Wolfe CP English 9 B

“After breakfast I wanted to talk about the dead man and guess out how he come to be killed, but Jim didn’t want to.”

Why doesn’t Jim want to talk about the dead man?

Mark Twain is making fun of black people due to Jim’s lack of intelligence. “I see it warn’t no use wasting words-you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit.”

Because of his book “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” using the N word more than 200 times, Mark Twain, was known as a racist to many people. But in reality that was not the case. Twain was against racism and supported the abolition.

http://childrensatheneum.blogspot.com/2010/04/50-facts-about-mark-twain.html

1. One theme in this book is superstition. Jim, a run away slave, is a very superstitious man. A quote from the book that reveals this is “You said it was the worst bad luck in the world to touch a snake0skin with my hands”. This quote reveals some of the many superstitions that Jim has. Jim told Huck that if someone touches snake skin it brings them bad luck.

Tom Sawyer has a strong influence on Huck. One example of this is when Huck decides to go on the steam boat because he knows that Tom Sawyer would go on the boat. “Do you reckon Tom Sawyer would ever go by this thing? Not for pie, he wouldn’t. He’d call it an adventure- that’s what he’d call it; and he’d land on that wreck if it was his last act.” Huck thinks of Tom Sawyer as like the greatest person to ever live.

1. Will Huck and Jim get caught?
2. Is Jim just using Huck in order to get away or does he actually care about Huck?

A passage that I think is discussion worthy is on page 51 when Huck says “Jim, this is nice,” I says. “I wouldn’t want to be nowhere else but here”. The significance of this passage is, it shows how much Huck is starting to care about Jim. It shows that Huck does not care about what race Jim is and that he likes Jim for who he is.