Grapes of Wrath Outline

Chpt. 1
themes:

The dustbowl happens and there is no rain for months in Oklahoma. Rain clouds pass over head but there is no rain. Fierce winds and cause dust storms to start blowing around. This drives the residence of Oklahoma inside their houses. The dust storms destroy crops and ruin farmers.

Characters:

Symbol: Desert

Chpt. 2
theme:

A truck driver is talking with a waitress in a diner. A man is hanging around the truck driver's rig wearing brand new clothes. the man asks for a ride even though he sees the no hitch hiker sign in the truck driver's window. The man convinces the truck driver to give him a ride but the truck driver asks nosey questions and says he will go to engineering school one day. The man identifies himself as Tom Joad and pulls out a flask of whiskey and drinks from it. When Tom gets out, he thanks the truck driver for the ride and tells him not to be so nosey. Also he tells him he has just gotten out of prison for killing a man.

Tom, at first, appears to be sligthly evil.

Characters: Tom Joad, Truck Driver

Symbol: Judas

Chpt. 3
theme:Turtle

This chapter is about a turtle that represents the Joad family and in a bigger picture all of the people traveling across the country. The turtle crosses a road. One driver swerves in order to miss the turtle while one driver hits it. The turtle is ok though.  

Characters: Turtle

Symbol:Turtle
Chpt. 4
theme: The importance of family

Tom watches the truck driver drive away and picks up a turtle after taking a swig of whisky. he travels a fair distance before meeting a strange man underneath a willow tree. The man is Tom's childhood priest. The mans name is Jim Casey and he is actually a former priest partially because of how many sins he committed as a priest in his younger days. Casey gets philisophical and claims that all men's souls are connecting to one giant soul. Tom tells Casey about being sent to jail for killing a man and makes prison out to almost be like heaven. Tom starts walking down memory lane as they get closer to his old home and but the home appears to be empty.

Characters: Rev. Jim Casey

Symbol: Da turtle

CHpt. 5
theme: People vs Moloch, the importance of land to people

Due to the drought, the land is dry and tenant farmers have not been able to pay off land  owners because their crops cannot grow in such conditions. The landowners plan to grow cotton on the land to get the remaining moisture from the ground before selling it to people from the East coast looking to move West. Tractors move into the land and prepare the ground for the cotton crops while also making three dollars an hour. The farmers recognize the tractor drivers as sons of family friends and don't understand why anyone would want to kick them off of the land they've hand in their possession for so many generations. The landowners suggest the farmers move West to California.

Characters:

Symbol: Tractor vs horses
Chpt. 6
theme:

Tom and Casey look at the old Joad home and find that it's completely empty but nothing has been stolen. An old family friend named Muley Graves stops in and he tells them about how Tom's family lost their land. Muley goes on about how his family went out West but he stayed behind to bother the landowner. Muley shares the Jack Rabbits he caught with Tom and Casey. When they see a pair of headlights on the road they scatter since they are technically trespassing and camp out in a dried up river bed instead.

Characters: Muley

Symbol: Desert
Chpt. 7
theme:We vs I?

Used-car lots are appearing all over. There's  profit to be made selling used cars to families who have been kicked off of their land, and are hoping to make it to California. The car salesmen are really slimy people because they overprice their used cars. The families, only really looking to get to California as fast as possible, are ripped off and almost have no alternatives.

Characters: Used car salesmen

Symbol: Judas, The Joads' truck
Chpt. 8
theme: Importance of Family,

 Tom and Casey get up the next morning and walk to Uncle John's house which is 8 miles away. When they get there everyone is happy to see him and we are introduced to ma, pa, gram, and gramp. Ma cooks breakfast and Casey gives a prayer. Pa walks outside and shows Tom the car they will be traveling across the country in. Al, Tom's younger brother walks up and they talk about Tom's adventures in prison.

I believe this relates to the theme 'importance of family' because this chapter is all about the rejoicing of Tom and his family.

Characters: Ma, pa, Gram, Al, and gramp Joad,

Symbol: Jesus

Chpt. 9
theme: The importance of land to people

After being kicked off their land, the tenant people have to go through their belongings and to decide what is essential for them to bring with them, and what is unneeded. They sell the rest of their belongings in town. The tenant people are nervous to leave and to begin their journeys to California.

These people are so into just finding good land for food that they are selling their worldly belongings in order to have a chance of finding a plot of land across the country. 

Characters:

Symbol:
Chpt. 10
theme: the importance of family, the importance of land to people,

Pa and John go into town to sell some family belongings  for money  while Tom and Ma stay and have a talk about California. Ma is worried that it'll be a flop. Pa and John return with only 18 dollars. We then meet mischievous Ruthie and Winfield and the pregnant Rose of Sharon who is truly in love with her 19 year old husband, Connie Rivers. While Ma is cooking dinner the menfolk decide that they will leave the next morning and bring Casey the rev. along with them. They slaughter and salt some pigs and are forced to drug grampa since he does not want to leave his home.

All of the people getting into the Joad's truck can officially be considered family because they obviously can put up with them for a long amount of time. The theme "importance of land to people" can be seen when Grampa refuses to leave his home and is drugged in order for him to be put into the truck. This is probably because this land is all that Grampa knows.

Characters: Ruthie, Winfield, Rose of Sharon, Connie Rivers

Symbols: Exodus, the Joads truck and highway 66
Chpt. 11
theme: The importance of land to people

The previous homes of farmers slowly deteriorate and the roofs slowly begin to peel and fall off. Mice and cats vacate the old houses and the local children throw rocks to break windows. Everything is quite vacant and empty.

I think this chapter relates to the theme 'the importance of land to people' but in a negative way. It is more like the lack of the importance of land to people. Since their land has dried up and is currently useless they may feel betrayed by a higher power because their lively hood has been destroyed.

Characters: Cats and Rats, Local Boys

Symbol: Desert, the plague
Chpt. 12
theme: Anger?

Families pile into used cars and truck as they travel the route 66. They learn to listen to their cars in case they hear anything that sounds like the car is going to break down. On the highway they meet car salesmen and mechanics who rip them off and tell them that it is silly of them to go to California.

Characters:
Symbol: Joad's truck and Highway 66
Chpt. 13
themes: Importance of Family, Anger

 The Joads come to a gas station which has an owner that is curios if they will be able to pay for gas. When the man asks the Joads what the world is coming to Tom snaps at him. Grandpa feels a little confused and the family dog gets hit by a car on the highway. They continue on and meet Ivy and Sairy Wilson who let the Joads camp with them. Grandpa takes a nap in the Wilsons' comfy tent. While the joads are setting up camp Grandpa dies and they dig him a deep grave. Casey says some words and Al promises to fix the Wilson's touring car. The two groups decide to travel together to California.

Characters:Ivy and Sairy Wilson, Gas station man

Symbols: Desert, The Joad's truck
Chpt. 14
themes: People vs Moloch

Our narrator speaks to the landowners and the banks and all of the people responsible for kicking thousands of tenant farmers off the land during the dust bowl. Our narrator warns these powerful entities that, while it may be easy to manipulate a single family, it won't be as easy to push around a group of families that have banded together. Basically, there is strength in numbers, so watch out, mean landowner people.

Characters:

Symbols:
Chpt. 15
themes: We vs I

In a rest stop diner along route 66 there was a waitress named Mae and a cook named Al. Mae doesn't like the "Okies" and prefers the truck drivers who are rich and flirtatious. While Mae is flirting with truck drivers a father and son come in and ask if they can buy a loaf of bread. Mae says she doesn't sells loaves of bread but is snapped at by Al to be nice and sell them the bread. She sells them the break for ten cents and then some candy that she knocks the price down on. The family leaves and truck drivers leave Mae a hefty tip. Karma!

Characters: Mae, Al

Symbols: Exodus
Chpt. 16
themes: The strength of women, Importance of family

While travelling along route 66 their truck begins to sound broken. Tom knows there' a wrecking yard further up the road so he tells the other families they're travelling with to continue on with out them while they fix the truck. Ma flips out on Tom and says that he will not be away from the family again while threatening everyone with a tire jack. Tom and Al go find the part and run across a smelly one eyed man who is running the junk yard. He is complaining about his boss and how he never gets to go on dates. Tom tells the man to get an eye patch, shower, and seize the day. The men bring the parts back to the truck, which is guarded by Casey, and return to the rest of the family. The campsite they're staying at is quite expensive and they would look for another one, but gram is really under the weather. They speak with a man who claims that California doesn't have as many jobs as people thought and that it is quite miserable.

Characters: One eyed man

Symbols: Men returning home from california, one eyed man

Chpt. 17
themes: the meaning and importance of family,

This chapter lays out the lifestyle that these farmers eventually sink into. Unspoken laws are written and all of the parties try to help each other out by gathering firewood, water, cooking, and overall just being friendly to everyone they are staying with. Every morning these little towns are torn down and the families move further down the road towards Cali.

All of these travelling families are relying on each other in order to survive. They meet up with each other and share goods just like friends and family would do. The only difference is that all of these people are dirt poor, homeless, and heading to the same location.

No characters.

Symbol/motif: 

Chpt. 18
themes: importance of family

The Joad's have just encountered a large dessert that they have to cross if they wish to get to California. They decide to stop at the Colorado River and wait until nightfall to travel on. Pa, Tom, and Noah go swim in the Colorado River when they are joined by a father and son returning from California. They tell the Joads that everything is owned in California and that there is no work. This disheartens the Joads, and shortly after hearing this Noah tells Tom that he is going to leave the group and live on the river. Grandma is still very sick and when Ma is tending to Grammy a police man tells them that they must move on or be moved. The Wilson's stay behind when the Joads pack up and leave the next morning. They are trying to get grandma to a doctor but she ends up dying before they gaze upon the heavenly, green, prosperous California.

In this chapter there are three different families encountering hard times. The Joads have been told that California isn't worth entering due to the lack of job availability and they are also having trouble with Grandma's health. Sairy of the Wilson couple is too sick to keep on traveling so she tells Ivy it's alright to stay back. Lastly, there is a father and son that is leaving California. The point is that even though these families are going through tough times they stick together and tough things out.

Characters: Tom, Noah, Ma, Grandma, Ivy and Sair Wilson, Officer, Large woman, Father and son, little boy in the water.

Symbol/motif: men returning from California, Desert, Highway 66,

Chpt. 19
themes: Moloch, We vs I, Anger, Importance of Family, Importance of land to people

This chapter is a view from the eyes of corporations. What the owners of these giant farms see is a massive army of hungry, angry, and tired families. They are fearful of them joining together and overthrowing their monopoly on their huge farms. The owners of these farms take every precaution that they can to ensure the Okies are uncomfortable and mobile. When they attempt to start a small garden on the edge of a farm, police remove their small crops and then ask them to move on before burning their Hooverville community to the ground.

This chapter is written as if from the point of view of an angry Moloch due to the hatred toward the Okies. The farmers throughout this entire chapter are wishing that they had a small amount of land to farm on so that they can feed their families. This relates to both the importance of family and land. The We vs I is directly related to the farmers being the we and the corporations being the I

No characters

Symbol/Motif: The plague

Chpt. 20
themes: Anger, people vs Moloch

The Joads have just settled down in Hooverville which is a very dilapidated civilization made up of trash. The mayor plays dumb which angers pa and tom Joad but they later find out that they are playing dumb because they really just hate dealing with cops. The family begins to set up camp while Tom walks off and talks with a man fixing up his car. The two start talking and the mechanic mentions that there is apparently work up north but none in California. Tom then practically tells the mechanic that he wants to start a revolution which directly relates to the people vs Moloch. The man then tells Tom that the leader of the crowd will almost definitely be taken to jail and all of the following leaders will face the same fate. Ma is swarmed by the children of Hooverville when she is making stew and is told by a little girl that the government camps set up for the migrant workers are pretty much heaven with hot running water, toilets, and beds. Al speaks with the mechanic and finds out his name is Floyd Knowles. A man in a stetson pulls up in a nice chevrolet and asks if the men at the camp are interested in jobs. They all say yes but Floyd asks to see a contract so he can know how much he's going to be paid. The man says that Floyd is agitating group and summons his sidekick police officer who also happens to have a gun. Floyd tells the men not to sign up until they see a contract, and that's when the two men try to frame Floyd for a bank robbery that apparently happened the previous week. Floyd decks the officer and flees. When the officer recovers he tries to shoot Floyd but is attacked from behind by Casey who gives himself up after the officer awakes from his blow. Casey is taken away to prison while the Joads head south after learning from Floyd that a group of people are going to burn down the Hooverville.

Characters: The mayor, Floyd Knowles

Symbol: Pretty Boy Floyd

Chpt. 21
theme: People vs Moloch, anger

People are still flooding into California and every worker (plus his family) are starving. Men are taking work for practically no pay just so they can say they have work. As the pay for migrant workers grows smaller the cost of fruit and vegetables stay the same. The land owners get rich and the locals get tired of the "Okies" presence. Landowners hire spies, buy gas and guns, and put all of their efforts towards destroying any hope the workers from the East might have. Farmers on the West coast start to lose their land to Moloch and have to fight with "Okies" for jobs. The big business farmers may have bit off more than they can chew.

This chapter is about Moloch dominating the land that was once owned by many many people. Moloch begins to try to put out the flame of anger that the migrant workers and now small farmers of the West have inside them by trying to invoke intimidation with guns. Moloch is being quite well fed.

Characters: Moloch

Symbol: Tractors vs horses

Chpt. 22
theme: Importance of family,  The strength of women

The Joads arrive at the government camp, realize that they have reached heaven, and fall asleep. The community appears to be a socialist environment with dances on Saturday nights, hot running water, and toilets. The next morning Tom wakes up and wanders around camp to see a young woman cooking breakfast. Tom investigates and as he approaches the camp two men come out of the tent and greet him. They ask him to stay for breakfast and then invite him to come to where they are working. The men are both fully dressed in brand new duds. The men introduce themselves as Timothy and Wilkie Wallace. When they get to the Wallaces place of work, they are told by Mr. Thomas, the man who hired them, they he can no longer pay them 30 cents an hour because the farmers association said so. He has to now pay them 25 cents and just because he was paying his 30 cents an hour he may not get the loan from the bank that he needs. Mr. Thomas says that there will also be a disturbance this Saturday night at the dance. This will take place because the police cannot enter the camp without a warrant. Back at the camp, Ruthie and Winfield play with the flushing toilets. The camp manager visits and tells ma the Ladies committee will visit her shortly. Ma tells everyone to clean up the camp and then goes and takes a shower. A strange lady talks to Rose of Sharon who has just gotten out of the shower, and tells her not to sin by dancing to close with anyone. She says that two other women at the camp gave birth to stillborn babies because of how much they sinned and that the camp manager is in fact Beelzebub. The camp manager tells Rose of Sharon that the old woman just likes to make peoples live miserable. The ladies committee arrives along with the crazy old lady. The old woman visits ma this time and tries to scare her but ma chases her away with a stick. The old lady runs away praying, keels over, and rolls back her eyes. Uncle John, Al, and Pa have still not found work. They think that Tom has run away for good but Ma knows that he will return. 

This chapter is an uplifting one. It talks about successes and very little failures. Tom has found a job that can support his family for a little while and made some friends along the way. Ma has been offered a position on the women's committee and fights off an old woman who frightens Rose of Sharon. Everything thing seems to be sifting out in a positive way and the family, for now, is kind of happy.

Characters: Crazy old lady, Timothy, Wilkie, Camp manager

Symbol: Judas

Chapt. 23
theme: We vs I?

The migrant are always trying to find ways to entertain themselves. They'd usually sit around and talk about how they used to kill native Americans for land. One man was extremely sad when he shot a naked indian on top of a hill sun bathing. Getting drunk sometimes helped with forgetting your current worries. the narrator also speaks of people who have learned musical instruments such as the harmonica, guitar, and fiddle to pass the time. People also like to dance, and the narrator speaks of a Cherokee girl and a Texan man who are dancing really fast. They soon sneak away into the darkness and get busy. There's also a preacher who is baptising people for sins such as dancing, playing music, getting drunk, and having sex.

Characters:

Symbol: Jesus, Judas

Chapt. 24
theme: We vs I

Saturday, the day of the dance, everyone is getting all gussied up. People have raided scrap yards for copper wire so that the dance floor can be lit for the first time ever. The men prepare for the raconteurs that are being sent to disrupt the dance and allow police men to search around. Tom is elected to be a bouncer and meets a half Cherokee man named Jule Vitela. The bouncers identify three sketchy young men as the raconteurs and catch them before they can start any trouble. Huston talks to the young men and then lets them go free. Tom talks about a union that formed in Akron, Ohio and consisted mostly of mountain men. The factory owners and townspeople tried to run them out of town, but the mountain men armed themselves with guns and were never bothered again. A man named Black Hat says this is a good idea and that they should do exactly that.

I believe this chapter relates to we vs I because the three young men that were hired for the job were also migrant workers that could not find work.

Characters: Jule Vitela, Black Hat, Huston

Symbol:Jesus, Judas

Chapt. 25
theme: People vs Moloch, Anger and Hunger

Spring in California is compared to heaven due to the blossoming flowers, fruits, and vegetables. Although since the economy is so bad forty five-pound barrels of fruit sell for only five dollars. Small time farmers can't sell their food for profit so they just keep it for themselves. The migrant workers across California are starving and the owners of the massive farms are spraying their food with kerosene so that people won't eat it. All over California people are dying from hunger and food is rotting.

Characters:

Symbol: Tractors vs Horses

Chapt. 26
theme: Strength of women, importance of family,

The Joads have lived at the Weedpatch for quite some time now and still haven't found any work. Ma is worried about Rose of Sharon and Winfield because aren't looking to great. Maybe it's from all the fried dough. Ma has to get on Pa's case and make him all embarrassed so that he'll go and find food for the family. The Joads have decided to move North so that they can pick cotton for money but they don't know the pay. Ma says she doesn't care and that they just need food. At the break of dawn the next day, they leave Weedpatch but shortly after pop a tire. While they're fixing the flat, a man tells them there's work forty miles up the road at Hooper ranch picking peaches. When they arrive at the ranch they see that there's a line of people and police. The Joads are escorted in by motorcycles through the crowd of yelling people. They are staying in a little smelly shack and as soon as they get there they start picking peaches. They are told they will get five cents per bucket of peaches. Ma goes and buys food. After dinner, Tom tries to figure out what was with the yelling people. A police officer tells him that they were picketers and then tells him to walk in the other direction. Tom leaves the peach camp and heads down the road until he finds a tent with a light. Inside is The Rev. Jim Casey. Casey talks about his time in prison and how oppressed men can form an uprising. As they are sitting in tent they hear footsteps and flee the scene. They hide in a river bed, but are found by men with pickaxes and flashlights. A man strikes Casey and kills him instantly, Tom is hit in the face. His cheek is torn and his nose is broken but he takes the pick axe that killed Casey and avenges his death. Tom runs back to peach camp and can't work the next day due to the fact that he might be recognized. Rose of Sharon seems to be going a little bit insane and fears Tom's sins will ruin her baby. Winfield is sick with diarrhea from eating too many peaches. The landowners cut the price per barrel of peaches down by 50% and they decide that it's not worth risking Toms life. They pack up and hide Tom between their two mattresses in the back of their truck. There are signs saying there's work up north picking cotton. Tom separates himself from the group and lives in a boxcar while the family goes North to pick cotton.

Ma feels like she has to take control of the reigns since the family is getting too comfortable in Weedpatch so she does exactly that and references to the strength of women. The family also goes through extra measures to hide Tom after he was assaulted and they leave a place of work just so that he won't get caught.

Characters:

Symbol: Exodus, Moses

Persuasive Essay Thesis

Should two married people have to get a license to become parents?

Love song questions

1) The Love Song looks at the tortured psyche of an average everyday modern man.

2) This is a poem about Prufrock's personal life so through writing this he is showing that he is very accepting of his life and his inadequacies.

3) He seems to lack self confidence and has put himself into a shell of isolation due to the fact that no one can really understand him emotionally.

4)
Prufrock has a conflict between himself and a woman because of his inner sexual frustration.
He wants to ask this woman something but feels a lack of confidence to do so because he feels he is growing older due to the loosening of his teeth and the loss of some of his hair.
In the end he does not pursue this desire to ask the woman a question and he lives out his life in sadness.

5) When your anxious about something it's difficult to get that though off of your mind. Prufrock is showing the reader this feeling through writing by repeating scenery and key words such as 'time' and 'meet'.

6)
120-121: Prufrock is accepting his fate that is inevitable but for him just a little early.
122-123: He starts with two questions which means he's really at a loss for what to do about his hair. The peach could be a symbol of youth? He decides to accept being old by wearing white flannel trousers and walking on the beach.
124-125: He speaks of mermaids singing to each which is a sign of hope, but he doesn't think that they will sing to him. He obviously feels he has no hope. This is typical of the main character due to his lack of confidence.
126-131: Prufrock speaks of seeing mermaids riding waves (women with their men), combing the white hair of the waves blown back (the women caring for their men), When the wind blows the water white or black (in both good times and bad times), We have lingered in the chambers of the sea (We, as in I, have waited too long), Till human voices wake us, and we drown (Till people give us too much personal advice/personal opinions and we kill our selves)

Last Huck Finn Questions

1. What do we learn about Jim in these chapters?

We learn that as a person, Jim has changed quite a bit. He is now shown as a real person who feels emotions and holds his own beliefs. When he reveals himself to the doctor after Tom Sawyer is shot, Jim shows that he is a good person by pretty much giving himself up as an escaped slave.

2. What effect does the Doctor's speech in support of Jim have? How do you feel about that?

The doctor says that Jim is a good person and for the townspeople to not cuss him out. The people then listen to the doctor and don't cuss him out. Jim is still kept on a bread and water diet though whilst also being chained up. This just seems wrong after all that Huck and Jim have been through.

3. What is the significance of the bullet?

It is a keepsake for Tom. He keeps it to remember the great adventure he had. Tom brought the adventure upon himself though so the bullet is also a sign telling Tom to get real.

4. Where is Huck going at the end of the novel? What does this imply about his view of the world in which he lives?

Huck is going to the western territories. Huck doesn't really like civilization and seeks to escape it by moving west to where things are a little less developed.

5. Comment on the style of the novel. Do you feel it represents the Realist tradition as we have discussed it? What aspects of Huck's character make him a good narrator? What problems did you encounter (if any) due to Huck's narration? Speculate on how a different narrator or a third person omniscient narrator would impact the story.

The story as a whole is very realistic and I feel fits the definition of a book written with realism in mind. Even though Tom Sawyer's reappearance is a little on the romantic side, the rest of the book fits like a glove. Huck's voice throughout the book is what really made him a great narrator. The young mind of Huck Finn sometimes made things a little more on the humorous side mostly because of his lack of knowledge and his way of being extremely literal. Without Huck as the narrator we would've probably lost the importance of the maturation of Huck's morals.

Huck Questions XXI-XL

2.
 Why does Huck observe but not participate in the schemes of the duke and king?
Huck's morals are much better than both the King and the Dukes. A main theme of this book is Huck's inner battle with his conscience. He constantly has to decide between his own choices and the views of society that he was raised with.

3.
Twain satirizes the idea of Southern honor that was prevalent even before the civil war. At the drugstore the colonel is stating that they do not have a leader for their cause and therefore they are all cowards. He also believes that the only way he'll be hung is by the klu klux klan in the middle of the night.

4.
The circus crowd was filled with people and the performers/horses were dressed in beautiful garb. The king and the duke had homemade costumes and hardly brought in a crowd the first night.

5.
He's unreliable as a narrator, very literal, and he doesn't quite understand the idea of a circus. The ringmaster.

6.
Twain is implying that most people are snobs and believe they are high class even when they are not. When people attend events because a friend is attending they are trying to get/remain in good graces with their friends. There's also the occasional person who attends for their own benefit.

7.
He is implying that Jim is too dumb to understand the situation or that he doesn't know what a real king/duke looks like. This could be because of Huck's upbringing because I honest think Jim would understand the situation perfectly fine

8. This story shows that Jim has actual emotions.

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1. Clothes in these chapters represents a way of protecting identities. There are both good and bad ways that the clothes protect. Jim is disguised to protect the fact that he's running away from society. The king disguises himself to portray himself as a someone else for his own benefit.

2. This is when Huck finally decides that he definitely does not agree with the King and the Dukes morals or ways of profiting. Because they just arrived in this town and the King is posing as a deadman's close relative. Because he completely disagrees with what the two men are doing to people, and he is aging as a person.

3. They are young girls who don't know any better. They don't actually know who their uncles are and are just trying to get through the grieving process. 

4. Because she is separated due to her hair-lip. She is forced to eat with the niggers because she is different and cannot help it. She's called "the hare-lip" because she was born with a defect. A new theme I see is just segregation. At first it was all slavery but now it seems to be anything that doesn't seem normal has to be seperate.

5.This is a way for Twain to say that overall people are cowards and only stand up and say something when it benefits themselves.

6. The king wants to take the family for everything they have. Huck disagrees with this because that would be devastating to the any family. Simply the King and the Duke have gone too far. Bildungroman? Huck is becoming more and more mature which means he is developing his morals.

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1. The undertaker is seen as one of the most popular and happy people in town. At the funeral he kills a dog because it was too loud during the service. During this time of mourning he is killing off another soul and doesn't seem to sad about his actions by the looks of his attitude.

2. Huck tells Mary Jane the truth because he feels that she shouldn't be lied to again. These are Huck's morals developing.

3. Before Huck has simplied lied to stay on the road and/or hide Jim. Now Huck is lying to protect people and their feelings.

4. Jim is in the far south and wants to avoid even being around these people. The focus is also mostly on Huck and the development of his morals.

5. It reveals the romantic idea of digging up hidden treasure. Hines also comes off as greedy which supports the ideas of the society.

6. Huck likes Mary Jane the most of the three girls and trusts her. He tells her to go away because he has to sort out some things. He is trying to take control of a situation. Perhaps showing off and asserting dominance?

7. Huck believes that it is easy to tell which story is fake. The family though has fallen for the idea of their uncles coming from far off to support them in their time of grieving. Since they didn't know what the uncles looked like any one could've fit the title.

8. The doctor is the realistic point of view which is much needed due to our untrustworthy narrator.

9. They remain villains because they are strengthening and changing Huck's morals and character.

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1. Yes because after being influenced by so many people Huck is finally making the decision to apparently go to hell. Huck only believes he's doing an evil thing because of his previous upbringing. The fact that he's even going against his upbringing to this extent is ground breaking to his moral stand point.

2. This is the climax of the story and even though he feels that he is doing something extremely bad he knows that this is only because of the beliefs held by society. Huck has a general bearing on his morals and knows that what he is doing is a good deed.

3. The land symbolizes his previous time spent with Tom Sawyer.

4.  Most of what Huck knows about providence has been a taught to him by Miss Watson. I think Miss Watson would disagree with Huck's escapades mostly because he was travelling with Jim. The running away I don't think she would care about because he was staying with Pap.

5. A man was killed in the steamboat accident but it was a black man so no one really cared that he had died.

6. Romanticism is throughout this book and the idea of Tom Sawyer traveling such a distance and seeing the runaway Huck along the way is near impossible. I'd have to say Romanticism vs realism.

7. Huck wants to free his friend while Tom just wants to have another adventure. This is classic Tom Sawyer but Huck has become a little more serious and mature.

8. Even though Huck disagrees with mostly everything the two men do he still feels a sense of compassion towards the two men. He feels sorry for anyone that would have endure such a thing.

9. Tom is shown in a new light when he doesn't want to actually steal something. Huck has always wanted to be like Tom but this contrasting action has even the reader a little taken a back.

10. Huck has wished multiple times that Tom had been there to help out in a situation and now is his time to shine. This is also the way that things usually went back at home since. Tom would lead his gang for his own amusement and through doing this entertain his friends.

Huck Questions 2

12. "I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so clamped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"(88). Discuss the paradox. Furthermore, this excerpt from the final paragraph of Chapter XVIII is significant in that it pertains to the major themes of the novel. Explain.

-Whenever they are on the raft they have this feeling of freedom which is a huge theme in this book since Jim is a runaway slave and Huck is a child held captive with his father or forced into school. Huck is saying that even on land he feels cramped and smothered which is understandable because of the people. On the raft Huck is surrounded by the people he wants to be around and away from the racist society on land. 

13. Huck and Jim's manner of dress on the raft is symbolic. What do clothes represent?

-Clothes represent civilization and overall society. Huck and Jim would prefer to just lounge around on their raft naked which is a symbol of their current state of freedom.

14. Why doesn't Huck expose the Duke and the King (Dauphin) as frauds?

-Huck didn't want to cause any quarrels.

15. Who is the most shrewd, the King and the Duke or Huck? Why? Give some examples.

-Huck. He doesn't expose the false royalty that they are traveling with and doesn't even tell Jim about what exactly is going on. Huck also gives up the tent on the raft so that the King and the Duke can hide from the storm. Huck also serves the royalty food with the help of Jim.

16. What does Twain satirize in the plan to present Romeo and Juliet? Discuss Romeo and Juliet as a motif.

- The King is going to be playing Juliet in the play which is a slight insult to the country people's intelligence. The motif of Romeo and Juliet relates to the Grangerfords and Shepherdsons episode earlier in the book.

17. Discuss the significance of the pirate and the revival meeting. What is Twain satirizing?

- While the king and duke come off as very evil people for scamming people at a church service, the crowd is mainly being satirized because they believe such a wild story.

18. Is Twain making a statement about society through the antics of the King and Duke? Explain.

-Yes! He's making society out to be very gullible and simple minded people. I have a feeling that he really did not like his travels to the south. It's either that or this is as close to the truth as he could get.

Huck Study Questions

1. Discuss the significance of the fog incident and Jim's interpretation of it. "The lot of towheads was troubles we was going to get into with quarrelsome people and all kinds of mean folks, but if we minded our business and didn't talk back and aggravate them, we would pull through and get out of the fog and into the big clear river, which was the free states, and wouldn't have no more trouble" (64). Consider the major themes as well as foreshadowing.

-Jim is frightened that he is separated from Huck. This emotion strikes Jim because he is a slave on the run and Huck is his only chance of making it through slave country with out being caught. Jim also misses Huck though because he is his friend.

2. How does Huck feel about playing the trick on Jim? Comment: "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up and humble myself to a nigger; but I done it, and I warn't sorry for it afterwards, neither" (65). How does this statement contribute to the overall meaning of the novel?

-Huck feels genuinely sorry for playing his many pranks upon Jim. One of the main themes in this book is slavery. This quote relates to that theme but in a very positive way since Huck is accepting Jim as a person who possesses actual feelings.

3. Discuss the significance of the following quotes from Chapter XVI:

"Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom. Well, it made me all trembly and feverish, too, to hear him because I begun to get it through my head that he was most free -- and who was to blame for it? Why me. I couldn't get it out of my conscience, no how nor no way." (66).

-Jim feels excitement because of how close he is to freedom while Huck is slightly frightened by what might happen to him if he is caught helping Jim escape. Even though they haven't been caught yet he feels a sense of guilt in his conscience and this is due to his upbringing.

"Here was this nigger which I as good as helped to run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children -- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm." (67). Explain the irony in this quote as well as the significance.

-Jim says that he would steal back his children from the man who bought them. This is just something that most fathers would do and Huck doesn't understand that the slave owner does exactly what he finds obscure. Slave owners are the people that take the children from parents they don't even know and the slaves are the people who did no harm to the slave owners.

"Well, then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?" (69).

 -Huck is still young and currently having to make quick decisions to keep Jim and himself out of trouble. This is just representing his inexperience as a young man. He does make a good point though that either way the outcome will most likely be the same.

"Doan' less' talk about it, Huck. Po' niggers can't have no luck. I awluz 'spected dat rattle-snake skin warn't done wid its work." (70).

-Jim is referring to the bad luck of his people and the fact that his race was enslaved. Therefore as long as there's slavery his people can only possess bad luck.

4. Why do the bounty hunters give Huck money? What is ironic about their reaction to Huck's story?

-Because they believe Huck's lie about his family having small pox. Huck at first doesn't tell them his family has small pox, but when he does they tell Huck to lie and send him further down the river for help.

5. What does the destruction of the "naturally" created raft by the "industrially" created steamboat symbolize?

-The advancement of technology and transportation. When the steamboat crushes the raft it pretty much states that they way of transportation is not going to be an option sooner rather than later.

6. Speculate on why Twain put Huckleberry Finn aside for a few years at the end of XVI?

-Huckleberry Finn was beginning to sound a lot like his previous novel Tom Sawyer so he took some time off and traveled south. While on his travels he observed the ways of southern people and families. ex: Hatfields and McCoys.

7. Describe the Grangerford house. What is satirical about the furnishings, art, and poetry? What does this description say about the Grangerfords?

-Very large, fancy, guarded by a pack of dogs. The paintings are all about previous wars, the poem book that Huck finds is titled Friendship's Offering, and most of their furnishings are very old. Everything about their home is very old which basically says that some things never change.

8. The first part of Chapter XVII reveals an example of the theme of Huck playing on Buck's gullibility. Discuss this example as well as other examples of the novel's major themes evident in Chapters XVI & XVII.

-Huck uses the fact that no one knows him to his advantage as much as can. He tells people a different story every time he is questioned where he is from. All of his stories end with his family dieing. Because Huck is so young it's easy for him to mooch off of most people, so I'm going to say mooching is a theme in this book. Or at least getting what you can when an opportunity arises.

9. What does Huck's reaction to "Moses and the candle" indicate? Discuss the meaning of "Moses" as a motif in the novel.

- Moses represents Huck's religious position in this book since he is brought up more than any other religious figure. Huck's a very literal person so when asked a riddle he doesn't really know how to approach it. So instead he doesn't answer and comments with question to Buck.

10. What does Twain satirize in his description of the church service and the hogs that sleep under the floor?

-Both of the feuding families bring guns to church and the sermon that Huck attends is  about brotherly love. The two families leave the church both agreeing that it was a great sermon.

11. What does the feud symbolize? Does this remind you of another famous piece of literature? Explain. Through the feud incident, Twain satirizes human traits and behaviors. Discuss.

-The feud alludes the actual feud between the Hatfields and McCoys. The tale also reminds me of Romeo and Juliet. Buck and a young lady from the Sheperdsons are quite in love but seperated by two their families.

12. "I was powerful glad to get away from the feuds, and so was Jim to get away from the swamp. We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so clamped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft"(88). Discuss the paradox. Furthermore, this excerpt from the final paragraph of Chapter XVIII is significant in that it pertains to the major themes of the novel. Explain.

-Whenever they are on the raft they have this feeling of freedom which is a huge theme in this book since Jim is a runaway slave and Huck is a child held captive with his father or forced into school. Huck is saying that even on land he feels cramped and smothered which is understandable because of the people. On the raft Huck is surrounded by the people he wants to be around and away from the racist society on land.

Huck episode outlines

Episode 1: Tom's Sawyer's gang
The widow Douglas is taking care of Huck and her sister, Miss Watson, schools him in book learning. They both teach him about religion. Huck sneaks out of his home with the troublemaker Tom Sawyer. The two play a trick on Jim which makes him believe he was rode around by witches. Tom shows the six other boys the hole in the side of the hill where they would make their hide out and form the Tom Sawyer Gang. The next day Huck talks about his father and their history. Tom calls Huck out on his unimaginative stories while they are playing with the gang. Huck believes Tom's stories about genies and tries to summon one through a lamp. Huck's starts to attend school and whenever he is tired he plays hooky. Jim has a giant ball of hair from an Ox's stomach that he performs magic with. Huck's pap shows up at the end of the episode in Huck's room.

Episode 2: Huck and Pap
Huck used to afraid of his Pap but now does not fear him as much. Pap is now 50 and out of sorts. He looks at Huck's condition with a sort of jealousy. He also disagrees with his book learnin' and sort of new found religion. When Pap asks about his fortune, he lies since he knows what his pap will do with it. Judge Thatcher is currently in possession of Huck's money. They take the ownership of Huck to court and Pap wins due to the fact that Huck is his flesh and blood. The next day Pap get's thrown in jail. The new judge then takes Pap to his home and "changes" him into a new man. That night Pap fell off the roof drunk and the judge loses all faith previously given to Pap.Huck is then moved out to Pap's house which was small cabin a couple miles out of town. Huck lives in this cabin sometimes days at a time but when he is outside he feels extremely free. Huck, while trapped saws an escape through the cabin wall underneath a table. Whenever Pap is around Huck he is either beating him, cussing, or ranting about the government. Pap has a dream and ends up in tears upon the floor from the fear of whatever is chasing him. After he wakes up, chasing Huck around the cabin swearing to kill him. Pap then passes out and Huck spends the rest of the night waiting for Pap to wake up with a gun. Pap wakes Huck up and asks why he's holding his gun. Huck says there was an intruder and that he couldn't budge him awake. Huck then checks the lines for fish and finds a small boat. He then hides it and returns home with his father. When Pap leaves for town Huck escape through his hole and takes some food with him. He later kills a pig and returns to the cabin to cut it up. He then frames his death and throws the pig into the river. He then waits in his canoe until Pap returns to his cabin. He lands on the Jackson islands and sleeps.

Episode 3: Jackson Islands
Huck wakes up the next morning to cannons firing across the water. This was apparently how they would search for submerged carcasses. Huck hides from the boat that is holding Pap, Judge Thatcher, Tom Sawyer, and some of Huck’s friends. He over hears them and finds out they believe he was murdered. Huck then spends three peaceful days alone on the island feasting on berries and smoking when he pleases. On the fourth day he finds Jim who believes that he is ghost. Huck learns that Jim ran away because he overheard Miss Watson talking about selling him into the South. They then take the canoe and provisions to a cave located in the middle of the island. Jim predicts it will rain and sure enough it does. They find a houseboat which was swept away by the flood and decide to see what they can scavenge from it. Upon entering they find a man who was shot in the back but they don't mind him and ransack the entire second floor. The next day Huck plays a prank on Jim by putting a dead rattlesnake in his bed. The prank gets a little more dangerous than they would like when the rattlesnakes mate bites Jim on the foot. Huck then decides to go ashore for information and dresses himself up as a girl. He arrives at a cabin where a middle aged woman is living. Huck does such a bad job trying to be a woman that the lady calls him out on everything he did wrong. She does give Huck information regarding her husband and his desire to go investigate the smoke on the island. She also tells him about the ransom for his old man who was accused of killing Huck and Jim who is, as we know, a run away slave. Huck leaves the house and gets Jim to pack up immediately.

Episode 4: The River
Huck and Jim travel by river day and night until they get to St. Louis. There they begin to take what they need so that they can survive on their raft. On a particularly stormy night they run into a steamboat that's run a ground. Jim insists not to board it but Huck says that it would be an adventure and that Tom Sawyer would do the same. Huck learns that there's a gang on board and that two members are planning on killing the third member of the group by letting him go down with the ship. Huck tells Jim and Jim tells Huck that their raft had begun to float away. The two head for the gang members boat and hide near it. The robbers place their stolen goods and head back into the boat for their "friends" share. Jim and Huck take the robber's boat and chase down their raft. Once they get their raft Huck boards a steamship run by a single man. Huck convinces the man to check the wreck. Jim and Huck sink the robbers boat and then go to sleep. They are astonished with the loot they have found and wait until nightfall to travel again. Huck passes time by telling stories about kings and ad-libbing some of his own stories in between. One night while traveling Huck and Jim get seperated in a thick fog. Huck reunites with the sleeping Jim. Huck tries to make him think that he had just dreamed Huck had been missing this whole time. Jim gets mad at Huck and Huck deeply apologizes to Jim for trying to fool him. They are now in search of the Ohio river since that is a border between slave and anti slave states. They see lights in the distance and Huck goes to investigate in the canoe. He runs into two slave hunters and convinces them that his family is aboard the raft and sick with small pox. The two men avoid the raft and advise Huck to lie about his families condition in order to get help. They both give him $20 and they carry on. They fear they have passed Cairo and stop for the night. They awake the next morning to find that their canoe has been stolen. They then take the raft which is later destroyed by a steamship. The two are separated yet again. Huck crawls upon land and ends up in someone's yard. He knows it's someone's yard because he is cornered by a pack of dogs.

Episode 5: The Feud
Huck is taken in and cared for at the Grangerford's mansion. Here he is introduced to a boy about his age whose name is Buck. The Grangerfords think he is apart of the family they've been at war with, the Shepardsons. Their walls are decorated with art work and poetry from a deceased daughter. Huck really doesn't feel like ever leaving this house. Huck holds a very high respect for Colonel Grangerford and the rest of Grangerford's family does the same. When Huck and Buck are out and about, Buck fires a shot at a boy named Harney Shepardson. He misses, but explains to Huck the feud between the two families and that he doesn't know how the feud even began. Huck attends church with the Grangerfords and listens to sermon about brotherly love while the two families hold their rifles between their knees. Huck is taken out to the swamp one day by the Grangerford's slave valet who claims to want to show Huck a pair of water moccasins. While in the swamp he is reunited with Jim. The next day Huck witnesses Sophia Grangerford and Harney Shepardson sneaking out into the woods. He also runs across Buck and a nineteen year old Grangerford in a gun fight. Both die and Huck flees to the raft with Jim because he is quite disturbed.

Episode 6: The Duke and the King
Huck and Jim continue to travel down the Mississippi. Huck, while on a solo adventure in the canoe, runs across two men fleeing from trouble. One is about 70 and bald with whiskers. The other is about thirty. Both men's clothes are tattered and dirty. The younger man claims to be a salesman of a product that would remove plaque from your teeth. Only problem is that it also removed tooth enamel. The king ran an A.A. club but when the town heard that he drank himself they decided they were going to run him out of town. After the two con artists hear each others stories, the younger man claims to be a Duke and gets Huck and Jim to wait on him. The older man claims to be the King Dauphin who has been wandering America for many years. So Huck and Jim treat both of them like royalty. Huck knows that they are in fact not royalty but doesn't say anything to prevent quarrel. When Duke and King ask Huck about Jim, Huck makes up a story about how he was orphaned and traveling with Jim. The Duke persuades the Dauphin to perform a play by Shakespear in the next town in order to make some money. They walk into a church revival going on in the middle of the woods with a couple thousand attendees. The Dauphin gets up and states that he is a pirate that has been saved by this church and is about to return to sea to save other pirates like him. The then give him money for his cause. The Duke the next day makes some handbills for the play.

Episode 7: Boggs, SHerman, The circus 21-23
 They find that in the town the King and the Duke are performing their version of Romeo Juliet there is also a circus. As they walk through town they notice that there a lot of people loitering and some torturing the stray dogs. A drunk man know as Boggs rides through town stating that he has a grudge against Colonel Sherman, a southern gentleman. Sherman kills Boggs because he must protect his honor. A mob forms that wants to hang Sherman but he manages to talk the crowd out of it stating that there isn't a real man amongst them. Huck, the king, and the duke attend the circus. Huck is confused and doesn't understand when a man from the crowd jumps into the ring and begins to ride a horse standing up whilst shedding many layers of clothing. Huck believes that it would be terrible to be a ringmaster. The king and the duke's performance flops so they decide to make a new show strictly for men. The show sells but on the final night the men attend with pockets full of rotten vegetables. The "actors" leave before they can be assaulted. They continue downstream scamming every town they come across with new and different ideas.

Episode 8: Arkansas Funeral
The king and the duke hear about the death of Peter Wilks on a steamboat. The two men decide to assume the roles of Wilks's brothers to take anything possible from his family. The victims are three young girls. Huck's morals step in and he tells Mary Jane what exactly the two men are doing. She is the oldest of the sisters and Huck holds some deep emotional feelings for her. Huck is then almost killed when another couple of people come to town claiming to be the Wilks brothers. Huck then escapes after Peter Wilks body is dug up. Huck escapes the king and the duke but is shortly rejoined by them since they are fleeing from the townspeople. When they return to the raft Huck finds that Jim has disappeared. The con men decide to continue performing their royal non such plays down the river, but Huck decides go in search of Jim.

Huck questions

1. What kind of men do Huck and Jim find on the steamboat? Why are the men there?
Gang members, Murderers, highwaymen. They were looting the steamboat but have turned on one of the gang members.
 
2. What is the name of the boat Huck and Jim land on?  Why is this funny?
The Walter Scott. It's the name of a famous Scottish writer, poet, and playwright. Mark Twain was probably influenced by his work.
 
3. Discuss the difference between "real" adventures and Tom's adventures?
There's actual danger involved in "real" adventures while Tom's adventures are more made up and comprised from previous literature that Tom has read.
 
4. What is the plan once they reach Cairo? 
 "Borrow" things from the townspeople.