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American Literature

Huck Finn

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Study Guide: Chapters 14 - 31 Chapter 14 1. What kinds of things do Huck and Jim find on the skiff they took from the men onboard the Walter Scott?

2. Why doesn’t Jim want any more adventures?

3. What doesn’t Jim seem to understand about King Solomon?

4. As they argue about Solomon, what problem does Huck seem to

have?

5. What does Huck mean by the word “dolphin”?

6. Why do both Huck and Jim struggle to have a sensible

argument about Solomon and French?

7. Huck ends the chapter by making an extremely racist remark,

saying, “I see it warn't no use wasting words -- you can't learn

a nigger to argue. So I quit.”

In your opinion, does this remark demonstrate that Huck is a

racist, a person who feels that certain races are superior to

others?

9. This chapter really doesn’t advance the story’s plot. What is the point of Chapter 14? Why does Twain include it

in the novel?

10. What is the difference between knowledge and intelligence and morality? How does Jim seem intelligent and

moral despite his lack of knowledge?

Chapter 15 11. How do Huck and Jim get separated?

12. Why can’t they see each other?

WE judged that three nights more would fetch us to Cairo, at the bottom of Illinois, where the Ohio River comes in, and that was what we was after. Find a map, perhaps by searching the Internet, and

notice where the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers

meet, at the Southwestern end of Illinois, adjacent

to Kentucky and Missouri, and just north of

Tennessee.

“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free -- and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way. It got to troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place. It hadn't ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing. But now it did; and it stayed with me, and scorched me more and more. I tried to make out to myself that I warn't to blame, because I didn't run Jim off from his rightful owner; but it warn't no use, conscience up and says, every time, "But you knowed he was running for his freedom, and you could a paddled ashore and told somebody." That was so -- I couldn't get around that noway. That was where it pinched. Conscience says to me, "What had poor Miss Watson done to you that you could see her nigger go off right under your eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean? Why, she tried to learn you your book, she tried to learn you your manners, she tried to be good to you every way she knowed how. That's what she done." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -1182- eyes and never say one single word? What did that poor old woman do to you that you could treat her so mean? Why, she tried to learn you your book, she

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13. What does Jim do to signal Huck?

14. When Huck finds Jim, what is Jim doing?

15. What trick does Huck play on Jim?

16. How does Jim respond to Huck’s trick?

17. How does Huck feel about the trick at the end of Chapter

15?

18. In this chapter, what do we learn about

Jim? Huck?

Chapter 16 19. Why does Jim begin to feel excited?

20. Why does Huck begin to feel guilty?

21. What does Huck decide to do?

22. How does Jim seem to know what Huck is up to? What

does

Jim say to Huck?

23. Who are the men that Huck encounters?

24. What lie does Huck tell these men?

25. How do Huck and Jim actually benefit from meeting these

men?

“Your pap's got the small-pox, and you know it precious well.”

Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec'd

And did young Stephen sicken, And did young Stephen die? And did the sad hearts thicken, And did the mourners cry? No; such was not the fate of Young Stephen Dowling Bots;

26. Re-read the below passage:

“Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on; s'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up, would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad -- I'd feel just the same way I do now. Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at the time.”

What irony has Huck noticed about life?

27. What navigational mistake have Jim and Huck apparently

made?

28. On what does Jim blame this bad luck?

29. What happens to the raft and to Huck and Jim at the end of

Chapter 16?

30. How does Chapter 16 end with a cliffhanger?

Chapter 17 31. What event leads Huck to meet the Grangerfords?

32. Why are the Grangerfords at first nervous when Huck, who calls

himself George Jackson, arrives on their property?

33. When Huck wakes up at the Grangerfords’ home the next morning,

he forgets his assumed name. How does Huck manage to recall his

name?

34. Who is Emmeline Grangerford?

35. What does the poem, “Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Deceased,” really

focus on?

36. Give three pieces of evidence that suggest that the Grangerfords are

extremely wealthy.

1.

2.

3.

Chapter 18 37. Why does Harney’s hat “tumble off from his head”?

38. Why have the Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons been feuding (fighting) for so many years?

39. What is ironic about the following passage: (2 points)

“Next Sunday we all went to church, about three mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along, so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same. It was pretty ornery preaching – all about brotherly love, and such-like tiresomeness; but everybody said it was a good sermon, and they all talked it over going home…” (109)

40. What secret favor does Miss Sophia ask of Huck?

41. While Huck is pretending to be George Jackson, he is given a slave named Jack. Huck’s slave says, “Mars

Jawge, if you’ll come down into de swamp I’ll show you a whole lot o’ water-moccasins.” As it turns out,

though, Huck’s slave isn’t interested in showing Huck water-moccasins. What does Huck’s slave really want

Huck to see?

42. Why does Buck blame himself for the disastrous situation in Chapter 18?

43. “… I made up my mind I wouldn’t ever go anear that house again, because I reckoned I was to blame somehow… I judged I ought to told her father… and this awful mess wouldn’t ever happened” (115).

Why does Huck feel like he is to blame for the “awful mess” in Chapter 18?

44. Why does Huck cry in Chapter 18?

45. Why does Huck feel better at the end of the Chapter?

46. How does Twain use Chapters 17 and 18 to attack the idea of Southern Honor and to attack the Southern upper

class?

47. How does Twain use Chapters 17 and 18 to attack religion? What is he saying about “the religious”?

48. Why does Twain include the episode with the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords? How does this episode

develop

the setting: the characters: the themes:

Chapter 19 Good writers are able to make a scene come alive in the minds of their readers. Twain’s narrator, Huck Finn, very

frequently provides great details that allow the readers to experience the story through their senses. Huck talks about what

he sees, hears, smells, tastes, and touches while moving down the Mississippi. These sensory details help us to almost

experience the situation right along with Huck. In the chart below, jot down some of the sensory details that Huck

provides in the first few pages of Chapter 19.

Sense Huck's description

See

Hear

Taste

Smell

Touch

49. Re-read the below passage:

Soon as it was night out we shoved; when we got her out to about the middle we let her alone, and let her float wherever the current wanted her to; then we lit the pipes, and dangled our legs in the water, and talked about all kinds of things -- we was always naked, day and night, whenever the mosquitoes would let us -- the new clothes Buck's folks made for me was too good to be comfortable, and besides I didn't go much on clothes, nohow.

What do you make of the above passage? Why might Twain have Huck and Jim travel together, naked? What

might Twain be suggesting in making this choice?

50. Explain Huck and Jim’s debate concerning the stars:

51. What irony can you find (and what irony should Huck have found) in the below passage:

I was about to dig out from there in a hurry, but they was pretty close to me then, and sung out and begged me to save their lives -- said they hadn't been doing nothing, and was being chased for it -- said there was men and dogs a-coming.

52. Later in Chapter 19, two men come aboard the raft. Use the chart below to make notes of what Huck says about

them and what they say about themselves. Then, make some inferences about each of the men.

Younger Man (30’s) Old Man (70’s) Physical description:

Physical description:

Reason why he’s being chased by dogs:

Reason why he’s being chased by dogs:

Occupations:

Occupations:

Name:

Name:

My inferences or conclusions about this character:

My inferences or conclusions about this character:

53. Why does the old man become jealous of the young man?

54. How does the old man fix the situation in his favor?

55. What, essentially, do these two men like about the situation they’ve found with Huck and Jim?

56. How have Huck’s experiences with Pap prepared him for dealing with people like these two men?

57. List three reasons why Huck and Jim might be wise to let these two men “have their own way”?

1. 2. 3.

58. How have Huck’s experiences with Pap prepared him for dealing with people like these two men?

Camp Meetings were common in American frontier Christianity. Much of the area that Huck and Jim pass through is composed of tiny villages where there were few churches built and even fewer ordained ministers to serve as preachers. So the “camp meeting" was an innovative response to this situation. A group of people would choose a time and a place to hold a religious meeting and then spread the information by word of mouth. Interested participants would camp out at or near its site. Unlike traditional religious services, these meetings could last for days because once one speaker was finished (often after several hours), another would often rise to take his place.

What is a “camp meeting”?

Chapter 20 59. When the king and the duke ask if Jim is a runaway slave, what is Huck’s clever response?

60. Re-read the below passage. What might Twain be doing in this passage?

Towards night it begun to darken up and look like rain; the heat lightning was squirting around low down in the sky, and the leaves was beginning to shiver -- it was going to be pretty ugly, it was easy to see that.

61. Why is there an argument concerning the beds on the raft? How is this argument resolved?

63. What does Twain do to again characterize Jim’s

fatherliness?

64. Carefully read Huck’s description of the camp

meeting. How does Twain make the meeting

seem uncivilized? List three details:

1.

2.

3.

65. What story does the King use the next morning

to get money from the people at the camp

meeting?

66. In the meantime, how does the Duke raise

money?

67. What show are the king and duke planning to

put on in the near future, and what role will each

of them play?

68. What does the duke do to allow all of them to raft during daylight hours? He comes up with a clever plan. What

is it?

69. Jim asks king to do something, but king can’t remember how to do it. What does Jim ask king to do?

70. What messages might Twain be sharing via Chapter 20? List one or two themes that seem to spring from this

chapter’s characters and events:

1. 2.

71. How does Twain continue the lightened mood of the chapter in the last few lines?

Chapter 21 72. Recall your reading of Chapter 19, when Huck first meets the “King” and “Duke.” What might be suspicious

about the following excerpt from Chapter 21?

“…the king tripped and fell overboard, and after that they took a rest, and had a talk about all kinds of adventures they'd had in other times along the river.”

73. Read Hamlet’s actual soliloquy on the right and get to know the speech. Compare this to the Duke’s rendition.

Name three things that are completely out of place and ridiculous.

1. 2. 3.

74. Think ahead. If the King and Duke perform these acts, will the Southern audience members laugh for the same

reason that Twain’s readers are laughing? Explain.

75. The four men float to a river town called Bricksville, Arkansas. Why are they lucky to arrive on this day?

76. Look carefully at the poster (the show bill) the men hang in town. The poster is absurd. Find three examples of

this poster’s absurdity.

1. 2. 3.

77. Huck begins to describe Bricksville. What do the houses look like in this town? Describe the following:

Gardens

Fences

Loafers and their arguments

Streets

Houses along the river

What the loafers do to entertain themselves

78. Why might Twain include the above details? WHAT overall message is Twain trying to communicate to readers?

79. Before he ever even speaks, what do we learn about Boggs?

From the townspeople’s comments we learn that: From Huck’s comments, we learn that:

80. Boggs calls Colonel Sherburn out and says he wants to kill Sherburn. What do we know about Sherburn, and

what can we infer?

From Huck’s description of Sherburn, we learn that: From Sherburn’s speech and dialect, we learn that:

81. How do the townspeople attempt to save Boggs from himself?

82. Does Boggs deserve to be killed? Explain with reasons.

83. Explain three of the despicable or ridiculous ways in which the

townspeople react after the shooting:

1. 2. 3.

84. Considering all the awful things that have happened in this

chapter in the deep-south, Twain is clearly trying to satirize the

south.

What does this chapter seem to say about people in the south?

What kind of place is the south?

Chapter 22 85. The crowd rushes into Sherburn’s front yard, tearing down his

fence. What causes the “racket” to stop?

86. Sherburn lectures the crowd. What does he say about each of the following?

The Average Man

American bravery

Southern justice (trials)

Mobs

87. Choose one of the above topics. Is Sherburn correct? Explain.

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88. Analyze one of the below passages:

I could a stayed if I wanted to, but I didn't want to. I went to the circus and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it, because there ain't no telling how soon you are going to need it, away from home and amongst strangers that way. You can't be too careful. I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

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89. Remember that Huck is an unreliable narrator, which means that we, as readers, need to be smarter than him.

What doesn’t Huck understand about the clown and the ringmaster or the drunken man who interrupts the show?

90. Describe the success of the King and Duke’s show featuring Hamlet’s soliloquy and the sword fight:

How many people attend? Do the people take the show seriously?

Do the people stay until the end?

91. Re-read the below passage:

“…the duke said these Arkansaw lunkheads couldn't come up to Shakespeare; what they wanted was low comedy -- and maybe something ruther worse than low comedy, he reckoned. He said he could size their style.”

What, in your opinion, is “low comedy”?

92. What does the Duke put on the poster to improve attendance for the next, new show?

93. Does this tactic work in real life? In other words, think about the change that the Duke makes to the

advertisement. Would a strategy like this increase television viewership or movie attendance in today’s society?

94. Again, think back over the chapter. What kinds of messages is Twain communicating through Chapter 22?

Chapter 23 95. The Duke excites the crowd for the King’s performance. If you had to describe this new show and what it is,

what would you say?

96. Note the audience’s reactions:

During the show:

After the show:

97. What do the audience members decide to do to make themselves feel better?

98. The performances continue with large crowds. What is different about the crowd on the third night?

99. How are the King and Duke a step ahead of the audience members?

100. How much money do the King and Duke take in over the course of their performances in Bricksville?

101. As they float down the river, Huck and Jim have a conversation about kings. Huck tries to explain to Jim the

truth about kings in general, but not surprisingly, Huck is a bit misinformed. Read the historical information on

the right, and then make a list of three historical mistakes that Huck makes in describing kings and history to Jim:

102. Even though he badly mistakes most of the facts, what valuable point is Huck making to Jim?

103. How does Twain again characterize Jim as a fatherly figure in this chapter?

104. What epiphany does Huck have in this chapter that advances his inner conflict regarding Jim and slavery?

105. Jim re-tells a story about a time that he was angry with his daughter, Elizabeth. Carefully read Jim’s story, and

fill in the blanks.

Jim told his daughter to ___________________________. When she didn’t respond to his demand, he punished

her by ____________________________________. He later realized, though, that his daughter was

_______________ and ________________, meaning that she cannot ________________ or _______________.

A mistake involving exaggeration:

A mistake involving time period:

One other funny inaccuracy:

Huck’s “history” of kingly behavior is a hodge-podge of fact and fiction. Henry VIII, king of England from 1509 to 1547, did execute two of his wives and divorced two others. Nell Gwynn, however, was the mistress of Charles II (1600 – 1685) and Jane Shore was mistress to Edward IV (1400’s). Rosamund Clifford was mistress to Henry II in the 12th century. The Anglo-Saxon kingdoms ruled England from 449 to 829. The Domesday Book, in which William the Conqueror recorded all landowners and the value of their holdings, was completed in 1086; Huck confuses it with The Arabian Nights. The duke of Clarence was reportedly drowned in a cask of wine in the late 1400’s. The Boston Tea Party took place in 1773, and the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776; neither event, of course, has any connection with Henry VIII.

Huck Finn is an episodic novel, meaning that the plot is divided into separate, loosely-connected parts or sections. Twain structures the plot so that Huck seems to

almost wander (or maybe float) from one self-contained incident or adventure to another. Pretend that you’re a producer who’s purchased the rights to turn Huck

Finn into a television series. The network executives at HBO have given you the funding to turn the first 23 chapters into a nine-episode first season. Use the

chart below to decide how you’ll carefully arrange the events of Huck Finn in order to create exciting and well-organized episodes with engaging beginnings and

satisfying or suspenseful endings:

Episode #

Chapters Covered

Beginning Event(s) Other Events Throughout the Episode

Concluding Event or Situation

Mood(s) of the Episode

Creative Title for the Episode

1

1 - 4

Flashback to gold in cave

Life with the Widow

Midnight cave meeting

Just a Sunday school

Footprints in the snow

Jim and the hairball

Pap pops up in

Huck’s room.

Funny

Suspenseful

Mysterious

“Sivilized in St. Petersburg”

2

3

8 - 10

4

5

Adventurous

Scary

Humorous

Sad

“The South is Sinking”

Episode #

Chapters Covered

Beginning Event(s) Other Events Throughout the Episode

Concluding Event or Situation

Mood(s) of the Episode

Creative Title for the Episode

6 14 - 16

7

8

9

21 - 23

Chapter 24 106. Jim’s days are long and hard being tied up on the raft, so what solution

does the duke devise to allow Jim to be a little more comfortable?

107. Identify the irony in the below passage:

“…the king he allowed he would drop over to t'other village without any plan, but just trust in Providence to lead him the profitable way -- meaning the devil, I reckon.”

108. Identify Huck’s Biblical error:

“Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he'd take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you'd say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself.”

109. The King dresses as though he is a _____________________________.

The King pretends as though Huck is ___________________________.

The King and Huck run into a young man who is planning to leave town

on a steamboat bound for _____________________________.

This young man wonders if the King is actually ____________________.

110. The young man tells the King all about the Wilks family. Use the space

below to make notes about all of the important information about each

member of the Wilks family:

Peter George Harvey William

George’s orphaned daughters: Mary Jane Susanna Joanna

111. Why does the King ask, “Was Peter Wilks well off?” Peter Wilks is dead

and the King never even met him. Why is the King even concerned?

Huck says, “I see what he was up to; but I never said nothing, of course.”

What is the King “up to”?

112. Why do they decide to jump aboard a steamboat on its way down river

from Cincinnati?

Chapter 25

113. The King, posing as _______________________, gives a speech in which he misuses a word. Explain.

Diseased

Deceased

Why do you think Twain creates this mistake?

114. Add up the value of Peter Wilks’ possessions. About how much

money did Peter leave to his surviving brothers, Harvey and William?

115. Visit www.measuringworth.com. If the novel is set in 1835, about

how much money would the King and Duke stand to inherit in 2011

American dollars?

116. What irony can you find in the below statement from the King?

Thish yer comes of trust'n to Providence. It's the best way, in the long run. I've tried 'em all, and ther' ain't no better way."

117. Explain the following passage:

"Good land, duke, lemme hug you! It's the most dazzling idea 'at ever a man struck. You have cert'nly got the most astonishin' head I ever see.”

What is the Duke’s idea?

Why might it be a smart idea?

118. The King and Duke return to the family members and the King again

begins to misuse words. Explain the difference between these two

words:

Obsequies Orgies

119. Re-read the below passage:

“He is the thinnest kind of an impostor -- has come here with a lot of empty names and facts which he picked up somewheres, and you take them for proofs, and are helped to fool yourselves by these foolish friends here, who ought to know better.”

Who says this? Why might it be fitting that this person be the first to demonstrate suspicion of the King and

Duke?

Chapter 26 120. After supper, Huck and Joanna discuss England. Name two of Joanna’s questions, and, for each, explain Huck’s

answer.

Joanna’s question: ________________________________________________________________________

Huck’s answer: ________________________________________________________________________

Joanna’s question: ________________________________________________________________________

Huck’s answer: ________________________________________________________________________

121. Explain the picture:

122. Why does Mary Jane lecture Joanna?

123. Why does Huck begin to feel guilty?

124. What does Huck plan to do? Summarize his plan in three steps:

1. 2. 3.

125. What are the duke and king disagreeing about?

What does the duke want to do that the king does not want to do?

126. Recall the below passage:

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?"

What is the King suggesting? Do you think this quote applies to life in general?

127. What narrative purpose does Huck’s eavesdropping on the conversation between the king and the duke serve?

128. Why can’t Huck sleep that night?

Chapter 27 128. How does Twain begin Chapter 27 with a bit of dark humor (also known as “black comedy”)?

129. Explain the meaning of the underlined text. What is Huck saying?

They had borrowed a melodeum -- a sick one; and when everything was ready a young woman set down and worked it, and it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.

130. How does Twain incorporate humor into the funeral scene?

131. The King says that he has to hurry back to England. What

reason does he give?

132. What does the King say that excites the Wilks girls?

133. How does Twain weave in events that allow him to continue to

question the morality of slavery in this chapter?

134. When they realize the money’s missing, how does Huck avoid

the King and Duke’s suspicion?

135. Why is the Duke frustrated with the King?

Chapter 28 136. Discuss the irony in the below passage:

I says to myself, I reckon a body that ups and tells the truth when he is in a tight place is taking considerable many resks, though I ain't had no experience, and can't say for certain; but it looks so to me, anyway; and yet here's a case where I'm blest if it don't look to me like the truth is better and actuly safer than a lie. I must lay it by in my mind, and think it over some time or other, it's so kind of strange and unregular. I never see nothing like it.

137. How does Huck stop Mary Jane’s crying?

138. Why won’t Huck allow Mary Jane to go to breakfast? Why must she visit the Lathrops immediately?

139. Huck never complains when the King acts as a pirate and steals money from the people at the camp meeting. He

never interferes when the King and Duke use The Royal Nonesuch to dupe the Bricksville people out of their

money. WHY, suddenly, does Huck feel motivated to interfere with the King and Duke’s plan to swindle the

Wilks family? Provide three possible motivating forces:

Motivation #1 Motivation #2 Motivation #3

140. Huck write down two notes for Mary Jane. Explain both:

141. Analyze the following passage:

Pray for me! I reckoned if she knowed me she'd take a job that was more nearer her size. But I bet she done it, just the same -- she was just that kind. She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion -- there warn't no back-down to her, I judge. You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand. It sounds like flattery, but it ain't no flattery. And when it comes to beauty -- and goodness, too -- she lays over them all. I hain't ever seen her since that time that I see her go out of that door; no, I hain't ever seen her since, but I reckon I've thought of her a many and a many a million times, and of her saying she would pray for me; and if ever I'd a thought it would do any good for me to pray for her, blamed if I wouldn't a done it or bust.

142. After the emotional opening scene and Huck’s suspenseful plan

involving Mary Jane and the Lathrops, how does Twain shift right back

to a humorous tone?

143. Analyze the below statement:

I judged I had done it pretty neat -- I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn't a done it no neater himself. Of course he would a throwed more style into it, but I can't do that very handy, not being brung up to it.

144. How does Twain conclude Chapter 28 with a long-expected but humorous cliffhanger? What happens at the

auction?

Chapter 29 145. Think carefully about the opening scene with the real Wilks brothers. Name two ways in which the real Peter

Wilks should seem immediately believable to the townspeople. Then, name two reasons why the Wilks brothers

will have a hard time immediately proving their identity:

Reasons why the newcomers are obviously the real Wilks brothers:

Reasons why the townspeople might doubt the real Wilks brothers:

146. Which townsperson joins Dr. Robinson in doubting the King? What reason does this person have for doubting

the King’s story?

147. Discuss the irony in the following passage:

"Set down, my boy; I wouldn't strain myself if I was you. I reckon you ain't used to lying, it don't seem to come handy; what you want is practice. You do it pretty awkward."

148. How does Levi Bell attempt to reveal the true Peter Wilks?

149. When Levi Bell’s test doesn’t help, how does the real Peter Wilks attempt to prove his identity?

150. When Peter’s solution doesn’t work, what do the townspeople decide to do?

151. Why might their decision create some dramatic irony? What do Huck and the reader know that the townspeople

do not know?

152. How does Huck manage to escape Hines’ grasp?

153. Huck arrives at the raft. How does Twain again mix humor in

even with this most suspenseful and serious scene?

154. What event ruins Huck’s hopeful mood at the end of the chapter?

Chapter 30 155. Why is the King upset with Huck?

156. Why does the Duke defend Huck’s actions?

157. The King and Duke begin accusing and shoving one another. What is the source of their arguing?

159. In your opinion, why would the King confess?

160. What seems to bring the King and Duke back to

friendship by the end of the chapter?

Chapter 31 161. What evidence suggests that Huck and Jim are now

very far from home?

162. List five scams that the King and Duke attempt as they continue to raft down the Mississippi:

1. 3. 5.

2. 4.

163. When the King and Duke can’t think of any profitable scams,

what do they do instead? AND how does this event advance

Huck’s moral conflict?

164. Why does Huck’s conscience begin to weigh on him?

165. Why can’t Huck pray?

166. The below passage is one of the most famous in the history of

American literature. Analyze it:

I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself:

"All right, then, I'll go to hell" -- and tore it up.

Vocabulary

Use a dictionary to define the underlined word in each sentence. Write the definition on the line

provided.

1. But this one was a staving dream.

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2. "'Yes,' he says, a-leaning over it, 'yes, it is my own lamented darling, my poor lost Charles

William Allbright deceased,'...

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3. ...and she was leaning pensive on a tombstone on her right elbow under a weeping willow...

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4. But I reckoned that with her disposition she was having a better time in the graveyard.

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5. There was four or five men cavorting around on their horses in the open place...

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6. / 7. ...take a turn at mesmerism and phrenology, when there's a chance...

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8. Ah, it's sublime, sublime.

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9. He was the softest, glidingest, stealthiest man I ever see;

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10. The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet

cloth over it, and his shroud on.

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11. And so he warmed up and went warbling right along till he was actually beginning to believe

what he was saying himself, but pretty soon the new old gentleman broke in and says:

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Mr. Hollabaugh Name_________________________ Period_____ Date_____ Score_____

American Literature

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Conflict in Huck Finn

We know that CONFLICTS are struggles between opposing forces, problems around which stories

revolve. If you don’t have a conflict, you don’t have a story. At this point, you can probably see that

we have a great story on our hands because there are many conflicts in The Adventures of Huckleberry

Finn. Take a break from reading, and recall the following types of conflict:

External conflict – a struggle with an outside force Man vs. Man Man vs. Society

Man vs. Nature Man vs. Supernatural

Forces

Internal conflict – a personal struggle within a character Man vs. Self

Now, think about the conflicts you see so far in Huck Finn, and complete the below chart. Identify

the type of conflict, and then explain how it applies to the story:

Type of Conflict Explanation

Man vs. Society

Man vs. Man

Man vs. Man

Man vs. Nature

Man vs. Self