Chapter 16:
"Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was almost free--and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way It got troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place." Page 106.
Comments and Questions
Huck is scared and nervous about Jim becoming a free man. Huck knows that he aiding Jim and that was a very serious crime back then. Slaves were either freed by their owners or bought into freedom. Escaping while still a slave was illegal and they were hunted down and brought back. Aiding a runaway slave was a serious crime.
Chapter 18
"It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain't a-going to tell all that happened--it would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wish I hadn't ever come ashore that night to see such things. I ain't ever going to get shut of them--lots of times I dream about them." Page 136.
Comments and Questions
It makes Huck sick to think about all of the killing that is going on between the two families. He doesn't like the deaths that are becoming a result of the feud that is taking place. The shooting between the families after and because of Miss Sophia running away with Harney Shepherdson scars Huck and prompts him to never going back to the house. He quickly decides to go get Jim and leave the bloodshed.
Chapter 20
" So the king went all through the crowd with his hat swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away off there; and every little while the prettiest kind of girls, with the tears running down their cheeks, would up and ask him would he let them kiss him, for to remember him by; and he always done it; and some of them he hugged and kissed as many as five or six times..." Page 155.
Comments and Questions
the king is very charismatic and able to find sympathy from a crowd or person. Paired with lying, it was very effective in getting 'donations' for his cause. The people felt bad and sympathized with him and wanted to help out not knowing that the whole thing was a scam for the money.
Chapter 22
" The average man's a coward. In the North he lets anybody walkover him that wants to, and goes home and prays for a humble spirit to bear it...Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than other people-- whereas you're just as brave, and no braver." Page 170.
Comments and Questions
People believe they are braver when the newspapers or anyone tells them they are brave because they are filled up with a sense of pride being called that. It gets to their head inflating their ego, causing them to believe that they more and above other people when they are all equals. Everyone have the same bravery and courage, the only difference is that some act on their bravery and others do not, setting them apart form each other.
Chapter 23
" 'But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live. No. What we want is to go out of here quiet, an talk this show up, and sell the rest of the town! Then we'll all be in the same boat. Ain't that sensible?' " Page 176,
Comments and Questions
Instead of warning friends of the scam, the men who attended the show let their friends and neighbors get scammed too. While some might warn others so they wouldn't get scammed, these men helped the scammers with their scheme staying quiet. It was because of their wounded pride that they didn't want to help others out so they were not mocked.
Chapter 24
" Well, the men gathered around, and sympathized with them, and said all sorts of kind things to them, and carried their carpet-bags up the hill for them, and let them lean on them and cry, and told the king all about his brother's last moments, and the king told it all over again on his hands to the duke, and both of them took on about that dead tanner like they'd lost the twelve disciples...It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." Page 188.
Comments and Questions
The king and duke are at it again. They put morals behind them and trick and lie to people for their greed. All they care about is getting money from people. They impersonate a dead man's brothers to get to his fortune. Greed and malice is part of the dark side of human nature. Its the choice to act or not to act on these impulses.
Chapter 26
" I says to myself, this is another one that I'm letting him rob her of her money. And when she got through, they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. I felt so ornery and low down and mean, that I says to myself, my mind's made up, I'll hive that money for them or bust." Page 203.
Comments and Questions
Huck felt guilty that he was letting the king and duke steal the money away from the three daughter. He felt even more guilty when the daughters were being so kind to him and making him feel at home. Huck decided that he wanted to get their money that they didn't know was stolen back to them.
"Well, I can tell you it made me all over trembly and feverish, too, to hear him, because I begun to get it through my head that he was almost free--and who was to blame for it? Why, me. I couldn't get that out of my conscience, no how nor no way It got troubling me so I couldn't rest; I couldn't stay still in one place." Page 106.
Comments and Questions
Huck is scared and nervous about Jim becoming a free man. Huck knows that he aiding Jim and that was a very serious crime back then. Slaves were either freed by their owners or bought into freedom. Escaping while still a slave was illegal and they were hunted down and brought back. Aiding a runaway slave was a serious crime.
Chapter 18
"It made me so sick I most fell out of the tree. I ain't a-going to tell all that happened--it would make me sick again if I was to do that. I wish I hadn't ever come ashore that night to see such things. I ain't ever going to get shut of them--lots of times I dream about them." Page 136.
Comments and Questions
It makes Huck sick to think about all of the killing that is going on between the two families. He doesn't like the deaths that are becoming a result of the feud that is taking place. The shooting between the families after and because of Miss Sophia running away with Harney Shepherdson scars Huck and prompts him to never going back to the house. He quickly decides to go get Jim and leave the bloodshed.
Chapter 20
" So the king went all through the crowd with his hat swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away off there; and every little while the prettiest kind of girls, with the tears running down their cheeks, would up and ask him would he let them kiss him, for to remember him by; and he always done it; and some of them he hugged and kissed as many as five or six times..." Page 155.
Comments and Questions
the king is very charismatic and able to find sympathy from a crowd or person. Paired with lying, it was very effective in getting 'donations' for his cause. The people felt bad and sympathized with him and wanted to help out not knowing that the whole thing was a scam for the money.
Chapter 22
" The average man's a coward. In the North he lets anybody walkover him that wants to, and goes home and prays for a humble spirit to bear it...Your newspapers call you a brave people so much that you think you are braver than other people-- whereas you're just as brave, and no braver." Page 170.
Comments and Questions
People believe they are braver when the newspapers or anyone tells them they are brave because they are filled up with a sense of pride being called that. It gets to their head inflating their ego, causing them to believe that they more and above other people when they are all equals. Everyone have the same bravery and courage, the only difference is that some act on their bravery and others do not, setting them apart form each other.
Chapter 23
" 'But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live. No. What we want is to go out of here quiet, an talk this show up, and sell the rest of the town! Then we'll all be in the same boat. Ain't that sensible?' " Page 176,
Comments and Questions
Instead of warning friends of the scam, the men who attended the show let their friends and neighbors get scammed too. While some might warn others so they wouldn't get scammed, these men helped the scammers with their scheme staying quiet. It was because of their wounded pride that they didn't want to help others out so they were not mocked.
Chapter 24
" Well, the men gathered around, and sympathized with them, and said all sorts of kind things to them, and carried their carpet-bags up the hill for them, and let them lean on them and cry, and told the king all about his brother's last moments, and the king told it all over again on his hands to the duke, and both of them took on about that dead tanner like they'd lost the twelve disciples...It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." Page 188.
Comments and Questions
The king and duke are at it again. They put morals behind them and trick and lie to people for their greed. All they care about is getting money from people. They impersonate a dead man's brothers to get to his fortune. Greed and malice is part of the dark side of human nature. Its the choice to act or not to act on these impulses.
Chapter 26
" I says to myself, this is another one that I'm letting him rob her of her money. And when she got through, they all jest laid theirselves out to make me feel at home and know I was amongst friends. I felt so ornery and low down and mean, that I says to myself, my mind's made up, I'll hive that money for them or bust." Page 203.
Comments and Questions
Huck felt guilty that he was letting the king and duke steal the money away from the three daughter. He felt even more guilty when the daughters were being so kind to him and making him feel at home. Huck decided that he wanted to get their money that they didn't know was stolen back to them.
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