| What do we know about Huck from the way he talks? | He is not very educated and is probably from the south. |
| What is a stretcher? | It’s an over exaggerated part of a story or a lie |
| Why does Mark Twain begin The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn with a reference to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer? | To tie the stories together. Tom Sawyer is Huckleberry Finn’s best friend. |
| How does Huck feel about being civilized? | He feels like it’s boring, he doesn’t like to ask civilized, he likes to do whatever he wants. |
| “The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names too, but she never meant no harm by it.” Exactly where does the humor of the sentence lie? | When it says “she called me a lot of other names to but she never meant no harm by it”, she can be nice but also mean. |
| Why does Huck perfer “the bad place” to “the good place”? | Because Tom Sawyer isn’t going to the good place, and he wants to stay with his best friend. Also he doesn’t want to go where the widow is. |
| What does Huck’s reaction to the burning of the spider show was about him? | He is very superstitious. |
| What trick does Tom play on Jim? | He hangs Jim’s hat from the branch above him, so he thinks he was taken around the world by witches. |
| How does Huck feel about it? | He thought it was risky and unnecessary, he didn’t want to be involved. |
| What is the difference between Tom and Huck? | Huck is nicer than Tom and Tom is the foolish one. |
| How does Jim react to the track? | He goes and tells all of his friends because he thinks it really happened. |
| If you were going to join Tom Sawyer’s game, what would you have to agree to do? | Seal things and kill people and never tell on anyone. Take the oath and sign your name and blood. |
| What do we learn about Tom as the head of the gang? | He thinks he is the best out of everyone and that he is the only one who calls the shots. He’s a good leader but has a crazy imagination. |
| How does Ben Rogers react to the ransoming idea? | He thinks it’s pointless, he wonders why not just kill them because they’re hiding spot will overflow. |
| What does Huck think about praying? | He thinks it’s pointless and that it doesn’t work. |
| Why does Huck decided that there must be two providences? | Because he doesn’t know why God would be better off without him. Watson describes it differently. |
| What does Huck think of pap? | He didn’t like Pap and was okay with him being gone. |
| Why does Huck resign from the gang? | He didn’t believe what time it was telling him, he tried it himself and it didn’t work. He also thought it was boring and that it was make-believe. |
| Huck and Tom have very different outlooks on A-Rabs and on rubbing lamps. What does a show about them? | Issues that they are very different and think and different ways, it also makes them seem stubborn. Huck isn’t into make-believe and is more serious. |
| Why does Huck sell his fortune to judge Thatcher? | He gives it to him for a dollar so that his dad can’t have it. |
| What does the hairball tell Jim about Hucks future? | He will have a good life with little downfalls. |
| Describe Pap | He is a mean greedy old man, he gets drunk all the time, and has pure white skin. |
| Why does Huck at first enjoy living with Pap? | Because he doesn’t have to act civilized. |
| Is Pap believable? | Yes I believe he is away that Huck described him. |
| How does the new judge find out how Pap really is? | When he goes into the spare room have is gone and drunk because he left and sold his new clothes for whiskey. |
| Why is Huck going to school now? | Because Pat doesn’t want him to. |
| How does Pap feel about Huck going to school? | He thinks Huck shouldn’t go to school and become educated, because he isn’t smart and didn’t get to go to school. |
| How does pap feel about government and educated ******s? | It’s not fair that they get to do all the things white man get to do, and that the government is it fair to all people. |
| Account for pap’s unusual behavior. | He has been drinking more whiskey than usual. |
| Why does Huck kill the pig? | To make it look like his blood, that he was killed. |
| As Huck prepares to escape, he wishes Tom Sawyer were there. I know he would take an interest in this kind of business, and throw in the fancy touches. How are hooks preparations different from those Tom would make? | Hug makes it seem like he was killed where is Tom would have just left. |
| Describe Huck’s emotions when he first said out on the river. | He is scared because he sees pap on the ferry boat. |
| Where is Huck headed? | To Jackson Island. |
Huck Finn
June 2, 2020