THE STORY SO FAR…

1. THE STORY SO FAR… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

2. CHAPTER 1 • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer • Huck and Tom find $6000 each • Huck lives with Widow Douglas and Miss Watson because they are going to “civilize” him • Hypocritical: Widow Douglas disapproves of smoking but she smokes snuff • The adults are too strict; Huck wants to be free • Huck accidently kills a spider • Superstition: bad luck will occur (foreshadowing) • Huck sneaks out from Widow Douglas’s house • Onomatopoeia: me-yow me-yow

3. CHAPTER 2 • Tom plays a joke on Jim, Miss Watson’s slave • Puts Jim’s hat on a tree • Superstition: Jim blames it on witches • Tom creates “Tom Sawyer’s Gang” • Tom is bossy, leader, violent (child but acts like an adult) • Tom is imaginative, dreamer vs Huck is realistic • Huck offers Miss Watson as family (sacrifice) if he tells the gang’s secrets • Huck does not like Miss Watson much

4. CHAPTER 3 • Miss Watson is strict with Huck but Widow Douglas is more caring • Huck prefers Widow Douglas’s Providence • Huck wants to go to hell to be away from Miss Watson and to be with Tom • Huck does not understand prayer/ religion • Religion does not help him to live everyday life (not realistic) • Superstition: Huck walks under a ladder • Townspeople believe that Pap drowned but Huck does not believe it • Huck has good instinct • The Tom Sawyer Gang resign because nothing happens

5. CHAPTER 4 • Huck finds a footprint • Foreshadowing: looks like Pap’s boot tracks • Huck is intelligent: “sells” his money to Judge Thatcher • Jim tells Huck a fortune with a hairball • Superstition • Symbolism: black angel and white angel • Huck comes home and finds Pap in his room

6. CHAPTER 5 • Pap is dirty, hairy, and pale white • A drunkard (alcoholic) • Needs money to buy more drinks • Huck dislikes Pap • The new judge wants Huck to live with Pap • The law cannot/does not protect the weak and innocent • The new judge tries to reform/change Pap • Pap pretends he is changed (superficial, fake) • Takes advantage of a good-doer for money

7. CHAPTER 6 • Pap wants Huck to quit school • Does not want his son to be better than him • Connection to race • Kidnaps Huck and takes him upriver • Pap’s beatings are too much and Huck decides to escape • Pap gets extremely drunk and blames the government (gov’t) for his problems • Racism: Angry at the positive treatment of African Americans • Foreshadowing: calls Huck the “Angel of Death”

8. CHAPTER 7 • Huck finds a drifting canoe • Huck is resourceful • Huck escapes • Takes food and supplies and puts them in the canoe • Fakes his own death by killing a wild pig and using its blood -> does not want people to look for him • Show’s Huck’s intelligence • Goes to Jackson’s Island

9. CHAPTER 8 • Huck realizes that people are looking for his dead body • Superstition: fill a loaf of bread with quicksilver (poison) to find a drowned body • Hypocrisy of the townspeople • Huck finds Jim • Jim ran away because Miss Watson is planning sell him for $800 • Racism/ Slavery

10. CHAPTER 9 • There is a large storm • Jim’s prediction in chapter 8 comes true • Religion vs. Superstition • Huck and Jim find a house floating and a dead body inside • Jim won’t let Huck see the body • Jim as an adult figure • Compare to Pap, Widow Douglas and Miss Watson, Townspeople

11. CHAPTER 10 • Jim tells Huck that it is bad luck to touch a snake • Superstition • Huck plays a prank on Jim • Jim gets bitten by a snake and is sick for days • Huck feels bad, grows compassion towards Jim • Huck realizes the danger of defying superstition and Jim’s knowledge • Huck disguises as a girl to hear of the town news

12. CHAPTER 11 • Huck introduces himself as “Sarah Williams from Hookerville” • Hears news about his “death” • Jim is suspected of murdering Huck $300 reward • Pap is suspected of murdering Huck $200 reward • Men are going to hunt Jim to get the money • Huck and Jim leave Jackson Island

13. CHAPTER 12 • Huck and Jim continue down the river • Peaceful and easygoing • Symbolism: weather and nature • The two find a steamboat caught on a rock from a storm and decide to explore • Two men on the ship have tied down another man and are threatening him • Compare to Tom’s pretend gang of robbers • When Huck tries to prevent the men from escaping, Jim finds that the raft has floated away • Huck and Jim are scared but still trying to do good

14. CHAPTER 13 • Huck and Jim find the raft again • Steals provisions from the gang • Begins to storm • “I begun to worry about the men… I begun to think how dreadful it was, even for murderers, to be in such a fix” (p72). • Huck creates an elaborate story to tell the watchman about the steamboat • Steamboat is named the Walter Scott • Ferryman hurries to the rescue for a “reward”

15. CHAPTER 14 • Huck and Jim share knowledge • Friendship, partnership • “Well, he was right; he was most always right; he had an uncommon level head, for a nigger” (p76). • “I read considerable to Jim about kings, and dukes, and earls and such” (p76).

16. Huck and Jim decide that they do not take stock in King Sollermun’s(Solomon) wisdom • King Solomon is supposed to be the wisest man alive (bible) • They (kings) just sit around, whack heads off, keeps harems • “A harem’s a bo’d’n-house, I reck’n” (p77).

17. STUDY QUESTIONS 10-14 • What is in the two story house that floats by Jackson’s Island? • Why does Huck dress as a girl to go ashore? What does he find out? • What is the name of the ship in which Huck and Jim find murderers? • What do we learn about Jim from his talking about “King Sollermun”?