The adventures ofHuckleberry Fin

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Author: Mark TwainEditorial: Penguin Books (Pocket Edition)First published in 1885

Easy to readAdventures book (everyone likes adventures)Depicts accurately the different societies near theMissouriInteresting narration from the point of view of a

childSituation of black people in 1885


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NOTICE: PERSONS attempting to find a motivein this narrative will be prosecuted ; personsattempting to find a moral in it will be banished ;persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shotA large variety of dialects appear in the bookBlack peoples English written uniquelyBoats and ships are always girls (She)Severe concern about witches and superstitions


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Miss Watson Hucks Pap Judge Thatcher

Huckleberry Fin Tom Sawyer

Jim

Jims Family (Unknown)


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y Introduction, Huck and Miss Watson

y Meeting Jim

y Hucks father arrives, Huck escapes

y Encountering Jim in Jacksons Islandy Travelling with the Raft (The Floating House)

y The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons

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King and Dukey Stealing theNigger

y End


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y Jim, an exceptional black man

y Friendship between Jim and Huck. Is Jim a father for

Huck? A brother?Only a friend?

y Differences between Jim and the black society

y Quote 5 conversations


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y Who is Jim? Miss Watsons big nigger

y He escapes and wants freedom

y Black people are slaves, and however he does not blame onwhite people

y He is the opposite of Uncle Tom, but an

excellent person

y However, he is very superstitious


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y Jim escapes when Huck disappears, and everyonethinks he is guilty

y He joins Huck and takes care of him, provides himfood and adult protection (Mother and father role)

y He has conversations with Huck, they like to talk (big

brother role)

y He even cries for Huck,


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y Black society: Conformist, servant, humble....

y They are uncle Tom: Never reply to white people,

always serve with a smile

y Jim is different: New generation of free black people

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He does not want to end slavery, just his slavery

y He wants to live with his family


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y First quotation: When Jim first appears (p.14)

y Who dah? / Say Who is you? Whar is you? Dog my

cats ef I didnt hear sumfn. Well, I knows what Isgwyne to do. Is gwyne to set down here and listen tell Ihears it agin

y Whos there? / Say, who are you? What are you? Dog

my cats if I didnt hear something. Well, I know what Iam going to do. I am going to sit down here and listentill I hear it again


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y Second quotation: First encounter after they bothescape (p.49)

y Hello Doan hurt me dont! I haint ever done noharm to a ghos. I awluz liked dead people, en done all Icould for em. You go en git in de river agin, wah youblongs, en doan do nuffn toOle Jim, at uz awluz yo

fren.


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y Third quotation: Random argument(p.49)

y I doan kyer what de widder say, he warnt no wise

man, nuther. He had some er de dad-fetchedes ways Iever see. Does you know bout dat chile dat he uzgwyne to chop in two? / Well, den! Warnt dat debeatenes notion in de worl? You jes take en look at it

a minute. Dahs de stum, dah Dats one er de women;heahs you Dats de yuther one;


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y Fourth quotation: First contact with disappearedJim(p.229)

y WhyHuck!En good Ian! Ain dat Misto Tom? / No,sah / I haint said nothing, sah / No, sah; not as Iknows on


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y Fifth quotation: Goodbye Jim(p.280)

y Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you? what I tell you up

dah on Jackson islan? I tole you I got a hairy breas, enwhats de sign un it; en I tole you I ben rich wunst, engwineter to be rich agin; en its come true, en heah sheis! Dah, now! Doan talk to me signs is signs, mine I

tell you; en I knowed jis s well at I uz gwineter berich agin as Is a stannin heah dis minute!


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y A very important novel that criticised racism andracial segregation

y It also showed black people as humans, with their best

sidey In the actual times is still a book which is read in

school

y The adventures ofHuckleberry Fin is the first book in

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