The Adventures of Huck Finn

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The Adventures of Huck Finn

• Chapters 1-3

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
You must answer with the MARKER. You may not use
a pen/pencil until I tell you to do so ?

• Quickie Quiz ? Chapters 1-3 (tpp15)
• I hope you read!
• You may use your study guide

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Narrator

• (1)Who is the narrator? Huck Finn or Mark Twain?

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(2) Explain why the widow is being a hypocrite
when she doesnt allow Huck to smoke.

• Hypocrite a person who puts on a false
  appearance of virtue or religion

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(2 pts) Why does Huck sneak out the window when
he hears a me-yow! Me-yow?

• For one point extra credit, state what literary
  term me-yow is an example of.

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(1) Who is the drowned man thought to be?
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HUCK IS AN OUTCAST IN SEARCH OF HIS IDENTITY

• (1)Who does he live with?
• (1)What happens when he doesnt have family to
  offer as ransom?
• For extra credit, who does he offer as ransom and
  why (2)
• (1)Who does he admire?

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(1) Who does the gang of robber really attack (be
specific)? (Hint Tom says it is (Spanish
Merchants and Rich A-rabs)

• (1) Extra Credit Where does Tom get all his
  ideas for the gang of robbers?

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(1) What practical Joke does Tom play on Jim?
(1) Who does Jim blame?
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Narrator

• Who is the narrator? Huck Finn or Mark Twain?
• HUCK! Do not confuse the two. Huck is ignorant
  and innocent, Mark Twain, the author is very
  aware.

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HUCK Vs. TWAIN

• Huck is too innocent and ignorant to understand
  whats wrong with his society and whats right
  about his own rebellious behavior.
• Twain and Huck do NOT share the same voice. Twain
  teaches lessons through Huck. You have to look
  beneath the surface.
• Twain had come to believe not only that slavery
  was a horrendous wrong, but that white Americans
  owed black Americans some form of reparations for
  it. That is one of the lessons he teaches

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(2) Explain why the widow is being a hypocrite
when she doesnt allow Huck to smoke.
She dips.
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(2 pts) Why does Huck sneak out the window when
he hears a me-yow! Me-yow?
Tom was waiting for him

• For one point extra credit, state what literary
  term me-yow is an example of.

Onomatopoeia
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(1) Who is the drowned man thought to be?
PapHucks dad
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HUCK IS AN OUTCAST IN SEARCH OF HIS IDENTITY

• Who does he live with?
• Widow Douglas and Miss Watson not his own father.
  
• What happens when he doesnt have family to offer
  as ransom?
• almost kicked out of band of robbers
• Who does he admire?
• Tom (his YOUNGER friend) because he has no one to
  look up to.

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HUCKs Internal conflict

• Society vs. Individual morals
• Miss Watson tries to teach Huck about Moses but
  Huck takes no stock in dead people, and looks
  to the future proving that he acts by his own
  opinions rather than societys.
• Hucks first RESOLUTION decides to stop praying
  b/c he didnt get what he wanted. Decides that
  helping others doesnt help you any and there is
  no reason to do it.

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(1) Who does the gang of robber really attack (be
specific)? (Hint Tom says it is (Spanish
Merchants and Rich A-rabs)
A Sunday School picnic

• (1) Extra Credit Where does Tom get all his
  ideas for the gang of robbers?

books
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HUCK TOM REALISM vs ROMANTICISM

• book written at the end of the Romantic period
  (look at your timeline)
• Romantic imagination, individualism, creativity
  Tom is optimistic and idealistic and BUT he tends
  to follow the rules and do the right thing
  according to Huck
• Realism practical decisions and trouble
  imagining gang events with TOM but HUCK does like
  adventure so he does have some romantic qualities

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(1) What practical Joke does Tom play on Jim?
Puts his hat in a tree
witches
(1) Who does Jim blame?
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JIMThe REAL hero of the novel

• He seems gullible but remember, the story is
  being told by a KID (12 years old!!!!!!)
• Jim breaks free from the stereotype
• uses the incident with the hat to gain
  fame!SPIKE LEEs Hat Scene by Ralph Wiley
  (African American Screen writer and satirist)
• part of Twain's genius in this book is letting
  the reader see things that Huck doesn't see,
  making Huck an endearing and engaging but
  ultimately unreliable narrator. In Wiley's
  script, the juxtaposition of the visual message
  the viewer gets, on the one hand, and the
  comically limited version of that reality that
  Huck (the narrator) communicates, on the other,
  captured that dramatic irony.
• P. 18 uses a nasty hairball to make moneyonly
  works w/money!
• TO UNDERSTAND JIM you must read between the
  lines.

• As you continue to read, look at Jim as the hero
  of the novel. Look at him as the protector of
  Huck. Look beyond what Huck says and see Jim for
  who he really is.

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Final quiz Question (3) Who do you identify
most with? Why?

• Tom Sawyer
• Huck Finn
• Jim

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Huck Finn

• Chapters 4-7
• FATHER and the need for a FATHER FIGURE

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PAP Symbol of EVIL and CORRUPTION

• Greedy
• Racisthe kidnaps his own son! Just because he
  wants the 6,000 (thats love for ya)
• Child abuser
• Beats Huck. Twain loved children and anyone who
  was not nice to children was ridiculed in his
  books.
• Racist
• Pap is angry about a black man going to school.
• So why would Pap act this way?
• Hes JEALOUS!
• Alcoholic
• Criminal

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Why does Huck need a Father Figure? Who can
become the Father Figure?