Huckleberry Finn 1-5
1. Timeline:
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Starts off with Introducing the characters and some of them trying to teach Huck some stuff but he refuses their knowledge.
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After a bit, Huck begins to enjoy school but then his abusive father kidnaps him and then he grows accustomed to his new life that he doesn’t hate.
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He comes across some kids and form a gang of Robbery.
2. Time Period of the Novel:
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In the novel, the words are a lot different than now. They seem to speak differently and not as clear and I imagined their way of speaking to be a bit southern in a way. Their way of living is also a bit different from now, he has school but it doesn’t seem like a school that we go to.. Like someone is just teaching him this stuff and he figures the rest out on his own. Slavery also seems like it’s legal in the novel, so my guess is the novel takes place back in the days. I googled it and it said the book might have took place around 1860s ish. Which would make sense.
3. How does the Perspective/p-o-v of the narrator influence the story?
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Since the narrator of the story is only 12 Years old, some of the stuff he said could have been a bit over-exaggerated.
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Since some of the stuff could be over-exaggerated, maybe when he formed his hang of robbery they mentioned killing people who get in their way but a 12 year old probably isn’t as capable of much. Maybe when he says killing they could mean severely prancing someone.
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It also could be a bit more biased towards himself since he’s the one telling the story and it’s his view of everything that’s going on.
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Since he’s so young, there may be a few things here and there that he’ll describe that doesn’t make sense.
Chapters 6-11 Questions
​​Why does Pap have Huck locked up? - Pap locked Huck up because he is drunk and does not like that huck is learning
Why is Huck concerned about being called a Ablitionist and what is it? - Abolitionist someone who wanted to end slavery and was considered bad in the day.
3 things that would give away being a boy
- Facial Hair
- Voice
- Clothes worn
3 things that would give away being a girl
- Makeup
- Hair length
- Movement/Body language
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What is the story of King Solomon and his child? How does Jim interpret that story? - King Solomon was a man with many wives and 2 of his wives claimed that one of his children were theirs. King Solomon suggested to cut the baby in half so that both wives could have a part of him. King Solomon immediately knew who the owner of the child was because one of the wives accepted cutting the baby in half and the other was completely against it. Jim interprets the story by helping the idea of having a full child because King Solomon has so many that he doesn't care.
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When Jim wakes up after their separation in the fog, what does Jim’s reaction to Huck tell us about him? How do you feel about Jim at this point? - Jim was extremely happy to see Huck because after the separation in the fog Jim had thought he lost Huck forever and that wouldn't be any good seeing that Jim sees Huck as a family member and they have a close bond. At this point I feel like Jim is a good person and obviously Huck sees that in Jim.
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​Jim is very superstitious. From a historical standpoint, why do you think this is? - I think that Jim is so superstitious because in the time he lives in people were very racist towards blacks still and blacks didn't get treated the same and didn't even get an education. Almost all blacks were slaves and all were treated poorly so you can't blame him for being superstitious.
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“It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a black person – but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither.” What does this line tell us about - This is saying that Huck was sorry for telling such a joke and it took him 15 minutes before apologizing but in the end he did and he says I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither meaning that he isn't sorry for putting himself up to say sorry showing that Huck isn't a bad person.
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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 has a battle with himself giving Jim up because Huck and Jim have become so much closer even considering each other as friends. Huck struggles with giving him up because Jim is a black slave and back then it wasn't right for a white man to be friends with a black slave.
Chapters 12-16
Chapters 22-26
1. The line at the bottom of the book was, "Low Brow Comedy Show xxx!" Its conveniences people that they are going to the play and nothing will happen.The duke and king perform their play. They didn't like the show very much.
2. Huck does not want to tell jim about the king and the duke because he thinks it would be useless Jim misses his family as much as white people.
3. Huck feels this way because the King and the Duke are playing the parts of the dead mans brother. The Duke is playing the Part of a dead mans brothers and hes also deaf. Huck doesn't even know if he is even dead or not.
4. The doctor knows that the King and Duke are fake because he can hear the fake accent .
5. The King and the Duke don't leave in the middle of the night because the Dauphin convinces them to stay until they have stolen goods from the family.
Jim was found and captured and turned in as a runaway slave. Huck is scared and upset
And is crying and panicking Huck prays that Jim finds Miss Watson again but remembers he really cant pray a lie, he was praying for what he didn't want.
Huck tells Mrs Watson's where Jim is so they can get him. The letter shows how Huck faked his death and ran away with a runaway slave named Jim. Huck rips the letter to keep jim from being a slave.
Tom Sawyer is good, he is a good man who just wanted to help out his friends.
Huck sneaks out of the house and goes into town. When they are there they see two people covered in tar. Huck states, “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 go no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
Tom is a likes to take big risks and Huck likes to follow what Tom does. They both are good friends and want to help eachother
Chapters 30-35
1. 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”. He felt this way because he lied to her about what they had been doing and why there were not here.
2. 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 n***** from somewheres, and says he’ll help; and he done it too, and done it very well.”
You can see how throughout the buck Jim and Huck have been closer as friends. They have now been friends for a long time
3. What do we learn about Tom from what he says when he wakes up after being treated for the gunshot wound (Chapter 42)?
We found out the mrs watson died and that jim is free as a slave
what you think of Huck.
After reading the novel i've seen a lot about Huck. Huck is a kind loving person, at first Huck started off as you thinking of him as a kid you should feel sorry for because of how his life is with parents and such. But as the book goes on you learn about how Huck is kind and caring and you see this especially with Jim, who was black and back then being black isn't gonna go well for you. Even though Jim was a black man, Huck was willing to go all the way to help Jim get out of slavery and try to help Jim no matter what which formed a good bond between them showing us the kind side of Huck.