Chapters 1-4
Timeline
Chapter 1-Huckleberry tells the Widow and Miss Watson he was to learn and become educated.
Chapter 2-While Miss Watson is educating him, him and his friend Tom Watson prank Miss Watson's slave Jim while he was sleeping. They also started a gang where they kill people.
Chapter 3-Huck's Pap comes back after about a year and he is always drunk, Huck gives Judge Thatcher all of his money because he had a bad feeling.
Chapter 4-Huck's dad told him to drop school because he didn't go and his dad thought that if Huck went to school he would be better than him. Huck quits the gang.
Chapter 5-The widow and Judge Thatcher go to court so that they could become the guardians of Huck. Huck's Pap goes to the new Judge's home to learn manners and how to treat his kid and in the middle of the night he got drunk and fell out the window and broke his arm in two different places. Then his dad face jail time.
Chapter 2-While Miss Watson is educating him, him and his friend Tom Watson prank Miss Watson's slave Jim while he was sleeping. They also started a gang where they kill people.
Chapter 3-Huck's Pap comes back after about a year and he is always drunk, Huck gives Judge Thatcher all of his money because he had a bad feeling.
Chapter 4-Huck's dad told him to drop school because he didn't go and his dad thought that if Huck went to school he would be better than him. Huck quits the gang.
Chapter 5-The widow and Judge Thatcher go to court so that they could become the guardians of Huck. Huck's Pap goes to the new Judge's home to learn manners and how to treat his kid and in the middle of the night he got drunk and fell out the window and broke his arm in two different places. Then his dad face jail time.
Time Period
1830's
Point of View
The point of view of the story is told by the main character Huckleberry Finn. The main character who is also the narrator tells the story in first person as he is the one speaking. Huckleberry is telling the story in present tense. Huckleberry is telling us what happens while it is happening.
Chapters 5-11
Why did Pap lock Huck up?
He had him locked up because Pap was trying to get back the money that Huck gave to Judge Thatcher but they wouldn't give the money to him. He treated Huck really badly and then took him down the river for about three miles. He may also have locked Huck up because he went to school and gave the money to the Judge and Pap got really mad mad at Huck for the choice he made.
Visual of Huck Escaping
Why was Huck concerned about being called and abolitionist?
He was concerned about being called an abolitionist because he didn't want people to think that he was a bad person and he didn't want people to think that he did not like African-American people or that he was racist be he didn't hate them and he wasn't a racist. He also didn't want Jim to feel mad or bad because Huck really liked Jim.
What gave Huck away? Differences between boys and girls.
- Pulling up the gown.
- The way he walked
- Face looking down
Chapters 12- 16
How does Jim interpret the story of King Solomon?
Two of Solomon's wives were fighting over a child, they both went to talk to Solomon so that he could help them with their problem. Solomon was very wise so he decided that he would tell them he would cut the baby in half and each could take half. He knew the real mother would never let this happen, and then he found out who was the mother. Jim wasn't able to comprehend the story because he didn't know that Solomon wasn't going to cut the baby in half. Jim didn't think half a baby would be good for anyone.
When Jim wakes up after his 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 told Jim a joke and Jim begun to interpret his dream, but then Jim realized that it was all a joke after what Huck had said. Jim got angry at Huck because he begun to understand the joke. Jim is a very innocent person he is not as smart as Huck, but Jim really cares for Huck and whats Huck to be safe. I feel like Jim is a very nice and innocent person, he is like a young child, he doesn't really know what is going on and he isn't as bright as others.
Why was Jim supersticious?
He was like that because he wasn't very educated and he was black and they were very disrespected and he didn't know that.
“It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger –but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.” What does this line tell us about Huck?
Huck doesn't want to be like the other people because he didn't want to hate black people and he didn't want to think of them as less. Huck would have to apologize to Jim after what he had said and have to look like less than him even thou he wasn't but he would have to be more humble. Later Huck does apologize to Jim fro playing jokes on him, and he begins to see Jim as an actual human.
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 is now friends with Jim and would feel really bad if Jim gets caught, but he is stuck in the middle because if he helps Jim escape then he would be breaking the law so he doesn't know what to do. He is also thinking about Jim's owner Ms. Watson, because she was so nice to him and so helpful to Huck, Jim told him that Huck was his only friend so Huck was not sure what to do. Huck thought about it and then he realizes that it would be a burden knowing that he had turned Jim in.
Chapters 17-21
1. The Grangeford family is a family that lives on a big estate. The father of the family Colonel Grangeford was the man who took Huck in after Jim and Huck's raft was hit by a steamboat. There is Bob, Charlotte, Sophia and Buck. They all are part of the Grangeford family and are part of the feud. The Grangefords are in a feud with the neighbor family the Shepardsons and that has let to the death of a 14 year old Grangeford.
2. The feud between the two families is like a war between the families. They have tried to kill each other many times before. The families are in feud for some reason that no one knows, they just know that they hate each other. The author might have added this because he wanted Huck to leave the house sand continue his journey to save Jim.
3. Huck doesn't want to talk about the next day because the families might have a battle any day. The families could kill each other at any minute, and since he is living with the Grangefords the Shepardsons might think that Huck is one of them and they might try to kill him.
4. The King and Dike are two con men that Huck and Jim met along the riverside and they helped them. Both men lied to Jim and Huck because they thought they looked innocent and were maybe trying to steal their raft. Huck goes along with the story so that there is no tension between them and so that nobody gets in danger. Huck doesn't want to risk Jim's safety in the raft.
5. There are many problems with the way the Duke wants to run the raft. They have a bigger chance of being caught with Jim who is running away. They can also be seen by officials and get questions and they could catch Jim. The river might also be easier to travel through during the night with less people around.
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2. The feud between the two families is like a war between the families. They have tried to kill each other many times before. The families are in feud for some reason that no one knows, they just know that they hate each other. The author might have added this because he wanted Huck to leave the house sand continue his journey to save Jim.
3. Huck doesn't want to talk about the next day because the families might have a battle any day. The families could kill each other at any minute, and since he is living with the Grangefords the Shepardsons might think that Huck is one of them and they might try to kill him.
4. The King and Dike are two con men that Huck and Jim met along the riverside and they helped them. Both men lied to Jim and Huck because they thought they looked innocent and were maybe trying to steal their raft. Huck goes along with the story so that there is no tension between them and so that nobody gets in danger. Huck doesn't want to risk Jim's safety in the raft.
5. There are many problems with the way the Duke wants to run the raft. They have a bigger chance of being caught with Jim who is running away. They can also be seen by officials and get questions and they could catch Jim. The river might also be easier to travel through during the night with less people around.
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Chapters 22-26
- The line represents that it wants to attract men. The line was "Ladies and Children not admitted". That might be able to get some people attention. It would attract lots of men. They might think it is something dangerous or there might be booze or maybe women to attract the men to go watch their play. Their play might be inappropriate and there are men who actually like that. They know that this town might have lots of men who are into that, so they specifically chose that advertisement to get the men of that town to go to their play.
- 1.He didn't see the use in telling Jim because he thought that it was hard to tell that they weren't a King and Duke because they are just like real kings as selfish and greedy as them. Also he doesn't see the point in telling Jim because Jim won't be able top comprehend it. Jim isn't educated so he isn't able to tell the differences in some stuff. Huck also feels bad for him because Jim never found out that they were never the King and The Duke. 2.He means that the majority of Kings are actually just like them. They don't really car about others but themselves. They just want the best for themselves. They are very selfish and greedy men that they were just like real Kings. Real Kings are just like those two men and Huck knows that because of history. He explained it to Jim in that way too.
- I feel like Huck is talking about how the Duke and the King are embarrassing to the human race because of how they are and what they do. They are con men and they use their skills and their intelligence for bad. Huck is right in thinking that they are and embarrassment to the human race for doing what they do and conning people to get their ways or to get or steal money from people.
- The doctor was a close friend of the man who dies and knew him well. He knew they were frauds with their bad accents and they were really bad with their accents and the doctor knew that they were impostors. He also said that their accents were the worst imitation of and english man that he had ever heard. He was a close friend of Harvey and knew that they weren't his brothers.
- The Duke really wanted to run with what they had, but since they are con men and robbers the King convinced him to stay. They stayed because they King convinced the Duke to help him steal all of the family's property. They wanted to wipe them out and keep all of their money.
Chapters 27-30
- People stayed up with the dead because it was a tradition to stay with the recently deceased. It was also a good thing to stay with the dead to be able to protect them and to stay with them. They also stay with the dead to make sure that no rodents get near it to keep it safe and clean.
- Huck says that to Miss Mary Jane because he knows that the Duke and The King don't have the money, he believes that the money should still be in the coffin six feet underground. Huck knows that the Duke and The King will be exposed when they return to England where they won't be anything there. Huck told Miss. Mary Jane about the Duke and the King, this tells us how honest Huck is and how he isn't good with seeing people suffer.
- The towns people had the two brothers write on paper so that they would be able to compare their handwritings to the handwritings on the letters.
- They found the brothers tattoo on the chest and asked the brothers questions to see who was lying.
Chapters 31-35
- Jim was already found at this point and he is captured and convicted as a runaway slave. Huck is very shocked and he tries to help to ease the situation. Being in shock Huck begins to cry and thinks about telling Ms. Watson about telling her where Jim went and to tell her to take him back so that he doesn't get punished bad. Huck begun to pray so that Ms. Watson and Jim got back together as slave owner and slave, but then Huck realized that he was praying for something that he really did not want. He did that because he was trying to set Jim free not pray so that he gets sent back into slavery.
- Huck tore up the letter because he would be turning himself in pretty much and he did not want that. The letter would reveal that he faked his own death and that he was helping and hiding a runaway slave and that would get Huck and Jim into trouble. He also wrote in the letter how to get Jim back and where he was to Ms. Watson and that was not what Huck desired, sop he tore up the letter.
- Tom Sawyer is a very brave child with a good heart and he always is there for a good friend and he knows that Huck needs help so he decided to help his good friend out. Huck thought about Tom being a slave stealer but he truly was the one who convinced Tom to help him steal Jim back. Tom is not doing bad he is helping his friend and helping free a slave.
- Tom and Huck snuck out of the house late at night and as they were walking into town they saw the Duke and The King being run out of town by townspeople and they were covered in tar and feathers. Huck feels bad for the men but thinks that they still deserved it. He still felt very bad for what happened to them though and knew that they were being mistreated by the townspeople and he though that they were being cruel with them.
- Tom is a very adventurous boy and he is a very big risk taker and he enjoys that very much. Huck is different but agrees with Tom because he believes that he is a good friend and since he is helping him he decides to do it Toms way. Tom also likes adventure and danger he thrives in that spot, maybe it will be easier for him to help Jim escape.
Chapters 36-40
- In the process of helping Jim escape and helping steal him Huck and Tom both have reasons to steal him and they both are different reasons to do it. Tom had a very complicated idea in his mind, he wanted to make Jim's escape a complicated escape so that he could feel like he accomplished something big. He wants to feel the satisfaction of doing something dangerous. Huck's is because he truly cares about Jim and feels bad for him and doesn't want to see him enslaved. He also promised Jim that he would help him escape.
- When Tom and Huck say that to each other they are actually messing around and they aren't being serious. They are saying stuff that isn't really happening. They made Jim's second escape harder and longer than t was. They are over exaggerating what happened so that they look like heroes and look like "daredevils."
- He is writing letters to his Aunt and Uncle from as an unknown friend. He is doing that so that his Aunt and Uncle get distracted from releasing the advertisements about Jim's escape. They are doing that also so that they can have more time to help Jim escape. He wants to help his friend.
- The plan is satirical because of how they plan it and how they planned to do it and help steal Jim. Tom attempts to make the most complicated plan so that he can look like daredevil or a hero and feel the satisfaction of helping Jim escape. The plan shows satire as well because it was making fun of how easy it was to sneak out and how easy it was to help Jim escape with Huck and Tom's plan that was supposed to be complicated even though it was not very complicated.
- Jim was finally starting to act and speak like an educated white man, he thinks that because of what he said about Tom. He said that he wouldn't get off the boat in forty years without a doctor for Tom who had gotten shot in the calf while helping Jim escape. Jim had also started to think like that and as an educated white man would say even though he was a slave who was never educated.
Chapters 41-End
- He felt really bad because she was being so sweet and nice with him and gave him shelter and hospitality. He feels terrible also because he was the one who took her slave and now the family is worried. Huck feels like a bad person for stealing Jim and making the family worried after they gave him hospitality and shelter and cared for him.
- Jim felt like it was his fault that Tom got shot and feels like it is also his fault that Tom is in the hospital, he feels guilty so he tries to help. Jim is trying to help them and is trying to do something for Tom because he felt bad about it. This tells how Jim is also a human and no matter what color he is he is also a human and has feelings too. He is also acting like a real human as an educated person.
- Hd
- Huck is a very good kid with great intentions to help the ones he cares and loves. Huck is also a very adventurous person and he likes that bur is also very careful with things, he knows when to be adventurous and when to be careful. Huck is a very smart boy who knows a lot for a person of his age and at that time. I think thag Huck also changed a lot throughout the book and he became a better person and begun to care for others and was trying to make a change in the world because hecares for slaves that are being enslaved and abused.