The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Chapters 14-16
• By Drew LeBlanc, Nick Mariano, and Patrick
  Kendall

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Basic Events

• Chapter 15
• -Huck loses the raft.
• -Huck begins to hear whooping from behind him and
  then in all different places which confuses him.
• -The whoops that Huck hears stops.
• -Jim went to sleep.
• -Huck saw Jim and met up with him and pretended
  the fog was not real.
• -Huck feels bad for playing this trick on Jim,
  apologizes, and tells the truth

• Chapter 14
• -Jim and Huck look through their loot.
• -They have a conversation about the story of King
  Solomon.
• -Huck tells Jim about other kings he knows of.
• -They argue about whether or not a frenchman is a
  man. Jim says no, Huck says yes.
• Chapter 16
• -Huck and Jim wonder if they will know when they
  are at Cairo.
• -Huck was troubled by the fact that Jim was a
  free man now and that he personally helped him.
• -Huck decides that telling on Jim was the best
  thing to do when Jim begins to praise him.
• -Jim nearly gets busted by two white men looking
  for 5 black men on the loose.
• -Their raft gets run over by a steamship.

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Characters

• Huckleberry Finn- Main character in novel. Huck
  is running away from home with Jim. They are
  traveling in a raft down the Mississippi River.
• Jim- The Widow Douglas' slave. Jim is traveling
  with Huck with hopes that he can be a free man
  and see his family again.
• Man on the boat- He tells the boys that 
• they must be crazy asking where Cairo is.
• Men looking for runaways- Huck met these
• men on the way to turn in Jim. They were 
• looking for 5 runaway slaves.

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Quotation with Analysis- Chapter 14

• "It was fifteen minutes before i could work
  myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger
  but i done it and i warn't ever sorry for it
  afterward neither" (Twain 78).
• Analysis
• This shows how Huck has matured throughout the
  novel, learning to treat black people more like
  people rather than property. However, he wasn't
  sorry for it after shows how he recognizes Jim's
  feelings and feels bad for him.

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Quotation with Analysis- Chapter 15

• "When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de
  callin' for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz
  mos' broke bekase you wuz los', en I didn' k'yer
  no' mo' what become er me en de raf'. En when I
  wake up en fine you back ag'in, all safe en
  soun', de tears come, en I could 'a' got down on
  my knees en kiss yo' foot, I's so thankful. En
  all you wuz thinkin' 'bout wuz how you could make
  a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie" (Twain 77).
• Analysis
• This shows how much Jim cares for Huck and how he
  spent his entire night trying to find Huck. This
  also shows Huck's inability see how wise Jim
  actually is and how much Huck underestimates
  Jim's ability to be a good partner.

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Quotation with Analysis- Chapter 16

• "He was saying how the first thing he would do
  when he got to a free state he would go to saving
  up money and never spend a single cent, and when
  he got enough he would buy his wife, which was
  owned on a farm close to where Miss Watson lived
  and then they would both work to buy the two
  children, and if their master wouldn't sell them,
  they'd get an Ab'litionist to go and steal them"
  (Twain 80).
• Analysis
• This shows how much Jim misses his family and
  what he would do to see them again. Huck
  disapproves of what Jim has to say because Huck
  has never thought about Jim and how he feels. I
  think Huck is being selfish with his response to
  what Jim has to say.

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Themes

• 1.) Do what you think is right, regardless of
  what society tells you.
• Example Huck constantly debates in his head
  whether he should or shouldn't turn Jim in.
  However, he comes to the conclusion that deep
  down inside, he knows that saving Jim is the
  right thing.
• 2.) Think before you act.
• Example Huck greatly regrets all of the jokes
  that he has pulled on Jim when he realizes how
  they make Jim feel. He decides to apologize for
  it.

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Questions Asked

• What would Huck's life be like if he did not have
  Jim with him? Would he still be traveling down
  the river in the raft? Would he be able to
  survive?
• Do you think Huck would have continued to turn
  Jim in if Jim had not praised him for being the
  only white man to be honest with him? Why did he
  suddenly want to turn Jim in?

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