Study Guide Huckleberry Finn

1. How does hucka sand solve the worry of forgetting his name? Bets Buck that he cant spell his name, and does, so then he knows his name George Jackson 2. What does huck think of the Grangerfords? Of their class? He thinks their home is re altogethery nice and he really likes the family 3. huck often makes raise observations. His com ment on Emmeline Grangerford is, I reck superstard that with her disposition she was having a better age in the graveyard. What does this demonstrates ab pop out huck? She focused so much on death and people dying that he figured she was in the seat she always wanted to be, she was happier there. 4. why had Emmeline died?Sickness Chapter 18 1. What is the cause of the dispute between the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons? Its been going on for 30 years, no one remembers what started it, beyond a legal dispute oer land 2. Which side started the stab? Jason Zhangs side 3. wherefore is Twain so vague almost it? No one can remember how or why th e feud started, solo when in the last year, devil people have been killed, including a fourteen-year-old Grangerford. The two families attend church together and hold their rifles between their knees as the attend pr for distributively onees about brotherly love. 4. Buck tells huck, There aint a coward amongst them Shepherdsons not a one.And there aint no cowards amongst the Grangerfords either. What atomic number 18 the drawbacks to this sort of courage? 5. why is the topic of the Sunday sermon satirical? the sermon was about brotherly love, and the 2 families be killing each other in a feud 6. What has happened to Jim since the last time huckaback has seen him? Jim followed huckaback to the shore the darkness they were wrecked, but did not call out to him, for fear of being caught. Some slaves found the raft Jim was on, but he reclaimed it by threatening the slaves and saying it be unyieldinged to his egg white master. 7. What does Miss Sophie do? runs off with Harney Shepardson . What happens to the various Grangerfords? Sophia Grangerford runs off with one of the Shepardsons and a gunfight ensues that kills some of the Grangerfords. 9. What does huckaback do? Chapter 19 1. Read aloud Hucks description of river support that begins, Two or three days and nights went by I reckon I might say they swum by, they slid along so quiet and smooth and lovely. What causes Hucks new appreciation of life on the raft? the peacefulness of the river, the exposurery, the beauty, the ease of living 2. The peaceful interlude on the raft is disturbed by the arrival of the duke and the dauphin (the queen regnant). delimitate these two rapscallions. liars, con-men, speed away from people 3. When the duke and the dauphin showtime got on the raft, why did they talk to each other and ignore Huck and Jim? They argon trying to out do each other in rank to decide who is in steer and who will sleep under the tent. 4. Huck says, It didnt take me long to make up m y mind that these liars warnt no fags nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. Why does he pretend to intend them? Huck quickly realizes that the two men they let onto the raft are liars, but to prevent quarrels, he does not let on that he knows.Chapter 20 1. How does Huck explain Jim to the duke and the big businessman? He tells them that his family was hit by a steamboat while they were riding down the Mississippi, and that only he and Jim survived. 2. How do the king and duke treat Huck and Jim? Duke and King has treated Huck and Jim as their own personal servants. Rate This Answer 3. What does the king do at the camp-meeting? cons people for $87 pretending to be a reformed cedebooter 4. How does the duke arrange for them to travel in the daytime? This chapter paints a fuller portrayal of the two hitchhikers that Huck and Jim have taken aboard.You will remember that the Gragerfords were first characterized through their possessions. How are these two men dra wn? prints a come back poster for Jim & they tie him up so it looks like they are returning him Chapter 21 1. What are the king and the duke getting ready for? performing a play Romeo and Juliet 2. what kind of a township is Bricksville? Not a inviol equal place always looking for lynching someone. 3. Why had Boggs come to town? to kill Colonel Sherburn. 4. What did the loafers think of Boggs threats? do not take his threat rattling seriously, 5. Describe the murder of Boggs.Col. Sherburn shoots him down while he is drunk 6. How did the township react to the murder? They are going to lynch Col. Sherburn Chapter 22 1. Why did the Lynching Bee fail? Because Sherburn tells them they are not men, just a stack and cowards. 2. What does Sherburn think of the men in the gang? Sherburn says the men in the mob are beneath pitiful-ness. Sherburn thinks the men are cowards. 3. Is he right? 4. Sherburns speech is the only place in the novel where the point of forecast shifts for nay l ength of time. Why, at this point, does Twain let Sherburn take over?We need Sherburn to speak because he is a MAN, Huck wouldnt be able to have the same effect on the reader. 5. Why does Huck respect the fair so much? pleasant relief from the king and the duke and the problems circumstances Jim escape. 6. How prosperous is the Shakespearean Revival? The Shakespearean Revival that is put on by the duke and the dauphin in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is not very successful. The characters dont really contend if its successful though as they are using it for a cover to mulct people. 7. How does the duke plan to get an audience for the low-comedy presentation? 8.Compare the incident at the circus with the shooting of Boggs. In what ways are the situations similar? How does Hucks response differ from the crowds in both instances? They are both drunk, they are both in danger. With Boggs, he is curious, with the circus hes white-lipped for the man Chapter 23 1. Why doesnt the audience take care of the king and the duke by and by the first performance? 2. What happens on the third night? 3. Discuss Huck and Jims comments on royalty in this chapter. Is it presumptive for Huck to know so much history? Explain. 4. Why is Huck amazed at Jims mourning his home and family? 5.What does the story of Lizabeth show about Jim? Chapter 24 1. Why is Jim dressed up like a sick Arab? 2. Hucks last statement in this chapter is, It was plentiful to make a body ashamed of the human race. What is Huck lecture about? 3. How does Twain make it believable for the two rogues to impersonate the Wilks brothers? Chapter 25 1. Huck describes the tearful scene at the Wilkses as the most nauseating thing he has ever seen. Does he mean only the kings performance? 2. Why does the king give the money to bloody shame Jane? 3. Have the rapscallions hood-winked everybody? Chapter 26 1. What purpose does Huck make? . What are the plans of the king and the duke? Chapter 27 1. Where d id Huck hide the gold? 2. Describe the undertaker. 3. Where is the humor in Hucks observation, There warnt no more than popular man in town than what the undertaker was? 4. How are the kings plans progressing? Chapter 28 1. What is special about Mary Jane? 2. Why is she the only person to whom Huck tells the truth? Chapter 29 1. Why do the men decide to dig up the corpse? 2. Huck concludes the chapter by saying, So I wilted right down onto the planks then, and give up and it was all I could do to keep from crying. Whats bothering Huck?Chapter 30 1. Why are the king and the duke fighting? 2. Why do they get back together? Chapter 31 1. What do the king and duke do to Jim? 2. Why does Huck write Miss Watson? 3. Why does he tear up the letter? 4. Huck has rebelled against civilization before. At Miss Watsons he smoked, com dearye hookey, and left his room nights to sleep in the woods. What is different about this decision? 5. Tearing up the letter to Miss Watson has been described a s one of the great moments in American history. A southern boy breaks free of the social convention that surrounds him and risks his soul to free a Negro slave.Why is Huck just the boy to tear up that letter? 6. Discuss the implications of Hucks conclusion, All right, then. Ill go to hell. 7. Huck again encounters the duke. What happens? Chapter 32 1. What is Hucks new name? 2. Why is that convenient for Huck? Chapter 33 1. Why is Huck surprised at tom turkeys willingness to rescue Jim? 2. Why is turkey cock willing to do it? 3. What new identity element does Tom assume? 4. How does Huck feel when he sees the king and duke tarred and conjoin? 5. Do they deserve his pity? 6. Why is Huck so get at with his conscience? 7.Does the fact that both Tom and Huck are on the plantation add to or detract from the plot? Chapter 34 1. How did Tom figure out where Jim was? 2. Compare Hucks plan for freeing Jim with Toms 3. What does Huck think of Toms vision touches? 4. What are the danger s of Toms approach? 5. Some critics think that Jims rescue is an inappropriate ending to the novel. They wonder how Huck, with his new maturity, can take over to Toms foolish scheme. Do you agree with these critics? Why or why not? Chapter 35 1. What is the whole chapter, Dark, Deep-Laid Plans about? Chapter 36 1.Huck says, When I start to steal a nigger, or a watermelon, or a Sunday-school book, I aint no ways special how its done so its done. How would Tom feel about this statement? 2. Why does Jim agree to go along with everything? 3. Whats Nats problem? Chapter 37 1. What is the topic of conversation at the breakfast put back? 2. How does Tom manage to get the things he needs for the escape? 3. Describe the baking of the witch pie. Chapter 38 1. What is the irony involved in the victorious of the grindstone? 2. Why does Tom try to talk Jim into keeping a pet rattlesnake? Rats? . What purpose does this chapter serve? 4. Describe Jims ordeal. Chapter 39 1. Why does Tom write anonymous letters? 2. What does he say in them? Chapter 40 1. What does Huck find when he goes into the setting-room? 2. When the butter melts down Hucks face, what does Aunt Sally think it is? 3. What one thing really goes wrong in the escape? 4. When Huck says, I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned hes say what he did say, what is he talk about? Chapter 41 1. Why doesnt Huck go with the concern? 2. How does he explain his absence to Uncle Silas? 3. What is Old Mrs.Hotchkiss theory? 4. Why doesnt Huck go check on Tom that night? Chapter 42 1. Why dont they hang Jim? 2. What does the doctor think of Jim? 3. What does Tom tell Aunt Sally? 4. Why had Tom worked so intemperate to set Jim free when he was already free? 5. Who arrives on the scene to really straighten things out? Last Chapter 1. What were Toms plans concerning Jim after he was free? 2. What does Huck find out about his initiate? 3. Does it seem right that Huck has been an orphan all along? 4. Where is Huck bou nd for at the end of the novel? 5. Why does Huck pooh-pooh civilization?