1. In the fog, Jim and Huck are lost, when they get out of it, on the clear river they find each other again. We can compare the river to the induvidual because they have freedom there, and they can do whatever they want. The fog is the society because it blinds them and they don’t have any power there. They are lost. This will happened several times in the book, and we can look at it as death – rebirth.
2. Huck feels like he have to say sorry to Jim because he hurt him. Huck sees him as a human now, and knows he has feeling too.
3. a) Huck helped Jim run away, and he is a bad person from the society view now. Slaves were people’s property, and he has “stolen” a slave and helped him become free. This was the worst thing you could do besides murder.
b) Irony: that he has to steel his own children if he can’t buy them..
c) Why do the right thing when the wrong thing to do it easier, and it will all be the same in the end..
d) Jim is blaming the bad luck on the snake. They have to pass the Ohio River to go to the Mississippi river or else they will go down south, which is very bad, especially if you’re a slave.
4. The bounty hunters (slave hunters) give Huck a lot of money because of the fake story Huck told them about his father being sick. The irony is that they are not really evil persons, and they do feel sorry for him. They just don’t want to get sick too.
5. The “naturally” created raft is Huck and Jim. They are living away from the society. The “industrially” created steamboat is the society. It symbolizes Individual vs. society.
6. Mark Twain put Huckleberry Finn aside for a few years because it wasn’t what he wanted to write about. He wanted to write about Tom Sawyer. In stead he started to write a book called “Life on Mississippi”, which was about his own adventures down the Mississippi river. He met interesting people that gave him the inspiration to write on Huckleberry Finn again. The book was published 20 years after the slavery was over, because now organizations as The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) had (and still has) extremely much against black people having their rights, Christianity and people who support black people’s rights. I guess he wanted to open people’s eyes more to see how stupid it was and that discrimination to black people were still going on.
7. The satirical about it is that it is that it is romantic. The irony is the romantic idea of death, which mark Twain is making fun of. They go to church because they are “good” people, and worship God, but they also bring weapons and the first thing they do when they get out of church is to kill members of the other family (The Feud, Romeo and Juliet). It doesn’t make any sense, and Mark Twain is making fun of it.
8. Huck plays on Buck’s gullibility because has “better” values to society than Huck has. Huck is able to see how silly “The Feuds” (romantic) are, because he is not involved in it.
9. When Buck asks Huck about “Moses and the candle” he says he doesn’t know anything about it. Huck also thinks that Buck asks him a real, serious question, and this shows us how realist he is. Huck can symbolize Moses because he frees Jim from slavery. It shows us that you can do the right thing without being religious. (this is what Mark Twain tries to tell us.)
10. Hogs that sleep under the floor go to church whenever while the families only do it when they have to. The first thing the families do when the go out of church is to kill each other, which is the opposite of Christianity. This is wrong, and you shouldn’t go to church just because everyone else does it, it should mean something to you.
11. The Feud reminds me of Shakespeare’s, Romeo and Juliet. You have the two families that don’t like each other, after one person from one of the family kills another person from the other family, this family kills another member of the family that killed one of their members. (Wow, what a good explanation.) The reason they do it is wrong, and they don’t even know why they do it. Buck says its fun, which is crazy?? It is not fun that several people in your family get killed just because you had “fun” killing someone from the other family.
12. Is symbolizes the freedom Huck and Jim have on the raft. They are free souls, and the corrupted society is not for them. Freedom/individual vs. society.
13. Huck and Jim are almost naked on the raft and it represents their free souls.
14. Huck doesn’t expose the Duke and the King (Dauphin) as frauds because he doesn’t want trouble. If it is one thing he has learnt from his father it is that you shouldn’t mess with people like that, because they wont change their opinion, and they will only make trouble for you. It also shows that he is a free soul, he let people be themselves, without having any trouble with it. He has grown he is more mature now.
15. Huck is the most shrewd because he is not being honest to what he knows about the Duke and the King.
16. Romeo and Juliet written by Shakespeare is ROMANTIC! Mark Twain Is making fun of romanticism. Examples are the feud, Duke and the King!
17. The King pretends to be a pirate who has been saved. Now he wants to go back, but he only needs money. Mark Twain the gullibility of people.
18. Yes. The Duke and the King, that they call themselves are not good persons as their names say. I think that Mark Twain tries to reflect the society through them. Just as the society has “good values” (they go to church) the Duke and the King has names from people that are supposed to be good, but they are not. The society is corrupt!
Are you starting to see a pattern to these questions? Think THEME.
ReplyDeleteGood answers here. 18/18