...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Questions and Characters Major Characters Huckleberry Finn: Huck is the main character who has a taste for adventure just like Tom Sawyer. He can be sneaky in a way that he can trick others and lie. As he goes on this adventure, he begins to feel for the slaves. He came from an uneducated family in the south of St. Petersburg. Out of all his relatives, he is the smartest and because of this his abusive father tries to take advantage of it so Huck can work for him. Jim: a runaway slave who is accompanied by Huck Finn. Jim is a childish and very superstitious person. He despises dangerous adventures thinking that he might get caught and get sent back to his owner. Tom Sawyer: The book is followed...
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...in a Blink of an Eye” REPRESENTATIVE QUOTE: “Pap he hadn't been seen for more than a year, and that was comfortable for me; I didn't want to see him no more. He used to always whale me when he was sober and could get his hands on me; though I used to take to the woods most of the time when he was around.” (Chapter 3 – Pg. 14) CHARACTERS: • Huckleberry (Huck) Finn – protagonist, narrator, all around main character. • The Widow Douglas – takes (Huck) under her wing in hopes to better him. • Miss Watson – The Widow Douglas’ sister • Tom Sawyer – Huck’s fellow companion, first introduced in Mark Twain’s previous novel. • Jim – Miss Watson’s slave. • Pap – Huck’s alcoholic, racist, father. • Judge Thatcher – Works along side The Widow Douglas to protect Huck’s well – being. SETTING: The series of events in this episode unfold in the imaginary Mississippi River town of St. Petersburg, Missouri. The scenes unravel in the town where Huck resides with the Widow Douglas and the other housemates, and in the surrounding areas. PLOT OVERVIEW: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a follow-up to the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huckleberry (Huck) Finn is a thirteen-year-old adolescent living a life of not knowing what is next. Huck was “adopted” by The Widow Douglas. The Widow Douglas strives to impart manners on Huck and to better him as a young boy. However, Huck was raised in a matter that completely contradicts his new procedures and ways of living. Huck has the mentality of an...
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...The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Chapter 1 How much money did Huck get from the treasure he found? ______________________________ How much interest does he earn per day? ____________________________________________ Huck comes back to town to join ___________________________________________________. Why doesn’t Huck care about what happened to Moses in the Bible? _________________________________________________________________________________ Why doesn’t Huck want to go to heaven? ___________________________________________ Huck accidentally kills a spider. What are all the things he does to try to keep bad luck away? _____________________________________________________________________________ Chapter 2 1. Whose presence in the kitchen door stops Huck and Tom? ____________________________________ 2. How does Huck’s body threaten to betray him? _____________________________________________ 3. It is Tom who hangs Jim’s hat in the tree above Jim’s head. How does Jim explain it? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 4. If a person makes the mistake of wronging one of the boys in the band, what will happen to that person? _____________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Since Huck doesn’t have a family, whom does he offer as a sacrifice? __________________________ 6. What are the only two crimes in which the gang will participate? ______________________________ ...
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...The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain Download free eBooks of classic literature, books and novels at Planet eBook. Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter. NOTICE P ERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narra- tive will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn EXPLANATORY I N this book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary ‘Pike County’ dialect; and four modified varieties of this last. The shadings have not been done in a hap- hazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding. THE AUTHOR. Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Scene: The Mississippi Valley Time: Forty to fifty years ago The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapter I Y OU don’t know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain’t no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told...
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