Study Questions XXI-XXII

1) The residents are cruel, the love watching dog fighting, they were mostly strays but it was still cruel to watch and let them fight to the death. This relates to the story because all animals other then humans only do what they need to do to survive, they don’t waste their time with cruel nonsense such as fighting.
2) Because he doesn’t want to take part in the hypocrisy of the two men. He gains from what they do but since they are wrong he doesn’t want to participate. Even though he knows what they are doing is wrong, he doesn’t argue because he doesn’t want there to be altercations on the raft.
3) People tend to be curious. They have to be the first watching something, even in personal situations when they have no business being there. He also says that honor is more important that any other value even more important than one’s life.
4) Unlike the King and the Duke, the Circus is a real performance, not a scam. The Circus is trying to get money and in order to do that they think they should do Shakespeare, but it doesn’t really work out. Not a lot of people showed up so the King and the Duke use comedy to bring people in, like the circus does.
5) It shows that Huck is an unreliable narrator. He thinks that the man in he circus was the most deceived when really I was all a skit.
6) It made people wonder. They wanted to know why women and children weren’t allowed. It’s something for mans eyes only which is an interesting view of the way things were back then.
7) They are being seen as good leaders in the royal family, but really they are dishonest, unreliable, selfish and addicted to money.
8) It shows how much he misses his wife and children and he feels bad for faulting ‘Lizabeth. He keeps beating himself up for slapping her and he cant forgive himself.
9)
• Widow Douglas adopts Huck, and makes him go to school, where he learns religion and gets a good education
• Huck has 6000 dollars that he wants to hide to keep it safe
• He runs away from Widow and Joins tom Sawyers gang
• Out of fear of Pap Huck gives his money to the judge to hold on to for him
• Pap takes him out to a cabin, makes him live and easy life. Even though he gets slapped around every once in a while its still a better life cause he has more freedom
• Huck decides to run away
• He Fakes his death and runs away to Jackson island
• Huck runs into Jim and they talk about why they are both there
• Huck plays a prank on Jim
• They see a floating house with a dead bdy in it
• Huck dresses up as a girls and tries to get information out of a woman
• They discover a stream boat. And in an act to be adventurous like Tom Sawyer he gets on the boat
• Huck meets the Grangerfords and meets Jim again
• Eventually they run away together
• They meet 2 guys that are pretending to be a Duke and a King, they are actually dishonest and not very good people.
• Town of Arkansas: they decided to act our Shakespeare but he can’t convince anyone to come and watch it.
• Switch their play to “royal nonesuch,” and it was a huge success.
• Goes to the circus