Questions I didn't know about

1. The one he told Judith was not as well thought out and obviously didn't work but the one he told the watchman worked well and accomplished what Huck wanted it to do. I think this reinforces the theme of gullibility because both adults believed him no matter how ridicules it was.

2. Marry Sarah Williams, George Peters and George Jackson.

3. Toms gang is not real it is kinda just something they made up even though they want it to be real. The gang on the boat will actually kill you if they want to and then rob you. I think Twain is trying to show the theme appearance Vs. Reality.

4. He named it this because in Walter Scott's books there is always a happy ending and Twain does not believe the ending has to end happy.

5. It is 740 miles long and about 1 mile wide. And in Illinois and Missouri the river is rough.

6. Peaceful and calm. This represents appearance Vs. Reality.

7. Because he would have thought about it and felt bad if he didn't. It's ironic because he is in his own "gang" and should not care about them.

8. Tom Sawyer can still influence them even being miles and miles away.

9. The fact that the way they are describing it they wind up being the same thing, because thy are never going to repay the people. They also don't want to take as much but the things they don't want to take they don't like anyway.

10. Moses being dead. Huck "killing" himself. IDK!!!

11. ???

12. this is a foreshadow because every time they hit land they have a conflict with society. the fog is the chaos of society.

13. Normal whites don't have feeling towards black they think of them as property but because Huck has been spending so much time with Jim he is starting to think of him as a person. he realizes they have feelings and care what happens to them.

14. "Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, it made me all trembly and feverish, too, to hear him because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free -- and who was to blame for it? Why me. I couldn't get it out of my conscience, no how nor no way." - he was excited for both of them to be free but he felt bad that he helped him escape.

"Here was this nigger which I as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children -- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm." he was angry that he helped him escape just so he could steal his children, and do more wrong. This is making him doubt himself more and more. Its ironic that Jim's blood has to be stolen to get them back even though they are blood.

"Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?" it is better to do wrong because you won't get in trouble as much as you would if you did right.

"Doan' less' talk about it, Huck. Po' niggers can't have no luck. I awluz 'spected dat rattle-snake skin warn't done wid its work." as soon as they miss this turn they are going further into slave states and the is very bad for Jim

15. They do so because his father has small pox and they feel bad. But in reality he doesn't even have his father with him and he is technically rich.

16. Society Vs. Nature

17. he was looking for a direction to go in for the book.

18. they have revolutionary paintings but they also have their dead daughters painting and poetry about death. they are

19. He tricks buck into spelling his name so he remembers it and knows how to spell it.

20. He didn't understand that it was a riddle and was angry that buck was waisting his time with something he already knew. He saves the Israelites/slaves

21. It's ironic that the pigs will go in there a lot but people don't want to go in there unless they have to.

22. It's an allusion to Romeo and Juliet.                                                            

23. It just represents how much both of them want to be free. When they are on land they have constraints

Episode 3: Chapters 8-11

Summarise: The entire chapter is mostly spent on Jackson Island. It starts when Huck wakes up on the island after he had ran away from his father and faked his death. That morning a ferryboat passes the Island that has Pap, Judge Thatcher, Tom Sawyer, Tom’s aunt Polly, some of Huck’s young friends, and more on board, all discussing Huck’s murder. They shoot cannonballs over the water and float loaves of bread with quicksilver inside, in hopes of finding Huck’s corpse. Huck, catches one of the loaves and eats it, but he feels guilty that he has upset those who care about him. Huck spends three days on the island, living on berries and fish. He spends his nights counting ferryboats and stars. On the fourth day, while exploring the island, Huck finds Jim, who at first thinks Huck is a ghost. Huck is happy he will not be alone on the island but shocked when Jim explains that he has run away. Jim says that he overheard Miss Watson discussing selling him for $800 to a slave trader who would take him to New Orleans. Jim and Huck talk about superstition, and Jim’s failed investments, most of which have been scams. Jim is not too disappointed by his failures, since he still has his hairy arms and chest, which, according to his superstitions, are a sign of future wealth.

In order to make a hiding place should visitors arrive on the island, Jim and Huck take the canoe into a large cave in the on the island. The two safely wait it out a storm inside the cave. The river floods, and a washes out a house down the river past the island. Inside, Jim and Huck find the body of a man who has been shot. Jim and Huck make off with some odds and ends from the house. Huck has Jim hide in the bottom of the canoe so that he won’t be seen, and they make it back to the island safely.

Huck wonders about the dead man, but Jim warns that it’s bad luck. Huck already has bad luck by finding and handling a snake’s shed skin. Sure enough when Huck plays a joke by putting a dead rattlesnake in Jim's bed, its mate comes and bites Jim. Jim’s leg swells but gets better after several days of rest and whisky drinking. A while later, Huck decides to go ashore to get information about what has happened. Jim agrees, but has Huck disguise himself as a girl (Mary Sarah Williams), using one of the dresses they took from the house. Huck practices his girl impersonation and then goes for the Illinois shore. In a shack, he finds a woman who appears to be a newcomer to the town. Huck is relieved because she will not be able to recognize him. The woman lets Huck and he introduces himself as “Sarah Williams”. She reveals that Pap was a suspect in Huck's murder and that some townspeople nearly killed him. Then, people began to suspect Jim because he ran away the same day Huck was killed. This was because he spent the money the judge gave him to find Huck, on whiskey. Now there is a $200 reward for him. Meanwhile, there is a $300 bounty out for Jim. The woman has noticed smoke over Jackson’s Island and has told her husband to look for Jim there. He planed to go there tonight with another man and a gun.

The woman looks at Huck suspiciously and asks his name. He says, “Marry Williams.” When the woman asks about the change, he tries saying his full name is “Marry Sarah Williams.” Finally, she asks him to reveal his real male identity, saying she understands that he is a runaway and she will not turn him in. Huck says his name is George Peters. She tells Huck to send for her, Mrs. Judith Loftus, if he has trouble. Back at the island, Huck builds a decoy campfire far from the cave and then returns to the cave to tell Jim they must leave. And so they did.

Characters: Huck (Marry Sarah Williams & George Peters are aliases of Huck's own invention), Jim, Tom, Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, Judge Thatcher, Pap, and Mrs. Judith Loftus.

Major theme: Rebirth - Jim escapes slavery and starts a new like as a free man. Huck escapes his father and becomes free.       appearance vs. reality - Huck pretender to be two different people. Jim thinks Huck is a ghost when he is really alive.

Importance: Huck is good and making up different personality's, not really girls, but it shows that he is good at making things up on the spot.

lit devises: Huck has many different persona's????