Quotes
"We are highwaymen. We stop stages and carriages on the road, with masks on, and kill the people and take their watches and money ... Why blame it all, we've got to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?
Who is Tom Sawyer?
Where the story begins when Huck is living with the Widow Douglas.
What is St. Petersburg
Jim tells Huck he’s going to help his wife and kids escape, causing Huck to comment, “I was so sorry to hear Jim say that, it was such a lowering of him.”
It's ironic because: 1. Huck is helping Jim escape, and 2. Helping them escape is noble, not "lowering"
I am the name Huck used when he was with the Grangerfords.
What is George Jackson?
"There was a free n*** there from Ohio ... And what do you think? THey said he was a p'fessor in college, and could talk all kinds of languages and knowed everything. And that ain't the wust. They said he could vote when he was at home... Thinks I, what is the country a-coming to? ... I says I'll never vote ag'in."
Who is Pap?
The name of the steamboat wreck that Huck and Jim happen upon.
What is the Walter Scott?
When the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons go to church, they leave their rifles at the door and listen to the gospel of peace and brotherly love.
The feud continues the minute they leave -- showing how little they take to heart the message of the sermon.
I was a poet and a painter before dying young at the age of 15. Huck loved my poetry
Who is Emmeline Grangerford?
Huck represents realism while Tom represents what?
What is Romanticism?
"Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white genlman dat ever kep' his promise."
Who is Jim?
Huck chides himself often for his sinful ways and is certain he is going to the "bad place," especially for helping Jim.
Huck often judges his most moral and good acts as bad because of the "rules" of society.
I own Jim and am helping the Widow Douglas to civilize Huckleberry Finn.
WHo is Miss Watson?
This symbol represents freedom from the hardships of the real world.
What is the raft?
"It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n**; but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterward, neither."
Who is Huck
Pap is angry at Huck…for going to school
Parents usually want the best for their children, or at least more than what they had; Pap is the exact opposite.
I am the name Huck used when he pretended to be a girl with Mrs. Judith Loftus.
What is Sarah (or Mary) Williams?
This is the central internal conflict that Huck experiences throughout the novel.
What is whether he is a bad person for not turning Jim in? Or whether or not to turn Jim in.
"Well, a feud is this way: A man has a quarrel with another man, and kills him; then that other man's brother kills him; then the other brothers, on both sides, goes for one another; then the cousins chip in -- and by and by everybody's killed off, and there ain't no more feud."
Who is Buck?
The town that Huck and Jim missed in the fog.
What is Cairo?
But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable."
A band of robbers is not supposed to be respectable, so therefore it is ironic that Huck could only join if he went back to the widow and became respectable
I "bought" Huck's money for $1 in order to help Huck keep it from his father.
Who is Judge Thatcher?
What is (variety of answers will be accepted)