Huckleberry+Finn


 * 1) **//How is Huck Finn a critique of institutions, traditions, practices, and social characteristics of Twain's time period?//**
 * 2) **//How does Huck Finn work as a critique of our modern society and its institutions, traditions, and practices?//**


 * 1) **//Select one event from the novel that functions as a commentary on a part of society, its traditions, practices, or institutions (eg. marriage, law, education, etc.) Summarize the event and write an analysis of the event, focusing on Twain's commentary on that aspect of society.//**
 * 2) **//Research a historic event (post Civil War to the publication of the novel) that fits the topic introduced in the episode you've selected from the novel. Summarize the event and explain how Twain's novel acts as a critique of that event.//**
 * 3) **//Research a contemporary event similar (in terms of underlying ideas and issues or in terms of what happened) to the historic event that you have chosen. Again, summarize the event and explain how Twain's novel still acts as a critique of this event even though his novel was written so long ago.//**
 * 4) **//Write an essay that proposes a satyrical solution to the problem suggested by your current event.//**

__SATYRICAL ESSAY FORMAT__
__SATYRICAL ESSAY FORMAT__SATYRICAL ESSAY FORMAT ==//I. __Introduction To Problem__ II. __Introduction To Solution__ Thesis: Your Solution III. __Explaination/ Unveil Solution__ Examples Arguement Compare  Research (Other way we have attempeted to solve the problem)  Save  The Wacky DO NOT LET THE READER KNOW YOUR JOKING TILL THE END  IV. __Counter Arguement__ V. __Conclusion__//==

==**Comprehension & Discussion Questions** for The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain 1. Why did Twain include the "Notice" on the opening page? Twian used the notice to help the reader understand that all the characters were talking succeeding and not alike. 2. Can the book's 43 chapters be grouped according to distinct action sequences? Are there correspondences among chapters or groups of chapters? 3. Each stage of Huck's moral growth culminates in a crisis of conscience and a decision to assist Jim (as when Huck tells the two slave hunters that there is "only one" man on the raft and that "He's white"); and each decision is more consequential than the previous. What are these stages and decisions; when do they occur; and what are their consequences? 4. What are the consequences of Huck's and Jim's going past the mouth of the Ohio River in the fog? (Chapter XV) 5. Among the novel's great ironies is that Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom takes them farther and farther into the deep South, the heart of slavery. How and why does this happen? What are the implications? 6. The primary movement of Huck's and Jim's journey and of the novel is linear, from north to south. A back-and-forth pattern of movement between river and shore also occurs. How is this pattern important in terms of plot? How is it related to the north-to-south movement? Does it reflect any other kind of movement experienced by Huck or Jim? 7. How do the king and the duke impact Huck's and Jim's life on the raft, their quest for freedom, and the novel's movement? 8. What are the parallels between the king's and duke's treatment of Jim in Chapter XXIV and Tom Sawyer's treatment of him in the final chapters? 9. The cemetery passage in Chapter XXIX is one of the few times when Huck is in immediate danger of actual harm or death. What are some similar incidents? What threatens his safety and well-being in each instance--other people or forces of nature? How does he escape in each instance? 10. Do the final chapters, beginning with Huck's arrival at the Phelps farm, rely too much on coincidence? 11. Do Tom Sawyer's elaborate escape stratagems indicate that Jim's and Huck's goals are unobtainable? 12. Is there any justice in the fact that only Tom is wounded in the final chase through the swamp? 13. The story is told by a fourteen-year-old Huck, who admits to elaborate lies and fabrications. Can we trust him? Can we accept his version of things, or must we read between his lines?==
 * 1) The notice was included on the opening page to show that __The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn__ is a continuation of __The Adventures of Tom Sawyer__. It shows that not only the characters are the same but also the setting.
 * 2) Twain made the novel so that the story is in a sequence of events, so the chapters progress without skipping from past to present to future. He does talk about the past but that is just to remind the reader of what happened to him.
 * 3) Huck thought about giving up Jim but he feels that it is wrong to make him go back to Miss Watson. So every chance that is available to get Jim captured, Huck doesn’t. The consequence is that Jim is under a reward for his capture.
 * 4) The consequence for Huck and Jim going past the mouth of the Ohio River in the fog is that Jim and Huck get separated for fifteen minutes and Huck lies to Jim and hurts Jim’s feelings. Along with that Huck fears that they missed Cairo, the exit which leads to the free states, so Jim could work for money and buy his families freedom.
 * 5) It is ironic that Huck and Jim are getting deeper and deeper into slavery country while Jim is trying to get out of it. This is happening because they are traveling the wrong way down the river.
 * 6) Huck and Jim are constantly trying to go forward towards Jim’s freedom in a linear direction, but they face opposition and get help in a back and forth direction. As to the north and south movement Mark Twain brings the concerns of slavery, but he may not want to try to change the foundations of slavery. He sees things that need to be changed in slavery, but he’s not completely against slavery, which is why he may have made Huck and Jim’s direction go from North to South. It reflects the back and forth movement in that there transition to freedom was not a smooth path. The back and forth movement tells us that a lot of obstacles that need to be overcome before slavery will be changed; it is not an easy path.
 * 7) The King and Duke are two men who con Huck and Jim into doing what they want or they will expose there secret. They hold Huck and Jim back from making the novel progress, they don’t move as fast as they could have down the river.
 * 8) The King, Duke, and Sawyer use Jim for there own gain. King and Duke swindle Jim and Huck into doing what they want. Tom on the other hand uses Jim for pleasure. He knows that Jim is a free man and he chooses to torture him.
 * 9) In the novel many of people are a threat to Huck’s safety. Pap is a major threat by him beating Huck and stealing from him. Jim is another threat but Huck doesn’t let Jim get in trouble due to the facts that he helped Huck run away and that he is a good person.
 * 10) The ending was somewhat coincidental by the Phelp’s farm being Huck’s best friends Aunt and Uncle.
 * 11) Sawyer did not help participate in Jim’s release. Jim and Huck’s stratagems are not unobtainable they just get more complex.
 * 12) There is justice in the fact that Tom was the only one shot in the swamp chase. Twain could have put that in to make up for Tom’s behavior towards Jim (using him for stories).
 * 13) We have to read between the lines, Even though Huck lies, in every lie there is a truth.