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Chapter 1 The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Dialectical Journal

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Meet Huck Episode 1 Characters: Huck, Tom Sawyer, Miss Watson, Widow Douglas, Jim, Pap Setting: Miss Watson and Widow Douglas’s house in St. Petersburg, Missouri “Then she told me about the bad place, and I said I wish I was there” (2). Overview: Huck started living with Miss Watson and Widow Douglas, but he doesn’t like staying there because he has to say prayers, wear nice clothes, and act ‘sivilzed’. They also tell him about heaven and hell, but he doesn’t understand the importance of heaven and thinks hell is acceptable too. The only reason he stays is to be in Tom’s robber gang, which ends up breaking up after a month. After a few months, he sees his pap’s footprints in the mud and immediately runs to …show more content…

Question: Are methods, such as fortune telling, acceptable in society or is it looked down on? The Great Escape Episode 2 Characters: Huck, Pap, Judge Thatcher, Widow Douglas Setting Widow Douglas and Miss Watson’s, Pap takes Huck to his Cabin, Huck goes to Jackson Island “... he rolled over and over, wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming, and saying there was devils ahold of him” (21). Overview: Pap kidnapped Huck and took him to his cabin in the forest. Pap continued to get drunk and hurt Huck, but would forget about it the next morning. Huck started to get angry with him for the constant abuse and for trying to take all of his money that he gave to Judge Thatcher, so he came up with a plan to escape. He did this by destroying the cabin and spreading blood (animal) throughout the cabin to look like someone killed him. Then, he used a boat he found to sail down the river to Jackson’s Island. Conflict: Character vs. Character- Pap would physically abuse Huck and this resulted in Huck …show more content…

A couple days later, Huck finds Jim, but Jim has a hard time believing it because he’s supposed to be dead. Jim tells him that he ran away from Widow Douglas’s, which makes Huck feel guilty keeping him. They venture to a cave on the island and stay there until the storm stops. During the storm, a dead man washes up, but Jim doesn’t let Huck look at the face because he says it’s bad luck. Huck starts to get bored on the island so he decided to go into Illinois to get news of things going on. To prevent being recognized, he dresses up as a girl and calls himself Sarah Williams. After being in Mrs. Judith Loftus’s house, she figures out he’s a boy, but lets him go because she thought he was an apprentice to a mean farmer. She also told him her husband and a bunch of other men were going later in the night to the island to look for Jim. After hearing that he rushed off back to the cave to alert Jim so they could

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  Pap speaks to the mercilessness and seriousness of human progress, which undermines to crush Huck. Pap in the long run abducts his own child compelling Huck to make an involved departure arrangement which included faking his own particular death. Unexpectedly, the same acculturated people who are not excessively worried over Huck's torment because of Pap are extremely inquisitive and amped up for finding his dead

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Huck dislikes being with his father so he fakes his own death and runs off to meet Jim, who has also run away. The two go on adventures together down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim encounter a steamship swarmed with murdering thieves and being taken in by a family which is eventually murdered. Jim then is taken away to a plantation. Huck is loyal enough to try and rescue Jim and they ride off into the sunset when Jim is freed of slavery.

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They asked him about a runaway slave and Huck said he did not know on the runaway slave but he would keep a lookout. Huck said that his Pap was on the boat. That his mother and rest of his family got sick and died. Which made the slave hunters turn away. Before they left they pushed a piece of board with silver to huck.

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It was not until Huck discovered a sum of treasure that Pap decided Huck was “worth his time” and tried to implement himself into Huck’s life. This scenario presented many problems with the court, Pap’s right (or lack of) to raise Huck, Huck’s personal feelings

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1. Why did Huck give his money to Judge Thatcher? Huck gave his money to Judge Thatcher so Huck's Father was not able to steal it from Huck because Huck had earned that money and he wasn’t willing to give it up to his drunken, absent father. Also, Judge Thatcher knows how Pap is and his tendencies and so the Judge just knew that the reason for Huck trying to get rid of his money as soon as possible without questioning him at all.

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of Huckleberry FinnMark Twain Contents Plot Overview + Summary & Analysis Notice and Explanatory Chapter 1 Chapters 2–3 Chapters 4–6 Chapters 7–10 Chapters 11–13 Chapters 14–16 Chapters 17–19 Chapters 20–22 Chapters 23–25 Chapters 26–28 Chapters 29–31 Chapters 32–35 Chapters 36–39 Chapters 40–43 + Characters + Main Ideas + Quotes + Further Study + Writing Help Share This SparkNote Share on Twitter Chapters 14–16 << Prev Section Page 1 of 2 Next Page > Summary: Chapter 14 Jim and Huck find a number of valuables among the robbers’ bounty from the Walter Scott, mostly books, clothes, and cigars. As they relax in the woods and wait for nightfall before traveling again, Huck reads books from the wreck, and the two discuss what Huck calls their “adventures.” Jim says he doesn’t enjoy adventures, as they could easily end in his death or capture.

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When she treats her slave Jim as a commodity rather than a human being Miss Watson displays the brutality of a typical slave owner. After buying him from a local farm, she tears Jim away from his family. When Miss Watson sells him to a trader in the Deep South, Jim's hope of reuniting with his family disappears. When Jim sees his fate he decides to run away down the Mississippi River. There he sees Huck who is in search of freedom.

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Throughout the journey Jim steers Huck away from danger, or anything that will protect Huck, since Huck is also protecting Jim from being caught. For example, when they are on Jackson’s Island, Jim notices the change in mood of the birds predicting it will rain. Soon enough, a great storm appears, but suddenly, during the course of the storm a body washes downstream. Jim acts quickly and shields Huck from viewing the body. Jim states: “It’s a dead man.

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Because Huck must encounter several trials, the relationship between the two optimistic travelers is tested by blunt jokes, lies, and sacrifices throughout the novel. To begin, Huck’s attempted practical joke on Jim backfires on him. His Temptation is triggered by the overall enjoyment he projects to receive when Jim fearfully finds the dead snake in his bed. However, the snake’s mate ends up slithering into the Jim’s bed too.

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Jim reluctantly tells Huck after he theorizes that Pap took his money, stating there is no possibility of that because the man who had died on the floating boat, “dat wuz him” (Twain 220). Jim does not know how Huck will react to him keeping the secret. He conceals the truth while risking his relationship in order to protect

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Huck is picking up the language of his guardians and of everyone around him. Huck doesn’t exactly know what the word means and how hurtful it is but he still says it because everyone else does. Pap is also giving Huck bad habits and morals. He’s one of the worst people Huck has gotten his values from. For example, Page 19,21 and 23, show that Huck is not actually wanted and pap is using him for the money.

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After observing Huck for over forty chapters, it is safe to conclude that this twelve year old boy is molded into a more magnificent character with every step of the way. He is taught by many masters, some who do not even realize that they are the teacher. He overcomes great fears and obstacles that he never thought possible in his wildest dreams. Huck triumphs over the ideas of slavery, religious hypocrisy, and the many stereotypes of the South without ever looking back. If there is any lesson prominent in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, it is that people should never just blindly follow the crowd because it is the safest route.

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Huck enjoys being lazy, play in the mud and live life without him getting criticized. He wants to look for a place where he can, enjoy life without the fear of getting yelled at. Huck also fears his father who constantly abuses him. In a drunk state, Pap is

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After living with Pap as a young boy and continually getting beat up, Huck looks for a way out. Huck shows early signs of maturity by escaping to Jackson’s Island while Pap is asleep and by covering the house in pigs blood to make it look as if he was murdered. While still in the very beginning of the novel, Huck has already matured tremendously. Another experience that Huck goes through is when Jim turns to Huck and says, “Pooty soon I 'll be a-shout 'n ' for joy, en I 'll say, it 's all on accounts o ' Huck; I 's a free man, en

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Once living with Pap he is left alone time and time again trapped in the house , and all he can think about is escaping. “It was dreadful lonesome... I was scared. I made up my mind I would fix up some way to leave there” (Twain 22). Once Huck sets his mind to something he does not give up, so the reader understands that no matter what might happen Huck will find a way to get out of this place that is supposed to be a home.

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