Total Cards Subject Literature. Level Undergraduate 1. Create your own flash cards! Sign up here. Supporting users have an ad free experience! Flashcard Library Browse Search Browse. Create Account. Additional Literature Flashcards. Term What does Twain accomplish by using Huck as a narrator? Definition Twain is able to show an unbiased account of what life was like for Huck directly with no interpretations.
It makes the story more believable, and realistic. Term How is Jim introduced? Definition Jim was first presented when Huck and Tom were hiding. Term What contrast between Huck and Tom is established? Term What two aspects of religion are presented? Definition 1. Term What is significant in the new judge's treatment of Pap?
Term What mixed emotions does Huck feel about life with his father? Definition He liked the freedom to talk and do pretty much whatever he wanted to do, but he did not like the abuse that went along with it. Term What is the irony in Pap's fury about the educated black? Term What is the symbolic importance of Huck preparing his own death? Definition Huck could have turned Jim in.
Term What is implied in Jim's belief that Huck is a ghost? Tom told me what his plan was, and I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides.
See Important Quotes Explained. Tom remembers seeing a black man delivering food to a shed on the Phelps property earlier that evening and deduces that the shed is where Jim is being held. His perceptive observation impresses Huck, who hatches a plan to free Jim by stealing the key to the shed and making off with Jim by night. Tom belittles this plan for its simplicity and lack of showmanship. Tom then comes up with a wild plan that Huck admits is fifteen times more stylish than his own—it might even get all three of them killed.
Meanwhile, Huck finds it hard to believe that respectable Tom is going to sacrifice his reputation by helping a slave escape. Tom and Huck promise to dig Jim out and begin to make preparations. Tom rattles off a list of other things that are allegedly necessary in plotting an escape, including a rope ladder, a moat, and a shirt on which Jim can keep a journal, presumably written in his own blood.
But since they are pressed for time, they will dig Jim out with case-knives, or large table knives. As in the early chapters of the novel, Tom Sawyer again serves as a foil to Huck in these chapters. Freeing Jim would seem to be objectionable on both counts. Huck, meanwhile, though willing to trade his life and reputation for Jim, thinks of himself as a poor, worthless member of white society. Twain makes a scathing comment on the insidious racism of the South in the exchange between Sally and Huck about the explosion on the steamboat.
Twain condemns this kind of automatic, offhand racism throughout the novel, but his criticism is at its most apparent here. Ace your assignments with our guide to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn! SparkTeach Teacher's Handbook. That night, Tom is out very late. The next day, after the closing remarks of the prosecutor, the defense attorney changes his plea; surprisingly, he calls Tom Sawyer to the witness stand and asks where Tom was hiding on the night of the murder.
Tom can hardly answer but finally reveals that he was hiding only a few feet away from the murder scene. Then, in his own words--and by now Tom is speaking freely--he describes the entire scene. When Tom reaches the climax of the story, Injun Joe jumps through the courthouse window and escapes.
Upon Tom's revelation, the fickle town, which had openly condemned Muff Potter, now takes him "to its bosom. Once more, Tom is the "glittering hero" and the envy of every boy in the village.
While Tom's days are ones of exultation and praise, his nights are horrors. His dreams are nightmares, and he will not leave home after dark.
While Huck's name was never mentioned in court, Huck is still afraid that word of his involvement will get out, because his "confidence in the human race was well-nigh obliterated. Louis detective arrives and leaves, but Injun Joe is not found.
After some time, Tom's fears abate somewhat. The basic goodness of the two boys is revealed in their concern about the fate of Muff Potter. When they recall all of the little things that Muff has done for them, their consciences are aroused, and they conclude that actually Muff is a simple, harmless person who would never hurt anyone.
Yet in spite of their consciences, they know that if they tell, they will both be dead within a short period of time. Thus weighing everything, they again renew the pledge never to tell. The entire trial is centered upon Tom's reactions; Huck does not even attend the trial, but rather, he waits outside the courtroom.
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