The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn  

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

39 events | No comments | 1. June - 3. August, 1849

1849-06-01

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

- was a riverboat pilot, gold miner, entrepreneur, etc. *Lincoln of American Literature - 75 years old - when 25 years old fought for Confederacy, then quit and ran away - considered the "defender of the underdog" *exposed inhumanity of slavery -...

1. June 1849

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Sojourner Truth (Isabella Dumont)

- Born in 1797 as Isabella Dumont (died November 26, 1883) * Dutch speaking slave in New York * verbally, physically, and sexually abused by slave masters - Struck by a vision of Jesus and felt baptized by the Holy Spirit * 1826 - In 1829-...

1. June 1849

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In Class Notes ( 2/12/13)

Caricature : a.) a representation, especially pictorial or literally, n which the subjects distinctive features or peculiarities exaggerated to produce a comic or grotesque effect. b.) the art of creating such representations Satires a...

1. June 1849

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Realism in Literature, 1860-1890

-Realism is a literary technique *genre *middle class life (representation) *reaction against romanticism -Realists focus on here and now -Encompasses time from 1861-1900 *realism is a result of: democracy, literacy, industrialization,...

1. June 1849

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Theme in Literature

Theme In Literature •Theme: the main idea or underlying meaning or a literary work -an inference •May be stated or implied • Differs from the subject or topic of a literary work in that it involves a statement or opinion about the topic •not...

1. June 1849

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Frederick Douglass Notes

- Leading spokesperson for abolition of slavery and equality - Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey •born February 1818 - learned to read and write in Baltimore • has a very sophisticated voice - was a slave to a brutal master - slave...

1. June 1849

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1849-06-02

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 1

B.) Huckleberry Finn, Widow Douglas, Miss Watson, Tom Sawyer C.) Huckleberry Finn is introduced and we find out he lives with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas. Huck introduces his "Partner in Crime", Tom Sawyer, and how they found gold coins previous...

2. June 1849

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A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 2

B.) Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer, Jim, Jo Harper, Ben Rogers, Tommy Barnes C.) Tom and Huck sneak out and passed Jim, and meet up with their gang..."Tom Sawyer's Gang." We learn that Jim is the most superstitious person in the book and slaves from all around...

2. June 1849

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1849-06-04

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 3

B.)Huck Finn, Miss Watson, Widow Douglas, Tom Sawyer and the gang C.)Widow Douglas explains the point of praying to Huck. Huck hears rumors abouthis dad being dead (his dad was a drunk and used to beat Huck)...

4. June 1849

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1849-06-05

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 4

B.)Huck Finn, Judge Thatcher, Jim, Pap C.)Huck recognizes a mark in the snow near his house that belongs to the boot ofhis father. Huck runs to Judge Thatcher’s place and sells the money he and Tomgot to Judge Thatcher so his dad would not be able to...

5. June 1849

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1849-06-06

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 5

B.)Huck Finn, Pap, Judge Thatcher, Widow Douglas, the other Judge, the other Judge’swife C.)Pap and Huck have a talk and Pap starts to yell at Huck because he has accomplishedmore than his own father. Pap starts to worry Huck is going to out do him...

6. June 1849

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1849-06-07

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 6

B.)Huck Finn, Pap, Judge Thatcher C.)Pap kidnaps Huck and takes him into the woods to a cabin and locks Huck inside.Huck makes a hole in the wall using a saw as a way to escape. Pap is stilltrying to get all of Huck’s money from Judge Thatcher...

7. June 1849

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1849-06-08

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 7

B.)Huck Finn, Pap C.)Pap sends Huck to the river and Huck finds a boat he can use to escape. Papleaves for the whole day and Huck finished sawing a hole in the cabin and grabseverything he needs, gets in the canoe, and leaves...

8. June 1849

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1849-06-09

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 8

B.)Huck Finn, Pap, Judge Thatcher, Bessie, Tom Sawyer, Aunt Polly, Huck’s friends C.)People all go out looking for Huck because he has gone missing. They floatloaves of bread with mercury inside in hopes of finding Huck’s dead body...

9. June 1849

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1849-06-13

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 9

B.)Huck Finn, Jim C.)Jim and Huck are still on the island. They move to a cave because Jim predictsthat it will rain. The river floods and brings down a house where Jim and Huckfind the body of a man who has been shot in the back...

13. June 1849

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1849-06-14

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 10

B.)Huck Finn, Jim C.)Jim gets bit by dead rattlesnake’s mate because of Huck. Jim gets better.Later, Huck dresses as a girl in order to go to shore and get information. Huckfinds a shack with new woman in town does not recognize him...

14. June 1849

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1849-06-15

A.) Huck Finn Chapter 11

B.)Huck Finn (Sarah Mary Williams), Mrs. Judith Loftus, Jim C.)Huck is invited into new woman’s house and introduces himself as SarahWilliams. The woman is still suspicious. She tells Huck of how Pap was almosthanged but Pap left town before that...

15. June 1849

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1849-06-16

A.) Huck Finn Chapter 12

B.)Huck Finn, Jim C.)Spend days on river and buy, steal, and hunt for food (give up some itemsbecause they feel bad for stealing). They find a wrecked steamboat with robberson it. Huck spies on the robbers and later Jim and Huck’s raft got lose...

16-22. June 1849

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1849-06-22

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 13

B.)Huck Finn, Jim C.)Jim and Huck steals the robbers’ boat. Huck and Jim find their original raftbut go to shore to get help because Huck started to feel bad for the robbersand leaving them without a way to leave the wreck...

22. June 1849

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1849-06-23

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 14

B.)Huck Finn, Jim C.)Huck and Jim look through what the robbers recovered from the wreck. They talk abouttheir adventures. Huck tells Jim some made up stories that he has read in booksand some of what he has made up on his own...

23. June 1849

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1849-06-24

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 15

B.)Huck Finn, Jim C.)Huck gets separated from Jim. Huck tries to trick Jim into thinking theseparation was all a dream. Jim gets kind of mad at Huck for tricking him. D.)SEE IMAGE BELOW E...

24. June 1849

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1849-06-25

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 16

B.)Huck Finn, Jim C.)Huck starts to feel bad about taking Jim away from Miss Watson and plans ontaking Jim back to Watson but decides against it when he hears Jim call him hisonly friend. Some men want to come check Huck’s raft for escaped slaves...

25. June 1849

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1849-06-26

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 17

B.)Huck Finn (“George Jackson”), Bob, Tom, Betsy, Mr. Grangerford, Buck Grangerford, Mrs.Grangerford C.)Huck is saved from the attack dogs by Mr. Grangerford and introduces himself asGeorge Jackson and he comes up with a story about how he was...

26. June 1849

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1849-06-27

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 18

B.)Huck Finn (“George Jackson”), Mr. Grangerford, Buck Grangerford, Mrs.Grangerford, Betsy, Tom, Charlotte, Sophia, and Bob C.)Huck learns about Colonel Grangerford’s slave estate and all the Grangerfordchildren: Bob, Tom, Charlotte, Sophia, and...

27-29. June 1849

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1849-06-30

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 19

B.)Huck Finn, Jim, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”) C.)Huck and Jim are still on river. Huck comes across two men in dirty, tatteredclothes and decides to take them down river for a bit...

30. June - 1. July, 1849

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1849-07-02

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 20

B.)Huck Finn, Jim, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”) C.)Huck is asked whether or not Jim is a runaway slave and Huck makes up thisstory where Jim was actually orphaned and he and Huck have had to travel atnight because so many people have...

2-3. July 1849

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1849-07-04

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 21

B.)Huck Finn, Jim, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”) C.)After a long night of drinking, the next morning Duke and Dauphin show Hucktheir “acting” skills. Huck is very impressed with the talent Duke seems toposses...

4. July 1849

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1849-07-05

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 22

B.)Huck Finn, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”) C.)The mob goes to Sherburn’s house where they find him standing on the roof witha rifle. Sherburn gives a speech to the mob about human nature and “mobmentality of the average person.” Huck...

5. July 1849

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1849-07-06

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 23

B.)Huck Finn, Jim, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”) C.)Duke and Dauphin put on a show that draws a huge crowd for the wrong reasons.There was a big crowd to start off with but the show was so short that theaudience was angry and decided to...

6-9. July 1849

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1849-07-10

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 24

B.)Huck Finn, Jim, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”) C.)When Duke and Dauphin decide to stop at another town, Jim complains about beingtied up as a runaway slave. As a result, they deicide to make him a characterin the play (“Sick Arab- but...

10-12. July 1849

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1849-07-13

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 25

B.)Huck Finn, Jim, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”) C.)Duke and Dauphin meet Peter Wilks’s three nieces and learn of what the realbrothers are to inherit. The nieces and brothers are to inherit $6,000 total...

13. July 1849

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1849-07-15

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 26

B.)Huck Finn, Joanna, Mary Jane, Susan, two con artists (“Duke” and “YourMajesty”) C.)Huck has dinner at the Wilks house with Joanna (the youngest sister). Heforgets that he is supposed to be from Sheffield and that Dauphin is aminister...

15. July 1849

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1849-07-16

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 27

B.)Huck Finn, Joanna, Mary Jane, Susan, two con artists (“Duke” and “YourMajesty”) C.)Huck decides to hide the money in the coffin of Peter Wilks before the funeral,but before Huck has a chance to get the money back the undertaker takes thecoffin...

16. July 1849

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1849-07-17

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 28-29

B.)Huck Finn, Joanna, Mary Jane, Susan, two con artists (“Duke” and “YourMajesty”), the real Harvey and William Wilks C.)Huck finds Mary Jane crying and gives her a note revealing the hiding place ofthe money...

17-19. July 1849

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1849-07-20

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 30-31

B.)Huck Finn, Jim, two con artists (“Duke” and “Your Majesty”), Silas Phelps C.)The four men are back on the raft and floating down river. The con artists tryto fool other towns but nothing else seems to work...

20-22. July 1849

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1849-07-23

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 32-34

B.)Huck Finn/Tom, Sally and Silas Phelps (Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle), TomSawyer/William Thompson/Sid, Jim C.)Huck is trying to rescue Jim and by doing so he finds himself at the Phelps’farm...

23-25. July 1849

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1849-07-26

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 35-37

B.)Huck Finn/Tom, Sally and Silas Phelps (Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle), TomSawyer/William Thompson/Sid, Jim, Nat C.)Huck and Tom are finally ready to rescue Jim but Tom isn’t satisfied with howeasy the rescue would be since Mr...

26-28. July 1849

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1849-07-29

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 38-40

B.)Huck Finn/Tom, Sally and Silas Phelps (Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle), TomSawyer/William Thompson/Sid, Jim, group of farmers with guns C.)Tom continues to make Jim’s rescue as story-like as he can...

29-31. July 1849

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1849-08-01

A.) Huck Finn. Chapter 41-43

B.)Huck Finn/Tom, Sally and Silas Phelps (Tom Sawyer’s aunt and uncle), TomSawyer/William Thompson/Sid, Jim, Aunt Polly C.)Tom finally gets help from a doctor but just as Huck is making his way back toTom, Jim, and the doctor, he is caught by Silas...

1-3. August 1849

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