Characters
Conflicts
Themes
Symbols
Miscellaneous
100
Wants to reclaim Huck in order to get his money.
Who is Pap?
100
Huck and Jim get separated in the fog.
What is Character vs. Nature?
100
There is hypocrisy in "civilized" society: She tries to "civilize" Huck, yet she owns a slave.
Who is Miss Watson?
100
This river provides transportation, and plays a significant role in this novel.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
Mark Twain's real name.
What is Samuel Clemens?
200
Helps raise Huck and owns Jim.
Who is Miss Watson?
200
The feud between the Shepherdsons and the Grangerfords.
What is Character vs. Character?
200
Friendships have value: This person has several opportunities to return Jim to slavery, but he decides against it each time.
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
200
This object was used by Huck and Jim to travel and escape the confines of society.
What is the raft?
200
This was the punishment that finally befell the king and the duke.
What is tarred and feathered?
300
Master con artists who betray Huck by "selling" Jim.
Who are the king (the Dauphin) and the duke?
300
Huck can't decide whether or he should write to the Widow Douglas and turn Jim in.
What is Character vs. Self?
300
The role of race: Huck realizes this person is just as human as he is when this person cries for his family.
Who is Jim?
300
These two families' feud can be seen as a symbol for the idiocy of society.
What are the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons?
300
We learn from Jim that this was the fate of Pap Finn.
What is died on the shipwreck?
400
These three sisters were nearly swindled out of their inheritance.
Who were the Wilks sisters?
400
Jim wants to be a free person, but he is a slave.
What is Character vs. Society?
400
The conflict between civilization and the "natural world": Huck leaves Pap's place to live here and runs into Jim
What is Jackson's Island?
400
Huck witnesses the death of this friend, which is another tragic thing that happens on land.
Who is Buck Grangerford.
400
The term for a reoccurring object or thing - such as superstitions, and loss - in a book
What is motif?
500
Tom and Huck convince these "relatives" that they are actually Sid and Tom Sawyer.
Who are Silas and Sally Phelps?
500
Huck feels compassion for Jim even though he has been brought up to view Jim as inferior to whites.
What is Character vs. Self, or Character vs. Society?
500
The value of family: Jim cries about the way he treated this daughter.
Who is 'Lizabeth?
500
With the "help" of this friend, Huck plans an escape for Jim from the shed (another prison on land) on the Phelps' farm.
Who is Tom Sawyer?
500
The fact that Jim is viewed as inhuman by the whites, yet he shows more compassion and intelligence than most of them is an example of this.
What is irony?
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