Huck Finn . Discussion Questions [: XV - XX...

1. fog is a metaphor for confusion. Huck and Jim lose each other several times in the fog. Light on the other hand stands for clearance and 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.

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- 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, actually 40 $ which is a lot of money at that time, 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. Twain wrote this book and he wanted it to be a continuation of Tom Sawyer. He put his book down because it developed into something else. In the meantime he wrote another novel, which is called 'Life on the Mississippi'. After that he picked up Huckleberry Finn.

7. The furniture of the house makes fun of the romantic idea of death. The family actually acts kind of weird.

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. The feud stands for Romanticism. It is this too families fighting against each other even though they do not know the reason why they fight. It is a Connection to 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. So they represent freedom by being on the raft naked.

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 now 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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