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Huck Finn:
Initial Discussion Questions
→ Chapter 11
1. What is the conflict/tension between common
knowledge (sense) and intellectual knowledge.
How do Huck and Jim exemplify this?
2. What is civility (sivililty)? Think: small scale v.
larger scale…
3. Why do you think Twain uses dialect so freely?
4. Why does Huck feel compelled to go into town
(Loftus)? What do you think this represents?
Discussion Groups: Focus on text support!
Huck Finn:
Initial Discussion Questions
→ Chapter 12-18
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Huck begins to feel sorry for the murderers. What is
Huck’s metaphorical conflict?
What is the irony of going south to go north?
What is Jim demonstrating with his discourse on King
Solomon?
in the fog: what does this represent? What is the
significance of Huck’s actions towards Jim when they
are reunited?
What is the moral/ethical quandary of Huck turning in
Jim?
What is significant about Huck and Jim’s second
separation (Grangerford) and their subsequent
reuniting?
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Huck Finn:
Initial Discussion Questions
→ Chapter 19-25
The Duke and Dauphin: explain their
significance to the novel. What do they
represent? How are Huck and Jim
impacted by them?
Based upon what the Duke and Dauphin
represent, how to they impact Huck and
Jim’s flight to freedom?
What is the significance of Twain
using/misusing Shakespeare?
Journal Entry: Dec. 7
• Put yourself in Huck’s shoes…and reflect
on the moral decision he is facing re Jim:
treat Jim as an equal…or cave into
societal pressure.
• What would you do? Why…?
The Essence of Huck and Jim
“Is a Frenchman a man?”
“Yes.”
“Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan’ he talk
like a man? You answer me dat!”
I see it warn’t no use wasting words – you
can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit.
From Page 174: Human beings can be
awful cruel to one another…
Peeling Back Several Layers of the Onion
Why do you automatically assume that Huck is
white…?
Or
Why can’t Huck be an African American?
The Journey
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Break for Freedom
Mississippi River
The Raft
Fog
Grangerfords
Duke and Dauphin
Moral conscience…
Human Beings can be awful cruel to one another
(p. 174)
• Tom Sawyer: His convoluted plan for freedom (p.
218)…had gone to all the trouble to set a free
nigger free.
• Freedom from Huck’s past: house floating
down the river (p.220)
• But I reckon I got to light out for the
territory ahead… (p. 220)