Huck moves in with the widow. She buys him new clothes, and begins to teach him the bible
Huck runs away to escape his new life, and all the restrictions that come with it
Tom Sawyer goes after him, and tries to convince him that if he returns to the widows house he will form a new band of robbers. Huck agrees to go back but still complains
Chapter 2:
Huck and Tom start to play tricks Mrs. Watson's slave, Jim. While he is sleeping. He wakes up and believes he is bewitched
Huck and tom go and meet a new band of "robbers"
They sign a blood oath to the band, and elect Tom as captain
Chapter 3:
The widow continues to teach Huck religion, but Huck is confused on whether or not to believe
A drowned man is found floating in the river. Huck believes it is his father, But turns out to be a women in male clothing.
The band of robbers eventually falls apart. They were getting bored, because the only "Action" they were getting was pretending to be these robbers. Tom later explains to Huck about these genies and Huck wants to try it for himself, but fails.
Chapter 4:
Huck begins to enjoy his new life and school
Huck goes to judge thatcher and begs him to take his money as a gift but instead the judge pays him a dollar in trade for all the money. This is because he is afraid of his father's return
Huck seeks for advice from other people in the house about his dad. Huck later returns to his room and finds his father sitting in a chair
Chapter 5:
Pap harasses and accuses Huck for making better choices then he did.
Huck gives him the dollar and he takes it and then leaves, to buy a drink
Pap then goes to judge thatcher to try and take Huck's money but he refuses. The judge then gives Huck some of the money to give to his dad. He immediately takes it and gets drunk. Eventually ending up in jail for a week.
Time period of the novel: The time period was along the Mississippi River in the 1830's,When Slavery was still legal. So most people in the south all had a house slave. Point of view: This book, is written in first person. Told by a young kid by the name of Huck Finn. It is written by kid, and we all know that when kids tell stories it comes to be a little more exaggerated and told a little differently then what actually happened. So while reading this book, we just have to remember where the point of view in this book is coming from. And that it might be a little more extended then what actually went on. Since it is told from his point of view, the story is told through the mind of a kid. Although you can imagine what was going on, You still don't get every detail each event.
Chapters 6-11:
1. Why did Pap have Huck locked up? Pap kidnapped Huck, because he didn't agree with his lifestyle. He came to realize that the Widow helped Huck gain a better life then he could ever give him, and that Huck was higher up then him. He was mad that he was performing in religion, going to school, dressing well, and trying to live the best life he could. Pap was a drunk, and tried to take that good life away from Huck. He wanted to turn his son into him, to Become miserable and full of hate. 2. Visual Representation of how Huck Escapes the Shanty:
3. An abolitionist is the movement to end slavery. Abolitionism is a historical movement to try and make the effort and end the African slave trade and set slaves free. Now, the book is based in the 1800's, and slavery was still legal. Back then, most everyone had a house slave to help do all the work around the farm and the house. After Mrs. Watson's slave Jim escaped and found Huck, Huck was afraid that he was going to be called an abolitionist because Jim was with him. So if they catch Huck and Jim together, people would get the wrong idea and start to think that Huck was trying to set Jim free, to get away from his slave life. 4. Things that gave Huck away from Pretending to be a girl:
He talked way more then girls normally did back then
Super fidgety
Couldn't thread a needle
He throws a piece of iron at the rats the way a boy would do it, not the way a girl would.
If the roles were reversed during modern times: BOYS: -The Way they talk (Voice, Language) -The way they walk or sit -Personality, and the way they do simple tasks GIRLS: -The way they talk (Voice, Language) -Their processing -Structural Differences... Girls tend to cry more then guys on sensitive topics.
Chapters 12-16:
1. King Solomon had many wives and two of which were claiming that they were the mother to one of the many kids he had. King Solomon revealed their true feelings and relationship towards the child by suggesting to cut the baby in two, meaning each woman would receive half. By coming up with this strategy, he was able to come to a conclusion of the non-mother as the woman who entirely approved of this insane idea, while the actual mother would beg that they don't cut the baby in two and the child committed to the care of her rival. Jim took this story as it is more about a whole child, not a half child and Solomon would have shown more respect for children if he had not had so many. 2. Huck plays the joke that what happened the previous night was all a dream and Jim starts to interpret and tell the dream after some convincing to Huck, but eventually, the joke is over and Jim sees what's really going on and gets upset at Huck. I think that because Jim reacted in the way he did, shows that he actually cares a lot about Huck and is worried about making it to safety and freedom without getting in deep trouble. What I have to realize, is that Jim cares a lot for Huck and gets worried about them making it to where they want to go. So, when Huck plays a joke on him he gets upset because he knows a lot is at stake and is worried that Huck isn't taking it and anything seriously. 3. Jim is superstitious because he is a black man and at that time they weren't accepted as real human beings, and along with that they weren't very educated and never were taught anything but what they hear on the streets or what is passed down through their families. That's how they get "educated." So all he has ever heard or learned about would be the superstitions or myths of good fortune which is all a black man would want back then given the fact that they were slaves. 4. When Huck said this, it shows that he is hesitant to go against what societies view on black people is and that they aren't anything but slaves because he would have to put himself "below" Jim and be humble towards him when apologizing. Yet Huck feels bad for playing a joke on him and apologizes to him for doing so and afterward says that he isn't sorry that he did apologize. Which you would think that with Huck being around Jim more it would change his mind. Apparently not. This shows that Huck is beginning to see Jim as more of a slave, as Huck is being around him more. Instead of seeing him as a man who is just as much of a human as he is. 5. Huck has become closer with Jim and sees him as a friend and doesn't want to loose him but on the other hand he knows that if he helps Jim escape he would be breaking the law and would be called an abolitionist so he is conflicted. Miss Watson did so much for him so he feels bad for helping Jim escape from his "rightful owner" but Jim tells him that he is his only true friend. He continues to decide on what to do and realizes that he will feel worse if he turned Jim into the authorities and decides that it would be best to let Jim escape. When Huck comes upon some men in a boat who want to search his raft for escaped slaves. Huck pretends to be grateful, saying no one else would help them. He explained to the men that his family is on board the raft and is suffering from smallpox. The men back away in fear of getting the sickness themselves tell Huck to go further downstream to get help and leave Huck forty dollars in gold.
Chapters 17-21:
1. The Grangerford family Is an example of a perfect family back then. They are extremely wealthy and have servants That help them with their day to day chores and activities. Each member of the family has their own personal servant to help them with anything. The Grangerford family may seem all pleasant and respectful. But behind the nice clothes and fancy things, they live in a world of fear and hate. For over 30 years they have had an ongoing family feud between them and the Shepherdson family. Each family has the intent on killing off the other, one by one, until no one's left standing. The South may have nice houses and great things, but it also has some nasty history behind the perfection. 2. One day, One of the grangerfords kids, buck. Tried to shoot a young man, by the name of Harney Shepardson. But misses. Huck standing there confused asks Buck why he tried to shoot him. Buck then explains the family feud situation, The only thing not matching up is the fact that they don't know why they are fighting in the first place. In the book, Mark Twain refers to the family feud conflict between the farmer (“granger”) and rancher (“shepherd”). Back in the 1800's, farmers and ranchers ran into many conflicts on deciding which title went with which job. Once ownership over land became a thing, in areas where ranching was dominant, it was the farmer who was responsible for the fences. But in California, wheat farming was important, and it was the rancher who was responsible for keeping livestock out of crops. Since this was a common conflict in the 1800's it is very well compared to the family feud. Each family takes it a little far each time, so far into this point by the end of the chapter, 2 members of the Grangerford family are killed in a gunfight between the Shepherdson. After seeing that, it scares Huck off, and he flees onto the raft with Jim to get as far from the "Perfect" crazy family. 3. When Huck does state the line about not wanting to talk about something. This immediately gives us, the idea that Huck is upset about what happened. We eventually come to realize something bad happened. Usually when something bad happens, most people don't like to talk about it right away. Now, We've already heard about the family feud, Huck witnessing Buck trying to kill a Shepardson family member, etc. You can take these situations and put two and two together. Personally, I came to believe something really bad happened. Huck got scared and fled away after the battle, him and Jim instantly get on the raft and float down the river as far away and as soon as possible. 4. The King and Duke are river men, that Huck and Jim noticed while floating down the river. They end up taking control of Huck and Jim's raft. The younger man declares himself an impoverished English duke and gets Huck and Jim to treat him like royalty. The older man reveals his true identity as the dauphin, the long lost son of King Louis of France. Huck and Jim then start to call them “Duke” and “Your Majesty." Huck quickly realizes that the two men are liars, but he does not let them know that he knows what's really going on. 5. Huck and the "Clan" on the raft have only been traveling at night to avoid Jim possibly being caught as a runaway. Since the King and Duke take over the raft, the Duke comes down to a solution. The solution is that while traveling during the day with Jim on the raft, If they get caught, they will pretend as if they had captured Jim as the missing runaway slave and are taking him back to his owner. The duke comes to believe that this is a great solution because Jim doesn't have to hide during the day an they can travel down the river and not waste time during the day. If they were to be questioned an told someone the runaway slave was found, word would travel fast and the owners would expect to have their slave back. But I think that's risky if they caught being liars. And they would be in huge trouble. They would be breaking the law and getting themselves into big trouble. BIG TROUBLE. 6.
Chapters 18-26:
1. When the duke wrote "Ladies and children are not admitted" on the bottom of the playbill he had hoped to bring in more people to their show. He then went on to say “If that last line doesn’t bring them in, then I don’t know a thing about Arkansas!”. Arkansas is a part of the southern states which are fighting to keep slaves and not permit a woman to vote and have equal rights, therefore when he said this line he wanted to catch the attention of men. This then would bring in more people to their show because southern men would see the sign and have more desire to go if they knew that whoever was putting on the show was fighting for the same thing they were. 2. a. Huck doesn't see the use in telling Jim that they aren't telling the truth about being a King and a Duke because Jim doesn't know much about Kings and Dukes, to begin with so he wouldn't understand if he told him the truth. I think he also doesn't see the use in telling him because Jim doesn't know that the reason he is playing along with their story is to protect Jim from being caught and himself from getting more in trouble. So avoiding telling Jim would avoid Jim potentially spilling the truth about Huck and Jim. b. When Huck says the phrase " “you couldn’t tell them from the real kind.” he is comparing the "King" and the "Duke" to actual royalty in the way they act. In the story, Huck mentions multiple examples of royalty in history and how they have cheated people throughout their reign. He then compares those situations to the play that the King and the Duke put on and the fact that they cheated the people by false advertisement and only putting on a few minute shows for a full price. Therefore if Huck did end up telling Jim the truth, he wouldn't be able to tell them from the real kind anyway so he thought it was best to keep it to himself. 3. In the book, Huck says "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.”. I think that he said this because the King and the Duke being as greedy as they are, decided to act like the brothers of a dead man to gain his land and wealth he left behind. They also made Jim and Huck pretend to be their servants. So overall I think that Huck was ashamed that they were posing to be people they weren't especially when they were talking about an actual life being lost. 4. The Doctor knew that the King and the Duke were frauds because when the Duke gave his speech his British accent wasn't good or believable. The Doctor claimed it to be the worst accent he had ever heard because of this he knew that the King and the Duke were con-men and weren't actually related because they didn't know anything about the man himself or his life. 5. The King and the Duke considered leaving that night with the $6000 in gold, although they don't end up leaving in the middle of the night. The King then comes up with an idea to wait to leave and sell all the slaves to gain more money than they were previously going to have if they left in the middle of the night with the $6000.
Chapters 27-30:
1. One of the reasons was to keep rodents away from attacking the dead corpse. Back then it was a form of tradition, to sit with the dead because funeral homes were not around to preserve the body. The body of the person who passes was never left alone. Staying up with the dead was performed by the people that were closer to the person dead. From that point, It was then their responsibility to keep it safe until it could properly be taken care of. 2. Huck doesn't think straight when he is talking to Miss. Mary Jane. As he tells her as she is crying about a certain separated slave family that they will all be reunited again in about two weeks. It gave me, and the readers another view on Huck. We all know Huck is a child, and he has definitely gone through a lot these past few days and years. He was born into a family with an abusive alcoholic father but was later blessed with the aid and care from the Widow and the things she provided him with. After escaping and going all this way, Huck was only trying to protect Jim. Jim, being one of Huck's best friends and only friend right now, has definitely changed Huck's point of view on slaves and especially on black people. At the beginning of the book, you can tell that Huck only cares about himself, and what he thinks is best for him. Now, Huck only wants the best for good people, no matter their color or race. We see that start to happen when he tells Mary Jane that the slave family will be reunited. Even though black people back then were not treated equally under any circumstances. Huck cares and wants the best for everyone. 3. a. They identified the tatoo on the man's chest, and asked the brothers questions, to identify who was lying. b. They had each one of the brothers write on a piece of paper, To compare the hand writing to the letters
Chapters 31-35:
1. During this part of the book, Huck tries yelling for Jim, but can't find him. Turns out Jim has been found, Taken and turned in as a runaway slave. Huck Becomes very upset and tries to think through what he can do to help Jim and change their minds. Huck then begins to cry, from being so nervous. He has kept this secret about Jim for a long time and he knows that he could be potentially in big trouble. Writing to Miss Watson about where Jim is, is the best option right now. Huck then prays that Jim will find Miss Watson at some point again but then realizes he can't "pray a lie," he was praying for what he didn't want to happen at all, but in his mind, it sounded like a good thing at the time. The goal at the beginning of this whole adventure was to set Jim free. He didn't want to send him back into the slavery system. So when he says "Pray a Lie" He is implying that what might seem like a good idea at the time, isn't really a good idea. 2. While writing the letter to Miss Watson, Huck explains to her, where Jim is and a way on how to get him back. From Jim's perspective, going back to Miss Watson was not intended to happen. Also, The letter would explain that Huck faked his death and actually is alive, and would also come to show that Huck has been lying about being with Jim and hiding him. Putting him into even bigger trouble. The letter in general was a bad Idea. But it needed to happen. From huck being so nervous about fessing up and saying the truth to her, he started to cry. He realized he didn't want it to happen. 3. Well, Tom Sawyer is a good boy. Although he does have a very adventurous imagination. Tom is just wanting to help Huck. He knows that he has been through a lot. But he wants to help one of his close friends. Tom Sawyer will do anything. But, Huck is being a little dramatic when he says in the book "Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a n***** stealer!” Well, Huck was the first and only person that got Tom Sawyer to help get and steal Jim back. Basically, if Huck believes that what Tom is doing is bad, then why did Huck get him into doing it? Wouldn't Huck be saying he is bad too? 4. a. Huck and Tom escape the house they were in and go down to the town in order to find out more about Jim, and what has happened. After getting into the town, A mob chased after them, and as the mob went away, Huck saw the King and the Duke tied to a rail and tarred and feathered. Basically to the point where they didn't look like themselves, and overall didn't look human. Even though Huck could be upset at them at any moment, for once he actually felt bad. So when he said the phrase “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.” People were mean to each other. It was awful. Even if the King and Duke have made many many many mistakes, it was awful for someone to do that, even if at the time it seemed like they deserved it. No one should be treated like that. b. After Huck saw and heard about what they had done to the King and the Duke, he went home not feeling as rude and selfish anymore and soon continued to feel bad for them. So I think that when Huck said: “But that’s always the way: it doesn’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense and just goes for him anyway.” He was referring to that they deserved everything they were put through because of their actions, but Huck's conscious took over and he still felt bad for them, even though part of him didn't want to. 5. Tom Sawyer, is an adventurous kid, with a huge adventurous imagination. Tom is the kind of person that likes trouble and mysteries. But on the other hand... Huck is just agreeing to do it, first because Tom is one of his close friends. We all get sometimes under pressure from our friends if we don't do something, thinking they won't accept us. And two, because He wants Jim to be free. Huck and Tom try and find a harder way to break Jim free because They wanted to escape with their tracks being covered up so they don't get into potential trouble. They already "Kidnapped" Jim, and he was found. And now they want to take steal him back. Basically, if they get caught again. It's not going to be good. So overall their plan needed to be complicated to make sure they stayed out of trouble and didn't get caught.
Chapters 36-40:
1. In the process of breaking Jim free, Tom's motivation is to have fun. From our standpoint, Tom is the kid who is always seeking for adventure or trouble you could say. When Huck first asked tom to help him get Jim back, he was all for it. But as they started the mission he didn't take it seriously. In Chapter 36 Huck states: "Tom was in high spirits—he said it was the most fun he’d ever had in his life, and the most intellectual time too. He said he wished we could keep doing this for the rest of our lives, and then leave Jim to our children so they could have fun breaking him out too. He thought Jim would like it more and more as he got used to it." From this, you can definitely tell that Tom is not taking this seriously. His only motivation is to have fun and leave it for someone else to keep doing. But on the other hand, Huck's motivation is to set Jim free. He wants the better life for him instead of keeping him held captive. 2. In Chapter 37 Huck and Tom are talking about being "Let on" When they say that phrase they are meaning that they are pretending. Pretending that what they are saying is happening isn't really happening. As an example, during the chapter. Huck and Tom were preparing a certain witch pie. In the chapter, they state: "We let on it took nine months to make it" Meaning, they pretended it had taken them 9 months to make. Basically overall, they were pretending that breaking Jim out was harder than it actually looked. They also pretended the things they did together took longer and were harder Then it actually was. 3. Tom's Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally are in a panic, because Jim had ran away. Uncle Silas decides to advertises that Jim is a captured runaway slave. Later on, Tom decides it would be best to write letters to them, under the name "unknown friend" hoping that this would distract the Aunt and Uncle from releasing the advertisements about Jim and overall give them more time to help Jim escape. The letters worry the family for it warns them of trouble. Tom pretends in the letter that Jim is going to be stolen and tells the family how he is going to be stolen. To be avoided out of possible trouble, the letters are written as a distraction to the family. 4. The planning and plotting of Jim's escape is an example of satire because Tom wants to pretend that it was more work than it actually was. And he tries to find the most complicated and hard plan it in order to get Jim back. This is satire Because people these days tend to make things look a lot harder then it was. Take kids for instance. In every situation, they don't take it seriously and tend to exaggerate what really happened and how long it took. Therefore Tom does so by saying that certain things take months to accomplish when in reality they only took a couple of hours. 5. In chapter 40, towards the end. Huck and Tom have finally helped Jim escape. Although while doing that they were almost caught. A family was shooting at them as they were running away, which resulted in Tom being shot in the calf. While on the raft, they were helping Tom keep the blood under control and keeping him calm. Just so he wouldn't go into shock or pass out. Huck asked Jim what he thinks they should do and Jim said in modern terms: "Well, this is this way it looks to me, Huck. If it was HIM that was being set free and one of the other boys got shot, would he say, ‘Go on, you’ve got to save me! Never mind about a doctor, you’ve got to save me? Is that what Master Tom would say? Would he say that? Of course, he wouldn’t! Well, then, is JIM going to say it? No, sir—I won’t budge off this raft without a doctor, not if it takes forty years!” After this was said, it results in Huck saying that he is a white man on the inside. Huck refers to Jim as this because Jim decided that it was best to get a doctor rather than save Tom themselves and even though Jim is a black slave, and wasn't very educated, he has started to think as a white man would as if he was educated on what to do.
Chapters 40-END:
1. Towards the end of the book, Huck ran into Uncle Silas in town, while on his way to find the doctor for Tom to help his leg. Uncle Silas took him back to the house. Huck then made up a story on why he and tom were gone. They definitely believed it. As Huck was going to bed, Aunt Sally followed him to the room and tucked him in, as a mother would. Huck then felt guilty about what he said and couldn't look her in her eyes because he knew that Tom was stuck in pain and in danger while he was sleeping in a warm bed, while tom was in the dark and cold in excruciating pain. I think Huck felt this way because first, he lied about Jim, and everything else. You could tell that in the end he was hurting himself and the family rather than making things better with everyone around him. 2. In this part of the book, Aunt Sally sees Tom being carried on a mattress with the help of a doctor, and a tied up runaway slave(Jim). Aunt Sally presumes that Tom is dead, but he eventually woke up. The Doctor explains to them what happened. He says: "When I got to the boy, I saw that I couldn’t cut the bullet out without some help, and the boy wasn’t in any condition for me to just leave him to get help. He got worse and worse, and after a while, he started losing his mind and wouldn’t let me come near him. He said that he’d kill me, and said all sorts of crazy things. I saw that I couldn’t do anything at all for him, so I said I’ve GOT to get the help of some kind. The minute I said it, this n***** crawls out from somewhere and says he’ll help, and he did. He did it very well. Of course, I figured he must be a runaway n***** and yet there he was." You can see that Jim has come close with both Huck and Tom. No matter the circumstance, he wants to be there to help and protect them. We can learn from this, that Jim is a sweet caring person, and all he wants to do is the help. For being a good man with a good heart, They all agreed that Jim had acted very nobly. It doesn't matter about color or race. It matters about the kindness that goes into making something better. Without his help, tom would've been dead. 3. Tom is a very adventurous kid, he loves the freedom and thrives for a problem to come his way just so he can get a good story from it. When Tom woke up, we learned that he wanted to be heard. He broke the news of Miss Watson's death and that she said in her will that when she dies Jim will be set free. They were trying to free an already freed slave. But Tom wanted the thrill and adventure of trying to break him out. All along, this whole time he knew that Jim was free but took advantage of it. He kept it a secret with the death of Miss Watson, and Jim is free. It all goes to show that Tom will do anything to have an adventure, no matter the situation. He thrives for it. Even if it means he must lie just so he can have a great adventure, and be able to tell the story. 4. Huckleberry Finn is the kid who wants to do everything by himself. At the beginning of the book, Huck knows he doesn't want to be with the Widow. Who has given him the best and everything he needs, nor does he want to be let alone with his father. So he does everything in his power to escape. I think Huck is a good kid, yes he makes mistakes but all kids do. He always tries to find a solution to things and make things better. Huck was very brave. And seeks for the adventure like Tom Sawyer. From the beginning of the book, you could tell he looked for adventure in every situation. He was a smart kid. He faked his own death and escaped and kept himself alive. Not only being a kid, but he was also very thoughtful kid and would look for peoples needs like trying to find a doctor for Tom or helping Jim out even though it put him in risk because many people would think differently of him. Huck is a good kid. He tries to do good in every situation. Whether it be Good or Bad.