General
What was Huck disguised as in chapter 10?
A girl
How does the use of superstitions drive the plot?
They foreshadow the future events in the novel.
Jim wants to protect himself from Huck leaving him after there is no more reason for him to run away from home.
After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn’t want to. He said it would fetch _______.
bad luck
What did Jim throw over the dead body?
Rags
Who suggested taking all of their items into the cavern in chapter 9, and for what reason?
Jim suggested taking their things into the cavern because it was going to rain.
What is the situational irony in chapter 10?
Huck playing a prank on Jim using a dead snake which later results in an actual snake bite.
Why does Huck start to feel bad for his pranks against Jim?
Huck sees Jim as a companion, not just a slave
Jim said if we had the canoe hid in a good place, and had all the traps in the cavern, we could rush there if anybody was to come to the island, and they would never find us without ____.
dogs
How long did Jim say the body was there for?
"dead two er three days"
What was found in the cabin with the dead body?
Name 5 things
masks, whiskey, cards, sun-bonnet, pictures made with charcoal, clothes, old tin lantern, butcher-knife without any handle, Barlow knife, tallow candles, tin candlestick, and a gourd, tin cup, bedquilt, needles, pins, beeswax, buttons, and thread.
How did Twain use foreshadowing in chapter 10 to reveal the identity of the dead man? (example given in slide)
The whisky jug that Jim obtained from the floating house was called "Pap's whisky-jug".
What type of individual vs societal decision does Huck battle?
Huck's decision to keep the dead man statues a secret while living on the island shows his 'battle' of individual vs social decision.
"And he said that handling a ______ was such awful bad luck that maybe we hadn’t got to the end of it yet."
snake-skin
How big was the island.
three miles long and a quarter of a mile wide.
Where was the dead man in the cabin shot?
He was shot in the back
What type of literary device do the birds from Chapter 9 play?
The birds from chapter 9 are used as a foreshadowing tool.
Huck doesn't believe praying works or that snake skin causes bad luck. Later, he changes his mind about snake skin. Why and what does this say about Huck's thought process?
Jim gets bitten by a snake. Huck has to see it to believe it.
"Then he studied it over and said, couldn’t I put on some of them old things and ________?
dress up like a girl
Jim and Huck hide the canoe in what type of trees?
willow trees
Why did Jim think that the people from the house had robbed the jacket that was mentioned at the beginning of chapter 10?
There were eight dollars found in the pocket
What is the juxtaposition in chapter 9.
The contrast between the peaceful "homelike" cave and the chaotic "death-filled" floating house.
How does the weather contrast with Jim and Huck's mood at the start of chapter 9?
The weather is unpleasant, the sky is black and dark. But inside the cave with Jim, Huck is comfortable and happy.
“Jim, this is nice,” I says. “I wouldn’t want to be nowhere else but here. Pass me along another hunk of ____ and some hot corn-bread.”
FISH
Jim was doing what when he got bit by a snake?
Going to lie down on a blanket.