• – How does Huck ruin the Duke and King’s plan? Why does he do it?

The Duke and King come up with a plan to steal 6000$ of the inheritance money of Peter Wilks. Huck comes up with a plan to steal the money and put it in a coffin because he feels bad when he sees the girl crying. He tells Mary Jane the identity of the con artists, even though it can danger his life and Jims life. Huck wants to do what is right, because the family is going through enough with grieving. Huck is doing what’s right and this is a change because he had been playing tricks with people throughout the book.

• At the end of Ch. 23 Jim tells as story about his daughter. What is significant in that story and what does it reveal about Jim?

Jim tells us the story of his four year old daughter Elizabeth. She didn’t follow his orders, and he hit her. He asked her to close the door, and she just stood there. He felt really bad that he hit her because it wasn’t because she wasn’t listening to her father; it was because she became deaf from the Scarlet fever. This shows that Jim has emotions, and black people usually don’t have emotions because they become socially inferior.

• What do you make of the Duke and the King? Is it wise for Huck and Jim to go along with them?

Jim and Huck come across the Duke and King who need a lift down the river. These two men try trick Huck and Jim into thinking that they and royalty status, but they know that they’re not who they say they are. I don’t think it’s a bad idea for them to go with Huck and Jim because they made 87$ while tricking some people. The only bad thing is that they are con artists and they could be planning on something that could danger Huck and Jim. Huck is convinced that they aren’t royalty but Jim believes they actually are.

In what ways are Buck and Huck similar?

Huck meets buck when he meet the Grangerfords. They allow Huck to stay with them after he is saved from a dog. Buck and Huck are both adventurous and around the same age. They also have similar personalities like tricking people. Buck is a little bit impatient though, when he meets Huck and tells him a joke, he doesn’t understand. Another problem is Bucks family is feuding with the Shepardson family, which Buck wants to kill. Buck and Huck both seem to get along because they have similar traits.

How do the events in this chapter characterize raftsmen?

The events in this chapter characterize raftsmen somewhat like pirates. When Huck and Jim are going down the river hoping to find Cairo, they come across a large raft with 13 drunk people on it. The men were around a fire getting drunk and telling stories to each other. A few of them also started to fight each other. They were pretty drunk resulting them to be obnoxious and foolish.

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Huck wanted to save the people because he himself might end up a murderer one day, even though he wasn’t able to. He makes up a story to the ferry watchman about his family being stranded so he could help them out. This shows that Huck’s personality and views could be maturing. Huck believes people should die when it is their time. Huck risks his own life to help another, also showing that he will do anything helpful for anybody. He took the robbers escape plan, and killed them unwittingly.

• What trick does Huck play on Jim? Why is he tricking him now when he didn’t want to before?

Huck and Tom were in Miss Watson’s garden when Jim her slave hears them from inside. Jim attempts to stay awake and listen and find where the sound is coming from. He then falls asleep and Huck decides to play a trick on him because he is superstitious. Tom puts his hat on the tree branch over him and surrounds him with candles he found from the kitchen. When Jim awakes he tells people that witches visited him during the night and put the hat on the branch over his head. Jim becomes the town celebrity within the slaves because they enjoy witch stories. Huck is tricking him now because he didn’t want to be alone, and wanted a partner. He tricks him later on because society saw black people as stupid.