The Adventures of Huck Finn Chapters Amy Reyes

Chapter 35

Question 1 When Tom finds out how poorly his uncle has Jim guarded he's "dissatisfied", and he tells Huck "You got to invent all the difficulties." Why does Tom want to make more obstacles for them instead of taking the easy way out like Huck wants to?

Question 2 Instead of standing up to Tom and saving them both time and effort why does Huck continuously go along with Toms immature decisions, when it is clear to him that his own decisions are much more mature and realistic?

Question 3 What does Tom mean when he says: "There's more honor in getting him out through a lot of difficulties and dangers, where there warn't one of them furnished to you by the people who it was their duty to furnish them, and you had to contrive them all out of your own head."?

Question 4 In this chapter Tom lists multiple novels about heroes and prison stories. Do you believe the influence of these books are the reason he is so adventure driven and over the top?

Question 5 Do you believe Tom's "principles" (as Huck calls them) make him feel more honorable?

Civilization versus natural life Pg. 303 Along during the morning I borrowed a sheet and a white shirt off of the clothes line; and I found an old sack and put them in it, and we went down the fox fire, and out that in it too. I called it borrowing, because that's what pap always called it; but Tom said it warn't borrowing, it was stealing. Pg. 303 "It ain't no crime in a prisoner to steal the thing he needs to get away with, Tom said; it's his right" "He said if we warn't prisoners it would be a very different thing, and nobody but a mean, ornery person would steal when he warn't a prisoner"

Honor and acting in a way to earn honor Pg. 298 "There's more honor in getting him out through a lot of difficulties and dangers, where there warn't one of them furnish them and you had to contrive them all out of your own head." Pg. 303 "He made a mighty fuss, one day, after that, when I stole a watermelon out of the slave patch and eat it; and he made me go and give the slaves a dime without telling them what it was for. Tom said that what he meant was, we could steal anything we needed.

Other Irony- "well if that ain't just like you, Huck Finn. You always can get up the infant schooiest ways of going on a thing." Romanticism- romanticism is shown by the way Tom is so fixed upon doing things based on the romantic books he has read. "You got to invent all the difficulties." Theme: (Growing up) It is clear that in this chapter Huck is thinking much more logically and mature while Tom, on the other hand still has immature ideas such as: sawing Jim's leg off, making a rope ladder, digging a hole with case knives and a moat. Important issue- (stealing) "Tom said that what he meant was, we could steal anything we needed." This was an important issue and ironic issue because most of the things Tom believed to be necessities weren't actually needed at all.

Chapter 36

Question 1 The discussion of morals appears in this chapter. Where do you believe Huck and Tom's moral values come from?

Question 2 Who would you say has greater morals, Huck of Tom? Taking into consideration what Huck said about stealing and what Tom said about leaving Jim for their children to save?

Question 3 Why do you think Tom would only use the pickaxe if Huck handed it to him when he asked for it as a "case knife?"

Question 4 By Tom saying "If only he could see his way to it we would keep it up all the rest of our lives and leave Jim to our children to get out," do you think he's helping Jim for a different reason than Huck is?

Question 5 Do you believe Tom's imaginative mind sometimes comes in handy, in certain situations such as the dog situation with Nat?

Civilization versus natural life Pg. 308 " I don’t care shucks for the morality of it, no how. When I start in to steal a slave, or a watermelon, or a Sunday school book, I ain't no ways particular how it's done so it's done." Pg 308 I wouldn't approve of it, nor I wouldn't stand by and see the rules broke because right is right and wrong is wrong, and a body got no business doing wrong when he ain't ignorant and knows better. You don’t know no better; but it wouldn't for me because I do know better."

Superstition Pg. 312 "The slave Nat he only just hollered "Witches" once, and keeled over on to the floor amongst the dogs, and begun to groan like he was dying." 312 "Mars Sid you'll say I's a fool, but it I didn't b'lieve I see most a. Ill ion dogs, er devils, er som'n. I wisht I may die right heah in dese tracks."

Other Hipocrisy " Jim told him Uncle Silas come in every day or two to pray with Jim, and Aunt Sally come in to see if he was comfortable and had plenty to eat, and both of them was kind as they could be." Imagery- The slave Nat he only just hollered "Witches" once, and keeled over on to the floor amongst the dogs, and begun to groan like he was dying." Theme (growing up) in this chapter we see Tom sort of grow up a little. He puts his principles somewhat to the side when he uses the pickaxe instead of the case knife, because he realizes how un rational his plan was. Anthropomorphism (personification for animals)- "So we dug and dug with the case knives till most midnight; and then we was dog-tired."