Huck Finn review to pg.48

The first seven chapters have been all over the place. Huck sounds like he has been stuck in limbo, not knowing who to listen to, whether it be his rowdy friends, the women attempting to sculpt him into a refined man, or his staggeringly drunk father. It is not until chapter seven that he really strikes out on his own to escape pap. I like how Twain doesn't even capitalize pap's name when Huck speaks about him, symbolizing that he doesn't even deserve that much of a title. I also think it is very interesting that when Huck was playing with Tom Sawyer and the Band of Robbers he did not have the normal mentality of a child playing pretend. It seemed like he was already grown up, having been through so much turmoil in his life so far between the widow and Pap that he has already forgotten how to play.
On other occasions too, he seemed to be a young boy forced into a full-grown man's shoes. Mark Twain summed up Huck's relationship with his father in the few pages that pap spends ridiculing him for having starched clothes, knowing how to read and following the widow's instructions. Pap's view on life is drastically different than what Huck has been re-programmed to think. Reading is good, drinking is bad, religion can save you, obeying society/ the government can earn you respect (and occasionally money); the widow tries to refine Huck in a similar way that the judge does with pap. Thus far, both have been unsuccessful. Already we can tell that Huck does not want to conform, saying that if pap told him to do something, he would deliberately do it to snub authority. Huck is already an outsider; I admire his bravery, but I think most of it is founded in folly.

Kinetoscope and 1890s life

The narrator in Kinetoscope is an outsider deep down from the beginning, although he may not know it. Similar to the "Pedestrian" short story,  he is a man that is curious in a world that does not question the status quo. He started as an obedient viewer with curiosity, following the messages and watching the first two scenes. He found that there were outsiders even in the shorts that he watched. The mother of the Egyptian girl was an outsider, recognizing that she had power over her daughter's audience (the young men in the room). The little black girl was also a catalyst for another outsider, the white man that enjoyed her dancing. In all three cases, an outsider spawned from an abnormality in society. Because the narrator was open to the abnormality of the 1890s, film, he was able to grow into a critically-thinking citizen in a world blinded by and aligned with mainstream thought. By coming into his own, he ended up becoming an abnormality in his world too.
Mrs. Mallard was an outsider too, going against the traditional woman's role. She wanted to be freed from her husband, realizing life with him was good, but living life for herself was something that she truly yearned for. It excited her that she could live for herself now. She went against society's demand to grieve her husband's death, but breaking away from that would leave room for an insurmountable joy.