Huck Finn XV-XX

#1

• when they lost each other in the fog

• death and rebirth as a theme

• when the toeheads land on land the come in contact with society, and as long as they don’t the fog is individual and the river is together as a society

• the fog is something that is going to blind them

#2

• because he hurt Jim and even though he is a slave and he still wanted to apologize. It is a step up, he is starting to see jim as a person with emotions and feelings and less like a slave.

#3

1. Huck is having 2nd thought, Jim is almost free which makes him guilty of freeing a slave. Huck has been taught that slaves are peoples property and stealing is bad and by freeing Jim is like stealing someone’s property. Huck thinks he is a bad person because of it.

2. Jim has to steal his own family back if he cant buy them and Huck is allowing this to happen because he is helping him run away.

3. Huck says if he turns Jim in will he feel better, no he wont. What’s the point of doing the right thing when doing the wrong thing is easier and better. The right thing as viewed by the society is to turn him in and become a slave again, when really that is not the “right” thing to do.

4. Jim and Huck want to go to Pittsburg. They go by boat Cairo is a place they need to turn so they can go up the Ohio but if they miss Cairo they will miss the turn and then they will go into the deep south where there is a lot of slavery. And he is saying that the snake had done his work and made them miss Cairo.

#4

• Bounty hunter is someone who are looking for run away slaves. Huck makes up a story that pa is really sick with small pox so they don’t want to go by the boat. And they feel sorry for Huck so they give him $40. Its ironic because they are doing something that isn’t ethnically correct today but still they are nice and give Huck money.

#5

• Shows that society destroys nature. Racism is a taught institution. Huck’s natural instinct is to help someone else who is in need, Jim, and society tries to teach him otherwise

#6

• Mark twain put down huck finn after chapter 16 for a few years he didn’t really know where it was going. Then he started writing another book call Mississippi and he went on a cruise and encountered signs of the clan, which made him pick up the book again. Mark wrote book in 1880’s. and he writes the book anyway to show that slavery was still going on in a way but was enforced through fear.

#7

• The pictures were depressing because they have pictures of their dead daughter. Title of the medicine book they are making this romantic idea about death and about a feud. They kill each other off because that’s what your supposed to do in a feud.

#8

• Romanticism VS. realism, Personas, superstition (snake), Ignorance VS. Niavatey. Role of an outsiderHuck is able to see how silly the feud is because he isn’t part of it.

#9

• He says he doesn’t know anything about it. Moses was in the dark when the lights went off. He thought it was a real question not a riddle that Buck already knew the answer to. Moses frees slaves just like Huck. And it’s ironic because Huck doesn’t care for learning about Moses cause he is dead. This relationship shows reinforces that you can do the right thing with out actually knowing what your doing or being educated in religion.

#10

• The hogs go to church whenever and the people only go to church on Sunday, hogs are better then people. They bring their guns to church and the sermon is abut brotherly love and how great it is and then out side of church they hate each other and kill each other, it is a contradiction.

#11

The fued symbolizes romanticism, the two families are fighting against each other and they don’t even know why they are fighting in the first place. It’s a connection with Romeo and Juliet. Its natural for them to be competitive that’s their human trait.

#12

• Its a paradox that they feel comfortable and free on the raft but on shore they don’t feel free. They can be themselves on the raft, on the shore Jim has to hide and Huck has to take on different personas.

#13

· When they are wearing clothes its like being covered by the society but when they are naked they are free, so they don’t wear clothes on the raft so they can be even freer.

#14

· Because Pap taught him that its better for people to have their fun and make their own mistakes and don’t interfere with their business.

#15

· Huck should be considered the most shrewd because he is not being honest to what he knows about the Duke and the King

#16

· He is making fun of romanticism and Shakespeare, who wrote Romeo and Juliet. The Feud, Duke and the king are examples of this.

#17

· The King pretends to be a pirate who has been saved and now he wants to go back, but he needs money, he is conning people. Mark twain is Satirizing the gullibility of people.

#18

· Yes, he reflects the society through them because just like how the society has good views and they go to church, the Duke and the King also have names that are supposed to be good, but they are not. He points out how the society is corrupt.