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American Literature Name: _______________________________ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Hour: _______ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Notes Pre-Reading Questions:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is not a collection of all of Huck’s adventures. It is just the beginning.
Mark Twain – not Samuel Clemens
Notable points include: The sunset or sunrise, the white boy is the one working
Not to lose the story for the sake of the moral. Don’t dissect the book and ruin the story.
In some way, every American book after this one has taken something from this book
To give some idea of who Huck is. A follower and uneducated
Haley’s Comet
“Safe water”
“The People’s Author”
4 3 girls and 1 boy
1 girl
He was poor, then rich, then very poor then just when he was starting to turn it around, he died.
Twain is very cynical of humanity. He sees the depravity in everyone. He’s pessimistic.
Despite Twain’s criticisms of society, he also had real faith in youth and its possibilities
Vocabulary: Para-text – The elements of a book beside the text which have meaning Important Questions from the Book
**Assignment: Finish the questions and read through Chapter 4 for Monday Chapter 1-4 Questions:
First person from Huck’s perspective. He treats Twain like a scribe
Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas
“That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don’t know nothing about it.” Pg 2
Heaven
He is very superstitious and nervous about curses and hexes
Tom demands fantastic deeds and Huck agrees against his better reason
He is also very superstitious and a real entrepreneur.
From adventure novels
He pays him. They don’t kill him and his family etc.
The water Chapter 5-7 (pgs. 18-36) Questions:
He beats him. He feels inferior to Huck. He tries to steal Huck’s money.
The new judge. Pap gets drunk again and breaks his arm. Disbelief in reform
To spite his father
To a little hut in the woods
Not bathing or changing his clothes. Swearing, smoking
He doesn’t vote himself, and he is far less educated than the black man.
To expose the dangers of abusing alcohol and to show that Pap is near death
A canoe
He fakes his own murder.
Jackson Island Chapter 8-10 (pgs. 36-55) Question:
Fire the cannon over the water and float loaves of bread. Both “work” in a way. Huck finds the bread and they fire the cannon in his face
Because the bread actually “finds” him. It only works if you are the right kind of person
3 days and nights. Like the resurrection. Huck has died to his old life and been resurrected to a new life
He ran away b/c he thought he was going to be sold
B/c Jim says they don’t sting idiots, and Huck has never been stung
B/c he says he owns himself and he’s worth $800
12’ by 15’ or 16’
The dead man in the house
He puts a dead snake by his bed. Jim gets bit by its mate.
As a girl *Assignment: Read through Chapter 14 (pg. 80) for tomorrow Chapter 11-14 (pgs. 55-80) Questions:
Pap and Jim
$300
1. He doesn’t thread the needle like a girl 2. He doesn’t throw like a girl 3. He doesn’t catch in his lap like a girl
He builds a campfire to keep them watching it
A sandbar that has trees growing on it
A wigwam -It can have a fire in it -It can keep their cargo dry
To avoid a crash with a steamboat
They decide to not steal crabapples and p’simmons
They were going to leave the man on the boat to drown
If he were a murder he’d still want to be rescued Continued
Getting paid for his services even though it’s Huck’s “family”
He feels proud for helping bad people. -He thinks that’s what good people do; help bad people.
Royalty (Kings)
Because Solomon had a lot -Solomon didn’t know how to properly value children – unlike Jim
Huck compares it to different animals making different sounds. Jim says that a French is a man so should talk like one. Things to note:
Chapters 15-19 (pgs. 80-116) Questions:
Breaks free from a towhead and floats away in the fog
Trash like playing a mean trick on a friend
Very nervous and guilty
Buy his wife and two kids and take them to freedom
Turn Jim in
Hints that his father has a very contagious and dangerous disease
They passed it in the fog
Gets run over by a steamboat
13-14 yrs. old
A story about a man who leaves his family
To show how aristocratic they are. The cream of the crop and still so stupid
Romantic poets like Poe
Gentlemanly and aristocratic
B/c he shot from behind a bush rather than stepping into the open
No one knows/remembers
It was about brotherly love and both the Shepherdsons and Grangerfords go there
Jim
To marry Harney Shepherdson
He gets shot and killed
Free and easy **Assignment: Read through Chap. 21 (page 145) for tomorrow Chapters 19-21 (pgs. 116-145) Questions:
A mile to a mile and a half
Very, peaceful, idyllic, like the Garden of Eden
Con-men
Duke
King
600-700 years old
B/c of his good manners and he thinks it’s easier to tolerate certain people than to provoke conflict with them.
He thinks they would probably turn Jim in.
The “pro” con men buy Huck’s story but he doesn’t buy their’s
Stormy. The balance has been upset; the peace broken
He thinks he is a great guy and has a great sense of humor
To keep an eye on the king and the duke and “to get coffee”
To pretend that they are taking Jim, a runaway, back to his plantation
Absolute squalor with low class people, rude, mean, the opposite of Grangerfords Twain satirizes both ends of the social spectrum
Shoots him in broad daylight
Lynch him, but they can’t go through with it **Assignment: Read through Chap. 31 (pg. 218) for Monday after break Chapters 22-31 (pgs. 145-218) Questions:
A coward and doesn’t like trouble and danger
Mobs – the foolish majority
Royal Nonsuch – the king running around naked
That slaves can love their kids as much as white people do
Deaf and dumb – Terrible, but he loves her despite the physical deficiency
How much they can change people The right clothes can cover a multitude of sins
The way that the king and the duke take advantage of the orphans The way that the orphans and others buy it all
That it makes everything seem whole and good again
The doctor.
Criticize their cooking or themselves
Good manners trumping honesty
To sell off all the belongings and keep the money
In Peter’s coffin
He separates the slave family when he sells them
To protect Jim – He thought they’d tell
The real Harvey and William
To dig up the body and see what was tattooed on the chest
Lynch them
They lose almost all their money
The king sold him
A sheep. Leaving the 99 and looking for the one lost Assignment: Finish answering the questions by tomorrow Chapter 32-35 (218-45) Questions:
The average American family. Christian, well-educated.
Terrible. Lonely. Lost.
To show the racist disregard for the life of slaves as compared to the life of a white man.
Tom Sawyer
He is a farmer and a PREACHER
Tom Sawyer
He is shocked, dismayed, and quite angry at Huck for stooping so low.
Jim
Kisses her on the mouth
Tom Sawyer
They are caught trying to perform the Royal Nonsuch and tarred and feathered Jim tells on them
Terrible. “Human beings can be cruel to one another.” Guilty.
To steal the key and let him out, get on the raft and go down the river
A dog
It is too easy and lacks style
Cut it off – Demonstrates Tom’s racist disregard for Jim’s well-being and his willingness to sacrifice Jim’s comfort and leg to satisfy Tom’s own need for adventure
A young boy filled with adventure. Kid of taking a satitiric stab at the person closest in relation to the protagonist
To free Jim, even if it means dying. Assignment: FINISH THE BOOK FOR MONDAY Chapter 36- Chapter the Last (pgs. 245-294) Questions:
B/c he knows better, and it wouldn’t be write for him to do the wrong thing b/c right is right and wrong is wrong
B/c his hands are too beat up to climb the lightning rod. He sets aside his adventure Scheme for the sake of his own benefit (rarely for Jim’s)
To pray with him. He is concerned about his spiritual freedom but not his present freedom
B/c Tom is white and Jim figures that Tom would know better
Jim bites down on it and really hurts his teeth. Tom doesn’t mind hurting Jim For the sake of his twisted adventure
Rats, cows, etc. They are too naïve and innocent to recognize Tom and “Sid”
Jim comes out to help them. So odd that Jim didn’t simply run then
They eat it. They really hurt themselves then.
St. Louis. Huck is worried that Miss Watson will find out.
Letters warning of the plan to steal Jim away to make the evasion more difficult
15 armed farmers who believed Tom’s letters
He gets shot in the leg
White – A sad, twisted, yet incredibly kind compliment
They tie him up, curse him and hit him
He never says anything like Jesus – a sheep before a shearer is dumb so he opened not his mouth
B/c Jim has been free anyway. Miss Watson freed him in her will about 2 months ago
Why Tom was willing to help “steal” Jim. Tom knew he was free already
They treat him almost like an equal, feeding him, dressing him, etc.
He was the dead man in the house that floated by earlier in the book
To run away to the “Injun territory” The only way for Huck to remain “free” is to keep running from society’s corrupting influences **Assignment: Read the Afterward and the Preface for Tuesday Directory: uploads uploads -> Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States of America against Cuba uploads -> Raíces y Sueños: the Artistry of Cuba Call for Art – Exhibit Application uploads -> Why did democracy develop in Britain after 1850? Introduction uploads -> Draft land restitution policy uploads -> Chapter 10: a new civilization emerges in western europe uploads -> Landmark Supreme Court Cases uploads -> Civil Rights Movement Unit Summary uploads -> Lesson plan template Share with your friends:
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