Huckleberry Finn Character Sheet



Huckleberry Finn Analysis Sheet

SOL 11.4 Students will read, comprehend, and analyze relationships among American literature, history, and culture

Essential Questions: Are people property? Should we always follow rules?

Huck Finn Reading Schedule (Students should continue to read if a snow day arises.)

|Calendar Day |Class Day Reading Schedule |Homework Reading |

|4/2 & 4/3 |Huck Ch. 1 & 2 |Huck Ch. 1-2 |

|4/4 & 4/7 |Huck Ch. 3-5 pgs. 17-42 |Huck Chs. 3-5 |

|4/8 & 4/9 | Huck Chs. 6 pgs. 43-48 Ch. 7 pgs. 49-58 |Huck Chs. 6-7 |

|4/10 & 4/11 |Huck: Ch. 9 & 10 Watch Ch. 10 |Huck Ch. 9-10 |

|4/21 & 4/22 |Huck Ch. 11 & 12 pgs. 81-96 |Huck Ch. 11-12 |

|4/23 & 4/24 |SSR: Huck Ch. 13 & 14 |Huck Ch. 13-14 |

|4/23 & 4/24 |Huck Finn – Read Huck Chs. 15-17 |Huck Ch. 15-17 |

|4/25 & 4/28 |SSR: Huck Ch. 18 & 19 |Huck Ch. 18-19 |

|4/29 & 4/30 |SSR: Huck Ch. 20 & 21 |Huck Ch. 20-21 |

|5/1 & 5/2 |SSR: Huck Finn Chs. 22-25 (pgs. 154-172) |Huck Finn Chs. 22-25 (pgs. 154-172) |

|5/5 & 5/6 |Huck Fin Review |Huck Test Next Class |

|5/7 & 5/8 |Huck Finn Test | |

Directions: Record information about specific characters from the novel.

Huckleberry Finn- Jim-

Tom Sawyer-

Judge Thatcher-

Blodgett and Bridgewater- Phelps (Uncle Silas & _______)

Define these literary terms:

|Protagonist |Dramatic Irony |Point of View |Diction |

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|Antagonist | | |Colloquial Language |

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| |Situational Irony | | |

|Foil | | |Dialect |

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|Archetype | | |Syntax |

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|Internal Conflict |Sensory Language |Author’s Purpose |Additional Terms |

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|External Conflict |Mood |Organizational Writing | |

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|Resolution |Tone | | |

|Themes |Transcendentalist Period/Romantic Period |

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| |Historical Context of the Time Period |

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|Ch. |Find Elevated Diction|Pages |Setting |Literary Devices |

| |civilize |1-10 |Summary of $$, Band |1st P.o.V.-"Pretty soon I wanted to smoke and asked the widow to let me (2). |

| |niggers | |Robbers |Innocent Archetype- "Miss Watson told me to pray every day, and I'd get whatever I asked for" (9). Tone |

| |smoking | | |of this quote is optimist because the words pray and get show that Huck can achieve his goals. |

| | |11-16 |Huck's Education & |Rhetorical Question:"You think you're better than me now, don't you? You drop that school, you hear? " |

| | | |Pap returns |(13). |

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| | | | |Tone of this quote is _______________ because the words __________________. |

| |Diction: |17-22 | |Euphemism: "But by and by, Pap got too handy with his hickory switch" (19). |

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| |Govt. Trans | | |Diction: "Why ain't this nigger put up at auction and sold?" (22). |

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| |Euphemism | | | |

| | |23-29 | |___________________Irony: We know Huck ran away, but his dad will believe he was killed. "I started the |

| | | | |dragging where the pig was and dragged the sack to the door and through the woods down to the river" (26).|

| | | | |Inner Monologue: "I says to myself, 'They'll follow the track of that sackful of rocks to the shore and |

| | | | |then drag the river for me'"(27). |

| | | | |Inner Monologue: |

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| | | | |Tone of this quote is _______________ because the words |

| |Carcass |30-42 | |Oxymoron: "I was powerful lazy and comfortable" (30). |

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| | | | |Independence: "I feel rich now," Jim says, "cause I owns myself" (42). |

| | | | |This quote has a positive connotation because of the words ________________. |

| |Motive |43-48 | |Spatial Info. |

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| |Hyperbole |49-58 | |Trickster: |

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| |Transcend |59-62 |Miss River |Transcendentalist View: |

| |View | |Passed St. Louis on | |

| | | |5th Night | |

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| |Skiff |63-73 |Steamboat |Conflict: "Please. Don't, Bill. I ain't ever gonna tell (65). |

| | | |shipwrecked | |

| |Walter Scott Boat? | | | |

| | | |Turner & Bill fight |Plot: “My idea is this: we’ll rustle around and gather whatever pickings we’ve overlooked in the |

| | | |Jake Packard |staterooms. Then we’ll shove for shore and hide the stuff. Then we’ll wait. It won’t be more ‘n two |

| | | | |hours before this wreck breaks up and washes down the river. Turner will drown. That’s a considerable |

| | | | |sight better than killin’ him. It ain’t good sense or good morals to kill a man why you can git around |

| | | | |it” (66). The tone of the passage based on the underlined words is |

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| | | | |Inner Monologue: |

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| | |74-81 |Huck tricks Jim. |Dramatic Irony: |

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| | | | |Huck Change: |

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| | | | |What is the author’s purpose in showing Huck’s attitude change? |

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| |Freedom & Value |81-92 |Cairo |Irony: |

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| | | |Huck lies about | |

| | | |father having |Irony and Inner Monologue: |

| | | |smallpox. A | |

| | | |steamboat’s | |

| | | |thirty-foot wheel | |

| | | |descended on Huck. |Dramatic Irony: “We’re right sorry for you, but we…Well, hang it, we don’t want smallpox. Look here, I’ll|

| | | | |tell you what to do”(86). |

| |Miss River |93-96 |Nature |Romanticism: |

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| | |97-103 |B & B: |Imagery & Personification: |

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| | | |Blodgett | |

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| | | |Tricksters |Trickster: “Below the picture it said, ‘$200 Reward.’ The reading was all about Jim. It described him to|

| | | | |a dot” (103). |

| |Deaf & Dumb |104-109 |B & B fool the town |Situational Irony: |

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| |Spanish Moss |110-117 |B&B |Moral Dilemma/Internal Conflict: “I’d done a low-down thing, but I’d been fine with it as long as I could |

| | | | |hide it. The more I thought about this, the more my conscience went to grinding me, and the more wicked |

| | | | |I got to feeling. Suddenly it hit me: here was the plain hand of God slapping me in the face and letting |

| | | | |me know that my wickedness was being watched all the time from up there in Heaven. I’d stole the nigger of|

| | | | |poor old woman that hadn’t ever done me no harm” (113). |

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| | | | |Symbolism & Figurative Language: |

| | | | |Hell: |

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| | | | |Salvation: |

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| |Imposter |118-123 |Silas and Aunt Sally|Dramatic Irony: |

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| | |124-131 |Tom & Huck’s |Adventure: “I’ll help you steal him”(125). |

| | | |adventure | |

| | | | |Dramatic Irony: |

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| | |132-136 | |Internal Conflict: |

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| | |137-141 |Uncle Silas trusts |Youth & Ignorance: “Jim will keep a diary on it. Diary your granny! Jim can’t write!” (139). |

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| |Morality |142-144 |Dig with knives & |Intelligence & Irony: “He told Jim not to be afraid because we would see that he got away. …Jim couldn’t |

| | | |decide to pretend |see no sense in any of it, but he reckoned that Tom and me must know better than him’ cause we was white |

| | | |they are using |folks” (144). |

| | | |knives (2.5 hrs). | |

| | |145-148 |Tom composes a |Dramatic Irony: |

| | | |letter | |

| | |149-153 |Tom |Man vs Man conflict: |

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| | | | |Epiphany/Revelation: |

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| | |154-159 |Huck gets the Dr. |Dramatic Irony: |

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| |Skiff |160-169 |Dr. and Tom arrive. |Fortitude: Doctor says, “No skiff ever come close enough for me to hail. So I had to stay on that raft |

| | | | |until daylight this morning. I never seen a nigger that was a better nurse or faithfuller. He was |

| | | | |risking his freedom to help” (163). |

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| | | |Moral Debate | |

| | | | |Childish Archetype: Tom says, “No I ain’t. We did set him free. We laid out to do it, and we don’t it. |

| | | | |We done it elegant, too” (165). |

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| | | | |Situational Irony: |

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| | | | |Falling Action & Dramatic Irony: |

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| | |170-172 |Jim reveals who was |Situational Irony: |

| | | |in the boat house. | |

Critical Reflection Questions

1. Dramatic Irony occurs when the reader knows more than the characters. How does dramatic irony enhance (help) the plot of the novel?

2. If you were Huck, how would you have treated Jim along this journey?

3. How does this novel shape your view of the 1800s?

4. Why does the river symbolize freedom?

5. Why do you think this novel is considered a classic in American Literature?

6. How does it connect to the beliefs of Transcendentalism?

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Name ____________________

Buckley/Ford

English 11, Block ___________

Date _______________________

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Widow Douglas/Ms. Watson (sister)- WD: Takes Huck as a son

Pap-abusive

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