Plot Questions
Pap didn't allow Huck to learn these vital skills. Huck later learns while staying at the Widow Douglas' house.
Reading and Writing.
Huck's real father.
Pap.
Huck and Jim travel down this river.
The Missouri River.
Gullibility.
Another way to say "Lie".
Stretcher
The Steamboat that crashed into Jim and Huck's raft.
The Walter Scott.
The slave owned by Miss Watson at the beginning of the book.
Jim
Miss Watson says this place is wonderful, even though Tom Sawyer will never see it.
Heaven.
Pap's rant on the government is an example of this theme.
Social Commentary.
An alternative phrase for "Chewing Tobacco"
Chaw
__ says: "Well, I’d been selling an article to take the tartar off the teeth—and it does take it off, too, and generly the enamel along with it"
The Duke.
Huck and Jim plan to get off of the Missouri River at this location.
Cairo.
This theme was showed when the Grangerfords brought guns to a sermon about brotherly love.
Hypocrisy.
Jim spells "Going" like this.
Gwyne.
Huck remembered his name "George Jackson" while staying with the Grangerfords using this strategy.
Betting someone they couldn't spell his name.
She was tricked by the King and The Duke at her uncle's funeral.
Mary Jane Wilks.
The home state of the Grangerfords.
Kentucky.
"Then he got up slow and walked to the wigwam, and went in there without saying anything but that. But that was enough. It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back." This quote by Huck shows this theme.
Moral Development.
A person who sells an item knowing it isn't useful. A person just in it for the money.
Con-man.
The King and the Duke recreated this famous Shakespearean play.
"He was a gentleman all over; and so was his family."
Col. Grangerford.
The quote: "The fences was made of different kinds of boards, nailed on at different times" was describing this town(home of Sherburn and Boggs).
Bricksville.
The Quote: "What makes me feel so bad dis time ’uz bekase I hear sumpn over yonder on de bank like a whack, er a slam, while ago, en it mine me er de time I treat my little ’Lizabeth so ornery" Shows this theme.
Friendship. (Jim is more comfortable around Huck)
A thief who violently steals from travelers.
Highwaymen.