1. Huck Finn: Feuds, Firearms and innocence
Chapters 17-18

2. Guided Imagery
You need a piece of paper and a pen. Put away everything else.
You may close your eyes—but do not go to sleep!!!
Listen carefully and be prepared to respond

3. The River is… An escape Transportation A highway to freedom!
Peaceful times
A connection
Turn to chapter 18 and read along as we listen

4. Huck is now on his own and he encounters—DEATH! and lots of it!
Emmeline Grangerford ( )—she writes about death. Why?
If you hear about death constantly can you become numb to it?
How is this a part of Twain’s satire?
Message:
Death is serious
Emmeline cares about the order of speakers at the funeral
Emmeline takes pride in her poetry
Huck feels a connection and believes she was very sad and depressed

5. Grangerfords and Shepherdsons: Twain’s Satire Turns Dark
Targets the cult of Southern aristocracy and the traditions of dueling and feuding.
Thoughts on death—pg 107
It’s okay to kill if you’re in a feud!
What is Twain’s tone toward the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons?
Negative—disdainful: seen through Huck’s observation: pg. 109 church sermons
Huck calls Col. Grangerford a gentlemen—what is ironic about this?
He goes around shooting at others all day long

6. Huck and Buck What do you notice about the names?
Huck becomes very attached to Buck—sees something of himself in Buck
Compare Buck and Tom:
proper behavior “It’s done because its done” no other reason. Warning against the dangers of blind following
Huck sees no honor or tradition in it; he just sees dead young men. First death—Buck dies

7. The Land is… Society’s playground Chaotic Adventure Confusing Painful
Mixed up
Backward

8. Huck Finn Introducing the King and the Duke
Chapters 19-23

9. Does Twain believe there such a thing as “too far” from society?
A-YES
B-NO

10. The Duke & The Dauphin (King) Conmen and Satire
Professional conmen- What do they do to make money?
Trick people
Duke: selling fake products that don’t work (toothpaste that take tartar and enamel off your teeth)
King: running a temperance revival and charging money each night while drinking on the sly
Huck does not believe their story. So why does he let them stay?
He wants to avoid conflict

11. The king himself
The king is basically and idiot. BUT he is smarter than the churchgoers!
What is Twain saying about religious fanatics?
Overkill and gullible
What is he saying about the average man?
Easily manipulated

12. Follow along as we read chapter 21-23

13. Sherburn and Boggs: Southern Bravery?
Second death: Boggs
Colonel Sherburn: speech is a violent criticism of the myth of Southern Bravery—compare to Grangerford episode (criticism of Southern Honor)
Sherburn compares these people to the KKK when he says “You didn’t bring a man with you?”—mob mentality
Twain is making the point that it is better to act on your own and not through mob mentality.

14. “Royal Nonesuch”
The sign “Ladies and Children Not Permitted suggests what?
Scandal
Who comes to the shows?
All the townsmen
Why does it attract a large crowd?
An element of danger and “badness”
What is Twain saying about human beings through this Satire?
We are easily manipulated to want what we shouldn’t
The men who have been conned decide to let the other men in the town be conned before the run the King and the Duke out! What does this say about society’s morality?
We don’t want to be alone in our stupidity
It’s okay to get revenge
It’s okay to con if you have been conned

15. JIM IS HUMANIZED!
Jim weeps about the loss of his family and shares with Huck and event from his past—slapping his daughter for not closing the door only to realize she was deaf. Huck realizes he is a human being with real emotions.