Study Questions for chapters V – XI

#1
• It’s ironic because his father doesn’t like that Huck is going to school, learning religion and getting an education.
#2
• Because it is tradition that parents and children stay together. That is, for white people anyway. It also reflects society because they are willing to put Huck’s life at stake just so they can follow tradition even though he would be better off with Widow Douglas.
#3
• He thinks the pain of getting beaten is better then having to go to school and dress up and learn religion. He thinks he is more free with his father because his father doesn’t really care.
#4
• Pap and Mark twain have opposite thoughts. He heard that somewhere in Ohio the black people have the right to vote so he wont vote anymore, he is extremely racist
#5
• Freedom. Pap “owns” Huck and by running away Huck is becoming free. Jim is also freed not only from slavery but from Miss Watson as well.
#6
• For one, Tom’s adventures aren’t real; he gets all his stories and adventures from the books he reads. If he had been there it wouldn’t have been successful at all
#7
• He believes that someone prayed for the bread to find Huck, and technically that is what happened, that is how Huck tries to interpret it so it makes it ok for him to take it and eat it.
#8
• He is scared because Huck is supposed to be dead and then he thinks he is seeing a ghost. Then he is afraid that if he tells Huck his secret that he will turn him in.
#9
• Now that no one knows about them, they are both free and don’t have a past to worry about.
#10
• An abolitionist is someone who doesn’t believe in slavery and shouldn’t exist anymore. In Huck’s society every one owns slaves so being called an abolitionist is one of the worst things you can be called. And Huck thinks if they find out he is helping Jim that’s what they will call him.
#11
• Knowledge, personal knowledge. From past experiences, he assumes that it is bad luck.
#12
• Snake is bad luck to Jim (again the theme of superstition). This is typical behavior for Huck and he just wants to have fun and he doesn’t always understand how certain things affect other people. He starts to believe superstition and becomes ashamed of what he did.
#13
• He takes on different personas to get the information he needs. He does what he has to. His personas are of a little girl and a man named George.
#14
• He exaggerates the story. People tend to exaggerate to make people care and become more interested in what you are talking about.
#15
• Satire is making fun of society to make change Murder is less important than a slave. Jim didn’t have any motives to do kill Huck but pap did. So even though people thought Pap might have killed Huck they were still more worried about getting Jim back and when they had the search for Huck they still let Pap help look for him. This shows how messed up the society is.