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Should Everyone Follow Societal Norms And Trends In Huck Finn

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Blake Green
4/15/15

Episode 1 Chapters 1-4

heres pap

Characters: huckleberry Finn
Pap Finn
Tom Sawyer
Judge Thatcher
Widow Douglas
Jim Turner
Miss Watson

Setting: Central Missouri (St Petersburg)

Summary: We meet Huck Finn and learn about his background. Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer have obtained a fortune $6000; Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, and Judge Thatcher attempt to civilize Huck; Hucks dad Pap, who left him returns. After being open-minded and trying out what Miss Watson is teaching him, that civilization is overrated; society and freedom cannot coexist.

Key questions:
Should everyone follow societal norms/trends?
Is being civilized really as vital as society makes it seem?

conflict:
Man v. Society: Huck struggles with the idea of conformity

"I don't take no stock in dead people." -Huck Finn

episode 2 chapters 5-7

Gone fishin’

characters:
Pap
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Man v. Self: Huck doesn't know whether he should continue to go along with the con or tell the truth and escape the king and duke. "Well, if I ever struck anything like it, I'm a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."-Huck Desperate for money, The duke sells Jim for to Silas Phelps. Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson but tears it up and decides to steal Jim out of slavery. On his way to free Jim, Huck comes across the duke who lies to him, saying that Jim is a three-days trip away; Huck gets to the Phelps house and Silas' wife, Aunt Sally, assumes that Huck is Tom Sawyer, her nephew that she is expecting. Huck goes to tell Tom of his fake identity at the docks; Huck tells Tom and he agrees to help Jim escape; at the Phelps' farm, Tom poses as his own half brother, Sid. When Sally asks to go to the show -being the king and duke's - Silas tells them that "the runaway" said it was a con and not to go. Huck and Tom witness the king and duke being run out of town by an angry mob that night and Huck feels bad for them. Phelps' Farm

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