CHAPTER 15 Holly Robinson

 “Well, on the second night a fog began to come on” page 105  “I judged the raft must be butting into the bank every now and then.” page THEMES Civilization Vs. Natural Life

 “As soon as I started I took out after the raft, hot and heavy, right down the tow-head.” page 105  “It was fifteen minutes before could work myself up to go humble myself to a[black man]; but I done it, and I warn’t ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn’t do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn’t done that one if I’d ‘a’ knowed it would make him feel that way.” Page 112 THEMES Honor and Acting in a Way to Earn Honor

 “It was fifteen minutes bore I could work myself up to go humble myself to a [black man].” page 112  Mocks religion by placing whites above slaves. No matter how much he cared for Jim he still had these hang ups. (Infered)  “’I could a ‘got’ down on my knees en kiss yo’ foot’…I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back.” page THEMES Mockery of Religion

 “So Jim went to work and told me the whole thing right through; just as it happened, only he painted it up considerable. Then he said he must start in and “’terpret” it because it was sent for a warning.” page 111  “ The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn’t try to make out to understand them theyd just take us into bad luck, ‘stead of keeping us out of it.” Page 111 THEMES Superstition

LITERARY DEVICE: FORESHADOWING “It had clouded up pretty dark just after I got on the raft, but it was clearing up again now.” Page 111

LITERARY DEVICE: DICTION The authors use of dialect allows the reader to feel the change in emotion from Jim when he realizes what Huck has done.

LITERARY DEVICE: AUTHORIAL INTRUSION “If you think it ain’t dismal and lonesome out in a fog that way by yourself in the middle of the night, you try it once- you’ll see.” page 107

LITERARY DEVICE: POLYSYNDETON “I throwed the paddle down. I heard the whoop again: it was behind me yet, but in a different place; it kept coming, and kept changing its place, and I kept answering, till by-and-by it was in front of me again, and I knowed the current had swung the canoe’s head downstream, and I was all right if that was Jim and not some other raftsman hollering.” Page 106

QUESTIONS 1)What does the fog and rough travel foreshadow in the next chapter? 2)Do you feel that Huck was insensitive in his joke toward Jim, or that Jim took it too seriously? 3)What do you feel contributed the most towards Jim’s resentment of the prank? (age, race, etc.)

QUESTIONS 4) What is the significance of the river? 5) What is the role of the time frame in Huck’s treatment of Jim?

CHAPTER 16

 “Of course there was a booming current; and of course that boat started her engines again ten seconds after she stopped them, for they never cared much for raftsmen” page 122  “Right then along comes a skiff with two men in it with guns, and they stopped and I stopped.” page 116 THEMES Civilization Vs. Natural Life

 “I was paddling off, all in a sweat to tell on him; but when he says this it seemed to kind of take the tuck out of me.” Page 117  I”I see I was weakening; so I just gave up trying, and up and says: ‘He’s white.’” Page 117 THEMES Honor and Acting in a Way to Earn Honor

 “Here, I’ll put a twenty dollar gold piece on this board, and you get it when it floats by.” page 118  This mocks religion by showing that the religious will help, but only from a distance (inferred). THEMES Mockery of Religion

 “Po’ [black men] can’t have no luck. I awluz ‘spected dat rattle snake-skin warn’t done wid its work.” Page 120  “Anybody that don’t believe yet that it’s foolishness to handle a snakeskin, after all that snakeskin done for us, will believe it now if the read on and see what more it done for us.” page 121 THEMES Superstition

 “He was saying how the first thing he would do when he got to a free state he would go to saving up his money and never spend a single cent, and when he got enough he would buy his wife.” Page 121  “Then we talked about the money. It was a pretty good raise- twenty dollars a piece. Jim said we could take a deck passage on a steamboat now and the money would last us as far as we wanted to go in the free states.” Page 119 THEMES Money

LITERARY DEVICE: IRONY “coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children- children that belong to a man I didn’t even know; a man that hadn’t ever done me no harm.” page 115

LITERARY DEVICE: AUDITORY IMAGERY “There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and a whistling of steam.” page 122

LITERARY DEVICE: METAPHOR “hadn’t the spunk of a rabbit” page

LITERARY DEVICE: FIRST PERSON NARRATION The storing being told by Huck increases tension throughout this chapter. The single point of view creates tension when Jim is missing, and the reader is not allowed any information beyond what the narrator knows.

QUESTIONS 1)If put in Huck’s situation would you turn Jim in? 2)Do you feel that Huck’s age plays a role in his treatment of Jim? 3)During earlier chapters and this chapter, Huck emphasizes the negative connotation of the title “abolitionist.” Why do you think titles can have such a strong affect on people? How can this be related to present day?

QUESTIONS 4) What romantic traits can be seen in this chapter? 5) Do you think that Huck growing up with minimal influence by adults shaped his decision at the beginning of this chapter?