You have 15 minutes of
individual work on English class
assignments:
Finish yesterday’s quiz.
Write Journal #26.
Read your Twain book.
Huck Finn Reading Quiz #2 - 25 points
Chapters VIII - XI (pages 277-279)
“People In Action”- 1 a-f
“ “Reading in Depth” – 16 a-e
Chapters XI-XVI (pages 281-283)
“Games, Lies and the Truth” – 12 a-f
“Reading in Depth” – 17 a-e, 18 a-c
 Extra Credit – “Reading in Depth” #15 on page 283
(1 or 2 points)
 When you finish, write Journal #26: How can society’s values and
laws can be in conflict with individual moral values? Discuss one
generally accepted value, idea, law or practice in today’s society
that you believe is wrong. Explain your moral conflict with it.
Chapters XVII-XVIII
Grangerfords vs.
Shepherdsons
IMPORTANT SATIRE SECTION
What are the comments and criticisms
Twain is making through these chapters?
Twain mocks the over-the-top decorating
style of the time and people’s attempts to
appear classy and well-to-do
 “The Grangerford's furniture, much admired by Huck, is
actually comicly tacky. You can almost hear Mark Twain
laughing over the parrot-flanked clock and the curtains
with cows and castles painted on them even as Huck
oohs and ahhs…
 “The mantel clock was admired by Huck not only for its
beauty, but because the Grangerfords properly valued
beauty and ‘wouldn’t took any money for her“’111).
Huck admired the Grangerfords’ principles, and the
stake they placed in good manners, delicious food, and
attractive possessions. But Huck realizes in Chapter 18
that whereas the Grangerfords may value a handpainted clock more than money, they put little value on
human life.”
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Twain mocks the “cult of death”
popular at the time through Emmeline
“Twain also pokes fun at the young dead
daughter Huck is so drawn to. Twain mocks
Emmeline as an amateur writer: ‘She warn't
particular, she could write about anything you
choose to give her to write about, just so it was
sadful’(114). Yet Twain allows the images of
Emmeline and the silly clock to deepen in
meaning as the chapter progresses. Emmeline is
realized as an early portent of the destruction of
Huck’s adopted family.”
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Serious satire: Feuds
 “The chapters dealing with the Grangerford and Sheperdson feud allow
Twain to satire aspects of ‘civilized’ culture. The main aspect he satirizes
is the feud itself.
 “The Grangerfords being the representatives of civilization, Twain reveals
the senseless brutality and needless slaughter involved in their arbitrary
concept of honor. For Twain, such a feud goes against his common sense
and anything that violated his common sense was crazy.
 “The feud has gone on so long that the people don’t even know why they
are fighting; yet, embedded in the feud are artificial concepts of civilized
behavior.
 Mr. Grangerford tells Buck that he shouldn’t shoot from behind the
bush but he should step out into the road to kill a Shepherdson.
 “Also there is a sense of irony--why would such a supposedly ‘civilized’
family be in a feud that they can’t remember the origin of.”
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Serious satire: Hypocrisy
“Another aspect is the Grangerford’s
use of hypocrisy. The Grangerfords
were ‘church goers’ and in one
sermon given by Mr. Grangerford he
speaks of brotherly love, this while
feuding with (and shooting at) a
family for a reason they don’t even
remember.”
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New CHARACTERS
Chapters XII-XXIII (12-23)
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Jim Turner, Bill and Jake Packard
(ferryboat watchman)
(two men with guns)
(man on river)
Grangerfords:
 Saul (Colonel) Grangerford
 Rachel Grangerford (Colonel’s wife)
 Buck Grangerford
 (Emmeline Grangerford)
 Tom and Bob Grangerford and their wives
 Miss Charlotte Grangerford and Miss Sophia Grangerford
 Betsy, Jack
 Shepherdsons
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Harney Shepherdson