HF+Episodes

|| // Refresh your memory by writing a 1-2 sentence summary of this episode. // || // Consider: // · // What aspect of human nature or society is Twain highlighting? // · // What or whom is he critiquing/mocking? // · // What Theme is Developed or Reinforced? // ||
 * Episodic Novel: **
 * a narrative largely composed of loosely related episodes sharing a common title and featuring recurring lead characters, and any number of transient secondary characters.
 * Plot Episode ** ||
 * Where was it in the book? **
 * Where was it in the book? **
 * Chapters ** ||
 * Relevant Characters **
 * Summary **
 * Social Commentary/ **
 * Theme Development **

|| Chapters: 1 and 3 (omit 2) || Miss Watson Widow Douglas Huck Finn || This episode shows Huck and how he is at home with the Widow and Miss watson. Shows Huck's views of church and superstitions. || Twain highlights/mocks religious views and compares the lighter side of religion with Widow Douglas and the harder side with Miss Watson. The Widow loves Huck and just wants him to be good while Miss Watson tries to control Huck's actions and tries to conform him. The theme of conformity/religion is developed. ||
 * Huck’s Home Life **

|| Chapters 2 and 3 || Huck Finn Tom Sawyer Ben Rogers Various Gang members || Tom Sawyer forms a gang in which a group of boys wish for adventure, talking about robbing and killing innocent people. The boys only pretend to kill fight Arabs and summon genies. || Twain uses this episode to develop Tom Sawyer's character for those of us who haven't read "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer". In this episode Twain shows us how adventurous and impractical Tom is, and all the other boys in the gang love him for it, wishing to be just like Tom. ||
 * Tom Sawyer’s Gang **

|| Chapters 4-7 || Pap Huck Thatcher Widow || Pap arrives, Huck gets scared, goes to Thatcher and Widow, they try to get custody of Huck. Doesn't work out, Huck has to live with Pap who wants his money. Pap tries to sue Thatcher, and Huck runs away while Pap is out || Twain is highlighting the bad qualities of people and their ignorance, showing that Pap is just a drunken low-life, and that he's racist, which we learn while he is talking about the professor, and how he does not agree that he should be able to vote. He's critiquing some white people of the time, and developing the theme of racism/immorality ||
 * Arrival of Pap Finn **

** Jackson **** Island **** / ** || Chapter 8-11 || Jim Huck || Huck discovers Jim on Jackson Island, They find a dead man (Pap) in the house floating by, Huck dressed up as a girl to retrieve information about what has been going on but doesnt work, || Twain is representing the realtion between Jim and Huck. Jim uses his knowledge to benefit both of them but also seeks to protect Huck: he refuses to let Huck see the body in the floating house, for it is the body of Huck’s father. Jim is an intelligent and caring adult who has escaped out of love for his family—and he displays this same caring aspect toward Huck here. ||
 * Sarah Williams **

|| Chapter 12-14 || Jim Huck Robbers || Jim and Huck come across the steam boat Walter Scott, They decide to leave the robbers and take their boat with supplies, Huck feels bad for the robbers and tells a watchman that his family is on the sinking ship and need help. || Twain is representing individual’s maturation and development. Huck’s attempts to reconcile the situation show that he is learning, despite his initial immaturity. When Huck acts like Tom Sawyer, trouble follows, but when he acts like himself—when he seeks to interpret and react to experience in a practical manner—things generally turn out fine. ||
 * Walter Scott **

|| Chapter 15 || Huck Finn Jim || Huck and Jim get seperated when they try to tie the canoe and raft to a towhead. They pass Cairo due to fog, and when they meet up, Huck tricks Jim into thinking that it was all a dream, which really upsets him. Huck apologizes for his cruelty. || Twain is trying to show that Huck is testing his morals. Twain is criticizing the idea that slaves did not have feelings. Huck is trying to see if he can fool Jim, but his immaturity just leads to Jim getting angry with him. When Huck apologizes, Twain is illustrating equal rights. ||
 * Fog/Cairo— **
 * Huck’s Trick on Jim **

|| Chapter 16 || Huck Jim Bounty Hunters || Huck comes upon some men in a boat who want to search his raft for escaped slaves. He leads the men to believe that his family is on board the raft and is suffering from smallpox. The men, fearing infection, and tells Huck to go further downstream to get help. Out of pity, they leave Huck forty dollars in gold. Huck feels bad because he thinks he has done wrong in not giving Jim up. However, he realizes he would feel just as bad if he had given Jim up. Huck re solves to disregard morality in the future and do what’s “handiest.” || Twain reprsents the moral and societal importance of Huck and Jim’s journey in Huck’s profound moral crisis about whether he should return Jim to Miss Watson. In the viewpoint of Southern white society, Huck has effectively stolen $800—the price the slave trader has offered for Jim—from Miss Watson. However, Jim’s comment that Huck is the only white man ever to keep his word to him shows that Huck has been treating Jim not as a slave but as a man. ||
 * Small Pox **

|| Chapters 17-18 || Huck Jim Col Grangerfords || Huck arrives at the Grangerfords telling them his name is George Jackson in fear, Huck stays over night and enjoys their home. Buck explains that the Grangerfords are in a feud with a neighboring clan of families, the Shepherdsons. No one can remember how or why the feud started. Grangerford in a gunfight with the Shepherdsons. Both of the Grangerfords are killed. Deeply disturbed, Huck heads for Jim and the raft, and the two shove off downstream. || Twain is poking fun at American tastes and at the conceits of romantic literature. For Huck, who has never really had a home aside from the Widow Douglas’s rather spartan house, the Grangerford house looks like a palace.The great Grangerford-Shepherdson feud is yet another conceit taken from romantic literature, specifically that literature’s concern with family honor. The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons are rather like Tom Sawyer grown up and armed with weapons: motivated by a sense of style and this ridiculous notion of family honor, ||
 * Shepherdsons and Grangerfords **

|| Chapters 20-21 || King and Duke Huck Jim || Huck and Jim encounter the Duke and King, Huck realizes they are frauds but doesnt say anything, They soon travel around and the Duke/King start making money off of naieve people by their "acting" and putting on terrible plays of Shakespeare. || On the surface, the duke and the dauphin seem to be just two bumbling con artists, but they present an immediate threat to Huck and Jim. The two men constantly and cruelly toy with Jim’s precarious status as a runaway slave and even use this fact to their own advantage when they print the fake leaflet advertising a reward for Jim’s capture. Moreover, the fact that the duke and the dauphin run their first scam at a sacred event—a religious meeting—demonstrates their incredible malice. ||
 * King and Duke **

** Colonel Sherburn and Boggs **** (King and Duke) ** || Chapters 21-23 || Huck Sherburn Boggs || Huck witnesses the shooting of a rowdy drunk by a man, Sherburn, whom the drunk has insulted. The shooting takes place in front of the victim’s daughter. A crowd gathers around the dying man and then goes off to lynch Sherburn.Sherburn delivers a haughty speech on human nature in which he attacks the cowardice and mob mentality of the average person. Sherburn tells the crowd that no one will lynch him in the daytime. The mob, chastened, disperses. || Sherburn’s criticisms of the cowardice and despicable behavior of his fellow citizens are accurate, and his eloquence is impressive. Furthermore, much of what he has to say about cowardice relates directly to the deplorable behavior of the people of St. Petersburg, which has put Huck and Jim in peril in the first place. ||

** (King and Duke) ** || Chapter 23 || Duke King Huck Jim || The Royal Nonesuch plays to a capacity audience. The dauphin, who appears onstage wearing nothing aside from body paint and some “wild” accoutrements, has the audience howling with laughter. But the crowd nearly attacks the duke and the dauphin when they end the show after only a brief performance. The people in the crowd, embarrassed at having been ripped off, decide to protect their honor by making certain that //everyone// in the town gets ripped off. After the performance, they tell everyone else in town that the play was wonderful. The second night, therefore, also brings a capacity crowd. The four soon run off. || it is a complete farce, a brief, insubstantial show for which the audience is grossly overcharged. But what makes the con men’s show a real success, however, is not any ingenuity on their part—they are as inept as ever—but rather the audience’s own selfishness and vindictiveness. Rather than warn the other townspeople that the show was terrible, the first night’s ticketholders would rather see everyone else get ripped off in the same way they did. Thus, the con men’s scheme becomes even more successful because the townspeople display vindictiveness rather than selflessness. ||
 * Royal Nonesuch **

** (King and Duke) ** || Chapters 25-30 || || The King and Duke hear about Peter Wilks who has died and is leaving his fortune to his two brothers. The King and Duke tell everyone that they are the brothers only to recieve the money. Huck can't stand it anymore and takes the money and hides it from them and tells the Wilks girls about the situation and finally the King and Duke are exposed. || Huck development as a character is revealed as he finally stands up agaisnt the King and Duke and takes the money and exposes them to Mary Jane. Huck soon realizes that he can stand up to the moral corruption of society. ||
 * Peter Wilks **

|| Chapter 32 || Huck Jim Miss Watson || Huck decides to not write miss watson because he has come to realize that Jim is his friend and not just a slave. || Twain is showing that human morals can win out against society. Huck shows that slavery was a ridiculous idea. This displayed the theme of morality over society's rules. ||
 * Huck’s Big Moment **

|| Chapters 33-40 || Tom Huck Jim Aunt Sally || "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." Huck decides to go along with Tom's plan and they eventually free Jim. || Tom Sawyer again serves as a foil to Huck in these chapters. Brash, unconcerned with others, and dependent on the “authorities” of romantic adventure novels, Tom hatches a wild plan to free Jim. Huck recognizes the foolishness and potential danger of Tom’s plan and says it could get the three of them killed. It is not surprising that Tom’s willingness to help free Jim confuses Huck, for Tom has always concerned himself with conforming to social expectations and preserving his own reputation. ||
 * Aunt Sally’s Farm (Huck’s Reentry) **


 * Evasion Sequence **

|| Chapters 40-43 || Tom Huck Jim || Huck now has nothing more to write about and is “rotten glad” about that, because writing a book turned out to be quite a task. He does not plan any future writings. Instead, he plans to head out west immediately because Aunt Sally is already trying to “sivilize” him. Huck has had quite enough of that. || reveals Tom to be even more callous and manipulative than we realized. Possibly the most troubling aspect of the novel’s close is the realization that all has been for naught. Jim has, technically, been a free man almost the entire time. All of Huck’s moral crises, all the lies he has told, all the societal conventions he has broken, have been part of a great game. In a way, the knowledge of Jim’s emancipation erases the novel that has come before it. ||