Huckleberry Finn

Huckleberry Finn

Discussion Questions

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#1
The widow is described as a woman with a good heart. She accomodates Huck and gives him enough to eat. When he hears that the story of Moses is already thousands of years old, he doesn't like it anymore because he isn't interested in dead people.
This shows he is a realistic by that lives in the here and now.

#3
Huck doesn't want to die because he wans't to experience adventures. Death is "too boring"

#4
Tom takes the hat of Jim and puts it on one of Jim's limbs. It is a boyish trick, not meant in a bad way.

#11
Huck does not understand that Tom is just joking. He literally thinks that Tom is expecting A-rabs and elephants.