The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Chapters 8-10

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Chapters 8-10

• Pat Deren and Cam MacDonald

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Chapter 8 Basic Events

• Huck sees a boat going by, it was a search boat
  looking for his dead body. Pap, the widow, Tom
  Sawyer, Judge Thatcher, and others were on deck
  scouting for Huck
• A couple days later Huck find Jim, the widow's
  slave on the island.
•  After Jim finds out Huck is not a ghost, he goes
  into telling Huck about how he ran off after
  hearing the widow was going to sell him for
  8,000
• Jackson's Island-------------

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Chapter 8-10 Characters

• Huck- He is settled on the island and discovers
  that he loves nature and the outdoors. He is also
  very capable of surviving and shows he has basic
  outdoors knowledge throughout these chapters.
• Jim- He ran away from his house and meets up
  with Huck on the island. We find out more about
  how uneducated Jim really is. He is very
  supersticous and careful with what he does.
• Pap, Judge Thatcher, Tom Sawyer, Widow Douglas,
  and others from the town- all were on boat
  searching for Huck.

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Chapter 8 Quote

•     "Doan' jurt me-don't! I hain't ever done no
  harm to a ghos'. i alwuz liked dead people, en
  don all i could for 'em. You go en git in de
  river ag'in, whah you b'longs, en doan' do nuffn
  to ole Jim, 'at 'uz alwuz yo' fren'"(Twain 37.)
•     Analysis This shows how uneducated Twain
  portrays Jim. As shown above, Twain's spelling in
  the southern accent is hindered much more when it
  is Jim talking. It shows Jim is much slower than
  Huck and will not be the brains of their great
  escape.

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Quote

•     "Yes en I's rich now, come to look at it. I
  owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. i
  wisht i had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
  (Twain 42.)
•     AnalysisThis is said by Jim. This is Twain's
  way of telling the reader that one's freedom is
  priceless and that he likes things the way they
  are now and wouldn't want it any other way.

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Chapter 9 Basic Events

• Huck and Jim make a hut for shelter and to
  prepare for a possible search party.
• They find an abandoned house on shore with a dead
  man inside. Jim prevents Huck from looking at it
  by throwing rags over his face.
•  Jim and Huck find some valuables in the
  abandoned house
•  Huck rows the boat while Jim hides because they
  would of spotted a black man from far away, while
  they go back to the island in the canoe.

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Chapter 9 Quote

•  "The river went on raising and raising for ten
  or twelve days, till at last it was over the
  banks"(Twain 44.)
• Analysis This shows that Huck still has a good
  perception of time and days. Huck has not lost
  sanity although he has been out in the wilderness
  for some time. This shows a lot about Huck's
  personality and that he is totally calm within
  his surroundings.

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Quote

•     "I paddled over to the Illinois shore, and
  drifted down most a half mile doing it. I crept
  up the dead water under the bank, and hadn't no
  accidents and didn't see nobody. We got home all
  safe." (Twain 46.)
•     Analysis This shows that Huck and Jim are
  becoming familiar with nature and the surrounding
  area. The shelter in which Jim and Huck are
  staying in is referred to as home. This means
  that they are getting comfortable with everything
  and now have a new home.

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Chapter 10 Basic Events

• Huck touches snake skin despite of Jim's warnings
  of bad luck, he puts it on Jim's bed as a joke. 
• This comes back to bite him when the mate goes to
  the dead body and bites Jim on his foot.
• It takes him four days to recover but does.
• Huck gets curious about what the news is in town
  so he disguises himself as a girl to see what is
  up.
• He finds a newly moved lady to the town so he
  goes to her to ask about the town.

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Chapter 10 Quote

•     "That all comes of my being such a fool as to
  not remember that wherever you leave a dead snake
  its mate always comes there and curls around it"
  (Twain 47-48)
•     Analysis This is said by Huck. It shows how
  he is starting to realize that he must stop his
  foolish pranks and become more mature. He had to
  learn the hard way with Jim getting hurt, but he
  wont make the same mistake again.
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Quote

•     "He would a been worth a good deal over at
  the village. They peddle out such a fish as that
  by the pound in the market house there everybody
  buys some of him his meat's as white as snow and
  makes a good fry" (Twain 49.)
•     Analysis This shows that while Huck is
  perfectly capable of surviving and enjoying
  himself out in the wilderness, there is still a
  side of him that misses civilization and all the
  people and places of his old community.

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Chapter8-10 Themes

• "not everything that counts can be counted, and
  not everything that can be counted
  counts."-Albert Einstein. This quote explains the
  theme that sometimes society overlooks that
  freedom and living are the most important things.

• Pursuit your desires. Huck and Jim both ran away
  and found themselves in a happier place and state
  of mind.

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Questions

• Question 1 What do you think Huck and Jim's
  next move is? Do you believe they will start to
  travel or stay on jackson's Island. What option
  do you think is the safer way out?
• Question 2 Why do you think the man in the
  abandoned house was killed? Why were so many
  belongings left behind? Why didn't Jim let Huck
  see the damaged face?  

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Works Cited

• The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn. N.d. N.p.,
  n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2011.
• Canoeing in a river. N.d. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov.
  2011.
• Jacksons Island. N.d. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov.
  2011.
• Rattle Snake. N.d. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 Nov. 2011.