Study Questions XL

1) Jim is genuinely a good person who is willing to help Tom, even though he hardly knows him and all he has done is brought him trouble. We also learn that being free makes him the happiest man, as would it make anyone, and nothing could upset him.
2) The Speech not only liberates Jim from being considered nothing more then a nigger but it also liberates other slaves from the harsh opinions of the society. It makes people really that slaves are actual people and not just property.
3) Tom is proud of getting shot, that’s why he wears the bullet around his neck. Again, like most things about Tom, this symbolizes Romanticism, he wants to be like the hero’s he reads about in his stories, this shows that even after everything people go through they still don’t always change.
4) Through all his adventures and mishaps and seeing the cruel society that he lives in he refuses to live in civilization. He doesn’t want to be a part of it anymore so he moves to territories west of the Mississippi away from the society.
5) Since Huckleberry Finn is told in first person, we get to go on all the adventures with him and you see his views and emotions rather then just here it from someone else. Although it nice to be told from Huck’s point of view, he is a very unreliable narrator because he says things that aren’t true. But if this was told in another point of view it would have been a completely different story and there might have been a completely different plot.