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1. Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 122 fifth avenue New York: Barnes & Noble book, 2003. 293 2. TITLE: The title of this book is significant because in the book Huckleberry Finn narrates his life from when the widow takes him in through when his father kidnaps him. He goes through a series of adventures with his new friend Jim. The theme is portrayed by the title because all huckleberry wants to be free from his father free from the widow. 3. CHARACTERS: There is no known antagonist as the conflict is character vs. Society. Pap Finn is an alcoholic, a wreck and is very disapproving of his son. The book described him a 50-year-old man with skin is as white as a ghost and his clothes tattered and dirty. Huckleberry, the protagonist, …show more content…

Pap Finn continues to demand for Hucks fortune and to drop out of school. A judge tries to clean up Pap Finns act he does but then goes back to his nasty ways. The ending of chapter 6 and beginning of chapter 7 Huck is kidnaped by his father and taken to a log cabin in the woods on the Illinois shore. One day Huck is assigned to go fetch fish for supper and he's lucky to find a canoe. A week later he fakes his death and sets off on his know in his canoe with a gun and berries. Pap, Judge, Bessie and the widow are looking for Hucks "corpse'' he spends 3 days alone surviving on berries and Smoak fish until he's sees a man that’s quite familiar to him. His name is Jim a run-away slave for miss Watson Huck meets a woman who brings him to a shack but she doesn’t trust him fully. He's dressed as a woman and introduced himself as Sarah Mary Williams. The woman tells him that his father is wanted and so is Jim for the death of Huckleberry and her husband knows that Jim is on the island. Huck thanks the woman and heads back to warn Jim of the danger he's …show more content…

The two men sold the slaves separating families the girls were upset and Huck tried to comfort them saying they will be reunited soon. Huck is very fond of Joanna Wilks and tells her to stay away from the house because the men she thinks are her uncles are imposters she comes back for her family auction but Huck isn't there. The real brother of Mr. Wilk come to claim their inheritance but the frauds won't give up the act. They go in front of a judge to show shows the real Wilk brothers. The culprits are caught because they don’t have the right signature and they asked if there was a tattoo on the deceased back. The dauphin almost choked Huck to death but the Duke stopped him because he concluded that maybe one of us put the gold in the coffin to keep safe with neither of us knowing. They became angry at each other but soon made up and rested concluding the day. They go farther away from where the incident happened the evil duo trying to carry out small schemes on many towns. The two became secretive so Jim and Huck made a plan to ditch them as soon as possible. The duke ratted out Jim as a runaway slave and so Huck vowed to help him escape for a second

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Anna Edgren Sophomore English Period 3 Mrs Burdette 28 April, 2017 Quote Journal #1 Revision Project Throughout the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the readers are able to see the protagonist Huck change his views on society and being able to distinguish right and wrong. The end of chapter fifteen reveals a great deal about Huck and Jim’s relationship. In the chapter, Huck and Jim are on the river on a raft trying to get to Cairo. During this journey, Huck and Jim get separated by the fog when Huck goes ahead to pull the raft.

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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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Then huck again met two people one of them was a Theater person and the other was a person talking about being drunk was stupid but after he did that he got drunk. That did not put a good thing about him on him . So the townspeople did not like them and chased them out. Then they bumped into huck and got on the boat with Huck and Jim.

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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

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Children back then had a lot of ignorance just like Finn. They didn’t think it was a bad thing to treat black people so horribly, they thought that it was perfectly normal. This book is about a young boy named Huck who has been taught as a young boy to despise black people without no experience. One day

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is an American classic, it was the starting point for all great American Literature. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been awarded all of these honorable titles because of its abnormal and controversial plot line. During the time period when the book was written, it was unacceptable to view African- American’s as anything other than slaves. They were viewed as inferior to whites and were treated like property, they had no rights. The main character of the book, Huck, disagrees and disobeys these norms and pushes the boundaries of society when he becomes friends with a slave from his childhood; Jim.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I’m very excited to see what happens next chapter in the adventure of Huckleberry Finn novel. Huck was bored in society of Huck’s father and Widow Douglas ( Huck’s guardian ). So, Huck was a runaway to freedom life, and meet slave Jim on the way, their meet various story in the novel. I think that some chapter of novel can be find of the social today.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is widely considered the most important novels in recent history and is often called the basis for all modern American literature. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn takes place in pre-Civil War Missouri, and the book is about Huckleberry Finn and his adventures. He fakes his death to get away from his abusive father, and when he was running away he found the runaway slave, Jim. He and Jim continue to go down the Mississippi river on a raft, to try to get Jim to freedom. Along the way, they encounter many people, such as two con men who ride the raft with them, and Huck gets involved in a family feud.

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While Jim stays with the canoe so he doesn’t get taken, the others go into the town to see that it’s empty except for a slave sunbathing in the heat. They ask where everyone is, and the slave says they’re in the woods for a camp meeting. Huck and the King go into the woods to spy on the camp meeting, while the Duke searches in the shops. The preacher begged the King to speak to the people, and he did so. He told the people that he was a “pirate-had been one for thirty years out in the Indian Ocean-and his crew was thinned out considerable last spring in a fight, and he was home to take out some fresh men” (Twain 134).

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Throughout the rest of Huck 's journey he continues to meet people along the way that believe themselves to be good civilized people but they all contradict that in some way. The Grangerford 's are in a murdering feud with another family, the Phelps own slaves and are trying to get a reward for Jim, the townspeople that feather and tar the Duke and King without a trial, the execution of Boggs, even the Widow tells Huck not to smoke but takes snuff herself. Huck spends a large amount of time in the book pondering over how to be good and do the right things, and at the end of the book when he decides to go West and leave it all behind he has finally realized that he 's not the one that 's bad, society is. Huck heads back out into the world not for more adventure, but to get away from

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One day Huck discovers that his father, Pap Finn, has returned to town. Because Pap has a history of violence and drunkenness, Huck is worried about Pap 's intentions, especially toward his invested money. When his dad confronted him, he told him to quiet school and stop trying to make himself something that he is not. Even though Pap Finn told Huck to quiet he still went to make his dad mad. Pap Finn kidnaps Huck and takes him across Mississippi river to a small cabin.

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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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Although Ms. Watson and Widow Douglas, Twains depiction of 19th century society, has made Huck’s vision of a stereotypical slaves/ African poor, Huck looks past this and sees that slaves can act like whites. Despite of Huck’s young age and lack of education, through experience Huck had looked past the cultural norm of slaves. When two men come to Huck and ask if the raft has any runaway slaves, Huck lies and says that there is only his Pap in the raft with chickenpox. After the men leave, unknowingly that Jim is in the raft, Huck

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