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Huckleberry Finn - Chapters 1-5
Create a timeline of events.
5. Describes the old man, poorly dressed and with a very pale skin color, after the judge made the old man sign a promise, the old man changed clothes for alcohol and so the next day dawned very drunk, spent a long time and almost died , but they found it before it happened.
Describe the time period of the novel.
At that time many people did not have much money as nowadays, since the little money they had was wonderful for them, it was a humble time, they did not have many privileges that we have now, since there were not many means of communication, transportation and among others.
How does the perspective / point of view of the narrator influence the story?
Well, you must be very careful when making decisions, because you can go the wrong way, like some of the story, or you can also go a good way since you take good opportunities and decisions.
Huckleberry Finn - Chapters 1-5
Create a timeline of events.
- Huckleberry Finn tells us that this is almost true but with some exaggerations.
- His friend Tom sawyer went looking for him and they escaped for a while from the widow's house, but Jim almost found them when the sleeper made a joke, making him believe that the witches had taken him away. That day they organized a band of thieves.
- Miss Watson asked her to pray every day so that everything she asked for would be given, but he saw that it was a lie because she was not given everything, but the lady told her that she had to help other people in what was It is necessary that he not only think of him.
5. Describes the old man, poorly dressed and with a very pale skin color, after the judge made the old man sign a promise, the old man changed clothes for alcohol and so the next day dawned very drunk, spent a long time and almost died , but they found it before it happened.
Describe the time period of the novel.
At that time many people did not have much money as nowadays, since the little money they had was wonderful for them, it was a humble time, they did not have many privileges that we have now, since there were not many means of communication, transportation and among others.
How does the perspective / point of view of the narrator influence the story?
Well, you must be very careful when making decisions, because you can go the wrong way, like some of the story, or you can also go a good way since you take good opportunities and decisions.
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CHAPTERS 5-11
1. explain why Pap has kidnapped Huck.
So they would see that he was the one in charge of his son, to prevent him from going to school, and to be able to keep his money and he said that to get rid of the manners that the widow taught him.
2. Create a visual idea of how Huck escapes from the shack.
Ready
3. Explain what it means to be an abolitionist. Why does Huck worry that people will call him one?
4. Finally, Huck dresses as a child. How did the woman know that he was a child?
because Huck gave two different names to Mrs. Sarah Wiliams when she first asked him for his name and then asked him again and gave him a different name. He also realized by the way he almost killed the rat by force and way of lasso.
CHAPTERS 5-11
1. explain why Pap has kidnapped Huck.
So they would see that he was the one in charge of his son, to prevent him from going to school, and to be able to keep his money and he said that to get rid of the manners that the widow taught him.
2. Create a visual idea of how Huck escapes from the shack.
Ready
3. Explain what it means to be an abolitionist. Why does Huck worry that people will call him one?
4. Finally, Huck dresses as a child. How did the woman know that he was a child?
because Huck gave two different names to Mrs. Sarah Wiliams when she first asked him for his name and then asked him again and gave him a different name. He also realized by the way he almost killed the rat by force and way of lasso.
CHAPTERS 17-21
.Describe the Grangerford family (Chapter 17 &18).
It was a very humble and friendly family
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 (Chapter 18)?
Probably because farmers and ranchers often came into conflict over rights to land and water and overgrazing was also a problem.
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. How does our narrator’s perspective play a role in what we think and feel reading this section (Chapter 18)?
4.Explain who the King and the Duke are. Why does Huck go along with their story (Chapter 19)?
5.What problems do you anticipate with the Duke’s solution to how they can all run the raft during the day (Chapter 20)?
6.Illustrate the town that the play will be held in (Chapter 21).
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It was a very humble and friendly family
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 (Chapter 18)?
Probably because farmers and ranchers often came into conflict over rights to land and water and overgrazing was also a problem.
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. How does our narrator’s perspective play a role in what we think and feel reading this section (Chapter 18)?
4.Explain who the King and the Duke are. Why does Huck go along with their story (Chapter 19)?
5.What problems do you anticipate with the Duke’s solution to how they can all run the raft during the day (Chapter 20)?
6.Illustrate the town that the play will be held in (Chapter 21).
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CHAPTERS 12-16
1. What is the story of King Solomon and his son? How does Jim interpret that story?
It started with that Salomon was the wisest man in the world, but in reality it was not like that, since he thought many things as foolish as one with his son who wanted to leave in two to give one half to the woman and keep the another, but there was a fight since the woman wanted it all, for Jim there was no sense in what the king was doing because he believed in other things and it did not seem like what he was doing.
2. Jim and Huck separate in the fog. What is Jim's reaction when he sees Huck? How do you feel about Jim at this point?
Because he did not believe in many things like the others, he had a different way of thinking about the reactions or decisions that others took, like the decision that King Salomon wanted to make about his son, Jim did not seem to cut his son in half to give it to the woman.
3. Jim is very superstitious. From a historical point of view, why do you think this is?
because they dragged the snake skin and from there they said that they had a lot of bad luck said that that is not played.
4. "Fifteen minutes passed before I could make an effort to go and humiliate myself before a black man, but I did, and I will never regret it again." What does this line about Huck tell us?
It was because Huck Finn felt humiliated by a black man because he thought they were a person younger than him, but he turned out to be a better person than he believed and that's why he felt that way.
5. At the end of chapter 16, Huck is struggling to leave Jim. Describe the battle you have with yourself and explain your actions when men come to look for the 5 escaped slaves.
Huck could not deliver Jim. when the 5 men approached Huck he became very nervous when they asked him who was going with him, huck was left thinking about whether he gave it or not but he could not only said that he was wearing a white man and when the 5 men approached to see the He said it is my father who has smallpox, the men did not come any closer and gave them a town to go and help them because they did not want to have smallpox, and they told Huck that if he saw a black man he would not let him escape and they left.
CHAPTERS 22-26
1. At the end of chapter 22, we see the prospectus that the king and duke will distribute to the people. The Duke says: "If that line does not reach them, I do not know Arkansas!" Why does the line at the bottom of the leaflet lead people to the work?
Because they wanted to steal the kids from the people, in the theater plays and because I was going to see world things.
2. Towards the end of chapter 23 we see: "What was the use to tell Jim that these men are not true kings or dukes?" No good would be done, and besides, it was just as I said, you could not tell them of the real type. " a.Why Huck does not see the use of telling Jim?.
Because Huck thought it would take a long time to explain to Jim, since Jim could ask more and more questions and Huck had to explain more and more, also because Jim was in poor condition as Jim missed his family and Huck did not want as to put sad or put worried.
b. What do you mean Huck with "can not tell them the real class"?
because they are not real dukes and kings and they may not be able to distinguish who is who [who is the true duke and the true king]
3. The last line of chapter 24 says: "It was enough for a person to be ashamed of the human race. "What is Huck talking about? What does (the reader) tell us about Huck? How does it feel like that?
Well, the men formed a group and gave them their thoughts, they told them all kinds
of things and they put their bags up the hill and they let them lean on them so they could cry "together", and When they told the king all the details of hislast moments
brother's, he told the whole thing again with the duke's hands and they both cried for
that dead tanner as if they had lost the twelve disciples. Well, if
I find something like that again, it's because I'm a black man. For those people it was enough to feel
ashamed of the human race.
4. In chapter 25 we meet the doctor. How does the doctor know that the king and the duke are frauds?
Because the doctor, they tried to speak with the accent Inglese but they did it badly, that's why the doctor already knew that they were lying.
5. The king and the duke consider leaving in the middle of the night with money (chapter 26). Why not?
Because the king and the duke think that with the lands of the orphans they can sell and earn more money.
1. At the end of chapter 22, we see the prospectus that the king and duke will distribute to the people. The Duke says: "If that line does not reach them, I do not know Arkansas!" Why does the line at the bottom of the leaflet lead people to the work?
Because they wanted to steal the kids from the people, in the theater plays and because I was going to see world things.
2. Towards the end of chapter 23 we see: "What was the use to tell Jim that these men are not true kings or dukes?" No good would be done, and besides, it was just as I said, you could not tell them of the real type. " a.Why Huck does not see the use of telling Jim?.
Because Huck thought it would take a long time to explain to Jim, since Jim could ask more and more questions and Huck had to explain more and more, also because Jim was in poor condition as Jim missed his family and Huck did not want as to put sad or put worried.
b. What do you mean Huck with "can not tell them the real class"?
because they are not real dukes and kings and they may not be able to distinguish who is who [who is the true duke and the true king]
3. The last line of chapter 24 says: "It was enough for a person to be ashamed of the human race. "What is Huck talking about? What does (the reader) tell us about Huck? How does it feel like that?
Well, the men formed a group and gave them their thoughts, they told them all kinds
of things and they put their bags up the hill and they let them lean on them so they could cry "together", and When they told the king all the details of hislast moments
brother's, he told the whole thing again with the duke's hands and they both cried for
that dead tanner as if they had lost the twelve disciples. Well, if
I find something like that again, it's because I'm a black man. For those people it was enough to feel
ashamed of the human race.
4. In chapter 25 we meet the doctor. How does the doctor know that the king and the duke are frauds?
Because the doctor, they tried to speak with the accent Inglese but they did it badly, that's why the doctor already knew that they were lying.
5. The king and the duke consider leaving in the middle of the night with money (chapter 26). Why not?
Because the king and the duke think that with the lands of the orphans they can sell and earn more money.
CHAPTERS 27-30
chapter 27: they stayed there during that period, to watch over bodies, after that Huck went to look for the key to see the remains of Peter and when he saw him he started to cry and dried his tears with a handkerchief
chapter 28:When Huck entered the girls' room the first person he saw was MAarie Janes and he saw how she was crying all over and Huck saw that to the natural and Huck told her "that she can not stand seeing people suffer that she had the confidence to vent with Huck "
chapter 29:The lawyer is a friend of a deceased, who asks the dolphin to sign and the real Harvey began to compare signatures where when they signed they were going to commit fraud
chapter 27: they stayed there during that period, to watch over bodies, after that Huck went to look for the key to see the remains of Peter and when he saw him he started to cry and dried his tears with a handkerchief
chapter 28:When Huck entered the girls' room the first person he saw was MAarie Janes and he saw how she was crying all over and Huck saw that to the natural and Huck told her "that she can not stand seeing people suffer that she had the confidence to vent with Huck "
chapter 29:The lawyer is a friend of a deceased, who asks the dolphin to sign and the real Harvey began to compare signatures where when they signed they were going to commit fraud
CHAPTERS 31-35
- chapter 31:Huck reaches a point where he suddenly realizes that in that dilemma he must be punished by God for the sin of helping Jim. Huck tries to pray for forgiveness, but he comes to find that you can not because his heart is not in that. Huck writes a letter to Ms. Watson. However, before you start praying, think about the time you spent with Jim on the river side, in Jimen's kind heart, your friendship.
chapter 32:He breaks the letter because when he started reading it, a lady realized everything and that's why she broke the letter
33. Huck is disappointed that Tom helps him steal Jim. He says: "Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my opinion ... I just could not believe it ... Tom Sawyer, a black thief!" Do you agree or disagree with this? (Chapter 33)
Disagreement why the one who Huck started it all, so he has no right to call it that, because he is also and first of all Tom Sawyer
34. Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33: - 1. "Humans can be terribly cruel the one with the another one. "
2." But that's always the way: it does not matter if you do it, right or wrong, a person's conscience makes no sense, and anyway he just defends it.
"What does Huck mean with these two? statements?
That even if you're good or bad always will be, but not want down that road, there will always be a part of the human being to take you anywhere,not be your decision, if not your actions.
- 35. Why are Looking for Tom and Huck away more difficultto free Jim? (Chapter 34).
Why has he I have spent good moments with him, and as they have already taken him with him and it hurts them to let him go
CHAPTERS 36-40
- In the process of breaking Jim free, what is Tom’s motivation? What is Huck’s motivation? (Why are they doing it?)
- What do Huck and Tom mean when they say they “let on” about something? Why do they do this? (Begins on chapter 37)
- 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)
- 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?
- Towards the end of the chapter Huck says “I knowed he was white inside” about Jim. Why does he say this and what does he mean?
CHAPTERS 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?
- 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 somewheres, 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?
- What do we learn about Tom from what he says when he wakes up after being treated for the gunshot wound (Chapter 42)?
- You’ve finished the novel: Tell me, in three to four sentences, what you think of Huck.