Huckleberry Finn
By Mark Twain
Pokeville (Chapters 19-20)
Presented by:
Tami Allen, Samantha Benally,
Marissa Campbell, Yasminah Habeel,
and Meagan Horner
Summary of Chapters 19 & 20
❖ Huck and Jim are on their raft
❖ One morning, two men, one old and one
young, saw Huck and cried for help as they
were being chased, and welcome them aboard
❖ The old man got in trouble because he ran a
speakeasy, while the young man created an
invention that failed and caused the harm
Summary Continued
❖ The young man claimed to be the Duke of
Bridgewater, and the old man said he was
King Louis XVI’s son
❖ The two men were not really who they said
they were
❖ They took advantage of Huck and Jim, but
Huck knew they were not who they say they
Summary Continued
❖ Huck did not want to cause any drama on the
raft, so he kept quiet
❖ The Duke and the King take the boys’ beds
and made them keep watch through the night
❖ The two men become good friends when they
start acting out Shakespeare
❖ The group came across a small town called
Summary Continued
❖ The King and Huck go into the town meeting,
where all the townspeople are
❖ The King goes up to the platform and
confesses that he is an ex-pirate
❖ He says he needs money to travel back east
and try to help the pirates stop being bad
❖ He earns $87.75 from the people of
Summary Continued
❖ The Duke reopens an old print shop and
makes $10
❖ He prints off a pamphlet for the capture of
Jim, making it available for the group to
travel by day
Huck’s Lesson Learned
❖ The lesson learned is that common good is
better than individual good
❖ It is better to not have any quarrels than
to prove you are right
❖ Society is not to be trusted
❖ There are bad people in the world
How Huck Learned His Lesson
❖ The lesson was learned by Huck interacting
with the “Duke” and the “King”
❖ Huck got to know the con men and had a
reality check about the world
❖ Huck learned to not care about people’s
lies
❖ Huck’s dad taught him that sometimes you
Huck’s Development and Lesson---Evidence
❖ Evidence: “For what you want, above all
things, on a raft, is everybody to be
satisfied, and feel right and kind towards
the others”(Twain 94).
❖ Evidence: “If they wanted us to call them
kings and dukes, I hadn’t any objections,
‘long as it would keep peace in the
family”(Twain 94).
Literary Analysis -- Personification
❖ “Wake up by and by, and look to see what
done it, and maybe see a steamboat coughing
along up-stream” (Twain 118).
❖ Explanation- Inanimate objects cannot cough
Literary Analysis -- Tone
❖ Honest and caring
❖ “I was about to dig out from there in a
hurry, but they was pretty close to me
then, and sung out and begged me to save
their lives— said they hadn’t been doing
nothing, and was being chased for it—said
there was men and dogs a-coming” (Twain
123).
Literary Analysis -- Theme
❖ Lies and Deceit
❖ “‘Yes. My great-grandfather, eldest son of
the Duke of Bridgewater, fled to this
country about the end of the last century,
to breathe the pure air of freedom’” (Twain
125).
❖ The con men lie and deceive the boys to
Study Guide Answers
8. Twain uses descriptive words to describe
the river’s personality: lazy, quiet, and
calm
9. The con men are not careful and it
foreshadows
that they will be caught later
on.
10. Huck doesn’t want to cause problems and
drama in the close spaces of the raft
Works Cited
Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn. Philadelphia: Courage Books,1990.
print.
"Summary: Chapter 19." SparkNotes.SparkNotes.
Web. 9 Dec. 2015.
"Huckleberry Finn Notes.". BookRags. Web. 10 Dec. 2015.