1. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter 8 - 15

2. Chapter 8 Search for the body using a cannon and bread – what is the irony? –The bread was supposed to find Huck and it did Who does Huck meet on Jackson Island? –Miss Watson’s slave Jim What does Jim think Huck is? –A ghost Why has Jim run away? –Miss Watson was going to sell him to New Orleans

3. Chapter 8 Prejudice vs. Respect for Human Dignity –Doing what society says vs. what your conscience tells you to do Huck meets Jim, must decide whether to help him or turn him in –Society says to turn him in –Heart tells him to help him

4. Chapter 9 Go into a cave and wait out a storm Find flooded-out house and body inside – why does Jim not let Huck see the face? –too gruesome, find out truth later Get supplies and clothes from house River is source of providence – it provides things that Huck needs

5. Chapter 10 & 11 Huck plays prank on Jim – what is it? What happened? –A dead rattlesnake in bed –Its mate comes and bites Jim Huck goes ashore to gather information – what does he pretend to be? –a girl What does he find out? –People first thought that Jim killed Huck, but now they suspect it was Pap and he left town before he was going to be lynched –There’s a reward for both Pap and Jim and a party is going to go to Jackson’s Island to look for Jim

6. Chapter 10 & 11 Does the woman believe that Huck is a girl? –No What gave Huck away? –Throws like a boy –Messes up name –Needle and thread –Catching lead in lap After being discovered as a boy, what does Huck do? –Makes up a story about being an apprentice to a mean farmer How does Mrs. Loftus test this story? –By asking questions about farming.

7. Chapter 10 & 11 Truth vs. Falsehood –When Huck lies to save people it works. –When Huck lies to hurt people it backfires. Huck and Jim leave Jackson’s Island on the raft, traveling at night and hiding in the day.

8. Chapters 12 & 13 On the raft, Jim and Huck “live pretty high”, they pass up St. Louis On a stormy night, they pass a wrecked steamboat where there is a gang of robbers. Huck wants to have an “adventure” like Tom. What are the robbers planning on doing? –Two are going to leave one behind to die when the boat breaks up so they can have his share of the money.

9. Chapters 12 & 13 What happens to the raft while they are on the steamboat? –It floats away How do Huck and Jim escape? –They take the robbers’ skiff. They find their raft. How does Huck feel after leaving the robbers? –Guilty What does he try to do? –Get a ferry-boatman to rescue them How does he do it? –Telling a story that his family is trapped on the boat. What happens? –The steamboat already broke up.

10. Chapters 12 & 13 Natural life vs. Civilized life –Huck and Jim’s life is peaceful on the raft; they meet greed and selfishness of civilized life on the steamboat New Symbol – the raft vs. the steamboat –Raft represents peaceful life, in harmony with nature –Steamboat is a product of civilized society with its criminal life

11. Chapter 14 Huck reads to Jim from books they got from the wreck about kings, etc. What do they argue about? –King Solomon being wise –The French not speaking English

12. Chapter 15 On a foggy night, Huck gets seperated from Jim and the raft. He finds the raft and Jim asleep. Jim is thrilled to see Huck again, but what does Huck do? –He plays a trick on him by saying he was just dreaming. How does Jim react to the trick? –He is hurt and angry. What does Huck do? –He goes and apologizes.

13. Chapter 15 Truth vs. Falsehood –When Huck lies to save people it works. –When Huck lies to hurt people it backfires. Huck plays trick on Jim Prejudice vs. Respect for Human Dignity –Doing what society says vs. what your conscience tells you to do Huck apologizes to Jim