Huck Discussion Questions: XXI-XXIII

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He knows they're frauds. He chooses just to stay out of trouble and not do what they're doing.

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He satirizes honor

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People would rather see the comedy's possible violence or crudeness over a boring play

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He doesn't understand that it is part of the act.

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He implies that humans are very gullible as a whole

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Jim yells at her, not knowing she's deaf, and she cannot understand he wants her to shut the door so he strikes her. This changes Huck's veiw of Jim

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Huck lives with an actual mother. He has to dress nice, go to church and school, and he cannot smoke. He likes the idea of joining Tom Sawyer's gang, but later decides they are too fake for him. His dad comes back and he sells his fortune to the Judge so that he couldn't get it. Pa causes a lot of trouble in town and ends up taking Huck away to a cabin. Huck, then, doesn't have the same rules as with the Widdow Douglas. He is free, but Pa beats him and gets drunk too often, so he fakes his death and floats down the river to Jackson's Island. He meets up with Jim, finds out he ran away so he woulnd't get sold, and he decides he'd help him. Then he meets up with the Duke and the King and they are con men. They stick with Huck for a while. Huck is in a predicament, he must actually steal Jim, or turn him in. Huck belieces he is going to hell. He believes he is a really bad person, but in reality, he is a good person. He just doesn't fit in with the society. In this society, what he is doing is stealing another person's own property. That doesn't sound right to do, but when that property is a human being that Huck now has a connection/bond with, it is the right thing to do. He accepts this and beleives he is a bad person and there's nothing he could do about it.