The Changing of Leaves and Beliefs
For most people who read The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, By. Mark Twain, they read a story of a boy and his once slave embarking on a journey down the Mississippi river, while meeting all different types of people of all different ethnicity's. For my project I decided to not so much as look at the journey aspect of it but the growth and change that the main character Huckleberry Finn goes through for the most part of the story.
To begin the project I wrote a found poem, which is a poem using lines from the novel to create a theme based poem.
My found poem shows how Huckleberry Finn starts out in the story and then his distaste towards the society that he is being pushed into, his fleeing from that situation, into another that completely changes his view on a subject that is taboo to have a different thought about, that being: Slavery.
Found Poem Based on The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
By. Lily Truppi
He was drunk
I reckoned it was about as well the way it was.
The widow she cried over me
He used to always whale me
The widow went to law to get the court to take me away from him
She took me for her son
When I couldn’t stand it no longer I lit out.
Huck I-I run off.
He was running for his freedom
You said you wouldn’ tell, Huck.
I ain’t a-goin to tell, and I ain’t a-going back there
Tore it up
I’ll go to hell
Make Jim just as free a man
But I reckon I got to light out
She’s going to adopt me
I can’t stand it. I been there before.
Along with the poem, I decided to capture pictures of the nature around us. Instead of taking pictures of people, I decided to take pictures of the natural environment we have around us in South Kingstown. The need for human beauty has become such an essential today in our society, that I decided to tell my story through the things that we get to see everyday for no cost at all. As well as the fact that Huck Finn would agree with the choice to not over analyze people and to instead appreciate what we are already given.
In the picture above the average eye would just see a body of water with trees around it. To me this picture has much more meaning than just that. The different colored leaves and trees represent the change that Huck Finn goes through while traveling on the water with Jim. So the trees reflecting off the water represents the change of thoughts as the two males traveled down the river.
Here in this grave lies Huckleberry Finn’s Innocence. Not literally of course. Especially because in the gravestone above you see a different name that is most definitely not Huckleberry Finn. But instead you can also see that this is a place for things that have gone past their time, which sadly for Huck, is his innocence. This all due to the fact that he meets people who shatter little of whats left of his child like, way of thinking, especially when it comes to the heavy scamming of the Duke and the King. As well as the Grangerfords and the Shepardsons. Ultimately this allowing Huck to learn when he needs to take charge and when enough is enough, especially when it comes to the ruining of the people around him.
The sun is hitting the water at just the right angle making the most beautiful picture. Similar to the way every thing that took place in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, happened for a reason. Each event took place so that one chapter could end and let another take its place. Each day the sun sets so that the moon can come out, allowing for another sunrise and sunset to take place everyday. Each and every rise and fall telling another story, each and every chapter helping to make a story.
