Huck Finn Chapters 29-43

"Well, I RECKON! There's two hunderd dollars reward on him. It's like picking up money out'n the road."

Duke after turning in Jim

What does Huck say about human?

He says they will always be bad to each other

Tom's most well now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch-guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain't nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I'd a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn't a tackled it, and ain't a-going to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before.

Huck

"And then think of ME! It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a n- to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see anybody from that town again I'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame. That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it."

Huck debating what to do about Jim

"I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so...He was a mighty good ******, Jim was."

Huck talking about Jim and realizing he is a person and has a heart like everyone else

"Well if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a ******. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."

Huck talking about the Duke and King and how ashamed he is of them for pretending to be Peter's brothers

"You'll say it's dirty, low-down business; but what if it is? I'm low down; and I'm a going to steal him and I want you to keep mum and not let on. Will you?"

Huck talking to Tom about stealing Jim back and how Tom will think it's bad of Huck to help a slave

meeky

sky, hesitant

waylaid

someone interrupted you

stile

steps that allow humans to climb over fences and animals can't

ornery

stubborn, too smart for own good

"I liked the n- for that; I tell you, gentlemen, a n- like that is worth a thousand dollars—and kind treatment, too. I had everything I needed, and the boy was doing as well there as he would a done at home—better, maybe, because it was so quiet; but there I WAS, with both of 'm on my hands, and there I had to stick till about dawn this morning; then some men in a skiff come by, and as good luck would have it the n- was setting by the pallet with his head propped on his knees sound asleep; so I motioned them in quiet, and they slipped up on him and grabbed him and tied him before he knowed what he was about, and we never had no trouble."

the Doctor

Who is Levi Bell?

the lawyer who tried to prove King and Duke were frauds

Who are Silas and Sally Phelps

the owners of the farm

evasion

to avoid

audacious

willing to take risks

shirks

avoid performing your duty

betwixt

between

Skekel

coin

impudent

disrespectful

mortification

embarrassment

vittles

food scraps

Who is Nat?

The slave who lead Huck to Jim

How much was Jim sold for?

$40

"You don't look as much like your mother as I reckoned you would; but law sakes, I don't care for that, I'm so glad to see you! Dear, dear, it does seem like I could eat you up! Children, it's your cousin Tom!—tell him howdy."

- Aunt Sally when Huck introduces himself as Tom

"deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie---I found that out....I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'----and tore it up."

- Climax of the story - Huck decides to tear up the letter telling Miss Watson where Jim is - He ultimately decides to save Jim

How did Huck find out who Jim had been sold to?

- He ran into a boy who told him - The Duke tried to trick Huck by telling him Jim was somewhere else

"I went right along, not fixing up any particular plan, but just trusting to Providence to put the right words in my mouth when the time come; for I'd noticed that Providence always did put the right words in my mouth if I left it alone."

- Huck - talking about saving Jim and hoping the right plan and things to say will come to him

What is the climax?

- Huck decides he will save Jim - "Alright I'm going to Hell" - made up his mid that Jim is his friend and he will go against society

"I knowed he was white inside, and I reckoned he'd say what he did say---so it was all right now, and I told Tom I was a-going for a doctor."

- Huck talking about Jim - He realized Jim is a good and "white inside" because he told Tom he would stay with him after he was shot

Realism and Romanticism

- Huck's plans represent Realism - Tom's plans represent Romanticism

"Set down, my boy; I wouldn't strain myself if I was you. I reckon you ain't used to lying, it don't seem to come handy; what you want is practice. You do it pretty awkward."

- Levi Bell (the lawyer who asks Duke and King to prove themselves with their handwriting) - telling Huck he is a liar

Regionalism

- Midwest (Missouri) - Mississippi River

dialect

- Midwestern -Southern Slavery -childhood -wealthy upperclass/lowerclass

Moments of Irony

- Tom and Huck "freed" a free slave - Aunt Sally doesn't recognize her own nephew - The boys are playing tricks and the family and the family thinks it is the Indians

Bildungsroman

- coming of age story

How does Jim respond to Tom's plans?

- he responds well - he says that white people know best so he'll go along with it

What are some of Tom's plans for saving Jim?

- sawing off his bed post (Huck says why don't they just lift the bed to get the chain off) - steal a shirt for Jim's journal (Huck says why? Jim can't write) - cut Jim's leg off - Steal everything from Silas and Sally (Huck says "most jackass plan ever" - coat of arms

How did Levi Bell try to prove the King and Duke frauds?

- their handwriting - the tattoo (It was really of Peter's initials but the king and duke said it was a blue arrow)

Major Themes in the story

- what it means to be free - discrimination - loyalty -friendship -parental figures

Tom's Allusions

-Jane Gray and her husband - Henry IV - Casanova - man in iron mask

plumb

-exact/really - all out of it ex "plumb exhausted"

"Well, den, dis is de way it look to me, Huck. Ef it wuz HIM dat 'uz bein' sot free, en one er de boys wuz to git shot, would he say, 'Go on en save me, nemmine 'bout a doctor f'r to save dis one?' Is dat like Mars Tom Sawyer? Would he say dat? You BET he wouldn't! WELL, den, is JIM gywne to say it? No, sah—I doan' budge a step out'n dis place 'dout a DOCTOR, not if it's forty year!"

Jim saying that Tom would help him so he is going to help Tom

"Nemmine why Huck----but he ain't comin back no mo." Doan' you 'member de house dat was float'n down de river, en dey wuz a man in dah, kivered up, en I went in en unkivered him and didn' let you come in? Well, den, you kin git yo' money when you wants it, kase dat wuz him."

Jim telling Huck that Pap was the dead man in the house-boat

Why did King and Duke get tarred and feathered?

They tried to pull their schemes in another city, but the city had already heard about them

"They hain't no RIGHT to shut him up! SHOVE!—and don't you lose a minute. Turn him loose! He ain't no slave; he's as free as any cretur that walks this earth!"

Tom saying there's no need to lock Jim up because he's already free

"It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's the RIGHT way—and it's the regular way. And there ain't no OTHER way, that ever I heard of, and I've read all the books that gives any information about these things. They always dig out with a case-knife—and not through dirt, mind you; generly it's through solid rock. And it takes them weeks and weeks and weeks, and for ever and ever. Why, look at one of them prisoners in the bottom dungeon of the Castle Deef, in the harbor of Marseilles, that dug himself out that way; how long was HE at it, you reckon?

Tom talking about the way they should do things according to his books

Who is Polly

Tom's Aunt

smoke-house

a building where meat is hung to dry

cravat

a piece of fabric around neck