Widow Douglas - Quotes from Huck Finn PDF

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Widow Douglas: Religion is pushed on Huck but he decides not to accept it. “After supper she got out her book and learned me about Moses and the Bulrushers, and I was in a sweat to find out all about him; but by and by she let it out that Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so then I didn't care no more about him, because I don't take no stock in dead people.”

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Pap: Huck experiences torture and realizes the evils of his drunk and abusive father. “ By and by he rolled out and jumped up on his feet looking wild, and he see me and went for me. He chased me round and round the place with a clasp-knife, calling me the Angel of Death, and saying he would kill me, and then I couldn't come for him no more.”

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Jackson Island: Huck reunites with Jim and feels less lonely, acknowledging his delight to be with someone. “Well, I warn’t long making him understand I warn’t dead. I was ever so glad to see Jim. I warn’t lonesome now. I told him I warn’t afraid of HIM telling the people where I was. I talked along, but he only set there and looked at me; never said nothing.”

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The Grangerford/Shepherdson Feud : Huck experiences the loss of lives as he witnesses the worthless feud cause total devastation. “I stayed in the tree till it begun to get dark, afraid to come down. Sometimes I heard guns away off in the woods; and twice I seen little gangs of men gallop past the log store with guns; so I reckoned the trouble was still a-going on. I was mighty downhearted…”

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The King + Duke : Huck runs into frauds, two figures of “royalty” who possess malicious and conniving behavior. “These liars warn't no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.”

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The Wilk’s : The Duke and King pretend to be sorrowful over The death of a Wilk’s brother, making Huck sick. “Well, the men gathered around and sympathized with them... and the king he told it all over again on his hands to the duke, and both of them took on about that dead tanner like they’d lost the twelve disciples. Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I’m a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.”

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Mary Jane : Mary Jane is secretly willing to help Huck spoil The King and the Duke. “I’ll tell you how to find them. Gimme a pencil and a piece of paper. There —’Royal Nonesuch, Bricksville.’ Put it away, and don’t lose it. When the court wants to find out something about these two, let them send up to Bricksville and say they’ve got the men that played the Royal Nonesuch, and ask for some witnesses.”

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Climax : Huck decides not to send the letter to Miss Watson, signifying his total commitment to Jim’s freedom. “All right, then, I’ll go to hell.” –and tore it up”

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Phelps’s Plantation : Huck, who aliases Tom Sawyer, learns of Jim’s location and attempts to help him. “But if they were joyful, it warn’t nothing to what I was; for it was like being born again, I was so glad to find out who I was.”

10 Tom Sawyer : Huck reunites with Tom Sawyer, sees the King and Duke run out of town, and ploys an escape for Jim. “Well, I let go all holts then, like I was shot. It was the most astonishing speech I ever heard—and I’m bound to say Tom Sawyer fell considerable in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger-stealer!”...