- While the Widow is trying to civilize him, he gets up to hijinks, pranking Miss Watson's slave Jim and playing with Tom and some others boys in a kind of cops 'n robbers game.
- We learn all about Huck's drunken Pap, so we approve when Huck gives all his money to Judge Thatcher based on having a bad feeling. And it's not heartburn.
- Huck actually starts to like school—and then, when he's kidnapped by his abusive dad, he starts liking his filthy life in a shack down by the river. He's easy to please.
- But eventually it gets to be too much, and he fakes his own death using pig's blood and jets off to Jackson's Island.
- Surprise! Jim—now a runaway—is also there.
- They team up and have more hijinks, including pranks, crossdressing, falling in with robbers, and then getting separated.
- Huck has some moral conflict about whether it's right to help Jim escape, but he also gradually starts to think of Jim as, you know, an actual person.
Huckleberry Finn: Chapters 1-5
Time-Line
Chapter 1-Huckleberry tells the Widow and Miss Watson he was to learn and become educated.
Chapter 2-While Miss Watson is educating him, him and his friend Tom Watson prank Miss Watson's slave Jim while he was sleeping. They also started a gang where they kill people.
Chapter 3-Huck's Pap comes back after about a year and he is always drunk, Huck gives Judge Thatcher all of his money because he had a bad feeling.
Chapter 4-Huck's dad told him to drop school because he didn't go and his dad thought that if Huck went to school he would be better than him. Huck quits the gang.
Chapter 5-The widow and Judge Thatcher go to court so that they could become the guardians of Huck. Huck's Pap goes to the new Judge's home to learn manners and how to treat his kid and in the middle of the night he got drunk and fell out the window and broke his arm in two different places. Then his dad face jail time.
Chapter 2-While Miss Watson is educating him, him and his friend Tom Watson prank Miss Watson's slave Jim while he was sleeping. They also started a gang where they kill people.
Chapter 3-Huck's Pap comes back after about a year and he is always drunk, Huck gives Judge Thatcher all of his money because he had a bad feeling.
Chapter 4-Huck's dad told him to drop school because he didn't go and his dad thought that if Huck went to school he would be better than him. Huck quits the gang.
Chapter 5-The widow and Judge Thatcher go to court so that they could become the guardians of Huck. Huck's Pap goes to the new Judge's home to learn manners and how to treat his kid and in the middle of the night he got drunk and fell out the window and broke his arm in two different places. Then his dad face jail time.
Reading for Friday: Chapters 5 - 11
He's also trying to stop his son from gaining an education, life, civilized upbringing, culture, knowledge, and basically anything that he himself doesn't have. He demands that Huck stop going to school and stop learning about religion and even tears up one of his schoolbooks.
Oh, and he wants money.
Oh, and he wants money.
Huck Finn Discussion Questions Chap. 12-16
Huck comes up with a fun little name and story: he—ahem, she—is Sarah Williams, his/her mother is sick, etc., etc.
The woman is a chatty bird and tells "Sarah" all about the big news in town: the murder of Huck Finn.
he two continue on their way to Cairo (where Jim will finally be free) but eventually they think to ask the very important question: how will they know they've gotten there once they've arrived? You know, since there aren't exactly highway signs all over.
Huck decides to paddle ashore, tell some lies (which he likes doing anyway), and find out how far they are from Cairo.
The woman is a chatty bird and tells "Sarah" all about the big news in town: the murder of Huck Finn.
he two continue on their way to Cairo (where Jim will finally be free) but eventually they think to ask the very important question: how will they know they've gotten there once they've arrived? You know, since there aren't exactly highway signs all over.
Huck decides to paddle ashore, tell some lies (which he likes doing anyway), and find out how far they are from Cairo.
Describe the Grangerford family (Chapter 17 18).
While Huck is busy standing motionless to avoid being mauled to death by the dogs, a voice from the nearby house asks him who he is.Huck, a.k.a. Master of Deception, responds "George Jackson."The voice then wants to know if he's associated with "the Shepherdsons." Since he's not, he's welcomed inside the house by several men with guns. Guns pointed at him.Once the guns are put away, we meet the family: Saul, the old gentlemen; Rachel, the old lady; Buck, the young boy about Huck's age of thirteen or fourteen.Are their rhyming names a coincidence? We think not.Oh, and Betsy, their black slave.While Huck is busy standing motionless to avoid being mauled to death by the dogs, a voice from the nearby house asks him who he is.
Huck a.k.a. Master of Deception, responds "George Jackson."
The voice then wants to know if he's associated with "the Shepherdsons." Since he's not, he's welcomed inside the house by several men with guns. Guns pointed at him.Once the guns are put away, we meet the family: Saul, the old gentlemen; Rachel, the old lady; Buck, the young boy about Huck's age of thirteen or fourteen.Are their rhyming names a coincidence? We think not.Oh, and Betsy, their black slave.
Huck a.k.a. Master of Deception, responds "George Jackson."
The voice then wants to know if he's associated with "the Shepherdsons." Since he's not, he's welcomed inside the house by several men with guns. Guns pointed at him.Once the guns are put away, we meet the family: Saul, the old gentlemen; Rachel, the old lady; Buck, the young boy about Huck's age of thirteen or fourteen.Are their rhyming names a coincidence? We think not.Oh, and Betsy, their black slave.
Huck Finn Discussion Questions (Chap. 22-26)
The night of the doctor's warning, Joanna and Huck eat together, since they are the youngest two people present. She asks him all about England, and Huck lies to her in order to sound knowledgeable. She catches him in several of the lies, and Huck keeps pretending to choke on a chicken bone in order to think of a way out. Mary Jane overhears Joanna telling Huck that she does not believe him and makes Joanna apologize to Huck for being so rude. Huck decides he cannot let the King and Duke steal the money from these extremely kind girls.
Why did people stay up with the dead during this time period? (Chapter 27)
Huck is all tiptoeing around downstairs when… he hears more footsteps.
He darts into the parlor where the deceased Peter Wilks is laid out in his coffin. Bingo!
He shoves the bag of gold in under the dead man's hands and then hides behind the door (of the parlor, not the coffin) while Mary Jane comes in and cries over Peter's body.
He darts into the parlor where the deceased Peter Wilks is laid out in his coffin. Bingo!
He shoves the bag of gold in under the dead man's hands and then hides behind the door (of the parlor, not the coffin) while Mary Jane comes in and cries over Peter's body.
What do we learn (or reaffirm) about Huck when he tells Miss Mary Jane the slaves will see their family again in inside of two weeks? (Chapter 28)
Huck is afraid he will be caught with the stolen money, so he hides it inside coffin. That day, the funeral service is held, and is interrupted by loud barking from a dog locked in the cellar. The undertaker goes to silence the dog, returns, and tells the audience the dog caught a rat. Huck remarks that the service was long and tiresome, but is relieved when Peter Wilks and the money are finally buried.
.Huck says “You can’t pray a lie.” What lie is he trying to pray about? What does he mean? (Chapter 31-35
Jim was already found at this point and he is captured and convicted as a runaway slave. Huck is very shocked and he tries to help to ease the situation. Being in shock Huck begins to cry and thinks about telling Ms. Watson about telling her where Jim went and to tell her to take him back so that he doesn't get punished bad. Huck begun to pray so that Ms. Watson and Jim got back together as slave owner and slave, but then Huck realized that he was praying for something that he really did not want. He did that because he was trying to set Jim free not pray so that he gets sent back into slavery.
Chapters 36-40
In the process of helping Jim escape and helping steal him Huck and Tom both have reasons to steal him and they both are different reasons to do it. Tom had a very complicated idea in his mind, he wanted to make Jim's escape a complicated escape so that he could feel like he accomplished something big. He wants to feel the satisfaction of doing something dangerous. Huck's is because he truly cares about Jim and feels bad for him and doesn't want to see him enslaved. He also promised Jim that he would help him escape.
Chapters 41-End
He felt really bad because she was being so sweet and nice with him and gave him shelter and hospitality. He feels terrible also because he was the one who took her slave and now the family is worried. Huck feels like a bad person for stealing Jim and making the family worried after they gave him hospitality and shelter and cared for him.
Jim felt like it was his fault that Tom got shot and feels like it is also his fault that Tom is in the hospital, he feels guilty so he tries to help. Jim is trying to help them and is trying to do something for Tom because he felt bad about it. This tells how Jim is also a human and no matter what color he is he is also a human and has feelings too. He is also acting like a real human as an educated person.
Jim felt like it was his fault that Tom got shot and feels like it is also his fault that Tom is in the hospital, he feels guilty so he tries to help. Jim is trying to help them and is trying to do something for Tom because he felt bad about it. This tells how Jim is also a human and no matter what color he is he is also a human and has feelings too. He is also acting like a real human as an educated person.