back until he needs money. His dad gets drunk and he makes Huck suffer. Huck's dad kid that needs to go to school. By Huck seeing this from his dad he thinks its right and decides to in a way follow his foot steps and act rude too. Hucks father ends up being a bad influence to Huck and now Huck thinks that what is wrong for some people is right for him.
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ReplyDeleteHuck's father has a negative influence on him because of his drinking. He is an alcoholic and apparently if he is not drunk and beating him, he is sober and talkig down on him. He does not want Huck to succeed or be better than him. His father does not even want Huck to go to school, he rather threaten him on daily basis. He is not what you call a father figure, he likes to take Huck's money to buy alcoholic beverages. "Pap" drags Huck down with him instead of letting him be ambitious, acomplish his goals and persue his dreams. Tom on the other hand has a positive influence on his life, the total oppisite you can say.
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Huckleberry Finn's father,Pap, has made a greatly negative impact on his son's life. Without a father figure in his life,Huck has no other option but to feel as if he is alone in this world. A parent is supposed to want to see their child do better than them while Huck's father believes in the motto, "If I'm going down you're coming with me". Tom Sawyer and the widow, Miss Watson, are the only positive things up to now in Huck's life. When Huck is finally reunited with Pap, his presence just causes Huck to be even more dispirited and deserted. Pap has broken down Huck in every way possible while Tom Sawyer is the one having to clean up the mess and lead him onto the right path.
ReplyDelete- Brionna Greene
Hucks father "Pap" is a negative influence on huck due to the fact that he would abuse of huck when he was on his drunken spree's and threaten to hurt huck, not only that Pap wouldnt't even send huck to school to become succesful in life. Instead he would waste his money on alcohol and get drunk yet again!!
ReplyDeleteJaime Balderrama
I believe Tom Sawyer is a good and bad influence on Huck. Tom has more of a grip on Huck because he comes off as friendly and convinces him to do bad. I also believe that he has a way better influence on Huck, than his father. Because his father beats him but it also causes some kind of influnce on Huck,from fear. Overall I believe Tom Sawyer has a greater influence on Huck than his father "Pap".
ReplyDeleteHuck Finn has a troubled past with his dad, pap, that abuses him because of his excessive drinking. Pap walks into Huck’s life out of nowhere and threatens to take his only money. Pap’s negativity towards Huck with his views on education shows a lack of support. Pap kidnaps Huck and derails all of the manners Huck had built over the time that Pap has been gone. Huck was then again abandoned by his father in a cabin in the middle if the woods just so he could go into town to get whiskey. Huck could end up like his father or worse, by being around such a negative influence.
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i think that Tom Sawyer has a more positive effect on Huck than compared to his own father. Sawyer seems to try to help Huck and to guide him through a straight path while his father is a bad influence for him because of the way that he is. hucks dad abuses him a lot and he is also an alcoholic. this is what makes hucks relationship with his dad a negative relationship or a bad influence for huck finn. during the book even though Sawyer is trying to keep him on the good path it seems like he's trying to change Huck into someone he may not be because of the acts that he makes him do throughout the book. That is the effect that Tom Sawyer, so far, has on Huckleberry Finn life.
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Tom Sawyer seems to have a more positive effect on Huck than compared to his father.His father is an abusive alcoholic that beats him from time to time. His father makes him quit school and takes his money to go buy whiskey.He acted this way for selfish reasons. He didn't want Huck to grow up to be any better than him. The simple fact that Huck is scared and has to protect himself from his own father makes their relationship unhealthy and Pap's impact on Huck more negative than positive.
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huck has a negative relationship with his father because of his fathers own selfish actions towards huck. ths will naturally drive huck on tom sawyer together especially because tom sawyer has a very positive influence on huck and encourages him to be a better person.
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