Plan for A level assignment
Title of essay:
How do the authors of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ portray young teenagers, and their desires to escape from their elder’s control.
Introduction to essay; say what the assignment is about and discuss the two novels you are writing about. (Huckleberry Finn and Catcher) *
Write about how Huckleberry Finn portrays maturity in the male character. Include examples of how Huck shows maturity in the book, which has developed through his desire to escape.
(For this write about how Huck ‘staged’ his own murder by slaughtering a wild pig, and making the shack look like a crime scene. Also write about how he plans his escape by finding a boat and filling it with supplies). Write about how the author portrays escape in the novel, use quotes from the passage in the novel you have chosen.
Write about how ‘The Catcher’ portrays maturity in the male character. Write about how the author portrays escape in the novel.
(For this write about how Holden causes his dorm mate to snap and beat him up, while he yells verbal abuse at him. Write about how this behaviour is mainly seen in adult men who are trying to wind up their opponent during a fight. Write about how Holden acts like he has been shot when he walks to the bathroom to clean his face of blood, which is what an adult man would do to seek attention on the battlefield).
Write about word choice, language and use quotes from the passages to back up your answers.
Extracts:
Huckleberry Finn:
So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods, and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the prairie farms. I shot this fellow and took him into camp.
I took the axe and smashed in the door. I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it. I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground -- hard packed, and no boards. Well, next I took an old sack and put a lot of big rocks in it -- all I could drag -- and I started it from the pig, and dragged it to the door and through the woods down to the river and dumped it in, and down it sunk, out of sight. You could easy see that something had been dragged over the ground.
The Catcher in the Rye:
He wouldn't do it, though. He kept holding onto my wrists and I kept calling him a sonuvabitch and all, for around ten hours. I can hardly even remember what all I said to him. I told him he thought he could give the time to anybody he felt like.
I told him he didn't even care if a girl kept all her kings in the back row or not, and the reason he didn't care was because he was a goddam stupid moron. He hated it when you called a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Write conclusion of how the two authors portray maturity in their novels characters, and how escape is portrayed from their desires and actions.
Write conclusion on how the authors portray maturity in the characters, and how escape is portrayed through the desires and actions of the characters in the books.
Title of essay:
How do the authors of ‘Huckleberry Finn’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ portray young teenagers, and their desires to escape from their elder’s control.
Introduction to essay; say what the assignment is about and discuss the two novels you are writing about. (Huckleberry Finn and Catcher) *
Write about how Huckleberry Finn portrays maturity in the male character. Include examples of how Huck shows maturity in the book, which has developed through his desire to escape.
(For this write about how Huck ‘staged’ his own murder by slaughtering a wild pig, and making the shack look like a crime scene. Also write about how he plans his escape by finding a boat and filling it with supplies). Write about how the author portrays escape in the novel, use quotes from the passage in the novel you have chosen.
Write about how ‘The Catcher’ portrays maturity in the male character. Write about how the author portrays escape in the novel.
(For this write about how Holden causes his dorm mate to snap and beat him up, while he yells verbal abuse at him. Write about how this behaviour is mainly seen in adult men who are trying to wind up their opponent during a fight. Write about how Holden acts like he has been shot when he walks to the bathroom to clean his face of blood, which is what an adult man would do to seek attention on the battlefield).
Write about word choice, language and use quotes from the passages to back up your answers.
Extracts:
Huckleberry Finn:
So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods, and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the prairie farms. I shot this fellow and took him into camp.
I took the axe and smashed in the door. I beat it and hacked it considerable a-doing it. I fetched the pig in, and took him back nearly to the table and hacked into his throat with the axe, and laid him down on the ground to bleed; I say ground because it was ground -- hard packed, and no boards. Well, next I took an old sack and put a lot of big rocks in it -- all I could drag -- and I started it from the pig, and dragged it to the door and through the woods down to the river and dumped it in, and down it sunk, out of sight. You could easy see that something had been dragged over the ground.
The Catcher in the Rye:
He wouldn't do it, though. He kept holding onto my wrists and I kept calling him a sonuvabitch and all, for around ten hours. I can hardly even remember what all I said to him. I told him he thought he could give the time to anybody he felt like.
I told him he didn't even care if a girl kept all her kings in the back row or not, and the reason he didn't care was because he was a goddam stupid moron. He hated it when you called a moron. All morons hate it when you call them a moron.
Write conclusion of how the two authors portray maturity in their novels characters, and how escape is portrayed from their desires and actions.
Write conclusion on how the authors portray maturity in the characters, and how escape is portrayed through the desires and actions of the characters in the books.