Study questions for Huck chapters XII - XIV

#1 Discuss Huck’s Logic in differentiating between borrowing and stealing.

• He considers them the same thing but to get around it he wont borrow certain things anymore, such as the crabapples and persimmon. They didn’t like the crabapples and the persimmons weren’t ripe yet so they stopped borrowing them, even though they didn’t want or need anyone

#2 What does Huck’s insistence on boarding the wrecked steamboat tell us about him?

• He wants to be adventurous like Tom Sawyer.

#3 What is the significance of the name of the steamboat, The Walter Scott

• He writes about romantic novels about great adventures, and is also the ship. Mark Twain is making fun of him by having people die in the ship and they can barely get away where as in Walter Scott’s books they are great escapes.

#4 why does Huck try to save the murderers, and how does this reflect on his character

• Because he might become a murderer one day and he tries to see it from their point of view and he doesn’t want them to die.

#5 discuss the satire in the scheme Huck devises to rescue the murderers. How is he able to enlist the aid of the boatman?

• The fact that he uses the greed of the steam boat captian to lure him into helping the men on the boat. He is criticizing they society. He says the niece of Horn back (a wealthy man) was stuck on the boat


#6

• Talking about being stuck on the boat. Since the raft floated away he was either going to drown or get saved, and if he get saved he will be sold into slavery again.

#7

• He exadurated what they do. He says they just sit around and do nothing and have a bunch of wife, a romantic notion about kings.

#8

• Making a statement about the south’s view of the slaves, a slave is a foolish/clown.
• Why would someone want to live in a place with screaming women and children, he should just go build a building and live in it so he could find peace. He missed the point of solemn was doing but he has a good argument. Kings are wasteful. Solemn wants to solve a debate about a baby by cutting it in half. Owner of plantations are like kings and they had under them thousands of slaves, they are disposable, if you get rid of one you still have a lot left.