1. The widow Douglas has a good heart. She takes Huck to her, she gives him clothes, she feeds him, she offers him to go to school, and she gives him an own room to live in.
Huck answered, that he is not interested in dead people. That shows that he is realistic and lives in the world of today.
2. Superstition is used quite often in the first chapter. Huck sees a ghost, he burns a spider, he hears an owl. Superstition has a similarity to religion. Its is mentioned in chapter 1 a lot, because it is used as a motif to understand Huck in a better way.
3. Huck says, that he does not want to go to the 'good place', where people play harps all day long. He wants to have an adventure, a change, he wants to do something.
4. The trick Huck and Tom played on Jim was not really meant in a bad way. They took his hat and hung it up. As they are children, it was just meant as fun.
5. A servant is a really good name for a slave in that time. Jim has somebody that pays attention to him, that makes him feel good. This ruins him, because a slave in that time is not supposed to feel good.
6. Tom took the candle, even though he did not need it. He left the 5 cents on the table, because he thought that would be right, maybe even better for the person, if they get something that is more worth than the candles. I think Huck wouldn't have taken the candles as long as he really does not need them He just takes things, when he needs them, but then he wouldn't have let 5 cents on the table.
7. Tom stands for romanticism, Huck for realism in this book. Huck is a uneducated boy, that does not understand everything that people tell him. He lives in the world of today, he tries to be honest. Tom has education. He is clever, but he is also insidious. He wants to make everthing as romantic as possible.
8. Highwaymen sounds way better than burglars. Burglars are usual, there are a lot of them, Tom does not want to be like everyone else. Highwaymen sounds more noble, and it is more fun to stop wagons instead of breaking into houses.
9. When Miss Watson said when you pray for everything, you get it back, Huck thought, when you pray, you get back even material things. He tried to, it did not work. He also wonders, why no one prays for the things they lost. Then Miss Watson told him that it is for spiritual things, then he is not interested anymore.
10. Tom calls Huck a numskull, because he doesnt get a lot of things. When Tom says something, he believes, that Tom means it, but he often does not, for example with the gang they found. Huck thought they would really kill all the people, but Tom only attacked a picnic.
11. Tom is romantic. He acts like there are all the elephants, and the arabs. Huck does not get it. He is realistic, he does not believe in those things.
12. He gives all the money to the Judge Thatcher, because he does not want his dad to get access to it.
Lisa - well done.
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