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 * Comprehension & Discussion Questions**
 * 1) Mark Twain included the "Notice" on the opening page most likely wanted to tell the reader that //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,// is by fact a sequel to //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.// Twain wanted to make it clear that the characters in //The Adventures of Tom Sawyer// are same as the characters in //The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.//
 * 2) The 43 chapters can be organized into categories based on the events in each chapter. Most of the chapters correspond among the other chapters because Huck does make some reference from other chapters before and those chapters bridge the next chapters that come along.
 * 3) Huck's decision to travel with Jim, a runaway slave, was the start of all his troubles throughout the novel. He encounters one conflict into another conflict, in which, he had many opportunities to leave Jim, but takes the moral choice and protects Jim. They get into worse situations and encounter slave hunters, the duke and dauphin (con artists), the Grangerfords family, and etc.
 * 4) The consequences of Huck's and Jim's passing the Ohio River in the fog is that there plan to take aboard a steamboat is abolished and now they end up into the heart of the slavery institution, the South.
 * 5) Its ironic that Huck and Jim travel further south because Huck is trying to help Jim escape slavery. The two didn’t really have a sense of where they were going; they only had the thought of heading north to freedom. They travel further south and this creates further implications to free Jim.
 * 6) The transferring from land to river is a common event throughout the novel. It shows the different techniques in survival when the time is needed.
 * 7) The impact the king and duke had on Huck’s and Jim’s life on the raft, their quest for freedom, make the adventure of Huck and Jim more exciting. These two are con artists and threats in revealing that Huck and Jim are runaways.
 * 8) The parallels between the king’s and duke’s treatment of Jim and Tom Sawyer’s treatment of him are noticeable that they were just using him for their own gain. The king and duke used him to gain material wealth and Tom used him to gain a novel to become famous.
 * 9) Huck has been endangered many times through the novel. The first threat was stimulated by Pap, where Huck was physically abused. Also, accepting to help free Jim endangered Huck’s life, and encountering the king and duke made things more complicated. Huck escapes all the conflicts by running away in the goods to help Jim escape also.
 * 10) The ending by far is counted for sheer coincidence. It’s odd that the farm ended up being his best friend’s aunt and uncle. Of all the places to end up they end up there, so it’s pretty much reliable on coincidence.
 * 11) I believe that Tom Sawyer’s stratagem were quite interesting. He had great imaginations that produce great plans and schemes. Huck’s and Jim’s goal were quite attainable but of Tom Sawyer’s stratagem made things harder then it already was.
 * 12) In a way there was justice because Tom was using Jim to make obtain a good story. He made Jim go through many hardships and to counteract the problem he was the only one to be shot in punishment of his wrong doing.
 * 13) Huck does admit to elaborate lies and fabrications, but I believe we are to trust Huck because through his adventure of trying to free Jim is a good cause, automatically we can trust his account of the adventure and understand the true meaning of it all.

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