How can your life be applied to a plot diagram? Based on your life so far, what would you say is the “climax” of your life?

Adventures of Huck Finn The Climax

King and the Duke’s Evil Plan  Huck and Jim tried to give the King and Duke the slip, but fail.  So, the King and the Duke do something about it. What? –Sell Jim for $40.00  What does this tell you about the King and the Duke? –Just as evil if not more evil than Pap  What does this tell us about Jim’s role? –He is the “brains” and the “glue” that holds them together

Huck’s Realization  Huck realizes the depth of the conmen when Duke lies about Jim’s whereabouts—especially after the guilt trip he lays on them.  At first he was willing to go along with their lies to keep the peace and now he realizes the dangers of that

Huck’s Breakdown  Huck feels LOST without Jim and we see him break down with emotion for the first time. He has to make an important decision:  Free Jim or Write to Widow Douglass and send him home/back into slavery.  Huck makes his decision: Huck decides he’d rather do the WRONG thing and free Jim and go to Hell than do the RIGHT thing and allow Jim to be a slave. HUCK HAS INTEGRITY, but he never thinks that he is doing the right thing!!!!

Tests his Morality on Aunt Sally  Aunt Sally is relieved that no “people” died when Huck’s imaginary steamship went aground—only a black person did. How is this a test?

Given this information:  What is the CLIMAX (highest point of action) of the novel? –Jim is sold  What is the DENOUEMENT (the “ah-ha” turning point where a character realizes something) of the novel? –When Huck makes his decision to free Jim

Huck has severed his relationship with society completely. Can he go back?

Satire in Huck Finn  What is satire? – Satire is a kind of literature that tries to open people’s eyes to the need for change by exposing the flaws of a person or society  What is irony? –Irony as you may recall is a contrast between what appears to be true and what IS true, or between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.

Satire in Huck Finn  Example: Government Judicial system:  Pap is an example of satirizing the government judicial system because of his relationship to Judge Thatcher and his son. You expect a father to care about his son, but he scolds him about learning to read and “getting religion.” We may laugh at Pap, but we should also be aware of the messages: the new judge is too easily tricked by Pap’s “Reformation” and there is something wrong with a system that would let Pap take Huck.

Find an example for each of these in the novel  Man’s Cruelty to Man  Religious Hypocrisy  Romanticism (look in your notes to recall what this is)  Superstition

With your partner…  Create a satirical cartoon representing one of these examples that you have found.  Sketch a rough draft in your packet, then create a beautiful one on the paper provided.