questions 1-12

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2.    Huck felt bad after he played the prank on Jim. In this society people are taught from a young age to treat black people as “trash” without respect or that they might have feels just like other people. Huck as a young person has been brought up in this society. Being at a young age and hanging around Jim for so long has made Huck want Jim’s respect and when he hurt Jim he lost his respect.  So, it took a long time for Huck to build up the nerve to apoligize to Jim. It was because of what society had taught him about how to treat black people.

3.    A.) Huck feels he has stolen widow Douglas’ valuable property when he helped Jim escape.   B.) The irony is that the children where born as Jim’s but he has to either steal them back or pay for them. In our society children belong to their parents until the age of 18. In the story Jim’s children where sold into slavery as someone else property.  C.) Huck has been thinking about turning Jim in but he is having second thoughts. Society says that Jim is someone elses property but Huck is fighting the belief that Jim should be free to live as an equal. So, Huck is struggling with the decision of what to do.  D.)  Jim’s superstition about Huck touching a rattlesnake is why they are still having bad luck.

4.    The bounty hunters give Huck money because they think Huck’s father has smallpox. The irony is that Huck is a very rich boy.  These men give him money to help but they should be checking/helping Huck’s father instead of allowing a young boy to take care of his sick father.

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6.    Mark Twain put the book aside for several years because he didn’t like where the story was headed at the time.  He stopped the book to look for a new way to continue Huck’s character. He went to New Orleans and traveled the waterways. Where the book was very dark before, it became even darker after he experienced the life in the real south.
7.    The Granger’s house is filled with paintings of the civil war and art that expresses dark themes. The family is rich and live by their own law.
8.    Huck’s persona name is George Jackson and he doesn’t know how to correctly spell the name. He cons Buck into spelling it for him but Buck doesn’t know how to spell it either. So when Buck spells it wrong he doesn’t realize it.
9.    Huck doesn’t believe in dead people. Huck doesn’t understand jokes or riddles. So, when Buck tells the Moses story, it irritates Huck because Buck tells Huck the answer to his question. This makes Huck irritated.
10.     The hogs think the church is cool and they go there to sleep under the floor. People go there because they are forced to go their every Sunday.
11.    The fued symbolizes
12.    The life on the raft is without rules or consequences. Life on land is with rules and consequences. On the raft Jim is free and Huck is the boss of himself.  On land Jim is treated as a slave and Huck is to young to do as he pleases without permission.

Huck he thought that he was okay weth taken jim but then jim starts talking about how he is going to steall his kids huck  starts fealing bad