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John Vito Powell and Keri Klinges

Characters:

Episode Two: Chapters V - VII

Huck

Pap

Judge Thatcher

Characters:

A Murder & a Kidnapping

Setting:

Episode One: Chapters I - IV

Huck learns:

The Attempted Civilization of Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

Pap Finn

Tom Sawyer

Widow Douglas

Miss Watson

Jim Turner

Judge Thatcher

Pap's cabin, central Missouri

Setting:

Huck learns:

To look out for himself and

be independent; Pap's lack

of parenting has taught Huck

that he must learn to fend

for himself and keep his own

best interest in mind.

Plot:

Central Missouri (St. Petersburg)

Key Questions:

After being open-minded and trying out what Miss Watson

is teaching him, that civilization is overrated; society and freedom cannot

coexist

Plot:

Key Questions:

Pap seeks out Huck's fortune; when he

can't get his hands on it, he kidnaps Huck

and takes him to a cabin in the woods.

Huck fakes his own murder in order to escape,

and begins his journey down the Mississippi River.

  • Is freedom truly obtainable?
  • Do parents have the ultimate say in who we become, or is it up to us?

Conflict:

Huck Finn & Tom Sawyer have obtained

a fortune; Widow Douglas, Miss Watson,

and Judge Thatcher attempt to civilize Huck;

Pap, Huck's father (who abandoned him) returns.

  • Should everyone follow societal norms/trends?
  • Is being civilized really as vital as society makes it seem?

Conflict:

"It was kind of lazy and jolly, laying off comfortable all day, smoking & fishing, and no books nor study." -Huck

Man v. Man: Huck struggles with his abusive father

Man v. Society: Huck breaks away from society in search of freedom

"I don't take no stock in dead people." -Huck Finn

Man v. Society: Huck struggles with the idea of conformity

That freedom may not come

as easily as he had hoped. Being faced with the decision to stay with Jim or turn him in,

Huck realizes that he may face certain struggles on his journey.

Huck learns:

Episode Three: Chapters VIII - XI

Freedom, Honesty, and Acceptance: Pick One

  • Is Huck doing the right thing in helping Jim?
  • Is it better to distance oneself from society, or simply conform?

Key Questions:

Huck

Jim

Judith Loftus

Man v. Self: Huck must decide

whether or not he should stay

with Jim; Huck feels guilty that

Jim is suspected of his murder

Characters:

Conflict:

"I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. People would call me a low down Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum -- but that don't make no difference. I ain't agoing to tell, and I ain't agoing back there anyways." -Huck

Jackson's Island, Mississippi River

Setting:

Huck reaches Jackson's Island, where he

comes across Jim -- a slave of Miss Watson

who ran away to avoid being sold. Huck promises

not to turn Jim in. Huck and Jim find an empty

cabin with a naked dead man in it. Huck disguises

himself as Sarah Williams and meets Judith Loftus, who tells him that Jim is suspected of Huck's murder.

Plot:

Characters:

Huck

Jim

Episode Four: Chapters XII - XV

Jump into the Fog

Setting:

Huck learns:

Near St. Louis

"Well, then, why ain't it natural and right for a Frenchman to talk different from us?" -Huck (displays

differences in thought processes of blacks & whites, in this case Jim & Huck)

To think about his actions;

Huck's and Jim's habit of

stealing in order to survive is beginning to really get to Huck; so does the lie he tells to Jim regarding the fog; he questions his own morality. The reader sees Huck gain wisdom in these chapters.

Plot:

Key Questions:

  • What is the fog symbolic of in these chapters?
  • What do these chapters show about the differences in the thought processes of whites & blacks at the time?

A nasty storm causes Jim and Huck to land

on a shipwreck where they encounter a group

of robbers; their raft breaks loose & floats away;

they steal a skiff to look for the raft. A harsh

fog causes Jim and Huck to get separated. Huck

tricks Jim into thinking it was a dream.

Conflict:

Man v. Self: Jim and Huck challenge their habit of stealing; Huck struggles with the lie he told Jim

Episode Five: Chapters XVI - XVIII

Family Feud

Huck learns:

To appreciate his freedom

despite its struggles; the

drama of society and family displayed in these chapters makes Huck realize that he is much better off on his own

Huck

Jim

Characters:

Key Questions:

  • What famous feud is Mark Twain referencing in these chapters?
  • In what ways is Buck a foil to Huck?

Tennessee

Setting:

Man v. Man: The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons are involved in a family feud

Conflict:

"We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft." -Huck

Plot:

Jim and Huck continue their search for

Cairo; Huck begins to feel guilty about

helping Jim in his quest for freedom. A steamboat

destroys the raft and Jim & Huck get separated.

Huck comes across the Grangerfords & Shepherdsons

and experiences part of the feud that they are involved in. Huck becomes friends with Buck, who dies -- Huck is devastated.

Episode Six: Chapters XIX - XX

Royal Pains

Huck learns:

That sometimes it is best to let bad people have their own way; after dealing with the con-men, Huck begins to understand that it is better to stay out of some things.

Characters:

Huck

Jim

King

Duke

Key Questions:

  • In what way does Huck's experience with Pap prove to be beneficial in these chapters?
  • What is Twain attempting to convey by showing Jim's blind acceptance of the crooks' identities?

Religious gathering in Arkansas

Setting:

"If I never learnt nothing else out of Pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way." -Huck

Conflict:

Man v. Self: Huck must convince himself to stay out of the crooks' affairs rather than intervene; he struggles with which is the right decision

Plot:

Huck and Jim meet two crooks who claim to be a king and a duke. Jim is quick to believe that they are who they say they are, but Huck sees right through them. The king schemes & robs people at a religious gathering.

Episode Seven: Chapters XXI - XXIII

Characters:

Death by Monologue

Huck

Jim

King

Duke

Huck learns:

That society puts on a facade (circus)

"The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness."-Sherburn

Setting:

Arkansas

Key Questions:

  • What does Twain convey in regards to human nature?
  • What can we learn from Sherburn's monologue?

Plot:

Conflict:

The king and duke plan a bogus play for money; Sherburn shoots Boggs; the mob of townspeople threaten to lynch him but backs down when he stands up for himself; Huck goes to the circus.

Man v. Society: Sherburn calls out human race for being cowardly

Characters:

Episode Eight: Chapters XXIV - XXX

Not-So-Royal Shenanigans

Huck

Jim

King

Duke

Mary Jane

Joanna

Setting:

Huck learns:

Wilk's hometown in Arkansas

That honesty is the best policy, and that swindling is a dangerous and immoral thing to participate in.

Plot:

"Well, if I ever struck anything like it, I'm a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."-Huck

Key Questions:

The king disguises Jim as a sick Arab and discover from a boy about the Wilks' funeral; The king and duke pose as Peter Wilks' brothers and are offered money. they are accused of fraud by the doctor, but are not discovered. Huck tries to foil their plans by hiding the money in the coffin and telling Mary Jane the truth. The money is found when the real brothers come. Both sets of brothers are asked what tattoo Peter has on his chest. They open the coffin to see and in the chaos, Huck tries to escape but the king and duke catch up with him. Both men fight as to who put the gold in the coffin to foil the other but the fight ends when the duke physically attacks him and makes him say he took it.

  • What does the conversation between the king and the boy who tells him about the funeral foreshadow?
  • Is Huck ever in legitimate danger?

Conflict:

Man v. Self: Huck doesn't know whether he should continue to go along with the con or tell the truth and escape the king and duke.

Episode Nine: Chapters XXXI - XXXIII

To Hell and Back

Characters:

Huck learns:

Aunt Sally

Silas Phelps

Tom Sawyer

Huck

Jim

King

Duke

That sometimes there comes a point where you must intervene and do the right thing, no matter what your conscience tells you.

Setting:

Phelps' Farm

Key Questions:

  • Do the king and duke ever reflect on their decisions to mistreat others? Do they feel guilt?
  • Does Huck's belief that saving Jim is wrong make him a better person?

"I was a-trembling, because I'd got to 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.'"-Huck

Plot:

Conflict:

Desperate for money, The duke sells Jim for to Silas Phelps. Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson but tears it up and decides to steal Jim out of slavery. On his way to free Jim, Huck comes across the duke who lies to him, saying that Jim is a three-days trip away; Huck gets to the Phelps house and Silas' wife, Aunt Sally, assumes that Huck is Tom Sawyer, her nephew that she is expecting. Huck goes to tell Tom of his fake identity at the docks; Huck tells Tom and he agrees to help Jim escape; at the Phelps' farm, Tom poses as his own half brother, Sid. When Sally asks to go to the show -being the king and duke's - Silas tells them that "the runaway" said it was a con and not to go. Huck and Tom witness the king and duke being run out of town by an angry mob that night and Huck feels bad for them.

Man v. Man: Huck is angry at the Duke for selling Jim and plans to reverse the duke's action of selling him by freeing him

Man v. Self: Huck doesn't know whether helping Jim escape is bad or good and finally decides that Jim is worth going to hell for.

Episode Ten: Chapters XXXIV - XLIII

Free at Last

That Jim is a real person and that he is "white inside".

Huck learns:

Aunt Sally

Silas Phelps

Doctor

Characters:

Huck

Tom

Jim

Key Questions:

  • How is Tom a foil to Huck in this episode?
  • Why is it ironic that Huck plans to run away from Aunt Sally at the end of the novel?

Phelps' Farm

Setting:

"I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before."-Huck

Conflict:

Man v. Society: Huck and Tom are trying to free Jim from the Phelps' and escape the fifteen armed men ready to kill anyone who come to free Jim.

Plot:

Tom comes up with an elaborate, impractical plan to free Jim. Huck goes along with it, though he knows that it is unreasonable. Jim also goes along with Tom's plan, despite the extra effort it requires. Silas plans to advertise Jim as a runaway slave and Tom sends Silas fake letters from a member of a gang saying he has "found religion" and plans to thwart their plan to come and steal Jim away. Fifteen men show up, ready to stop the alleged gang and do not notice Tom and Huck freeing Jim until Tom rips his pants on the fence. The men shoot at them and all three make it to the raft but Tom is hit in the leg. Huck goes to get the doctor after Jim tries to fix Tom's wound. Huck returns to the farm and the doctor comes back with a captured Jim and healed Tom. The doctor stops the men from killing Jim, explaining he risked his freedom to save Tom. Tom tells Aunt Sally that Miss Watson died two months ago and freed Jim in her will. Aunt Polly, Sally's sister arrives with the will as proof and reveals Huck and Tom's true identities. Jim tells Huck that the naked dead man in that cabin long ago was in fact Pap and that Huck still has his fortune. Huck finishes the novel by stating that Aunt Sally plans to adopt and "sivilize" him, so he plans on running away, once again.

Key

Path of Huck & Jim

Important Locations/Setting

Episode/Chapter Analysis

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