Quotes
Look sharp, now; the current sets in the closest here, and maybe he's washed ashore and got tangled amongst the brush at the water's edge. I hope so, anyway.
Captain searching for Huck’s body
Animal Huck uses to disguise his own murder
Pig
This era--the time period of which Mark Twain publishes his book--took away the newly freed enslaved people's rights.
The Jim Crow Era
This symbol--the path that Huck and Jim travel on for most of the book--represents freedom, easy living, and Huck and Jim's journey.
What is the Mississippi River?
Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it's like. Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him—a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising.
Pap
The government
This state was the birthplace of Mark Twain.
What is Missouri
Theme: What is the theme shown through how Huck explores the idea of freedom away from his everyday expectations
American identity
Doan' hurt me—don't! I hain't ever done no harm to a ghos'. I alwuz liked dead people, en done all I could for 'em. You go en git in de river agin, whah you b'longs.
Jim
What Jim and Huck find after a flood
A floating house with a dead body
What Mark Twain uses for his characters to make them seem like real people
Vernacular/dialect
What are two reasons--that historically were accurate--that Jim seeks freedom when his enslaver threatens to sell him?
1. The Deep South states were incredibly awful for enslaved people--more abuse, trauma, and likely death
2. He would be separated from his family
This theme is most prevalent between Jim and Huck throughout the novel.
What is Friendship?
Well, next I took an old sack and put a lot of big rocks in it—all I could drag—and I started it from the pig, and dragged it to the door and through the woods down to the river and dumped it in, and down it sunk, out of sight.
Huck
A book written by Mark Twain that is often seen as a prequel to "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
What is "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
This symbol represents freedom from the hardships of the real world.
What is the raft?
"It's a dead man. Yes, indeedy; naked, too. He's ben shot in de back. I reck'n he's ben dead two er three days.
Jim
Mark Twain is considered to be the first author to write this kind of novel
Anti-racist
What is one reason Twain uses a child as his protagonist?
1. Easier to empathize with his mistakes
2. Explore ideas of why society is often wrong
3. Provide details of why adults are not always correct/right/moral