THE MORAL RAFT TRIP OF HUCK FINN

By Adrian Galer. and Ryan

MORALITY

What does it mean to be moral?

Law or Compassion

Then and Now

NOTICE

Lets hope the Chief of Ordnance does not hear of

this presentation.

MARK TWAIN

Father of American Lit.

Challenged social norms

“It is curious that physical

courage should be so

common in the world and

moral courage so rare”

BEGINNING:DEPARTING FROM SOCIETY

BEGINNING:QUESTIONING SOCIETY

“Well, I b’lieve you, Huck. I–I run off.”

“Jim!”

“Well , I did. I said I wouldn’t…People would

call me a low-down Abolitionist and despise me for

keeping mum—but that don’t make no difference.” (43).

BEGINNING:FORGING NEW MORALS

“Mornings before daylight I slipped into

corn-fields and borrowed a watermelon, or a

mushmellon, or a punkin, or some new corn, or

things of that kind…Jim said he reckoned the widow

was partly right and pap was partly right; so the best

way would be for us to pick out two or three things

from the list and say we wouldn’t borrow them any

more” (66).

BEGINNING:COROLLARIES IN L IFE

“Blame de pint! I reck’n I knows what I

knows. En mind you, de real pint is down furder—its

down deeper…You take a man dat’s got on’y one or

two chillen; is dat man gwyne to be wasteful o’

chillen?”(78).

MIDDLE:QUESTIONING SOCIETY

“Which I has as good as helped to run

away… saying he would steal his children—children

that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man

that hadn’t ever done me no harm. ”(88).

Loyalty

The question of property

MIDDLE:QUESTIONING SOCIETY ( S L I D E 2 )

“‘Jim wont ever forgit you, Huck you’s de bes fren’

Jim’s ever had; en you’s the only fren’ ole Jim’s got

now’…Well, I just felt sick.” (89).

Rejection of southern morality.

Does what his conscience tells him to do

MIDDLE:ROAD OF TRIALS

Duke and Dauphin’s influence

on Huck

twerk

FINALE: ACCEPTING RACE

“And I do believe he cared just as much for

his people as white folks does for their’n. It don’t

seem natural but I reckon it’s so…He was a mighty

good nigger Jim was.” (155).

Jim creates a profound effect

Maturing

FINALE:TOTAL BREAK

“‘All right, then, I’ll go to hell.’—and I tore it

up…And for a starter I would go work to steal Jim

out of slavery again” (214).

Moral Climax

Break from all codes around him.

FINALE:LAST WORDS

“But I reckon I got to light out for the

territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s

going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand

it. I been there before” (294).