Violent Symbols
The big machine crashes into Huck and Jim's raft.
Steamboat
Huck watches these two families fight a bloody feud.
Grangerford-Shepherdson feud
Jim runs away to escape this violent system.
Slavery
What has become a common event in our world today?
School Shootings
This symbol of freedom is destroyed by the steamboat
Raft
Who decides to tar and feather the Duke and the King?
Townspeople or mob?
This violent law forces runaway slaves to be returned to their owners
Fugitive Slave Act
How is violence advertised to younger audience now?
Through games, movies, and other media
The Mississippi River, often seen as a peaceful symbol, also represents what kind of danger due to steamboat and unpredictability?
Violence/destruction
Who did Huck have to raise money for to avoid getting beat?
Pap Finn
To which story can the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons feud be compared?
Romeo and Juliet
What is the negative effect social media has on the portrayal of violence?
Normalization of violent acts
This weapon symbolizes the cycle of violence passed down through generations.
Gun?
Who is most affected when Boggs is murdered?
Boggs daughter
What is ironic about the Grangerfords and Sheperdsons feud?
Both families are “respectable”, yet they participate in foolish violence
Publication of violent ideas results in what?
Violent society
The object used by Pap to threaten Huck, symbolizes the violence and fear in Huck's experience in his own home.
Knife
What is ironic about Bill and Jack Packard?
Huck, who is “uncivilized”, behaves more morally than the adults who actively break law
Jim is locked up and treated like an animal near the end of the book, showing society's cruelty toward people it views as property. This is where he is held captive.
Phelps farm
Why is violence still persistent in human nature?
Many underlying issues