The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn THE STORY SO FAR… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

CHAPTER 1 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Huck and Tom find $6000 each Huck lives with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson because they are going to “civilize” him Hypocritical: Widow Douglas disapproves of smoking but she smokes snuff The adults are too strict; Huck wants to be free Huck accidently kills a spider Superstition: bad luck will occur (foreshadowing) Huck sneaks out from Widow Douglas’s house Onomatopoeia: me-yow me-yow

CHAPTER 2 Tom plays a joke on Jim, Miss Watson’s slave Puts Jim’s hat on a tree Superstition: Jim blames it on witches Tom creates “Tom Sawyer’s Gang” Tom is bossy, leader, violent (child but acts like an adult) Tom is imaginative, dreamer vs Huck is realistic Huck offers Miss Watson as family (sacrifice) if he tells the gang’s secrets Huck does not like Miss Watson much

CHAPTER 3 Miss Watson is strict with Huck but Widow Douglas is more caring Huck prefers Widow Douglas’s Providence Huck wants to go to hell to be away from Miss Watson and to be with Tom Huck does not understand prayer/ religion Religion does not help him to live everyday life (not realistic) Superstition: Huck walks under a ladder Townspeople believe that Pap drowned but Huck does not believe it Huck has good instinct The Tom Sawyer Gang resign because nothing happens

CHAPTER 4 Huck finds a footprint Foreshadowing: looks like Pap’s boot tracks Huck is intelligent: “sells” his money to Judge Thatcher Jim tells Huck a fortune with a hairball Superstition Symbolism: black angel and white angel Huck comes home and finds Pap in his room

CHAPTER 5 Pap is dirty, hairy, and pale white A drunkard (alcoholic) Needs money to buy more drinks Huck dislikes Pap The new judge wants Huck to live with Pap The law cannot/does not protect the weak and innocent The new judge tries to reform/change Pap Pap pretends he is changed (superficial, fake) Takes advantage of a good-doer for money

CHAPTER 6 Pap wants Huck to quit school Does not want his son to be better than him Connection to race Kidnaps Huck and takes him upriver Pap’s beatings are too much and Huck decides to escape Pap gets extremely drunk and blames the government (gov’t) for his problems Racism: Angry at the positive treatment of African Americans Foreshadowing: calls Huck the “Angel of Death”

CHAPTER 7 Huck finds a drifting canoe Huck escapes Huck is resourceful Huck escapes Takes food and supplies and puts them in the canoe Fakes his own death by killing a wild pig and using its blood -> does not want people to look for him Show’s Huck’s intelligence Goes to Jackson’s Island

CHAPTER 8 Huck realizes that people are looking for his dead body Superstition: fill a loaf of bread with quicksilver (poison) to find a drowned body Hypocrisy of the townspeople Huck finds Jim Jim ran away because Miss Watson is planning sell him for $800 Racism/ Slavery Townspeople are religious but uses superstition to find the corpse Notice Miss Watson, the mean character whom Huck dislikes, owns the slave and treats him like an animal (trade for money)

CHAPTER 9 There is a large storm Jim’s prediction in chapter 8 comes true Religion vs. Superstition Huck and Jim find a house floating and a dead body inside Jim won’t let Huck see the body Jim as an adult figure Compare to Pap, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, Townspeople

CHAPTER 10 Jim tells Huck that it is bad luck to touch a snake Superstition Huck plays a prank on Jim Jim gets bitten by a snake and is sick for days Huck feels bad, grows compassion towards Jim Huck realizes the danger of defying superstition and Jim’s knowledge Huck disguises as a girl to hear of the town news Huck is realistic, cares about everyday life Superstition teaches him a lesson (poison, treatment of people)

CHAPTER 11 Huck introduces himself as “Sarah Williams from Hookerville” Hears news about his “death” Jim is suspected of murdering Huck $300 reward Pap is suspected of murdering Huck $200 reward Men are going to hunt Jim to get the money Huck and Jim leave Jackson Island

CHAPTER 12 Huck and Jim continue down the river Peaceful and easygoing Symbolism: weather and nature The two find a steamboat caught on a rock from a storm and decide to explore Two men on the ship have tied down another man and are threatening him Compare to Tom’s pretend gang of robbers When Huck tries to prevent the men from escaping, Jim finds that the raft has floated away Huck and Jim are scared but still trying to do good

CHAPTER 13 Huck and Jim find the raft again Begins to storm Steals provisions from the gang Begins to storm “I begun to worry about the men… I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix” (p72). Huck creates an elaborate story to tell the watchman about the steamboat Steamboat is named the Walter Scott Ferryman hurries to the rescue for a “reward” Infer the murderers drown in the storm

CHAPTER 14 Huck and Jim share knowledge Friendship, partnership “Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head, for a nigger” (p76). “I read considerable to Jim about kings, and dukes, and earls and such” (p76).

Huck and Jim decide that they do not take stock in King Sollermun’s (Solomon) wisdom King Solomon is supposed to be the wisest man alive (bible) They (kings) just sit around, whack heads off, keeps harems “A harem’s a bo’d’n-house, I reck’n” (p77).

STUDY QUESTIONS 10-14 What is in the two story house that floats by Jackson’s Island? Why does Huck dress as a girl to go ashore? What does he find out? What is the name of the ship in which Huck and Jim find murderers? What do we learn about Jim from his talking about “King Sollermun”?