Ideally, these would have gone in order during class, but from what I understand....not so much. If you didn't present your chapters, please post your summary and analysis here. Don't forget to say what chapters you're discussing!
Chapter 37: Jim Gets His Witch Pie Tom and Huck decide to put nails and spoons and other random items into Aunt Sally's Apron and Uncle Silas's hat, so when they go into Jim's cabin he will receive those items either by theft or Tom and Huck will somehow give them to Jim. Sally rages about all the lost items in their house that of course Tom and Huck have stolen for their unnecessarily complicated plan. They than make a witch pie which is stuffed with a rope latter made from the sheets of beds. They send it to Jim so that he will have it to escape with.
Chapter 38: Here A Captive Heart Is Busted The chapter starts with Tom and Huck making pens out of the spoons to write stuff on. Tom decides he wants to make a coat of arms, and that they can't use wood. So the two go off to find a grindstone but can't carry it due to it's weight. So they go back and actually take Jim out of the cabin so he can help them get the grindstone back to where he's being held. They than have a debate of wether or not to put spiders, snakes, and rats into the prison, and ultimately Tom decides that Jim is foolish for trying to be reasonable and decides to make Jim do it anyway.
These chapters are in the story basically to beat into the reader that Tom's whole plan is over the top unnecessary, and that he is doing it all for fun.
Chapter 5: In this chapter, Huck's dad is drunk and going on about the clothes he wears and his money. Key Quotes: "Starchy clothes- Very. You think you're a good deal of a big bug, don't you?" p.28 "It's a lie. Judge Thatcher's got it. You git it. I want it." p.29 "I hain't got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher, he'll tell you the same." Key Quotes explained: These quotes satirize that the government, represented as Judge Thatcher, will take anything you own, even if you won/found it rightfully. This is evident because he's upset about how Huck had money but the judge took it just like the government takes our money in taxes.
Chapter 6: Pap's Gov'ment Speech. Pap is saying he is entitled to stuff because he is white and is upset that the black guy has white man rights. He is saying that race determines the level of success.
Key quote: His Whole Gov'ment speech on page 35
Explained: Pap is a poor white man who is making fun of a successful black man who worked for his success. Pap is waiting for money to just fall into his lap because he is a white male who deserves it. Pap believes that he is entitled to things because of his race. By refusing to vote, Pap lowers himself to the average black save who has no rights. Black slaves weren't really considered humans and had no rights including the right to vote.
Chapter 33: Huck and Tom are reunited and Huck informs Tom he plans on stealing Jim out of slavery and Tom agrees to help him. Since Tom's aunt and uncle believe Huck is Tom Sawyer, Tom pretends to be Sid, his younger brother.
Chapter 34: Tom and Huck brainstorm how they are going to steal Jim back. Tom wants an elaborate, difficult plan while Huck just wants to get the job done effectively.
Chapter 34 is especially important because it highlights how Huck has matured while Tom has not. This is shown through Tom wanting to steal Jim through the same schemes he has read about in his pirate and robber books, but Huck knows that there are more effective ways to do things.
Chapter 23 and 24 23: This chapter was the first night of the "Royal Nonesuch" show. The first night the king went prancing out on all fours onto the stage naked and painted with rainbow stripes. Huck thought it was funny. Once it was quickly over, a man jumped up to stop the audience form hurting the king and said that they shouldn't be the laughingstock of the town. He told everyone to tell the citizens of the town how good it was. So the next night the same deal happened. The third night the king and duke sold tickets and then jumped on the raft and started sailing down the river. Huck and Jim had a long conversation about how the king and duke were just rapscallions. They brought in about $400. 24: Gang struck upon a towhead with two towns on either side. They dressed Jim as a Sick Arab and tied him on the raft so no townspeople would get suspicious. The king and duke pretend to be the brothers of Peter Wilks, a wealthy man who had just died the day before. He had left thousands of dollars behind for his relatives, so the duke and king just pretended to be them. They got almost all of the information they needed from a man on the steamboat they took to the town Almost all of the townspeople believed them.
Chapter 31 Huck is planning to run away with Jim and the raft but when he gets back he finds Jim is no longer there. He en learns that Jim has been sold by the King to Silas phelps. An important part of this chapter is when Huck writes the note to Ms. Watson but then decides to rip it up. " I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd gotto decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'-and tore it up." pg 210 Huck decides that no matter what society tells him he knows that he would feel terrible giving Jim up. This scene is a clear example of his maturing and chacter growth. Chapter 32 Huck arrives at the Phelp's to get Jim back. When he gets there, however, he is mistaken for a guest whom they were expecting. Huck, acting just like the frauds he so recently ran away from, pretends to be this mystery person who turns out to be Tom Sawyer, his old friend. It's important to note that Huck decides to act just like the Prince and King acted several times throughout the book.
Chapter 9 Huck and Jim are on the island and find a cave where they decide to hide. A storm comes and the river floods, washing away a house. They go into the house that is floating down the river where they find a dead body and Huck is told not to look. They took a lantern, a knife, and other necessities and made their way back to the island. Chapter 10 Huck kills a rattlesnake and puts it on Jims blanket as Jim previously warned Huck bad luck was coming due to the snakeskin they found. The snakes mate came and bit Jim on the heel, resulting in a very swollen foot. Huck dresses as a girl, and they go into town. Huck goes into a "little shanty" and talks to a woman, about 40 years old, who is new to town and could tell him all he needs to know.
Huck briefly explains his relationship with Tom Sawyer and how they came to be rich, while also sharing how he ended up with the Widow Douglas and Miss. Watson and how they are raising him to be civilized and proper.
Chapter Two: Huck and Tom mess around and trick Jim on their way to the “gang” meeting. Tom leads the group into a cave and explains their mission as a band of robbers to rob and kill people. They all signed an intense oath swearing that they would never tell and if they did, their families would be killed and so on. Toms reliance on books and what he hears in the stories relates how to romanticism and continues to as Twain makes fun of it throughout the novel.
Chapter 37: Jim Gets His Witch Pie
ReplyDeleteTom and Huck decide to put nails and spoons and other random items into Aunt Sally's Apron and Uncle Silas's hat, so when they go into Jim's cabin he will receive those items either by theft or Tom and Huck will somehow give them to Jim. Sally rages about all the lost items in their house that of course Tom and Huck have stolen for their unnecessarily complicated plan. They than make a witch pie which is stuffed with a rope latter made from the sheets of beds. They send it to Jim so that he will have it to escape with.
Chapter 38: Here A Captive Heart Is Busted
The chapter starts with Tom and Huck making pens out of the spoons to write stuff on. Tom decides he wants to make a coat of arms, and that they can't use wood. So the two go off to find a grindstone but can't carry it due to it's weight. So they go back and actually take Jim out of the cabin so he can help them get the grindstone back to where he's being held. They than have a debate of wether or not to put spiders, snakes, and rats into the prison, and ultimately Tom decides that Jim is foolish for trying to be reasonable and decides to make Jim do it anyway.
These chapters are in the story basically to beat into the reader that Tom's whole plan is over the top unnecessary, and that he is doing it all for fun.
Chapter 5: In this chapter, Huck's dad is drunk and going on about the clothes he wears and his money.
ReplyDeleteKey Quotes:
"Starchy clothes- Very. You think you're a good deal of a big bug, don't you?" p.28
"It's a lie. Judge Thatcher's got it. You git it. I want it." p.29
"I hain't got no money, I tell you. You ask Judge Thatcher, he'll tell you the same."
Key Quotes explained:
These quotes satirize that the government, represented as Judge Thatcher, will take anything you own, even if you won/found it rightfully. This is evident because he's upset about how Huck had money but the judge took it just like the government takes our money in taxes.
Chapter 6:
Pap's Gov'ment Speech. Pap is saying he is entitled to stuff because he is white and is upset that the black guy has white man rights. He is saying that race determines the level of success.
Key quote: His Whole Gov'ment speech on page 35
Explained: Pap is a poor white man who is making fun of a successful black man who worked for his success. Pap is waiting for money to just fall into his lap because he is a white male who deserves it. Pap believes that he is entitled to things because of his race. By refusing to vote, Pap lowers himself to the average black save who has no rights. Black slaves weren't really considered humans and had no rights including the right to vote.
Chapter 33: Huck and Tom are reunited and Huck informs Tom he plans on stealing Jim out of slavery and Tom agrees to help him. Since Tom's aunt and uncle believe Huck is Tom Sawyer, Tom pretends to be Sid, his younger brother.
ReplyDeleteChapter 34: Tom and Huck brainstorm how they are going to steal Jim back. Tom wants an elaborate, difficult plan while Huck just wants to get the job done effectively.
Chapter 34 is especially important because it highlights how Huck has matured while Tom has not. This is shown through Tom wanting to steal Jim through the same schemes he has read about in his pirate and robber books, but Huck knows that there are more effective ways to do things.
Chapter 23 and 24
ReplyDelete23: This chapter was the first night of the "Royal Nonesuch" show. The first night the king went prancing out on all fours onto the stage naked and painted with rainbow stripes. Huck thought it was funny. Once it was quickly over, a man jumped up to stop the audience form hurting the king and said that they shouldn't be the laughingstock of the town. He told everyone to tell the citizens of the town how good it was. So the next night the same deal happened. The third night the king and duke sold tickets and then jumped on the raft and started sailing down the river. Huck and Jim had a long conversation about how the king and duke were just rapscallions. They brought in about $400.
24: Gang struck upon a towhead with two towns on either side. They dressed Jim as a Sick Arab and tied him on the raft so no townspeople would get suspicious. The king and duke pretend to be the brothers of Peter Wilks, a wealthy man who had just died the day before. He had left thousands of dollars behind for his relatives, so the duke and king just pretended to be them. They got almost all of the information they needed from a man on the steamboat they took to the town Almost all of the townspeople believed them.
Chapter 31
ReplyDeleteHuck is planning to run away with Jim and the raft but when he gets back he finds Jim is no longer there. He en learns that Jim has been sold by the King to Silas phelps. An important part of this chapter is when Huck writes the note to Ms. Watson but then decides to rip it up. " I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd gotto decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'-and tore it up." pg 210 Huck decides that no matter what society tells him he knows that he would feel terrible giving Jim up. This scene is a clear example of his maturing and chacter growth.
Chapter 32
Huck arrives at the Phelp's to get Jim back. When he gets there, however, he is mistaken for a guest whom they were expecting. Huck, acting just like the frauds he so recently ran away from, pretends to be this mystery person who turns out to be Tom Sawyer, his old friend. It's important to note that Huck decides to act just like the Prince and King acted several times throughout the book.
Chapter 9
ReplyDeleteHuck and Jim are on the island and find a cave where they decide to hide. A storm comes and the river floods, washing away a house. They go into the house that is floating down the river where they find a dead body and Huck is told not to look. They took a lantern, a knife, and other necessities and made their way back to the island.
Chapter 10
Huck kills a rattlesnake and puts it on Jims blanket as Jim previously warned Huck bad luck was coming due to the snakeskin they found. The snakes mate came and bit Jim on the heel, resulting in a very swollen foot. Huck dresses as a girl, and they go into town. Huck goes into a "little shanty" and talks to a woman, about 40 years old, who is new to town and could tell him all he needs to know.
ReplyDeleteChapter One:
Huck briefly explains his relationship with Tom Sawyer and how they came to be rich, while also sharing how he ended up with the Widow Douglas and Miss. Watson and how they are raising him to be civilized and proper.
Chapter Two:
Huck and Tom mess around and trick Jim on their way to the “gang” meeting. Tom leads the group into a cave and explains their mission as a band of robbers to rob and kill people. They all signed an intense oath swearing that they would never tell and if they did, their families would be killed and so on. Toms reliance on books and what he hears in the stories relates how to romanticism and continues to as Twain makes fun of it throughout the novel.