Free Write Response Huck Finn

I thought it was a really good idea for us to partner up and for each of us to have a different lens to view the book through. It made reading the book unique and it made class discussion interesting. Listening to each person's views based on their "goggle lens" helped us see the book through different views, but we were still able to have our own position.

The lens that Dan and I had was a coming of age. I was glad to have this lens because when I read Huck Finn the first time, this was the theme that I found to be the largest and most important. Therefore, having to argue/support this theme in class was easy because it was what I believed. But, it was still helpful to see the different readings of the story through the various lenses. For example, I had never realized how superstition was a such a large part of this book until it was pointed out in class and we discussed the various examples of it. I thought the class discussion was very helpful and allowed everyone to gain more insight into the various aspects of this story.