This picture relates to satire because satire is a way of using humor, to show someone or something that is foolish, the guy was struggling but he could have easily just stood up and his feet would have touched the surface and he was struggling because he was not finding a solution to his problem.
Huckleberry Finn: Chapter 1-5:
1. Timeline Chapters 1-5: Chapter 1- Huckleberry talks about this life and who is currently taking car e of him, which is the widow.
Chapter 2- He is with Tom Sawyer and a slave named Jim and all of the other slaves feared him. Then Tom crates a "gang" and the gang robs people and holds them for ransom.
Chapter 3- A lot of the boys resigned from the gang because nothing was happening, and to Tom a magician was the wort enemy.
Chapter 4- Huckleberry goes to school and then learns how to read and write and then gives his money up because he did not want it anymore.
Chapter 5- Huckleberry's dad came with a surprised visit, his dad wanted the money from Huckleberry but he just gave the money away, so he could only give him $3 and he bought liquor and got drunk, Huckleberry wnated his dad to be gone.
2. Describe the time period of the story- The novel takes place during the early/middle 1800's. We can figure it out due to the text and the way the book talks about how life is. It talks about the slaves and how it talks about the way they lived and how often the novel uses the word "nigger."
3. How does the point of the narrators view influence the story- The perspective of the story changes because now it is coming from a 12 year old mind, and we all know children exaggerate things in a way to either make them better or for the worse. So because it is coming from a 12 year old mind the mindset of the story is different and we have to think of what could not be true and what is true, or what has been dragged on and what hasn't. We now have to think like a 12 year old to see where Huckleberry is coming from, by putting ourselves in his shoes.
Huckleberry Finn 5-11: 1. Explain why Pap has Huck locked up- Pap has Huck locked up because he wanted to show Huck who was boss so he took him to a cabin out in the middle of nowhere and locked him up while Pap went to go get more whiskey. 2. Create a visual of how Huck escapes the shanty-
3.Why is Huck concerned about being called an abolitionist- What is an abolitionist? An abolitionist is someone who disagrees with punishment/slavery. Huck become concerned about being called this because during this time period slavery was a common thing. Huck runs into an old friend named Jim who currently was getting away from slavery. Huck helped Jim and they both got far away.
4. Things Huck did to give himself away- Things Huck did that gave himself away while pretending to be a girl. First- the way he was trying to thread the needle. Second- the way he threw lead at the rat to kill it. Third- he kept clasping his legs together to catch the lead
3 things that would give a girl away 1.long hair 2.higher pitched voice 3.no facial hair
3 things that would give a boy away 1.shorter hair 2.lower pitched voice 3.facial hair
Huckleberry Finn 12-16:
1. What is the story of king Solomon and his child? How does Jim interpret that story- In the chapter king Solomon was a wise man who was powerful and smart. One day two woman come up to him with a child claiming that they were both claiming they were the mother. The king then gives a suggestion that he could cut the child in half, saying this knowingly that the mother would rather give up the child than watch the child be cut in half and his plan worked. Although Huck understands why the King kept insisting it, but Jim did not. He did not understand why in the world the king would ever say anything like that about the child.
2. When Kim wakes up after their separation in the fog, what does Jim reaction to Huck tell us about him? How do you feel about Jim at this point- Huck told Jim the joke about the fog and how it was a dream. Jim then realizes that Huck was lying about the dream and it hurt his feelings because he actually thought Huck died. Huck had to gain confidence before he could apologize to Jim about the joke he pulled about the fog incident.
3. Jim is very superstitious. From a historical standpoint, why do you think this is- I believe that Jim is superstitious because Jim has always been a slave with no freedom and he always thought his fate was going to be a slave forever so he does not believe in miracles.
4. "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 afterward, neither." What does this line tell us about Huck- This line shows that Huck calls Jim a nigger but that is not offensive in this book because in this time period that was a word that was used very commonly. It also talks about how it took Huck fifteen minutes to work himself up to go and do it but he did it anyways because he does not care and he was not going to be sorry for it afterwards.
5. 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 struggles because he is still not all the way sure about helping the slaves. But he does lie to the men about knowing where they were because of Jim, he told the men that he had no idea where they were. After the men left Huck was left feeling guilty for not telling the truth, but then he thought about how much more guilty he would have felt if he would have gave up the slaves including Jim.
Huckleberry Finn 17-21:
1. Describe the Grangerford family. The Grangerford family is a nice family who lives in a country home, and have no problem taking in Huck when he gets of the raft, and their family feud is with the Shepherdsons and some of them end up getting killed. 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 I feel like the other is putting these two families into this story and with their feuds between the farmer and the rancher, and I think the author put this into the novel because he wanted to show what life was like in the 1800's and what the families argued about.
3. Toward the end of chapter 18 Huck says, "I don't wanna talk to 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 narrators perspective play a role in what we think and feel reading this section? The line tells us that Huck was upset about the fight and that he did not want to talk about it so he cuts the conversation short, and that makes us think that something happened really bad the night before.
4. Explain who the King and the Duke are. Why does Huck go along with their story? In the chapter the King and the Duke both talk about their life story. But later on in the story it reveals that they both are not who they claim to be. The young "Duke" reveals he is an English Duke and the "King" reveals that his actual name is Dauphin and that he is the lost long son of a king. Huck goes along with it because he doesn't want to start problems.
5. What problems do you anticipate with the Duke's solution to how they can all run the raft during the day? If Jim is seen and people star asking questions about why he is there so that might become a problem that they are going to have to try and fix. But since Duke is there people might just assume that Jim is Dukes slave and might just not even ask questions because it would look like Jim is a slave and Duke is his owner.
6. Illustrate the town that the play will be held in. I do not think that the town that the play will be help in will be a pretty sight. It is not a very nice town and people get into a lot of argument, it is just not a place that you would be excited to be in.
Huckleberry Finn 22-26:
1. 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 line at the bottom of the handbook was, "Low-Brow Comedy Show! XXX!" This line works because it insures that the people going into the play that nothing bad will happen in the next show. The king and the duke then perform their "Shakespeare" to a group of uneducated poor people. They do not like the show very much. That is why they put up the line at the bottom of the handbook and that is why it works people the people know that nothing bad will happen.
2. Towards the end of chapter 23 we see this line: "What was the use to tell Jim there warn'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." a- Why doesn't Huck see the use in telling Jim? Huck does not think it is useful to tell Jim about the king and duke being fake because Jim misses his family and and loves him family as much as the whites so it would make Jim upset, but it also would't do no good even if he did tell Jim. b- What does Huck mean by "you couldn't tell them from the real kind."? When Huck says, "you couldn't tell them from the real kind." he means that the fake ones who are impersonating the real ones, are exactly the same... the real one and the fake ones are the same.
3. 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? Huck feels this was way because the king and the duke are playing the parts of the dead mans brothers. They go around town and they make a big deal that the brother died before they arrived, the duke is playing one of the dead brothers and he is a deaf mute. Huck feels this way about it them making a body ashamed of the human race because the king and the duke are playing the parts of a dead mans brother but they do not know for sure if he is even dead or not.
4. In chapter 25 we meet the doctor. How does the doctor know that the king and the duke are a fraud? The doctor knows that the king and duke are frauds because he notices how bad the kings British accent is so he calls them out for lying and faking who they were.
5. 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 don't leave in the middle of the night with the money because Huck feels bad for the family because the child has a birth defect, so he wants to help them get their money back.
Huckleberry Finn 27-30:
1. Why did people stay up with the dead during this period?(chapter 27) One of the reasons why they people stayed up with the dead during this time period was because they wanted to keep the rodents off of the corpse. Also back then when people died they did not have morgues to keep the dead people in so what they did is they had the people that were closest to the dead people, they would be the ones who stayed up with the dead to make sure their bodies were kept safe until they could be put in a safe place. 2. 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) We learn that it was hard for Huck to tell Miss Mary Jane that because Huck has been through a lot in the last years and even in the last couple days, because he had an abusive alcoholic father and his life was really tough and then he got the chance to have a widow care for him. Wen he tells her that she is going that she is going to see someone who was separated and taken into slavery it was great but it was hard for her to hear. Huck just wants what is right for everyone no matter what their race is.
3. What were the two methods the townspeople used to try to identify who the brothers were and who the frauds were?(chapter 29) The first method that was used to identify the brothers who were frauds was that they looked at the tattoos on the mans chest and then asked them questions to see who is lying. They also tested the writing of the brothers on a piece of paper to compare to letters.
Huckleberry Finn 31-35:
1. Huck says “You can’t pray a lie.” What lie is he trying to pray about? What does he mean? (Chapter 31) Huck can't find Jim, he then finds out that Jim has been taken and turned in as a runaway slave. He begins to cry and worry because he does not know what to do. The only thing he begins to think of is to write a letter to Mrs. Watson about where Jim is and he does pray that Jim finds Mrs. Watson. He knows he can't pray a lie. All he wanted was to take Jim and free him from slavery, that is what his whole adventure was about.
2. Why does Huck tear up the letter he writes? (Chapter 31) Huck tears up writing the letter to Mrs. Watson because he talks about what happened to Jim and how he thinks he is going to get him back, and he tells her how he faked his death and he is actually alive and that he has been hiding with Jim the whole time, so the letter overall is a bad idea and he just starts crying because he did not want any of this to happen.
3. 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) In the book tom is a good boy who just has a wild imagination and Huck could never see him doing something like this especially stealing a "nigger." But the only thing Tom wanted to do was to help a close friend in need.
4. Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33: a- “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.” He said this because while he was being chased by a mob he saw the King and the Duke tied up and beaten up and started feeling bad for them even if they made many many mistakes, they are still human and all humans make mistakes so he starts feeling bad for them because they do not deserve to be treated like that. b- “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.” After he heard about what the people had done to the king and the duke he went home and still felt bad for them. He was saying that they deserved to be treated like that because of their mistakes but he continuously felt bad for them. What does Huck mean by these two statements? ^^^
5. Why are Tom and Huck looking for a more difficult way to break Jim free? (Chapter 34) They need to have a more difficult way to break Jim out because they already did it once and got caught, so they need to figure out a way to do it and cover their tracks because if the do get caught "Stealing/kidnapping" Jim again it is not going to be good for Huck and Tom.
Huckleberry Finn 36-40:
1. In the process of breaking Jim free, what is Tom’s motivation? What is Huck’s motivation? (Why are they doing it? Toms motivation was not directly for Jim's freedom it was for him because he likes the thrill and he is an adventurous boy and he wants the excitement so he did not take it seriously because hie likes to be adventurous, and Huck's motivation was to capture Jim back and set him free, he did not want Jim being held captive. 2. What do Huck and Tom mean when they say they “let on” about something? Why do they do this? (Begins on chapter 37) To them the phrase "let on" meant pretending for them, like in one of the chapter when Huck and tom are making a pie they basically say it took them 9 months to make, and that is what they are doing with Jim, they are pretending that breaking Jim free was harder than it actually looked. 3. 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) They write the letters for a distraction for the family. Toms aunt and Uncle are panicking because Tom ran away and that is why Tom thinks it would be a good idea to write them letters/warnings. He tells them in the letter that Jim has been stolen so they would be focused on that so Huck and Tom would have more time to try and make an escape with Jim.
4. 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? There planning for the escape is satire because Tom is making it so much harder than it is and making it seem like it is a huge deal and thinks that there is more work than there has to be, s he is dragging the plan out. In present time, kids tend to do the same thing. When something happens they normally extend the truth and exaggerate on things that happened to make it harder and more of a big deal, even though in reality it is not.
5. 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? Huck said this after Tom and him escaped with Jim, but in the process Tom got shot in the calf by one of the neighbors. Huck said that he knew Jim was white inside, because even knowing that Jim is a black slave, he told Huck that they needed a doctor to treat Tom not them because they were not doctors, so in that moment Huck was seeing Jim's "white" education inside of him.
Huckleberry Finn 41-END:
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”. Why does Huck feel this way? Huck feels this way because while he was being mothered by being tucked into a warm cozy bed by Aunt Sally. Huck felt a bunch of guilt because while he was not in pain but in comfort, Tom was in a ton of pain because he got shot in the calf in the process of saving Huck's friend Jim. He feels upset because he is lying to his friends, family, and loved ones.
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 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? In this chapter when To finally gets help with his injury, the doctor says he cannot cut out the bullet without help and as soon as he states that, Jim crawls out from somewhere and steps in to help, the doctor had thought he was a run away slave, but Jim still helped. In this moment we all realize and learn that Jim is a sweet hearted person who cares for Huck and Tom, and he wants to do good in the world by helping people, because to Jim it does not matter what race you are. Everyone has a life that matters and everyone deserves help if they are in need.
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 learn that Tom is more adventurous than we thought. When he awakens he says that Mrs. Watson has died and in her will she said that Jim is a free slave. Going back Tom knew this even when Huck and him were planning and escape for Jim. They tried freeing a freed slave and Tom knew that. He just wanted to not tell anyone and go on the adventure because that is the type of person he is. He would kill for the adventure as long as he can tell a story after it happens. So he went through all of the pain and losing blood, because he did not tell anyone Jim was already free, and he did all of it for the thrill of the adventure and to be able to tell a story.
4. You’ve finished the novel: Tell me, in three to four sentences, what you think of Huck. Huck is a type of person that wants to do things alone, he wants to be independent. Just like in the beginning he did everything he could to escape from the Widow and he sure was not going to let himself be left alone with his father. I like Huck, I think he portrays a very interesting, kind and good character in the book. He was brave and also vert smart. While trying to escape from the Widow and his father he faked his own death and ran away and stayed alive, by himself as a kid. He was smart in situations even if he looked for adventures in everything. But in every situation he did care for his friends like when he found the doctor for Tom and when he helped try and free Jim. He is a great person in the book and enjoyed reading about him in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.