Satire :
chapter 1-5
Timeline-
Chapter 1-Tom Sawyer ended with Tom and Huckleberry finding a stash of gold some robbers had hidden in a cave. The boys received $6,000 apiece, which the local judge, Judge Thatcher, put into a trust. Chapter 2- Huck and Tom tiptoe through the Widow’s garden. Huck trips on a root as he passes by the kitchen, and Jim, one of Miss Watson’s slaves, hears him from inside Chapter-3 boys decided to resign from the gang because there was no action going on Chapter-4 Huck Finn went to school then Thatcher gave him the money because he didn't want it anymore Chapter-5 Pap wonders out loud if Huck thinks himself better than his father and promises to take Huck “down a peg.” Pap promises to teach Widow Douglas not to “meddle” Chapters 5-111.- Why pap has locked up Huck Finn is so pap can go drink and get drunk and sleep in the gutters on the street
2. at the bottom 3. -Abolitionist- a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or slavery. He don't want to be called a abolitionist because slavery was a big thing in these times and doesn't want to be caught up in all of that stuff. 4.- 1. The way Huck Finn walked in his heels 2. He should thread a needle properly. Boy- There body size how they look
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Time period -
The time period is around 1619 when slavery first started Perspective - Because it shows what slavery was like back in the day and how hard life was |
Chapters 12-16
1.What is the story of King Solomon and his child? How does Jim interpret that story?
Solomon was a very wise man who could judge and solve any arguments between people. One day, two women came to him with a child both claiming to be the mother. Huck remembered that the widow taught him this from the bible and explains that Solomon wanted to cut the baby hoping the real mother would step forward as she wouldn't want to see her child harmed. Jim's interpretation of this story was that it was stupid and not wise at all. What good would a cut in half baby be?
2.When Jim wakes up after their separation in the fog, what does Jim's reaction to Huck's Joke tell us about him? How do you feel about Jim at this point?
Huck played a joke on Jim getting him to believe that the fog incident was a dream for Jim. Once Jim sees a lot of debris and branches on the raft he figures out that Huck was lying and it wasn't a dream. Jim is mad at Huck for treating him as if he was stupid. At this point, I feel bad for Jim. He is really hurt by what Huck has done and I feel like Jim has already been through enough in his life.
3. Jim is very superstitious. From a historical standpoint, why do you think he is?
Jim is very superstitious because he is uneducated and has no other way of explaining why certain things happen and when someone tells him something he gets confused and isn't sure whether it is true or not. It also seems that Jim might be using superstition when he doesn't know what else to do. I thought this was the case in the story when Jim had Huck talk to the hairball.
4. At the end of chapter 16 Huck is struggling with giving Jim up. Outline the battle that he has with himself, and explain his actions when the men come up looking for the 5 escaped slaves.
Huck's battle is between how society views black people and how he feels towards Jim. He also battles with how similar the two of them are, having been treated so poorly as a child by his father. Also how could someone like Miss Watson be so nice but still own slaves. When the men come looking for the 5 escaped slaves and they ask Huck if Jim is on the raft and Huck says it is only his family sick with smallpox. This is Huck's way of hopefully keeping the men away from the boat.
Chapters 17-21
1. describe the Grangerford family.
The Grangerford family may be pleasant and respectable, but they live in a world of fear and hate. They've had a hardcore feud going on with the nearby Shepherdson clan for about thirty years, and each family is intent on killing off the other, one by one, until no one's left standing. Even Buck Grangerford, a boy around Huck's age, has violence on his mind all the time.
2. Mark twain alludes that the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons is about traditional feuds between farmer(Granger) and rancher(shepherd) why would he write this into the novel? What does it say about these two occupations at this time. He would write this in his novel because there was a lot of head butting between the Grangers and the Shepherdsons. Buck tries to shoot a young man named Harney Shepherdson but misses. Huck asks why Buck wanted to kill Harney, and Buck explains that the Grangerfords are in a feud with a neighboring clan of families, the Shepherdsons. No one can remember how or why the feud started. During this time period, ranchers and farmers were wealthy. They had a lot of land to support either their crops or their livestock. The fact that they were always feuding doesn't make sense because they were very similar.
3. Toward the end of chapter 18 Huck says "I don't want to talk much about the next day. I reckon I'll cut it pretty short. "Huck says this prior to telling us about the big battle. The next day is referring to the gun battle between the Sheperdsons and the Grangerfords after Sophia and Harney ran away together. Huck probably had a hard time talking about this violent day because he himself has seen violence and even a dead body before making it difficult to see again. Huck also had a hard time understanding why two families would want to act this way towards each other when they didn't even have a good reason.
4. Explain who the king and the duke are. why does Huck go along with their story
The younger man declares himself an impoverished English duke and gets Huck and Jim to wait on him and treat him like royalty. The old man then reveals his true identity as the dauphin, the long lost son of King Louis XVI of France. Huck and Jim then wait on the men and call them “Duke” and “Your Majesty,” respectively. In reality both are con artists that are in trouble for trying to trick other people out of their money. Huck quickly realizes that the two men are liars, but to prevent “quarrels” Huck does not let on that he knows they are not telling the truth. I believe that Huck continues to go along with their story because he knows at any minute these two men could turn them in as runaways.
5.What problems do you anticipate with the dukes solution to how they can all run the raft during the one day
Huck and the group were faced with a lot of challenges one being that most of the time they had to travel at night so that Jim wouldn't get caught. But Duke had a great solution which was if they got caught they could tell the people that they were bringing Jim back to collect the reward for a runaway slave. Duke had even made a flyer in the print office to prove the reward existed. This would mean they no longer had to waste time during the day sitting around. I still think this is risky because I anticipate that they will run into way more people during the day then what they would at night. Then the biggest problem is that they are not a very believable group.
6.illustrate the town that the play will be held in. The town had stores and houses that were old and didn't look as if they had ever been painted. Some of the houses had gardens but it didn't look like much was growing in each garden except weeds, broken bottles and rags. The fences around the houses were all made up of different wood and leaned every which way. The stores had white awnings and people hitched their houses outside of the stores.
The Grangerford family may be pleasant and respectable, but they live in a world of fear and hate. They've had a hardcore feud going on with the nearby Shepherdson clan for about thirty years, and each family is intent on killing off the other, one by one, until no one's left standing. Even Buck Grangerford, a boy around Huck's age, has violence on his mind all the time.
2. Mark twain alludes that the feud between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons is about traditional feuds between farmer(Granger) and rancher(shepherd) why would he write this into the novel? What does it say about these two occupations at this time. He would write this in his novel because there was a lot of head butting between the Grangers and the Shepherdsons. Buck tries to shoot a young man named Harney Shepherdson but misses. Huck asks why Buck wanted to kill Harney, and Buck explains that the Grangerfords are in a feud with a neighboring clan of families, the Shepherdsons. No one can remember how or why the feud started. During this time period, ranchers and farmers were wealthy. They had a lot of land to support either their crops or their livestock. The fact that they were always feuding doesn't make sense because they were very similar.
3. Toward the end of chapter 18 Huck says "I don't want to talk much about the next day. I reckon I'll cut it pretty short. "Huck says this prior to telling us about the big battle. The next day is referring to the gun battle between the Sheperdsons and the Grangerfords after Sophia and Harney ran away together. Huck probably had a hard time talking about this violent day because he himself has seen violence and even a dead body before making it difficult to see again. Huck also had a hard time understanding why two families would want to act this way towards each other when they didn't even have a good reason.
4. Explain who the king and the duke are. why does Huck go along with their story
The younger man declares himself an impoverished English duke and gets Huck and Jim to wait on him and treat him like royalty. The old man then reveals his true identity as the dauphin, the long lost son of King Louis XVI of France. Huck and Jim then wait on the men and call them “Duke” and “Your Majesty,” respectively. In reality both are con artists that are in trouble for trying to trick other people out of their money. Huck quickly realizes that the two men are liars, but to prevent “quarrels” Huck does not let on that he knows they are not telling the truth. I believe that Huck continues to go along with their story because he knows at any minute these two men could turn them in as runaways.
5.What problems do you anticipate with the dukes solution to how they can all run the raft during the one day
Huck and the group were faced with a lot of challenges one being that most of the time they had to travel at night so that Jim wouldn't get caught. But Duke had a great solution which was if they got caught they could tell the people that they were bringing Jim back to collect the reward for a runaway slave. Duke had even made a flyer in the print office to prove the reward existed. This would mean they no longer had to waste time during the day sitting around. I still think this is risky because I anticipate that they will run into way more people during the day then what they would at night. Then the biggest problem is that they are not a very believable group.
6.illustrate the town that the play will be held in. The town had stores and houses that were old and didn't look as if they had ever been painted. Some of the houses had gardens but it didn't look like much was growing in each garden except weeds, broken bottles and rags. The fences around the houses were all made up of different wood and leaned every which way. The stores had white awnings and people hitched their houses outside of the stores.
Chapter 22-26
At the very end of chapter 22 we see the handbill that the king and the duke will pass out. The duke says “if that line don’t fetch them, I don’t know Arkansaw!” Why would the line at the bottom of the handbill work to get people into the play?
The last statement on the handbill would get people into the play because more men would be open to doing things of their choice if their wife’s didn't have a say in their decision to attend the play. This would give the husbands/ fathers endless freedom because their wives and kids can't come.
Towards the end of chapter 23 we see this line: “What was the use to tell Jim these weren't real kings and dukes? It wouldn’t a done no good; and besides, it was just as I said; you couldn’t tell them from the real kind.” Why doesn't Huck see the use in telling Jim? What does Huck mean by "you couldn't tell them from the real kind?
Huck doesn't see the use in telling Jim about the fact that the King and Duke aren't telling the truth because Jim doesn't know a lot about Kings and Dukes in the first place, he also doesn't see the use in telling Jim because he doesn't want Jim finding out that the reason he is playing along with the King and Dukes story is to protect Jim from being caught.
When Huck mentions the phrase “you couldn’t tell them from the real kind.” he is comparing the King and Duke to real royalty and the way they act compared to what Huck thinks he knows about royalty. Throughout the story, Huck explains multiple examples of historical royalty and how they have tricked people throughout their "royal positioning".
The final line in chapter 24 reads: “It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.” What is Huck talking about? What does it tell us (the reader) about Huck that he feels this way?
The King and the Duke came up with this plan when they had found out that a man named Peter Wilks had died and left a fortune to his brothers that no one had ever heard of. The two con-men, being as greedy as they are, pretended to be the brothers and made Huck and Jim act as their servants. They wanted to sell the land and gain all of his money from the dead man instead of it going to his brothers. Huck was ashamed and disappointed in himself about lying and stealing from the grieving family.
In chapter 25 we meet the doctor. How does the doctor know that the king and the duke are a fraud?
When the King gave his speech, his British accent was not good or believable. The Doctor said that it was the worst accent that he had ever hear. He knew that the King and Duke were con-men and were definitely not related to Peter Wilks which, they seemed to know peoples name in town but didn't really proof that they knew anything about Peter himself.
The king and the duke consider leaving in the middle of the night with the money Chapter 26. Why don’t they?
The King and the Duke were going to run of with the $6,000 in gold, they don't end up leaving in the middle of the night. Instead the King comes to think it would be a good idea to stay until the land as well as the slaves are sold, therefore they can get more money than they have already gotten.
chapter 27-30
- Why did people stay up with the dead during this time period? (Chapter 27) The reasons that people stayed up with the dead was to the protect their body from anything that would ruin them and how it looked They wanted to make sure that the body was kept safe. After a person died in the 1800s, they had to bury the body the very next day because at that time there was no way to preserve the body.
- What do we learn (or reaffirm) about Huck when he tells Miss Mary Jane the slaves will see their family again in inside of two weeks? (Chapter 28) Huck could not bear to see Mary Jane as upset that she was when she was reacting to the slaves family being split apart. She was extremely upset and Huck had noticed this, he also knew she was struggling with the death because Huck saw her crying alone at night by the casket.
- What were the two methods the townspeople used to try to identify who the brothers were and who the frauds were? (Chapter 29) The test showed that the King and the Duke were frauds but the King complained to the lawyer saying it wasn't accurate since the real Harvey's hand was broken, and his brother serves as a scribe to him, people wouldn't be able to prove who is who. Then the real Harvey says that he knows of a tattoo on his brothers chest that no one else would know of. He also says that the man who dressed the body would back him up on it. Both the King and Harvey give detailed descriptions of the tattoo, the undertaker who dressed the dead man reveals the truth that he had no tattoo.
Chapter 31- 35
- Huck says “You can’t pray a lie.” What lie is he trying to pray about? What does he mean? (Chapter 31) Huck wanting to pray for forgiveness for helping Jim escape. In the 1800s it was illegal to help a black person escape their owner. Although it wasn't just any slave it was Jim, Huck was very close with Jim and couldn't help himself to do anything but help Jim. He knew it was wrong and tried to pray for forgiveness.
- Why does Huck tear up the letter he writes? (Chapter 31) Huck decided to write a letter to Tom telling him to let Miss Watson know where Jim is at. He wrote the letter but then in the middle of praying he remembered how kind and good of a friend he was, then decided he would rather take the chance and go to hell in order to stand by Jim. He tore up the letter so that Miss Watson would never know where Jim is.
- Huck is disappointed that Tom would help him steal Jim. He says “Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!” What do you think of this? (Chapter 33) Huck was disappointed in Tom but he was also surprised and caught off guard by the new actions Tom is showing. Tom Sawyer went from being a guy who wanted to create a gang to steal and kill people, to helping a slave escape. It may not seem like a big deal but it was a huge deal in the 1800s. It's sad that it was like this back in the day black people were all by themselves.
- Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33:
- “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
- “But that’s always the way: it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.” What does Huck mean by these two statements? Huck is talking about the fact that it was partially his fault that the King and the Duke got caught and tied to a rail by their feet. Even though they were not good people he still felt like he was their friend and shows his kind side once again. But at points he's been let down by many in his life time.
Chapter 36-40
- In the process of breaking Jim free, what is Tom’s motivation? What is Huck’s motivation? (Why are they doing it?) I think that Tom and Huck had different intentions when breaking Jim free. Tom just wanted to pull off the best break out in history and have everyone know his name. He wanted to be known for the escape of Jim. That is why he had to have style points and not do anything normal. Huck, however, just wanted Jim to be free again and not locked up.
- What do Huck and Tom mean when they say they “let on” about something? Why do they do this? (Begins on chapter 37)Huck and Tom created a rope using part of Jim's bed sheet. At the end of the paragraph Huck says, "We let on it took nine months to make it." When he said this he meant that they pretended it took them nine months. Anytime they use this phrase it means they pretended to do something.
- Why is Tom writing the letters and posting warnings? Why did he give instructions to his aunt and uncle’s slave? What are his motivations for this? (Chapter 39) Tom is writing these letters so Uncle Silas does not advertise he has captured Jim the runaway slave in the newspapers of St. Louis and New Orleans because Miss Watson would see them.
- We’ve worked a great deal on this novel’s satirical elements. How is the planning and plotting of Jim’s escape by Tom and Huck satire? The planning and plotting of Jim's escape is an example of satire because Tom wants to pretend that it was more work than it actually was. And he tries to find the most complicated and hard plan it in order to get Jim back. This is satire because people these days tend to make things look a lot harder then it was.
- Towards the end of the chapter Huck says “I know he was white inside” about Jim. Why does he say this and what does he mean? In chapter 40, towards the end. Huck and Tom have finally helped Jim escape. Although while doing that they were almost caught. A family was shooting at them as they were running away, which resulted in Tom being shot in the calf. While on the raft, they were helping Tom keep the blood under control and keeping him calm, Just so Tom wouldn't go into shock or pass out. Huck asked Jim what he thinks they should do and Jim said in modern terms: "Well, this is this way it looks to me, Huck.
chapter 40 end
- Towards the end of chapter 41: “And then when I went up to bed, she come up with me, and fetched her candle, and tucked me in, and mothered me so good I felt mean and like I couldn’t look her in the face”. Why does Huck feel this way? During the end of the book, Huck ran into Uncle Silas in town, while on his way to find the doctor for Tom to help his leg. Uncle Silas took him back to the house, then Huck made up a story on why him and tom were gone. As Huck was going to bed Aunt Sally followed Huck to the room and tucked him in like a mother would. Huck then felt guilty about what he said and couldn't look Sally in her eyes because he knew that Tom was stuck in pain and in danger while he was sleeping in a warm bed.
- In chapter 42 we hear the doctor’s account of his experience treating Tom: “so I says, I got have help, somehow; and the minute I says it, out crawls this nigger from somewhere, and says he’ll help; and he done it too, and done it very well.” Can we come to an understanding about Jim from this? What do we learn about him? Shows that Jim was so faithful to Tom and Huck that he would risk his freedom yet again to ensure the safety and well being of Tom. No other runaway slave would risk their freedom just to help a white person, but Jim always would. We can come to an understanding that Jim really did think of these boys as family and would risk anything to save them.
- What do we learn about Tom from what he says when he wakes up after being treated for the gunshot wound (Chapter 42)? Tom is a very adventurous kid, he loves the freedom and thrives for a problem to come his way just so he can get a good story from it. When Tom woke up, we learned that he wanted to be heard. He broke the news of Miss Watson's death and that she said in her "will" that when she dies Jim will be set free. They were trying to free an already freed slave. But Tom wanted the thrill and adventure of trying to break him out.
- You’ve finished the novel: Tell me, in three to four sentences, what you think of Huck. Huckleberry Finn is the kid who wants to do everything by himself. At the beginning of the book, Huck knows he doesn't want to be with the Widow. Who has given him the best and everything he needs, But he also doesn't want to be alone with his crazy father. So he does everything in his power to escape. I think Huck is a good kid, of course . He always tries to find a solution to things and make things better. Huck was very brave. And seeks for the adventure like Tom Sawyer. From the beginning of the book, you could tell he looked for adventure in every situation. So overall Huck was a good kid he just made mistakes along the way which made Huck the way he is today