The Grangerfords Chapter 17 and 18 By: Geiser, Hardy, Laird, Pentz, Zuraw

Summary ❖ Grangerfords allow Huck in after ensuring he isn’t a Shepherdson ❖ Huck invents “George Jackson” and orphan story ❖ Buck, 14 year old son of Grangerford, befriends Huck ❖ Grangerfords are “beautiful” people with a “beautiful” house ❖ Buck tries to kill Harney Shepherdson, explains family feud ○ No one knows how it started, two killed this year

Summary ❖ Families sit in church with guns, “brotherly love” ❖ Sophia Grangerford tells Huck to get her Bible left at church ○ Note falls out, “Half-past two” ❖ Huck’s slave leads him to Jim, hiding in the swamp ○ Jim had followed him but was scared of the Grangerfords ○ Jim fixed the raft so they could leave

Summary ❖ Next day, Sophia ran off with Harney Shepherdson ❖ Shepherdsons and Grangerfords have a shootout, Buck dies and the couple gets away safely ❖ Huck is deeply affected by Buck’s death ❖ He leaves down the river with Jim and feels free once again

Lesson ❖ Hatred doesn’t always look scary ○ Grangerfords vs. Shepherdsons ❖ Confused priorities ○ Family honor is their top priority ○ Bucks death is the final straw ❖ “The boys jumped for the river...shooting at them and singing out, ‘Kill them, kill them!’ It made me so sick” (Twain 117). ○ Sees the severity of the feud

Literary Analysis ❖ Figurative Language: ❖ Metaphor: ○ “The neighbors said it was the doctor first, then Emmeline, then the undertaker- the undertaker never got in ahead of Emmeline but once, and then she hung fire on a rhyme for the dead person’s name” (Twain 67)

Literary Analysis: ❖ Diction: ○ “I bet you what you dare I can” (Twain 64) ○ “... full of beautiful stuff and poetry” (Twain 65) ○ “... becuz...” (Twain 71) ○ “She was mighty red in the face for a minute, but her eyes lighted up, and it made her powerful pretty for a minute” (Twain 71)

Literary Analysis: ❖ Syntax: ○ “She run off in de night some time- nobody don’t know jis’ when; run off to get married to dat young Harney Shepherdson, you know- leastways, so dey ‘spec.” (Twain 73)

Study Guide ❖ Q: Why does Huck take a new name? ○ A: Protect Identity ❖ Q: What is the significance of the remark that Buck will get enough of the battle “in all good time”? ○ A: Foreshadows his death in the following chapter ❖ Q: Why does Twain describe with such detail the physical setting of the Grangerford home? ○ A: Twain uses the setting to demonstrate their need for prestige

Study Guide ❖ Q: Chapter 18 begins with the comment, “Col. Grangerford was a gentleman, you see.” What does Twain wish the reader to see? ○ A: He is a role model, yet he has sinned ❖ Q: What is the irony of the sermon? ○ A: The sermon at church talks about brotherly love.

Study Guide ❖ Q: Who are the only members of the feuding families specifically mentioned as saved from the massacre? ○ A: Harney Shepherdson and Sophia Grangerford ❖ Q: Why does Huck say that there is “no home like a raft”? ○ A: Huck and Jim don’t have to conform to society