Satire
Chapters 1-5 |
•Create a time-line of events
Huck Finn is a 12 year old boy living with a faimly he calls his own (hes not related to anyone) and his family tries and make Huck not smoke or do bad things instead be more pollite.Huck Finn meets Tom sawyers gang members and they made rules for the gang and all promise to go by the rules with a blood ritual.Huck meets his dad after following footprints in the snow at his house. while struggling with adjusting to his new life. Huck Finn's dad goes to jail and there is a battle for custody over Huck.
•Describe the time period of the novel
The book Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in the 1800s and the way you can tell is the characters and how they talk along with the use of the n word implying slavery was around at the time aswell as the begening of the book taking place in the civil war.
•How does the perspective/point-of-view of the narrator influence the story?
The perspective of the story is written through the eyes of a 12 year old boy during the time period of 1800's when slavery was around. The book is in a way very emotional as hes so young in such a hard time period.
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Chapters 6-11
- Explain why pap has huck locked up.
Huck is locked up because pap doesn't want Huck to go to school as he is uneducated and doesn't want Huck to be smarter than him.
-How did he get out of the shanty?
Huck escaped from the shanty from finding a old saw and sawing his way out of the shanty and covering the hole with a pig. He broke down the door with an axe and faked his death by using the blood of a pig he kills.
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Chapters 12-16
1. What is the story of King Solomon and his child? How does Jim interpret that story?
2. When Jim wakes up after their separation in the fog, what does Jim’s reaction to Huck tell us about him? How do you feel about Jim at this point?
At the point in which Jim discovered that Huck had been playing a prank Jim's reaction showed how much he really did care about Huck, and he hated being made fun of. Since he was an uneducated slave he probably already got made fun of for being foolish but now that it was by Huck, someone he cared for and it hit him differently than if it was by a regular man. At this point i feel bad for Jim for everything he has been through as a slave.
3. Jim is very superstitious. From a historical standpoint, why do you think this is?
From a historical standpoint I think Jim is very superstitous because the fact he's a slave and slaves had little to none if any education in the time period the book is wrote in. People who aren't very smart will belive anything you tell them Jim in the book being an example.
4. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger – but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.” What does this line tell us about Huck?
5. At the end of chapter 16 Huck is struggling with giving Jim up. Outline the battle that he has
with himself, and explain his actions when the men come up looking for the 5 escaped slaves.
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Chapters 22-26
1.At the very end of chapter 22 we see the handbill that the king and the duke will pass out. The duke says “if that line don’t fetch them, I don’t know Arkansaw!” Why would the line at the bottom of the handbill work to get people into the play?
2.Towards the end of chapter 23 we see this line: “What was the use to tell Jim these warn’t real kings and dukes? It wouldn’t a done no good; and besides, it was just as I said; you couldn’t tell them from the real kind.”
a.Why doesn’t Huck see the use in telling Jim?
b.What does Huck mean by “you couldn’t tell them from the real kind.”?
3.The final line in chapter 24 reads: “It was enough to make a body ashamed of the humanrace.” What is Huck talking about? What does it tell us (the reader) about Huck that he feels this way?
4.In chapter 25 we meet the doctor. How does the doctor know that the king and the duke are a fraud?
5.The king and the duke consider leaving in the middle of the night with the money (chapter 26). Why don’t they?
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Chapters 27-30
1. why did people stay up with the dead during this time period
2. What do we learn (or reaffirm) about Huck when he tells miss Mary Jane the slaves will see their family again in inside of two weeks? Chapter 28
3. What were the two methods the townspeople used to try to identify who the brothers were and who the frauds were? (chapter 29)
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Chapters 31-35
1.Huck says “You can’t pray a lie.” What lie is he trying to pray about? What does he mean? (Chapter 31)When Huck was asking God to forgive him he committed a sin by helping Jim escape. Although it was ethical for for Huck to do, it is very illegal. "You can't pray a lie" ultimately means that he was originally praying for forgiveness about helping Jim escape but then said this because he didn't believe that he had done anything bad so he took his prayer back.
2.Why does Huck tear up the letter he writes? (Chapter 31)Huck wrote a letter to Tom Sawyer writing about Miss Watson and telling her where Jim had gone. While he was writing the letter he was reminded that they were good friends. He decided to not snitch on Jim. He ripped up the letter so that Mrs. Watson would never find out where Jim is because he still cares about Jim.
3.Huck is disappointed that Tom would help him steal Jim. He says “Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!” What do you think of this? (Chapter 33)
I believe that Huck was obviously caught off guard by the new things that Tom is doing. Tom who was originally a guy who created the gang and wanted to steal things and kill innocent people. He also wanted to help a person who would be trying to escape his slave owners. Being in this time period was a very big deal helping slaves escape and in the South it was basically a sin. When Tom says that he will help steal him out of slavery Huck was confused because he didn't expect Tom to say yes. This surprised Huck because Tom was always trying to fit in and do what the others thought was cool but he is going against societies rules and what he knew was right. He stood up for something even though no one else stood with him. This shows that either Tom was just trying to commit a crime just to do it or he actually has changed as a human being. If he changed that is great because it shows that he is a compassionate person inside who has feelings. I think that this shows a lot of growth on Tom Sawyer's part and it gives Huck someone he can trust again. Its truly a win win for both sides.
4.Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33:
1.“But that’s always the way, it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t go no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
2.“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
What does Huck mean by these two statements?
This two statements are saying that no matter what people are thinking, they will still turn on you and try to get you in trouble. The people don't care about anybody else but themselves.
5.Why are Tom and Huck looking for a more difficult way to break Jim free? (Chapter 34)
Tom Sawyer is a very enthusiastic kid with an enormous. Tom is the kind of person that likes to get into trouble and mysteries. However on the other hand Huck is just agreeing to do it because Tom is one of his close friends. The first reason I have is peer pressure. We all can relate to this because sometimes in our lives we get under peer pressure from our friends and we feel like if we don't do something then our friends will not like us because we’re not like them.
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Chapters 36-40I
1. In the process of breaking Jim free, what is Tom’s motivation? What is Huck’s motivation? (Why are they doing it?)
In the process of setting Jim free Tom's motivation is very different than Huck's motivation. Huck has gone through this entire adventure with Jim by his side. Jim is not only the widows owner in his eyes anymore, Jim is a friend, the best friend Huck has ever had. So Huck's motivation to get Jim back is to get his best friend back and give him the best life he could possibly provide. Tom's motivation is very different, Tom thrives for adventure, he thrives for the adrenaline of trouble. Tom's motivation is to have a good time, he not as serious about this as Huck is, Tom just wants a good story.
2. What do Huck and Tom mean when they say they “let on” about something? Why do they do this? (Begins on chapter 37)
When Tom and Huck use the words "let on" when they say something, in their context "let on" means "pretend". During mid chapter 37, after they both tore up the sheets into strips and then twisted them all together, the book states "We let on it took nine months to make it." Which also means they pretend to take 9 months to make it. As a whole within this chapter when they state "let on" it means they pretend. They pretend because as noticed within these past chapters, Tom likes the adventure, the adrenaline of trouble and the story he wants to be able to tell.
3. Why is Tom writing the letters and posting warnings? Why did he give instructions to his aunt and uncle’s slave? What are his motivations for this? (Chapter 39)
Uncle Silas tells that Jim had run away, Aunt Sally is in panic because the house is out of control and everything is completely upside down. Uncle Silas plans advertise for Jim as a captured runaway slave. As the chapter goes on Tom decides to write letters to the family under the name of "an unknown friend", the letters scare the family as it warns them of trouble. Tom then pretends in a letter that Jim is going to be stolen and tells the family how he is planning on being stolen. The letters start being written when Huck and Tom believe the advertisement for Jim is going to be released soon so for that to be avoided as much as possible the letters are written as a hopeful distraction to the family.
4. We’ve worked a great deal on this novel’s satirical elements. How is the planning and plotting of Jim’s escape by Tom and Huck satire?
The plotting and planning of Jim's escape has been thought through multiple ways by both Huck and Tom. Huck wants to make the escape as easy and quick as possible to avoid flaws and getting into the least amount of trouble. Tom on the other hand isn't as serious about the situation, he wants to have a good story to tell therefore he wants to make the escape complicated, which could possibly lead them into a lot of trouble. The escape and its planning shows satire because it exaggerates the escape, it exaggerates how to escape a slave. In reality escaping a runaway slave would be a lot harder than it is seeming in the story, almost making the family look completely oblivious. Satire is making fun of reality, the reality of escaping a runaway slave is harder to achieve and get away with than the boys are making it seem.
5.Towards the end of the chapter Huck says “I knowed he was white inside” about Jim. Why does he say this and what does he mean?
Before this was stated, Tom and Huck successfully escape Jim. Although in the process of doing so the boys were being shot as as they ran and Tom was shot in the calf. Once they escaped onto the raft, Huck and Jim tell Tom he should go to a doctor for his foot but he claims he can fix it himself.