Huckleberry finn book?

Question

How are the king and the duke punished at the end?
Who is the dead man in the floating house afterall?
Emily Grangerford wrote poetry about what? was it Death?
And what story in the book do Huck and jim argue about?

Answer 1

1. The King and Duke later turn Jim in for a meager reward. The men later get their reward when they are tarred and feathered by an angry crowd.
2. Huck's father, Pap.
3. One of the Grangerfords's daughters, who died in adolescence and left behind a large number of sentimentally morbid poems and drawings that Huck admires.
4. (Henry VIII?) As their journey progresses, however, Huck does grow to see Jim as more than a stereotype, despite comments like, "he had an uncommon level head for a ******." Jim confronts Huck's prejudice when he scolds Huck for trying to play a trick on him without taking his feelings into consideration. Pointing to some leaves on the raft, he tells Huck, "dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirt on de head er dey fren's en makes 'em ashamed." On their journey, Huck becomes aware of Jim's humanity and decides he will assist Jim in his quest to become free.

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Answer 2

Lots of questions. A few answers:

Puishment? I remember when they were tarred and featered because people caught on to their con game, and were rid out of town on rails. Was this the punishment at the end, or was it an early punishment, but they turn up again?

Body on raft — Huck's terrible father. Jim recognizes the body as soon as he sees it (early in the book) but doesn't tell Huck till close to the end.

Don't remember the girl who wrote poetry.

One of the things they argue about, and that Huck keeps coming back to, in his mind, is whether it is right for Jim not only to escape himself, but to plan to kidnap his wife and children and take them away from Miz Sawyer (Tom's Aunt) when she legally owned him. Isn't a slave property? And isn't what Jim is doing theft — ingratitude to Miz Sawyer?

(This argument, if it's the one you're thinking about, is why some people dislike the book and want to ban it, because it reflects attitudes we don't share now. They forget that in the 1880s, when the book came out, Mark Twain was reliving the atmosphere of 1857 when the Dred Scott decision was handed down that affirmed the law (and extended it) that slaves were property and that African-Americans, whether slave or free, were not American citizens and could not sue in American courts.

Huckelberry Finn is used by Twain to attack the attitude that prevailed in the courts before the Civil War and that lingered even after slavery was abolished. The ignorant (but morally good) Huck's anguish over what is right is intended, and effectively achieves, to mount a glaring attack on the view that African-Americans were not people and that slaves could be oppressed without the law or the morality of ordinary citizens (except among abolitionists) not being offended. Thus, Huck is the voice of reason and fairness and humanity in his time. The dispute between Jim and Huck (and Huck's conscience) is one of the important landmarks in the growth of social responsibility in American fiction.

Answer 3

probable the main suitable reason is the portrayal of the relationship between Jim and Huck. This relationship is portrayed as open, heat and accepting by skill of the two events. thinking the time in historic previous that the e book replaced into written, it is extremely non-racist. the certainty that the great premise of the story is for Jim to flee into loose territory and out of slavery additionally makes it non-racist. Huck is going to significant hassle and danger in this journey and attempt. The ironic element approximately it is, for some reason they seem to think of that they could pass south so they're able to pass the Ohio into Illinois, on a similar time as the certainty of the situation is, all they needed to do replaced into pass the *Mississippi* into Illinois. of direction that ought to have shortened the story extensively!

Answer 4

The dead man in the floating house turned out to be Pap.

Answer 5

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