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.

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.

Words of the day

Evanescent - soon after graduation, because of anna's lack importance, everyones memory of her was evanescent

Veneration - Anna had great veneration for Jayce when it came to schooling

Words of the Day

Magnate (N) John Doe was a magnate who help Jayce start her cafe

Malleable (adj)- the playdough was very malleable so Anna thought it would be fun to eat it.

Dialectical Journal 55

"Will not come of its own accord when I am a woman grown" (PG 160)

Pearl knows her mother by the “A” on her chest. That is all she grew up knowing so it would be logical to assume that when she was older she would wear the letter. Or this could just be a little less obvious way of letting her mom know that its ok to have the “A” on her chest, and that she doesn’t see a sin her mother has committed.

Dialectical Journal 54

Hester’s True big Sin (PG 157)

Hesters real sin was that she was married Chillingworth even though she wasn’t in love and because that’s what your supposed to do, instead of waiting and following her heart and falling in love.

Dialectical Journal 53

Let the black flower blossom as it may (PG 152)

Now that Hester and Pearl are no longer as close, The beautiful rose bush that they created together isn’t the same. Pearl was the innocence and purity that gave the petals light and color and now with out her Hester is black dark and evil like.