Thursday, December 2, 2010

Huck Finn . Discussion Questions [: XII - XIV... BTW FIelding put the F away :D

1.Pap says that borrowing things is just you take them, but you dont give them back. The widow says that this is stealing and its wrong. So Jim and Huck have a discussion saying that they create a list and just 'borrow' a few things but not everything anymore.

2. He is looking for an adventure.

3. Sir Walter Scott is an author of romantic novels. On the boat named after him, they murder people.

4. He saves them because he wants to be a good person. Also he says that he might become a murderer some day too, so he might see them as some kind of friends.

5. He told the boatman a story that his family is on the wrack and he is related to some really rich guy. Just a few moments before he got to know that this guy is so rich. How did he get so smart?

6.

7. I dont really think his information is really accurate. He even calls the dauphin dolphin. So he probably makes up most of it, cause he is too uneducated for knowing all that stuff.

8. I think that Jim thinks that it is some kind of a duty for a king to chop a child into two. He doesnt really like him because he doesnt get the sense of chopping a child. He also might be again kings in general. A king is usually a person who doesnt do anything all day long and just decides over people. That is like an owner of a slave, which Jim probably doesnt like.




15-20

1. fog is a metaphor for ?
   light = clearance, peace

2. Even though Jims a slave, Huck cares for him. He realizes that he hurt Jim, that he has feelings just like a human being.

3.

- Huck thinks he is the reason that Jim is free and he thinks he is a bad person because he helped a slave becoming free. He got taught that stealing a slave is the worst thing he could do and he did it, even though actually freeing a slave is something really good.

- He has to buy his OWN children, because they do not belong to him. So if he cannot buy them he just steals them.

-Why should you do thinks right, when you have to learn to do them right. You could just do them wrong with no effort and the result is the same.

-As snakeskin stands for extremely bad luck, they think when they saw it it 'cursed' them. This was said in the fog when they were passing cairo and they were afraid that they already let cairo behind.

4. They gave him money because Huck made up a story about his family being really sick and the hunters cannot go into the ship. So the hunters feel sorry and give Huck a lot of money.

5. It represents the judgement of nature and nature gets replaced by society, which is represented by the steam boat. Society destroys nature. Nature vs. Society.

6. Slavery, Civil War, he was a boat captain, racism

7. The furniture of the house makes fun of the romantic idea of death. Romeo and Juliet

8. freedom, romanticism vs realism, superstition, ignorance & naivety, role of the outsider,

9. Realism, Moses freed the slaves in Egypt and fled with them. Huck is compared with Moses, cause he steals a slave too.

10. Hogs are better than people, they go to church every time, people dont. And it is pretty funny that they take their guns to a holy place like this.

11. Romanticism. Connection of Romeo and Juliet.

12. Both of them feel better on the raft because it stands for freedom. They might feel more comfortable in a comfortable way on a bed or something like that but they feel more free on a raft where they can do what they want to.

13. Clothes represent society, nudity represents freedom.

14.  Because his dad taught him that it is better to let people play and let them do their own thing except of arguing with them.

15. Huck doesnt tell them that he knows that their not real dukes and kings

16. Juliet is 'played' by the king who is totally old and ugly, which satirizes the book.

17. He says that he has been changed from a pirate by this meeting and noe hes gonna go out to change all the other pirates, he just needs some money. Its satirizing the gullibility of people.

18. Twain days that Americans are really gullible, believing some strangers that they are a duke and a king.

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