The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain Chapters 31-35

Chapter 31 – Question 1 Describe the financial status of the King, the Duke, Huck, and Jim. The King, the Duke, Huck, and Jim are broke. They lost all of their money at the Wilks’s.

Question 2 Why do Huck and Jim become uneasy? Huck and Jim become uneasy because the King and the Duke talk low and confidential for two to three hours at a time.

Question 3 Where is Jim? Who sold? Why? Jim is gone. He was sold by the King for $40.00. The King says he came to think of Jim as his own slave.

Question 4 Discuss Huck’s conscience. Why can’t he pray? Huck’s conscience is bothering him. He has stolen Miss Watson’s slave. He tries to pray, but he cannot. His heart “warn’t right.”

Question 5 What letter does Huck write? Does he send it? Why or why not? Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson telling her where Jim is. He thinks about his times with Jim and decides to “go to hell.” He tears up the letter. He sees a difference between what he sees as morally right and what society has legislated.

Question 6 How does Huck decide that he will rescue Jim? Huck will rescue Jim by stealing him out of slavery.

Question 7 What scheme do the King and the Duke plan to make money in a new town? The King and the Duke plan to perform the Royal Nonesuch to make money. They figure they are far enough away from Bricksville that it is safe.

Question 8 What does the King do with the $40.00? Where does the Duke tell Huck he can find Jim? The King gets drunk with the $40.00 from selling Jim. The Duke tells Huck that Jim is 40 miles back in the country at Abram Foster’s place. He is lying.

Chapter 32 – Question 1 Who does Aunt Sally (Mrs. Phelps) believe Huck to be? Aunt Sally believes that Huck is Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer is coming for a visit, and he is due around the time that Huck shows up.

Question 2 Discuss the conversation Huck and Aunt Sally have about the boat that “blowed a cylinder head”? Are you surprised with Huck’s statement about the death? Huck says he was late because the boat “blowed a cylinder head.” Huck says no one was hurt; only a black man is killed. Huck slips back into society’s view that black people were only property and not human.

Question 3 Why does Huck go to town? Huck goes to town to get Tom before he has a chance to get to the Phelps’s Plantation. He tells them that he is going back to get his baggage.

Chapter 33 – Question 1 Who arrives in a wagon? How does he react when he sees Huck? Tom Sawyer arrives on the wagon. He is scared when he sees Huck. He thinks Huck is a ghost that has come back to haunt him.

Question 2 How does Tom respond when Huck tells him about stealing Jim? Why is Tom surprised with Tom’s response? Tom says he’ll help Huck steal Jim. Huck cannot believe Tom would go against society’s teachings.

Who does Tom first pretend to be? What is his “story”? Question 3 Who does Tom first pretend to be? What is his “story”? At first, Tom pretends to be William Thompson looking for Archibald Nichols.

Question 4 What does Tom do that offends Aunt Sally? Who does Tom tell Aunt Sally he really is? Tom kisses Aunt Sally on the mouth and claims he was told she would like it. Tom finally admits that he is really Sid Sawyer.

Question 5 Who blows the whistle on the King and the Duke? What happens to the King and the Duke? How does this make Huck feel? Jim tells on the Duke and the King about the Royal Nonesuch. The King and the Duke get tarred and feathered. Huck feels sick and comments on how cruel human beings are to one another.

Chapter 34 – Question 1 How does Tom know that Jim is in the ash hopper? Tom knows that Jim is in the ash hopper. There is a padlock on the hut, and unless something of value is in there, it would not have a padlock on it. There is also watermelon included in the food. A man would want the melon.

What is Huck’s plan for Jim’s escape? Question 2 What is Huck’s plan for Jim’s escape? Huck wants to steal the key, get Jim, and leave immediately on the raft.

Question 3 Why does Tom not like Huck’s plan? Tom says that Huck’s plan is too simple. There is nothing to it. Tom likes to have many adventures, and he wants to take this opportunity to go all out.

Question 4 What is Tom’s plan? (saw/dig) Tom decides that it is too easy to saw Jim out of the ash hopper. Instead, he wants them to dig Jim out. He figures that it will take about a week.

Question 5 Discuss Tom and Huck’s encounter with Jim and the slave that feeds him. Jim’s slave is afraid of witches. When Jim sees the boys, he calls out in recognition. Huck and Tom convince the slave that witches sang out. They say that Jim does not call out their names

Discuss these items as they relate to Jim’s escape: Chapter 35 – Question 1 Discuss these items as they relate to Jim’s escape: Sawdust Rope ladder Shirt/blood ink Case knives The sawdust comes from a sawed-off bedleg. They swallow the sawdust and get a stomachache. They could have just lifted up the bedleg and slipped the chain off. The rope ladder is made up of cut up sheets and hidden in a pie.

Question 1 – Cont’d Jim is given a shirt in order to keep a journal that is written with his own blood. The blood comes from bites he receives from the rats they place in the ash hopper. The case knives are used to dig Jim out because they take longer than picks.

Question 1 – Cont’d Are any of these items truly needed? Whose idea is it to use these things? No, these items are not truly needed. It is Tom’s idea to use these things. Tom is causing unnecessary suffering for Jim and more time in captivity for Jim. It is selfish on Tom’s part.

Question 2 How are Tom and Huck alike and different? Huck goes along with Tom’s plan. He respects Tom because Tom is respectable. Tom was well “brung up” and has character to lose. Huck thinks that Tom is the brightest boy he knows. Tom has a family, is educated, and likes to read fantasy/adventure books. Huck has no “family,” is sparsely educated, and is literal- minded.