MARK TWAIN’S PUDD’N’HEAD WILSON:A GRAPHIC PRESENTATION

OF THECHARACTERS

A POWERPOINT PROGAM DESIGNED BY CHARLES HENDERSON2005

PERCY DRISCOLL

ROXANNA,DRISCOLL’S

SLAVE

THOMAS B. DRISCOLL

CHAMBRE

CHAMBRETHOMAS B. DRISCOLL

SONROXIE SWITCHES

THE BOYS

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PUDD’N’HEAD WILSON

SON

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(continued)

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CHAMBRE

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THOMAS DRISCOLL(CHAMBRE) IS

RAISED BY “UNCLE” JUDGE DRISCOLL

THOMAS B. DRISCOLL

ROXIE IS FREED AT PERCY

DRISCOLL’S DEATH AND LEAVES

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THOMAS IS RAISED AS A SLAVE

PERCY DRISCOLL DIES.

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(Boys are swapped)

“THOMAS” BETRAYS ROXIE

AND SELLS HER “DOWNTHE

RIVER”

THOMAS (CHAMBERS) INCURRS

A SMALL FORTUNE IN GAMBLING

DEBT ROXIE COMES BACK AND SELLS HERSELF AS A SLAVE TO HELP “THOMAS” PAY HIS

DEBT

THOMAS IS RAISED AS A SLAVE

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WHILE STEALING FROM HIS UNCLE TO GET THE MONEY, “THOMAS”

KILLS HIM WITH LUIGI’S KNIFE; AND LUIGI GOES ON TRIAL FOR THE

MURDER

ROXIE ESCAPES, COMES BACK AND REVEALS TO “THOMAS” THAT HE IS A

NEGRO AND THAT HE MUST GETTHE MONEY TO BUY HER

FREEDOM

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PUDD’N’HEAD WILSON PREPARES TO DEFEND LUIGI BUT FINDS SOME

INTERESTING FACTS

WHILE EXAMINING THE KNIFE FOR PALM

PRINTS

WILSON DEFENDS LUIGI WITH AN “ACE IN THE HOLE”

Wilson reminds the court that he

has, for years and for fun, dabbled in palm prints to tell

fortunes

He demonstrates palm prints as

being unique to each person

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Next, he advises the court that he

knows whose prints are on the

knife

His startling revelation is that the prints belong

to the Negro slave, Valet de

Chambre (Chambers).

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When they begin to arrest “Chambers,”

Wilson informs them that the man they

know as Chambers is not him.

He reveals that two palm prints, one of the man as a boy

and the one on the knife belong to

Thomas Driscol as a boy when he was

actually Chambers.

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1. Roxana confesses what she did.2. Thomas (Chambers) is arrested.3. Chambers (Thomas) is restored to his inheritance).4. Chambers is sold, not hung, because he is worth $500.5. Thomas is unable to live a full life as a white man