Blog #9

At first when I have heard about the “black face” picture has been posted on a blog in the class, the only thing I could think of is our new president. I was not sure about this incident is positive or negative, because I don’t know the reason why that person has posted the “black face” picture on his blog. Maybe he wanted to support Obama, maybe he is racist, or maybe he just wanted to have fun and noting to do with the black people.
After I have read his blog, I can’t say he is racist. As most of his blog writings are pointing to the president Obama, not to the black people. Maybe he did that just wants to show he is standing at the racist side, or maybe he just don’t like Obama. He said he is not racist, and then who has the right to say he is racist. Some people act like they are racist, but they are not. On the other hand, some people act like they love all the races, but in fact, they are racist. So for me, I think it is hard to say a person is racist or not.
Since Obama has become the new president, lots of people set the equal notation between Obama and the black people. I don’t think that’s right. One person can’t stand for a whole a race, although he is a president.

The graet friendship

I am so sorry that I have posted this essay so late. I have met some problems when I was posting the essay to the blog. This is not the final jib of my essay. I know it has some places that may not make sense, but I can't say it out! If you can piont it out for me, I will be thankful!
Here is my eaasy:
We can have a lot of friendships through our lives, and there are lots of reasons that make one another person become friends with us—maybe because of getting together for a long time; maybe because he of she is fun and friendly so you want to become a friend of him or her; or maybe because of money. No matter what reasons made you to become friends with the others, you made the relationship called “friendship” with the others. Unlike the normal “friendship” in our life, in the book Adventure of Huckleberry Finn I found a great friendship between a white boy Huck and a black slave Jim.
In the book Adventure of Huckleberry Finn, Huck lives in the house of Ms. Widow and gets the beginning of the “normal” life. As Huck is boy who loves freedom and doesn’t want to in the fetter of “civilization”, he runs away from Ms. Widow and his pap. On the way of his escaping he meets Jim, who is an escaped slave; Huck, who is a really warm-heart boy, wants to help Jim, so they become companions on the way of their adventure. And their great friendship is found in this wonderful and exciting adventure.
In the friendship between them, we can see that they protect each other, they trust each other, and the most important thing is they treat each other equally. In their friendship, there are no “homeless” boy and running away slave, no white and black; it only has Huck and Jim.
In the adventure, they are treated equally. In Jim’s mind Huck is a smart kid that needs love and freedom, and in Huck’s mind Jim is a person who has a strong wanted of the freedom as he does. I think Jim for Huck is a friend that likes a father. Although Huck has done a lot of amazing things, he is still a child, he still needs someone to love him and care him. These things that Huck wants, Jim did them for Huck. Jim tells the things he knows to Huck; in order to protect Huck not falling into the river, Jim let Huck be saved behind him. Those are small things, but it can show that Jim protects and loves Huck just like a child of his. On the other hand, in order to let Jim’s dream, also his dream, come true, Huck does everything to save Jim from the people who are finding the running away slave or wanting to sale Jim. He lied to the people to save Jim.
In that time, black color and white color people just like the insects on the earth and the birds in the sky. They have been treated that they must live in two total different worlds—one has the right to give orders, and the other one only has the right to follow the orders. But this “theory” does work on Jim and Huck. Jim gets the courage to catch the freedom from Huck, and Huck also gets the sense of “human being” from Jim. Jim is a person that wants to escape the slave life, but also on the other hand, he can’t break through the “slave sense” in his mind. Huck gives Jim the courage! Huck does everything to let Jim gets the freedom he wants to have, and Jim step by step has the sure of fighting for his freedom. Also on the way of adventure, Huck heard lots of things from Jim—Jim’s life, Jim’s family, Jim’s dreams. Every little thing that Jim has told Huck let Huck realizes that black and white is not so difference as he has seen in the world. The black people also have the life as the white people have, and the only difference is just the position they have been put by the society. The blacks also human beings, they are the same as the whites.
In our world, we have been deposited so many senses about what we should do and what we should not do. Those senses limit our way of thinking about this world, because not all of them are correctly telling us the things we should do and should not do. In the friendship between Huck and Jim, we can see that if we throw out some “useless” senses, we can have a more wonderful life.

Blog #8

For me, Huck is a really “true” human being. He can be true to face the other people and also to himself. He wants freedom, so he does everything fight for his freedom. He like to help people, so he uses every way he can use to survive and protect the people need to be helped. In my opinion, Huck has kept growing in his adventure. He has learned lots of things that he thought he can’t learn in the books. He gets to know more about the human beings, and he also has become more human beings. As he has his adventure with Jim, the things Jim told him make him has his “special” idea about white people and black people. At the beginning of his adventure, Jim for Huck is just a slaver who needs Huck’s help to run away. But on the way of his adventure, Huck finds that Jim is not only a slaver for the white people, Jim is also a human being as he does. When Jim told the stories about his life and his family, Huck gets more and more ideas about the race, about becoming a human being, and about the world they live in. Jim becomes more and more like a friend for Huck through the adventure, and Huck also tries his best to survive and protect Jim.

The video

About this video, I don’t think that’s really whose false. I don’t mean that the policeman has done the right thing to Moats’s family; but for sometimes in the special situation, there are not many chances to allow us to think more. Both of them have their own positions to stand for: the policeman must to stop the car and do some general work, and on the other side, the Moats family was in hurry to see their family member for last time. Both of them have their own unhappy about this situation happened and the fears in their mind. When a human being has fears in mind, it would be a normal action that to do something to protect itself. For the policeman, he saw the black people not stopped for the red line, he might have fear of thinking about to fight with the crime; so he just use his rights and powers that a policeman should have to protect himself. On the other hand, for the Moats family, they were afraid of having no chance to see the old sick mother; so they use anger to protect themselves. In fact, which I think, it could have a better ending for this story. If both of them can step back one step for each other and to let the things to make a deal. The policeman may follow Moats to get into the hospital to check if the words Moats said was true, and also Moats may have more patience to explain his situation. It can’t be so complex and have a so sorry ending.
Some mistake can be forgiven by only saying “sorry”, but the others can’t. For this story, I only can say that the policeman just did a mistake that belong to the second one; so people blamed and scolded him, although that’s not all his false.
Life is always like that, the people meat in the wrong situation at the wrong time with dealing with the wrong thing; and then the regretting happen.

Blog #7

Satire is a way to show the ideas of the authors that is about ridiculing someone’s foolish, abuses, or personal ideas which is against the authors’ ideas. In a satire, the writers always use irony, comparing, or derision as a way to show out their thoughts, and they want the readers have thoughts after read their words. I don’t really know an example of English satire article, but I know a lot of example in Chinese. I think one the most famous examples is 阿Q正傳 (The True Story of Ah Q) by 鲁迅（Lu, Xun）. This is a story about a man named Ah Q. He is a man that has the similar character as Jim. He always thinks things in positive, no matter that’s a good thing or a bad thing. I think the daily show should be a good example of satire. Because in the show, the actors use exaggerative way to show the true life for us, and to let us to think about the lives we have. After watched the shows, we not only got fun from them, but also got some thoughts that we didn’t think about before. I think the meaning of satire is this—we can have fun from it, but at the same time, we also have new ideas or new visions for the life, for the world we are living in.