chapter 5-8 questions

1. Pap doesn’t want Huck to become smarter the him because if Huck is smarter then pap then he would make his father look bad in the town. This is ironic because most parents want their kids to pass or exceed them in learning but pa wont have any of that

2. The society wants Huck to stay with his pa but in reality he should be staying with Widow Douglas.   It is good that society wants families to stay together, but the fact that pa is a drunk and beats Huck means that Huck should be taken away.

3. Huck wants to stay with his dad because he feels more at home.  He goes out hunting and fishing where at the Widow Douglas’ house he would have to go to school.   Huck likes not to have to do anything and to be lazy.  The theme of this section would be the quest for freedom. 

4. This is ironic because pa did not do any of the things that he is cussing and making a big fuss about.  In fact Huck learned everything from the Widow Douglas and Judge Thatcher.  Pa doesn’t try to change society he is just a drunk, where the black person is actually trying to get somewhere in life.

5.  Death and Rebirth because Huck fakes his death and he is reborn in the fact that he is living by himself in the wild with no civilization to tell him what to do. 

6.  It’s ironic that Huck wants Tom there because usually when Tom is there things are blown out of proportion.  If Tom had been there it would have been so over the top that people would have uncovered that Huck faked his death. Therefore the plan would not have worked. 

7.  It is ironic that Huck finds bread, because when they put quicksilver in the bread it is supposed to find a dead body and Huck is supposed to be dead.  Huck thinks that praying works, but only for the right type of people like the Widow or the minister.

8.   Jim’s reaction is that he thinks Huck is ghost, which plays into the theme of superstition because ghosts are a part of superstition and Jim is really superstitious. 

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10.  This quote is significant because it shows Huck growing into someone who doesn’t agree with how civilization treats slaves and so he disobeys society by not telling where Jim is. 

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12.  Huck puts a dead rattlesnake on Jim’s sleeping bag to scare him.  Yes it is typical of Huck’s character, because he always plays pranks.  He learned that Jim was right that touching rattlesnakes’ bodies when they are dead brings bad luck. 

13.  He plays a very bad role as woman. 

14.  Huck doesn’t care that she gets the story wrong, and doesn’t tell her that he and Tom found the money. 

15.   The fact that Jim’s reward is higher than Pa’s which is racist because they don’t have any evidence involving Jim.  Also Pa has motive to kill Huck because of the money and Jim doesn’t have a motive what so ever.