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Huck’s Pokeville adventures
Chapters 19-20
By: Hunter Nelsen, Abbey Porter,
Daniel Ziebell,
Michael Lingard.
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Summary Ch. 19
-Huck and Jim are travelling down the river.
-They discover two gentlemen running away
from their pursuers.
-The gentlemen tell what they were doing to
be pursued by a mob.
-The gentlemen claim to be a duke and king.
-Huck and Jim go with the lies and wait on
them / let them be a bunch of dirty liars.
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Summary Ch. 20
-Huck lies about his father, brother, and why he is with
Jim.
-The “Duke” and “king” get friendly and decide different
ways to raise funds for themselves.
-The “King” claims to be a pirate and lies to a group of
religious gatherers.
-The “duke” prints out many different flyers and a wanted
poster for Jim, so that they can travel during the daytime.
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Lessons and Developments
- More cognitive, less impulsive.
- How to distinguish truths from lies.
- Developed a more passive personality in regards to
outside situations.
- Allow others the have their own way.
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Educational and Developmental Motivations
-Let people have their way. (Floating on the the raft with the strangers)
-Huck is able to put together the inconsistencies of the “Duke’s” and the “King’s”
claims.
-Let the people in the religious gathering believe the lies of the “King.”
-Let “king” and “Duke” be like kings and dukes
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What Evidence is Shown about the Learned
Lesson?
-The “King” lies about being a pirate
-He knows that the king and duke are frauds
-“It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor
dukes,at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds”(Twain 128).
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Literary Analyses
Diction: lovely, smooth, nice, fresh sweet.
Tone: leasuresom and enjoyable
Imagery: “...a steamboat slipping along in the dark...she would belch a whole
world of sparks...they would rain down in the river”(Twain 122).
Romantic: Man is governed by emotion: Huck interprets things in his own way.
Works cited
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York NY: Charles L.
Webster And Company, 1884.
(Widger, Huckleberry Finn, Part 6. Contents)