My Experience Being a Lawyer

My experience with being a lawyer was that it was a bit challenging. The only thing that made it challenging was that I had no idea what the prosecution was going to ask our witnesses. Not only that, but it was difficult to find information that we thought would be more convincing than the prosecution. When the prosecution handed me the the paper that had all the sources they used, I knew that they were going to pull up some amazing points. This changed our wording on some of the questions and answers that we were going to ask. Unfortunately, that didn't go as well as we thought in some cases. Also, the prosecution added some facts that I forgot to inform a witness about which put a them in trouble. I take fault in that happening because they didn't know it was coming. The experience, I thought, was fun and exciting.

Examining our witnesses was one of the easy parts. The only thing that made it a challenge was when the witness did not say what was planned. This caused a moment where where we had to make up questions on the fly which confused our witnesses. Examining the prosecutions witnesses was one of the hardest things I thought. It was the hardest because we had no idea what they were going to say. Which caused some questions to be invalid. This caused a bit of a problem because we couldn't get the other witnesses to say what we would have hoped. So we had to make up questions to try to get the prosecution witnesses to prove our point. Overall, I thought that all of the witnesses did an amazing job as well as the lawyers.

The closing statement had to be one of our strongest areas, I thought, in the whole entire trial. During the second day of questioning, our side hit a little bump which probably made the jury favor the prosecution. Since we were told that the closing statement could be everything that we didn't get a chance to prove, we had to make sure that it had all the right points. It was also nerve wrecking because we had no idea what the prosecution was going to put into their closing statement. So our thought was to try and make it the most convincing that we could. In the prosecutions opening statement, they probably had the jury on their side already. So we thought that we would make our closing just as good as their opening to see if we can change the jury's mind. Thankfully the closing statement saved our side.

Huck Finn - Racist ?

Towards the end of the book, I believe that Huck is not a racist. Huck is raised in a society where blacks were looked down upon. Blacks were also slaves and had to obey the white men. Huck, however, had a different view than the rest of society. “I know what you’ll say. You’ll say it’s dirty, low-down business; but what if it is? I’m low-down; and I’m a-going to steal him, and I want you to keep mum and not let on. Will you” (Twain 218)?  Everyone knew that helping a slave escape was not the right thing to do. Huck cared so much for Jim that even though Huck knew it was bad, he still went and tried to save Jim. Huck was even admitting that stealing Jim was not right but Huck still kept his plans in action. Huck went through many dangers such as bullets and getting caught to free his friend Jim.

           

            There are moments where Huck faces a struggle within himself to find the right choice. This shows greatly whenever Huck has a chance to turn Jim in. “But somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places to harden me against him, but only the other kind” (Twain 207). Huck has seen that Jim cares and that has touched Huck. All of the wonderful things that Jim has done for Huck were starting to come into Huck’s mind. Huck was Jim’s friends and Jim cared for Huck like a father. Huck didn’t treat Jim like any other person would. Huck saw that Jim missed his family and how much Jim thought of Huck. A person with feelings and a good-hearted soul was how Huck saw Jim. Huck stayed at Jim’s side throughout the story whether the two were together or apart.

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When Huck says “go to hell,” at that time it was considered to be a sin to help out a black slave. Also, Huck was taught that hell was a bad place and bad people go there. So, Huck put two and two together and realized that he was going to hell for helping Jim. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell” (Twain 207). This is ironic because helping someone out it’s not a bad deed. All of Huck’s life he saw people looking down on slaves and thinking nothing of them but as property. So naturally, Huck is going to get that same impression.  However, as the story progresses, Huck’s thoughts about Jim start to turn around. The more and more Huck sees himself trying to help Jim, the more he embraces the fact that he would be going to hell. However, the view from Huck’s side is bad and it keeps getting worse the nicer that Huck is to Jim. If only Huck could see at that time that helping Jim was the right thing to do.

Huck had the perfect opportunity to turn Jim in, but had a change of heart. Huck was not sure if that was the right thing to do. Huck looked at Jim as a disrespectful slave for leaving Miss Watson. Huck also thought the same because Jim wanted to steal his own family out of slavery.  “Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on: s’pose you’d ‘a’ done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I’d feel bad- I’d feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what’s the use you learning to do right when it’s troublesome to do right and ain’t no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn’t answer that” (Twain 95).  However, Huck did save Jim but felt controversial. This too is ironic because Huck knew that the local thing to do was turn Jim in but again Huck did not. Huck felt bad for protecting Jim but felt bad for not giving Jim up. This also reflects how Huck sees himself as “going to hell.”