Breaking Jim Out – Huck Finn Ch
Breaking Jim Out – Huck Finn Ch. 32-39
American Lit.
Aim: What does the final episode of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reveal about Huck, Tom, and Jim?
| “trusting to Providence” | |
|What does this mean? How has this been the case in the past? | |
|What sort of person does this make Huck? (spontaneous) | |
|How does this technique save Huck with his identity issue? (coincidence saves him, even if it’s a pretty wild one | |
|again) | |
|How does Huck feel about getting to play Tom Sawyer]? (happy, relaxed; like being born again) | |
|What is comical about the meeting of Tom and Huck ]? (Tom thinks Huck is a ghost) | |
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|Why is Huck so surprised that Tom will help him free Jim? (always considered Tom to be respectable) | |
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|How does Huck feel when he sees the Duke and the King being tarred and feathered and being run out on a rail? | |
|How does he show his essential humanity? He says it made him ashamed to be part of the human race | |
|How does Twain criticize the human race? He shows the brutality and violence inherent in the human character | |
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|How does the evasion plan point out the essential difference between Huck and Tom? Huck is practical and believes in | |
|the cause and Tom is a dreamer and does it for amusement | |
|What does it mean that Tom’s plan has “style”? It is part of Tom’s pseudo-intellectualism- He has read all these | |
|romantic books and taken them literally. | |
Application:
• What are some of the impractical, ridiculous, and risky aspects of Tom’s plan
• Even though the whole “evasion” is funny, what’s wrong with this plan?
o Keeps Jim in bondage longer than it has to
o Tom is cruel!
Summary:
• How are Tom and Huck different?
• Why does Huck go along with the plan?
• Why does Jim go along with the plan?
• Why is Tom happy that he gets shot? (romantic fool all the way)
• What do Jim’s actions in the break-out say about him? (goes along with the plan because he trusts the boys; gives self up to save Tom, selfless, esp. for children)
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