Friday, December 13, 2013

Huckleberry Finn Chap. 1-4 Questions

  1. She takes Huck in to live with her and she wants to civilize Huck. She is a good person and wants whats best for Huck. He doesn't take to the story much because he figures that Moses been dead for years so he doesn't matter much anymore.
  2. It's Huck's way of trying to make sense of the world, but it falls under the romantic ideas. 
  3. He has a loose idea of death, he doesn't really think much of dead people, he thinks that aren't important because they're dead. His idea of the good place and bad place is that he just wants to go where his friends will go. Huck has a violent childhood and he had to become familiar with death early in his life.
  4. They boys probably wouldn't have thought about playing a trick on an older white man or woman. They probably would have played one on their friends, but because Jim is a slave they don't have the same respect for him. 
  5. It means that Jim now stands out to the other slaves and he has been giving hope. Now he has a confidence that slave owners don't want because it gets in the slaves head and they act out. 
  6. Tom left the money for the candles because he maybe felt bad about taking the candles and wanted the leave the owners something in return. Or perhaps the nickle was for Jim because of the trick they played on him. Huck wouldn't have left the money because he doesn't have a grasp on manners so he never would have really thought about it. 
  7. Tom has a more romantic idea of life and games. He has a vivid imagination and hasn't really had to worry about life yet. Huck has had a tough life and has had to live life to survive. He doesn't have an imagination and takes everything very literally.
  8. He thinks they are cooler. They are more about killing people are stopping people on the road and stealing their things. Burglars go and are sneaky and still cattle and things.
  9. Huck doesn't understand prayer. He was told that if you pray,  then you'll get whatever you want. He doesn't this and he gets nothing. He thought about it for a long time and never understood, so he just gave up on it. 
  10. Because Tom was trying to explain to Huck about the things that were in his imagination and because Huck doesn't have one, he just couldn't wrap his around the ideas that Tom was trying to explain.
  11. Huck doesn't understand the imagination of Tom, so to his, its just a Sunday School lunch. 
  12. He doesn't want his father to take his money and spend it on booze.

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