Chapters 1-5
Time-line of events
Chapter 1
It takes place along the Mississippi River along Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas sometime in the 1830's-40's. At this time slavery was legal and very common. The south back then isn't the same as it is now. Back then there were very few people who had an education and drinking was also very common.
Perspective/point-of-view
This book is written in the perspective of Huck therefore in first person. I think that because it is written the way it is or in this certain perspective it changes the story in a way that the events that happen are slightly exaggerated. When a kid, which is what Huck is, tells a story it always seems to be slightly off from what actually happened but they do hit all the main point and overall picture. So relating back to this book, I think that Huck tells the story in a truthful way and gets the overall picture down fairly well but looses all of the detail and depth of each event.
Chapter 1
- Huck moves in with the widow. She buys him new clothes and begins to teach him the bible.
- Huck runs away to escape his new life and all the restrictions that come with it.
- Tom Sawyer goes after him and tries to convince him that if he returns to the widows house he will form a new band of robbers. Huck agrees to go back but still complains.
- Huck and Tom start to play tricks on Mrs.Watson's slave, Jim. While he is sleeping. He wakes up and believes he is bewitched.
- Huck and Tom go and meet a new band of "robbers".
- They sign a blood oath as a band and elect Tom as captain.
- The widow continues to teach him about religion but Huck is hesitant to believe.
- A drowned man is found in the river and Huck thought it was his dad but it turned out to just be a woman dressed in male clothing.
- The band eventually falls apart because all of the things that the boys did were fictional. Tom also explains to Huck about genies and Huck tries it for himself but fails.
- Huck begins to enjoy his new life and school.
- Huck goes to Judge Thatcher and begs him to take his money as a gift but instead the judge pays him a dollar in trade for all the money. This is because he is afraid that his dad is after both him and the money.
- Huck seeks advice from different people in the house about his dad. Huck later returns to his room and finds his dad sitting there.
- Pap harasses Huck for "being above him" and for dressing nicer than him, going to school, etc.
- Huck gives him a dollar and he then takes it to go and drink in town.
- Pap then goes to Judge Thatcher to try and get him to give him Huck's money but he refuses. The Judge then gives Huck some of his money back and he immediately gives it to his dad who used it to get drunk and was placed in jail for a week.
- The judge then takes Huck's dad into is own home convinced that he would be able to change him but his dad ends up using the money he received to go and drink resulting in him breaking his arm and almost freezing to death on the porch.
It takes place along the Mississippi River along Missouri, Illinois, and Arkansas sometime in the 1830's-40's. At this time slavery was legal and very common. The south back then isn't the same as it is now. Back then there were very few people who had an education and drinking was also very common.
Perspective/point-of-view
This book is written in the perspective of Huck therefore in first person. I think that because it is written the way it is or in this certain perspective it changes the story in a way that the events that happen are slightly exaggerated. When a kid, which is what Huck is, tells a story it always seems to be slightly off from what actually happened but they do hit all the main point and overall picture. So relating back to this book, I think that Huck tells the story in a truthful way and gets the overall picture down fairly well but looses all of the detail and depth of each event.
Chapter 6-11
Pap had Huck locked up because Pap doesn't approve of his lifestyle and believes that he is "higher" up than him when it comes to education and his choices. The Widow was teaching Huck religion, taking him to school and dressing him well, in other words Huck was trying to have the best life he can, a better life than his dad could of ever given him. Pap is a drunk and doesn't really have an education at all so when he sees his son becoming something that's better than himself he becomes envious and stubborn in a way and tries to bring him down with him.
Abolitionist- a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery. Huck is afraid of being called this because if people saw Huck and Jim together they would think that Huck was helping Jim escape and they would get the wrong idea. This book was written in a time period where slavery is still legal and many people owned slaves.
Things that gave Huck away:
-The way they talk (Voice)
-The way they walk or sit
-personality, and the way they do simple tasks
GIRLS:
-The way they talk (Voice)
-Their processing
-The structural differences... Girls tend to cry more, etc.
Things that gave Huck away:
- He talked way more then girls normally did back then
- Super fidgety
- Couldn't thread a needle
- He throws a piece of iron at he rats the way a boy would do it, not the way a girl would.
-The way they talk (Voice)
-The way they walk or sit
-personality, and the way they do simple tasks
GIRLS:
-The way they talk (Voice)
-Their processing
-The structural differences... Girls tend to cry more, etc.
Chapters 12-16
1. King Solomon had many wives and tow were claiming that they were the mother to one of his children. King Solomon revealed their true feelings and relationship towards the child by suggesting to cut the baby in two, meaning each woman would receive half. With this strategy, he was able to discern the non-mother as the woman who entirely approved of this idea, while the actual mother begged that the they wouldn't cut the baby in two and the child committed to the care of her rival. Jim took this story as it being more about a whole child not a half child and Solomon would have shown more respect for children if he had not had so many.
2. Huck plays the joke that what happened the previous night were all a dream and Jim starts to interpret the dream after some convincing but eventually the joke is over and Jim sees what's really going on and gets upset at Huck. I think that because Jim reacted in the way he did shows that he actually cares for Huck and is worried about making it to safety and freedom. So my view on Jim is that he cares fr Huck and gets worried about them making it to where they want to go that when Huck plays a joke on him he gets upset because he knows what is at stake and is worried that Huck isn't taking it seriously.
3. Jim is superstitious because he is a black man and at that time they weren't very educated back then and never were taught anything but what they hear on the streets or what is passed down through their families. So all he has every hear or learn about would be the superstitions or myths of good fortune which is all a black man would want back then given the fact that they were slaves.
4. When Huck said this it shows that he is hesitant to go against what societies view on black people are and that they aren't anything but slaves because he would have to put himself "below" Jim and be humble towards him when apologizing. Yet Huck feels bad for playing a joke on him and apologizes to him for doing so and afterwards says that he isn't sorry that he did apologize. This also shows that Huck is beginning to see Jim as more of a slave and is seeing him as a man who is just as much of a human as he is.
5. Huck has become closer with Jim and sees him as a friend and doesn't want to loose him but on the other hand he knows that if he helps Jim escape he would be breaking the law so he is conflicted. Miss Watson did so much for him so he feels bad for helping Jim escape from his "rightful owner" but Jim tells him that Huck is his only true friend. He continues to decide on what to do and realizes that he will feel worse if he turned Jim into the authorities and decides that it would be best to let Jim escape. When Huck comes upon some men in a boat who want to search his raft for escaped slaves. Huck pretends to be grateful, saying no one else would help them. He explained to the men that his family is on board the raft and is suffering from smallpox. The men back away in fear of getting the sickness themselves tell Huck to go further downstream to get help and leave Huck forty dollars in gold.
2. Huck plays the joke that what happened the previous night were all a dream and Jim starts to interpret the dream after some convincing but eventually the joke is over and Jim sees what's really going on and gets upset at Huck. I think that because Jim reacted in the way he did shows that he actually cares for Huck and is worried about making it to safety and freedom. So my view on Jim is that he cares fr Huck and gets worried about them making it to where they want to go that when Huck plays a joke on him he gets upset because he knows what is at stake and is worried that Huck isn't taking it seriously.
3. Jim is superstitious because he is a black man and at that time they weren't very educated back then and never were taught anything but what they hear on the streets or what is passed down through their families. So all he has every hear or learn about would be the superstitions or myths of good fortune which is all a black man would want back then given the fact that they were slaves.
4. When Huck said this it shows that he is hesitant to go against what societies view on black people are and that they aren't anything but slaves because he would have to put himself "below" Jim and be humble towards him when apologizing. Yet Huck feels bad for playing a joke on him and apologizes to him for doing so and afterwards says that he isn't sorry that he did apologize. This also shows that Huck is beginning to see Jim as more of a slave and is seeing him as a man who is just as much of a human as he is.
5. Huck has become closer with Jim and sees him as a friend and doesn't want to loose him but on the other hand he knows that if he helps Jim escape he would be breaking the law so he is conflicted. Miss Watson did so much for him so he feels bad for helping Jim escape from his "rightful owner" but Jim tells him that Huck is his only true friend. He continues to decide on what to do and realizes that he will feel worse if he turned Jim into the authorities and decides that it would be best to let Jim escape. When Huck comes upon some men in a boat who want to search his raft for escaped slaves. Huck pretends to be grateful, saying no one else would help them. He explained to the men that his family is on board the raft and is suffering from smallpox. The men back away in fear of getting the sickness themselves tell Huck to go further downstream to get help and leave Huck forty dollars in gold.
Chapters 17-21
1. The Grangerford family is a perfect example of a wealthy family in the pre-civil war south. They have many servants helping them with their day to day tasks and even more servants working on their many acres of land. Huck goes into detail about their house explaining that their door knobs were brass and they had a big brick fireplace that they cleaned and stained to keep it looking as best as they could. When Huck stumbles upon them they treated him with respect and as if he was a part of their family but this was only after they made sure that he had nothing to do with the Shepherdsons. They had a many year feud with the nearby family and both families had every desire to kill the other off one by one.
2. In the book this issue and conflict between the two families is introduced and explained by Huck. When Buck attempts to shoot one of the Shepherdsons, Huck was confused on why he did that. Buck then explained that their families have been in a conflict with them for many years now and nobody truly understands why. I think that Mark Twain wrote this into the novel to explain the feud between farmer (“granger”) and rancher (“shepherd”). This is because in the late 1800's farmers and ranchers ran into many conflicts on deciding which title went with which job.
3. When Huck says the line “I don’t want to talk much about the next day. I reckon I’ll cut it pretty short.” This immediately tells us that he isn't happy about what happened and is reasonably sensitive to what happened the next day and that whatever happened wasn't good. This would explain why he said this because often times when something bad happens people don't feel comfortable talking about it right away. We already knew about the family feud and how seriously the two families were taking the situation so this line got us thinking that maybe something serious happened. As the chapter came to an end the situation was finally revealed and someone was killed. This then lead to Huck and Jim leaving on the raft to go as far as they could as soon as they could.
4. King and the Duke are river con men who end up taking control of Huck and Jim's raft. The king claims to be the disappeared heir to the French throne and the duke claims to be the Duke of Bridge water. The king pretends to be British preacher Harvey Wilks to take money from dead Peter Wilks’ family, the duke plays along as the deaf brother, William. Huck plays along with their story to avoid creating issues with them and ensure that the won't get caught for running off.
5. So far in the story, Huck and Jim and whoever else on the raft have only been floating at night to avoid getting caught with Jim. This remains the same until the Duke comes up with an idea to possibly allow them to float in daylight. The solution is that while traveling during the day with Jim on the raft, they pretend as if they had captured Jim as the missing runaway slave and are taking him back to his owner. The Duke believes that this is a good solution because Jim wouldn't have to hide while they travel and they would would ultimately travel having more time to spare. In my opinion I thing that this plan would be risky because it if a authority were to see them they would ask a lot of questions to ensure that they were telling the truth. This would be an issue because they're lying and eventually they're going run out of ideas to tell them and spill the truth ultimately getting them in trouble.
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2. In the book this issue and conflict between the two families is introduced and explained by Huck. When Buck attempts to shoot one of the Shepherdsons, Huck was confused on why he did that. Buck then explained that their families have been in a conflict with them for many years now and nobody truly understands why. I think that Mark Twain wrote this into the novel to explain the feud between farmer (“granger”) and rancher (“shepherd”). This is because in the late 1800's farmers and ranchers ran into many conflicts on deciding which title went with which job.
3. When Huck says the line “I don’t want to talk much about the next day. I reckon I’ll cut it pretty short.” This immediately tells us that he isn't happy about what happened and is reasonably sensitive to what happened the next day and that whatever happened wasn't good. This would explain why he said this because often times when something bad happens people don't feel comfortable talking about it right away. We already knew about the family feud and how seriously the two families were taking the situation so this line got us thinking that maybe something serious happened. As the chapter came to an end the situation was finally revealed and someone was killed. This then lead to Huck and Jim leaving on the raft to go as far as they could as soon as they could.
4. King and the Duke are river con men who end up taking control of Huck and Jim's raft. The king claims to be the disappeared heir to the French throne and the duke claims to be the Duke of Bridge water. The king pretends to be British preacher Harvey Wilks to take money from dead Peter Wilks’ family, the duke plays along as the deaf brother, William. Huck plays along with their story to avoid creating issues with them and ensure that the won't get caught for running off.
5. So far in the story, Huck and Jim and whoever else on the raft have only been floating at night to avoid getting caught with Jim. This remains the same until the Duke comes up with an idea to possibly allow them to float in daylight. The solution is that while traveling during the day with Jim on the raft, they pretend as if they had captured Jim as the missing runaway slave and are taking him back to his owner. The Duke believes that this is a good solution because Jim wouldn't have to hide while they travel and they would would ultimately travel having more time to spare. In my opinion I thing that this plan would be risky because it if a authority were to see them they would ask a lot of questions to ensure that they were telling the truth. This would be an issue because they're lying and eventually they're going run out of ideas to tell them and spill the truth ultimately getting them in trouble.
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Chapters 22-26:
1. When the duke wrote "Ladies and children are not admitted" on the the bottom of the playbill he had hoped to bring in more people to their show. He then went on to say “If that last line doesn’t bring them in, then I don’t know a thing about Arkansas!”. Arkansas is a part of the southern states which are fighting to keep slaves and not permit woman to vote and have equal rights, therefore when he said this line he wanted to catch the attention of men. This then would bring in more people to their show because southern men would see the sign and have more desire to go if they new that whoever was putting on the show was fighting for the same thing they were.
2.
a. Huck doesn't see the use in telling Jim that the they aren't telling the truth about being a King and a Duke because Jim doesn't know much about Kings and Dukes to begin with so he wouldn't understand if he told him the truth. I think he also doesn't see the use in telling him because Jim doesn't know that the reason he is playing along with their story is to protect Jim from being caught and himself from getting more in trouble. So avoiding telling Jim would avoid Jim potentially spilling the truth about Huck and Jim.
b. When Huck says the phrase " “you couldn’t tell them from the real kind.” he is comparing the "King" and the "Duke" to actual royalty in the way they act. In the story Huck mentions multiple examples of royalty in history and how they have cheated people throughout their reign. He then compares those situations to the play that the King and the Duke put on and the fact that they cheated the people by false advertisement and only putting on a few minute show for a full price. Therefore if Huck did end up telling Jim the truth, he wouldn't be able to tell them from the real kind anyways so he thought it was best to keep it to himself.
3. In the book Huck says "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.” . I think that he said this because the King and the Duke being as greedy as they are, decided to act as the brothers of a dead man to gain his land and wealth he left behind. They also made Jim and Huck pretend to be their servants. So overall I think that Huck was ashamed that they were posing to be people they weren't especially when they were talking about an actual life being lost.
4. The Doctor knew that the King and the Duke were frauds because when the Duke gave his speech his British accent wasn't good or believable. The Doctor claimed it to be the worst accent he had ever heard because of this he knew that the King and the Duke were con-men and weren't actually related because they didn't know anything about the man himself or his life.
5. The King and the Duke considered leaving that night with the $6000 in gold, although they don't end up leaving in the middle of the night. The King then comes up with an idea to wait to leave and sell all the slaves to gain more money than they were previously going to have if they left in the middle of the night with the $6000.
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a. Huck doesn't see the use in telling Jim that the they aren't telling the truth about being a King and a Duke because Jim doesn't know much about Kings and Dukes to begin with so he wouldn't understand if he told him the truth. I think he also doesn't see the use in telling him because Jim doesn't know that the reason he is playing along with their story is to protect Jim from being caught and himself from getting more in trouble. So avoiding telling Jim would avoid Jim potentially spilling the truth about Huck and Jim.
b. When Huck says the phrase " “you couldn’t tell them from the real kind.” he is comparing the "King" and the "Duke" to actual royalty in the way they act. In the story Huck mentions multiple examples of royalty in history and how they have cheated people throughout their reign. He then compares those situations to the play that the King and the Duke put on and the fact that they cheated the people by false advertisement and only putting on a few minute show for a full price. Therefore if Huck did end up telling Jim the truth, he wouldn't be able to tell them from the real kind anyways so he thought it was best to keep it to himself.
3. In the book Huck says "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.” . I think that he said this because the King and the Duke being as greedy as they are, decided to act as the brothers of a dead man to gain his land and wealth he left behind. They also made Jim and Huck pretend to be their servants. So overall I think that Huck was ashamed that they were posing to be people they weren't especially when they were talking about an actual life being lost.
4. The Doctor knew that the King and the Duke were frauds because when the Duke gave his speech his British accent wasn't good or believable. The Doctor claimed it to be the worst accent he had ever heard because of this he knew that the King and the Duke were con-men and weren't actually related because they didn't know anything about the man himself or his life.
5. The King and the Duke considered leaving that night with the $6000 in gold, although they don't end up leaving in the middle of the night. The King then comes up with an idea to wait to leave and sell all the slaves to gain more money than they were previously going to have if they left in the middle of the night with the $6000.
Chapter 27-30
1. Back then people stayed up with the dead to keep rodents away from the corpse. They also never left the body alone because funeral homes weren't available to prepare and protect the body. Lastly, staying with the body the corpse was a southern tradition starting around the time of Huck that was often passed down generations.
2. Miss Mary Jane was crying over the slaves being sold Huck tried to comfort her by saying that the slaves would see their families again in no more than a few weeks. From this we learn that Huck sees the slaves as people and sees them with a new perspective due to coming closer with Jim. Also when Huck said this it showed that Huck and Jim have been through a lot together also causing his overall point of view to change.
3. a. The towns people asked about the tattoo on his chest and asked each sets of brothers to identify who was lying and who was the actual brothers of the dead man. The King claimed that it was an arrow that couldn't be seen unless you looked really close but the people who cleaned/prepared the body to be buried said that hey saw no mark this then caused the towns people to go and dig up the body itself allowing Huck, the King and the Duke to escape.
b. The towns people also asked each set of brothers to write on a piece of paper then comparing those to the handwriting on the letters between the brothers and Peter Wilks but neither of the handwriting samples matched the handwriting on the letters. The actual set of brothers then claimed that Peter was the only one that could read his handwriting so he rewrote all of his letters word for word in his own handwriting.
2. Miss Mary Jane was crying over the slaves being sold Huck tried to comfort her by saying that the slaves would see their families again in no more than a few weeks. From this we learn that Huck sees the slaves as people and sees them with a new perspective due to coming closer with Jim. Also when Huck said this it showed that Huck and Jim have been through a lot together also causing his overall point of view to change.
3. a. The towns people asked about the tattoo on his chest and asked each sets of brothers to identify who was lying and who was the actual brothers of the dead man. The King claimed that it was an arrow that couldn't be seen unless you looked really close but the people who cleaned/prepared the body to be buried said that hey saw no mark this then caused the towns people to go and dig up the body itself allowing Huck, the King and the Duke to escape.
b. The towns people also asked each set of brothers to write on a piece of paper then comparing those to the handwriting on the letters between the brothers and Peter Wilks but neither of the handwriting samples matched the handwriting on the letters. The actual set of brothers then claimed that Peter was the only one that could read his handwriting so he rewrote all of his letters word for word in his own handwriting.
Chapter 31-35
1. At this point in the book Jim is captured as a runaway slave which then causes Huck to be upset. He tries to figure out what he can do, if anything, to change the situation and considers writing Miss Watson informing her where Jim is. Huck would've also explained how to get him back to her but realizes that she wanted to sell him in the first place so returning him wouldn't be any better than where he is now. So Huck comes to a decision to pray that Jim finds Miss Watson but Huck but then realizes "You can't pray a lie" and that praying would only mean that he was praying for something that he didn't want to actually happen. Jim running away with Huck was meant to escape slavery and writing a letter and saying a prayer would defeat the whole purpose.
2. When Huck wrote the letters to Miss Watson they were informing her on where Jim was and how she could get him back to her. Huck never actually sent the letters and instead tore them up because from the beginning Jim was trying to escape Miss Watson. So therefore sending the letters to Miss Watson would completely defeat the purpose. Also if Huck ended up sending the letters it would reveal that he is still alive which would have not only his Dad and Miss Watson coming after him but the law enforcement as well because he had helped Jim get as far as he did.
3. Overall Tom Sawyer is a good kid and would do anything for Huck knowing that he's been through a lot and that he would do the same for him. He is also super adventurous and risk taking so when Huck asks him to help him get Jim back he's all in. Yet when Huck said "Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a n***** stealer!” it was a bit dramatic given the fact that he, himself, was the one to ask him to do it.
4. (Chapter 33)
a. At this point in the story Huck and Tom escape the house and go to town in hope to find out more about Jim but as they were doing so they ran into a mob of angry people. As the mob passed Huck saw the King and the Duke tied to a rail tared and feathered to the point where they didn't look human. Huck had every reason to be upset at them but instead he felt bad. That's when he said the phrase “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”. I think that he said this because even though he knew they lied and ripped off so many people, seeing even them in that state was dreadful.
b. After Huck had heard what the towns people had done to the King and the Duke he went home not feeling as cocky anymore and continued ti feel bad for them. So I think that when Huck said “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.” he was referring to the fact that they deserved everything they got but his conscious took over and he still felt bad for the even if he has no reason to.
5. In chapter 34 Huck and Tom try and find a harder way to break Jim free because they wanted to make the escape mysterious and have people really question how he go tout. I think that they did this to make sure that if the mission was successful that their tracks were covered and no one knew that Huck and Tom had anything to do with Jim's escape. So overall their plan needed to be complicated to ensure all three of them walked away free and out of future trouble.
2. When Huck wrote the letters to Miss Watson they were informing her on where Jim was and how she could get him back to her. Huck never actually sent the letters and instead tore them up because from the beginning Jim was trying to escape Miss Watson. So therefore sending the letters to Miss Watson would completely defeat the purpose. Also if Huck ended up sending the letters it would reveal that he is still alive which would have not only his Dad and Miss Watson coming after him but the law enforcement as well because he had helped Jim get as far as he did.
3. Overall Tom Sawyer is a good kid and would do anything for Huck knowing that he's been through a lot and that he would do the same for him. He is also super adventurous and risk taking so when Huck asks him to help him get Jim back he's all in. Yet when Huck said "Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a n***** stealer!” it was a bit dramatic given the fact that he, himself, was the one to ask him to do it.
4. (Chapter 33)
a. At this point in the story Huck and Tom escape the house and go to town in hope to find out more about Jim but as they were doing so they ran into a mob of angry people. As the mob passed Huck saw the King and the Duke tied to a rail tared and feathered to the point where they didn't look human. Huck had every reason to be upset at them but instead he felt bad. That's when he said the phrase “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”. I think that he said this because even though he knew they lied and ripped off so many people, seeing even them in that state was dreadful.
b. After Huck had heard what the towns people had done to the King and the Duke he went home not feeling as cocky anymore and continued ti feel bad for them. So I think that when Huck said “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.” he was referring to the fact that they deserved everything they got but his conscious took over and he still felt bad for the even if he has no reason to.
5. In chapter 34 Huck and Tom try and find a harder way to break Jim free because they wanted to make the escape mysterious and have people really question how he go tout. I think that they did this to make sure that if the mission was successful that their tracks were covered and no one knew that Huck and Tom had anything to do with Jim's escape. So overall their plan needed to be complicated to ensure all three of them walked away free and out of future trouble.
Chapter 36-40
1. When Huck and Tom were setting Jim free they both had a different motivation in doing so. From the begging Tom has always been willing to do anything for Huck and is willing to take the risk but often times makes it as fun as possible. So when Huck asked Tom to help him set Jim free he was all for it. Tom's motivation was to have an adventure and to get Jim free in the hardest way possible, while Huck's motivation was simply to get Jim free whether it be easy or difficult all Huck wanted was Jim back.
2. In Chapter 37 Huck and Tom say the phrase "Let on". Every time they say that phrase the are meaning that they are pretending that certain things are happening. For example in the middle of the chapter Huck and Tom were preparing a witch pie, and making a rope out of sheets. They then say "We let on it took nine months to make it" This would then mean " We pretended that had taken us nine months to make" in modern terms. So overall they were pretending that breaking out Jim was harder than it actually was and pretending that certain things they did took longer or were harder than it was in reality.
3. Uncle Silas tells Jim had run away and Aunt Sally is in panic because the house is out of order. Uncle Silas then advertises that Jim is a captured runaway slave. Later in the chapter Tom decides to write letters to the family under the name "unknown friend" in hope that this would distract the family from releasing the advertisements about Jim to overall give them more time to help Jim escape. In the letters Huck and Tom write how Jim is going to be stolen and how he was going to be stolen.
4. The planning and plotting of Jim's escape is and example of satire because Tom wants to pretend that it was more work than it actually was and tries to find the most complicated and hard plan to help Jim. This is satire because as human we often look to get a lot of credit for things we do or expect to be praised for simple tasks. Therefore Tom is looking for praise and does so by saying that certain things take months to accomplish when they only took a couple of hours.
5. In this part of the book Huck and Tom have finally helped Jim escape but they were almost caught and the family was shooting at them as they were running away which ultimately resulted in Tom being shot in the calf. On the raft they were helping Tom keep the blood under control and keep him calm. Huck asked Jim what he think they should do and he said “Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz HIM dat ’uz bein’ sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, ’Go on en save me, nemmine ’bout a doctor f’r to save dis one?’ Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You BET he wouldn’t! WELL, den, is JIM gywne to say it? No, sah—I doan’ budge a step out’n dis place ’dout a DOCTOR, not if it’s forty year!” which then results in Huck saying that he is a white man on the inside. Huck refers to him as this because Jim decided that it was best to get a doctor rather than save Tom themselves and even though Jim is a black slave he has started to think as a white man would.
2. In Chapter 37 Huck and Tom say the phrase "Let on". Every time they say that phrase the are meaning that they are pretending that certain things are happening. For example in the middle of the chapter Huck and Tom were preparing a witch pie, and making a rope out of sheets. They then say "We let on it took nine months to make it" This would then mean " We pretended that had taken us nine months to make" in modern terms. So overall they were pretending that breaking out Jim was harder than it actually was and pretending that certain things they did took longer or were harder than it was in reality.
3. Uncle Silas tells Jim had run away and Aunt Sally is in panic because the house is out of order. Uncle Silas then advertises that Jim is a captured runaway slave. Later in the chapter Tom decides to write letters to the family under the name "unknown friend" in hope that this would distract the family from releasing the advertisements about Jim to overall give them more time to help Jim escape. In the letters Huck and Tom write how Jim is going to be stolen and how he was going to be stolen.
4. The planning and plotting of Jim's escape is and example of satire because Tom wants to pretend that it was more work than it actually was and tries to find the most complicated and hard plan to help Jim. This is satire because as human we often look to get a lot of credit for things we do or expect to be praised for simple tasks. Therefore Tom is looking for praise and does so by saying that certain things take months to accomplish when they only took a couple of hours.
5. In this part of the book Huck and Tom have finally helped Jim escape but they were almost caught and the family was shooting at them as they were running away which ultimately resulted in Tom being shot in the calf. On the raft they were helping Tom keep the blood under control and keep him calm. Huck asked Jim what he think they should do and he said “Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz HIM dat ’uz bein’ sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, ’Go on en save me, nemmine ’bout a doctor f’r to save dis one?’ Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You BET he wouldn’t! WELL, den, is JIM gywne to say it? No, sah—I doan’ budge a step out’n dis place ’dout a DOCTOR, not if it’s forty year!” which then results in Huck saying that he is a white man on the inside. Huck refers to him as this because Jim decided that it was best to get a doctor rather than save Tom themselves and even though Jim is a black slave he has started to think as a white man would.
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1. In this part of the story Huck ran into Uncle Silas in town when he was finding the doctor for Tom. Uncle Silas took him back to the house and Huck made up a story as to why Tom and Huck were gone, they believed it. When Huck said he was going to bed Aunt Sally followed and tucked him in as if she was his mother. Huck then felt guilty and couldn't look her in her eyes because he knew that Tom was stuck in pain and in danger while he was sleeping in a bed. I also think Huck felt this way because he knew that he lied about Jim and everything and could tell that in the end he was hurting the family rather than making things better.
2. Aunt Sally sees Tom being carried on a mattress with the with the help of the doctor and a tied up runaway slave (Jim). She presumed that Tom was dead but he eventually woke up. Aunt sally asked the doctor what had happened and he explained that when he had got to Tom that he realized he couldn't get the bullet out on his own and he needed help but he wasn't going to leave the bot there on his own. He went onto explain that Jim said he could help save Tom and get the bullet out of his leg. So overall this is an example that Jim has come closer to Tom and Huck and cares a lot about their health and overall safety and would do anything to save them even if it puts his freedom at risk. They all agreed that Jim acted with kindness and that without him putting his freedom at risk then Tom would've been dead.
3. Throughout the book we have notices a pattern in Tom's love for adventure and how often he is will to do anything for the trill of it. So when he wakes up and tells everyone of Miss Watson's death and that Jim was already a free slave and that him and Huck were simply freeing something that was already free just proved that he was more in it for the adventure rather than the reward itself. Also the fact that he kept the secret that Miss Watson had died and Jim was free just further proved that he seriously would do anything for the adventure, including freeing something that is already free.
4. Overall Huck morphed and changed to whatever came his way but he always stuck to his smart, adventurous, kind self. From the beginning Huck was faced with hard situations but faced them with courage and always found a way out of them. He also showed an interest for adventure and how he was willing to take risks , for example joining the band of robbers. Huck is also a very smart boy and came up with the smartest of plans such as faking his death to escape his father. Lastly Huck always had a kind heart and was always trying to do his best to help others and often risked his own safety to protect those around him.
2. Aunt Sally sees Tom being carried on a mattress with the with the help of the doctor and a tied up runaway slave (Jim). She presumed that Tom was dead but he eventually woke up. Aunt sally asked the doctor what had happened and he explained that when he had got to Tom that he realized he couldn't get the bullet out on his own and he needed help but he wasn't going to leave the bot there on his own. He went onto explain that Jim said he could help save Tom and get the bullet out of his leg. So overall this is an example that Jim has come closer to Tom and Huck and cares a lot about their health and overall safety and would do anything to save them even if it puts his freedom at risk. They all agreed that Jim acted with kindness and that without him putting his freedom at risk then Tom would've been dead.
3. Throughout the book we have notices a pattern in Tom's love for adventure and how often he is will to do anything for the trill of it. So when he wakes up and tells everyone of Miss Watson's death and that Jim was already a free slave and that him and Huck were simply freeing something that was already free just proved that he was more in it for the adventure rather than the reward itself. Also the fact that he kept the secret that Miss Watson had died and Jim was free just further proved that he seriously would do anything for the adventure, including freeing something that is already free.
4. Overall Huck morphed and changed to whatever came his way but he always stuck to his smart, adventurous, kind self. From the beginning Huck was faced with hard situations but faced them with courage and always found a way out of them. He also showed an interest for adventure and how he was willing to take risks , for example joining the band of robbers. Huck is also a very smart boy and came up with the smartest of plans such as faking his death to escape his father. Lastly Huck always had a kind heart and was always trying to do his best to help others and often risked his own safety to protect those around him.