Chapter 8

Summary: The duke and dauphin arrive in the next town, pretending to be the brothers of a man who has recently died, who has left a large amount of money. Huck is ashamed that they are doing this but he goes along with it. The duke and dauphin fool the townspeople and are given $6,000 to invest as they see fit. Doctor Robinson claims the two men are frauds, but nobody believes him. Huck feels guilty for letting the duke and dauphin trick the sisters. He vows to get them their money back and hides in the duke's room. The two enter and Huck overhears them talking about getting all the Wilks' property. Then Huck steals the money. Huck hides the money in Peter Wilks' coffin. The coffin is sealed at the funeral and Huck doesn't know whether or not the duke got the money back or if it's still there. He says he will write Mary when he leaves town to let her know where it is. The duke and the dauphin sell the family's estate and slaves, breaking up a family. Huck is relieved in knowing the family will be reunited as soon as the fraud is discovered. Huck finds Mary Jane crying over the separation of the slave family. Huck tells her the truth about the duke and instructs her to go to a friend's house. Later that day, two men (the actual Wilks brothers) interrupt the auctioning of the family's estate.  The real Wilks brothers and the fake Wilks brothers are brought to a tavern and asked to sign a piece of paper to compare signatures. The duke and dauphin temporarily talk their way out of the situation. The real Harvey Wilks comments on the deceased's tattoo. To resolve the conflict, Peter Wilks’s coffin is opened. The crowd is shocked to see the $6,000 in the coffin. In the uproar, Huck escapes to the raft. He and Jim celebrate until they notice the duke and the dauphin are about to overtake them on their own boat. After nearly strangling Huck for deserting them, the duke and the dauphin blame each other for losing the money.

Characters:

Levi Bell

Tim Collins

Doctor Robinson

Harvey Wilks

Joanna Wilks

Mary Jane Wilks

Susan Wilks

William Wilks

Undertaker

Hines

Personas:

The Duke: William Wilks

The King: Harvey Wilks and Rev. Elexander Blodgett

Jim: A sick Arab

Huck: Adolphus

Themes:

Realism Vs. Romanticism

Gullibility

Littarary elements:

Allusion: That Arabs are harmless when not out of their head

Symbols: The money symbolizes human characteristics by showing greed.

Irony: That because Joanna is ugly she eats where the slaves do.

How Huck Changes: In most of the lies he does it to save his own skin but some of the time it was so he wouldn't hurt people like when he lied to the two other girls it was to not get them mad at their "uncles". 

episode 6

Summary: Huck and Jim escape the crazy feud and are sailing down the river in a raft for a few peaceful day then they tie up under a dead toe-head ti hide the raft and when they go on land they find the King and Dauphin (or at least that is who they say they are) running from the cops so they let them come aboard. They told stories of who they were and who they used to be. then they sailed down the river but because they are a king and a duke Huck and Jim had to sleep outside in a storm. When they got to the next town the king and duke went to work because they are really con men. The duke set up a fake printing press and sold adds for a news paper and also made a wanted poster so it looked like Jim was a runaway so the could travel in the daytime, he made about 9.50 dollars doing this. Huck and the king went to a group meeting for sinners and the king told a lie about how he was a pirate and he needed money to go back to the sea and stop the other pirated so he passed a hat around and made 87 dollars. then they got on the raft and started heading further south.

New Characters: we have not learned their real names yet but they are under the persona's of the King and the Duke. The duke is supposed to be the duke of bilge water who lost his way, he is really a conman though. The King is supposed to be the son of Looy the 16th.

Persona's: The duke which is already a persona pretends to be a publisher of a news paper and the king pretends to be a pirate that has changed his ways.

Theme: the theme of gullibility when it comes to the town and Jim because they believe anything the king or duke say.

Lit. Device: Twain is using a satire about Rome and Juliet because he is making fun of Romanticism.

words

Histrionic - ADJ - over-acting - The histrionic play was very bad


Contrite - ADJ - caused by or showing sincere remorse - The criminal was not the least bit contrite about the crime he committed of stabbing the old lady in the face.


Obituary - N - a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographicalsketch, as in a newspaper - The obituary in the local paper was for my friends' grandma


Aggravate - V - to annoy; irritate; exasperate - Polly was starting to aggravate me by putting me in all of her sentences.


Contagion - N - the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact - 


Brazen - ADJ - shameless or impudent - 


Hedonism - N - devotion to pleasure as a way of life - 


Surreptitious - ADJ - obtained, done, made - 


Foreordain - V - to ordain or appoint beforehand - 


Fraudulent - ADJ - characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud,  asactions, enterprise, methods, or gains - 


Gastronomy - N - the art or science of good eating - 

Q's

13. They represent what the society wants and suspects of you and they are doing the opposite.

14. Because he does not want to start a fight on the raft

15. I would say the king and duke because he is the one who makes Jim and Huck stand watch while they sleep, and make them do things for them

16. he is making fun a Shakespeare saying just because it is his play people will come. he is also making it a comedy by having the old man be Juliet. It is a motif because he wants to make fun of Romanticism. 

17. it is the exact thing that pap did but he got caught. its ironic because a pirate is usually scary but here he is sad and kind of nice. It is is a satire because he is making fun of peoples gullibility. 

18. he is making fun of society's gullibility.