THE ADVENTURES OF
HUCKLEBERRY FINN
BY MARK TWAIN
CHAPTERS 8-13 PRESENTED BY
NATALIE BISHOP
ANNA HARTMANN
RISHABH KODIA
JOEL KOTTAS
CHARACTERS (OLD)
Joel
Kottas
• Huck Finn – somewhat superstitious, cleverly tricky, thought
to be dead
• Jim – Ran away, very superstitious, values money, $300
reward
• Pap – $200 reward
CHARACTERS (NEW)
Joel
Kottas
• Mrs. Judith Loftus – the woman Huck goes to for
information; sees through Huck’s disguise; 40s, knits
• Jim Turner, Bill, and Jack Packard – Murderer gang
members, killed by Huck; Bill had pistol aimed at Jim
Turner
• Captain – tricked by Huck into searching the
steamboat wreck for bodies
EVENTS – CHAPTER 8
Joel
Kottas
• A boat looks for Huck, who is thought to have been murdered
• Huck finds Jim on the island, who had run off
• Jim leaves just before he would be sold to someone in
New Orleans
• Jim looses $14.10
EVENTS – CHAPTER 9
Joel
Kottas
• After 10-12 days on the island, Huck
and Jim catch a floating raft
• A 2-story frame-house floats down
• Huck and Jim take any useful items
they can find from it
EVENTS – CHAPTER 10
• Huck plays a trick on Jim by leaving a
snake’s skin by his blanket
• Jim gets bit because of the trick
• Jim was well again after 4 days
• Huck goes to the town to find out
what’s new, disguised as a girl
Joel
Kottas
EVENTS – CHAPTER 11
Joel
Kottas
• Huck talks with Mrs. Judith Loftus for
information
• The woman notices that Huck acts like a
boy and can’t keep a straight story
• Huck finds out people after them, and
they leave the island that night
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Joel
Kottas
VENTS
HAPTER
Huck and Jim travel 10 days downstream and board a
crashed steamboat
Huck eavesdrops on a gang of murderers, and manages
not to be seen
Huck plans on taking the gang’s boat to get
them
found
The raft breaks loose
E
–C
12
EVENTS – CHAPTER 13
Joel
Kottas
• Huck and Jim find the gang’s boat and use it
to chase their raft
• Huck tricks a boat captain into looking around
the steamboat wreck for a body
• Huck wants him to find the bodies of the gang
members
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 8
"My heart jumped up against
my lungs...my breath came
so hard I couldn't hear
nothing else...it felt like a
person had cut one of my
breaths in two and I only got
half..." (Twain 35).
Analysis: Even though Huck often tries to
come across as brave, he is still human and
has fears and sometimes panics.
Anna Hartmann
Anna Hartmann
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 8 CONTINUED
"And Jim said you mustn't count the things you are going
to cook for dinner, because that would bring bad luck...Jim
knowed all kinds of signs. He said he knowed most
everything" (Twain 40).
Analysis: Jim believes he knows everything, even
though he draws most statements from his
imagination. Huck believes most of what Jim
says, which shows how gullible people of that
time period are.
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 9
"Directly it begun to rain, and it
rained like all fury, too...looked
all...lovely...a perfect ripper of a gust
would follow along...when it was just
about the bluest and blackest--fst! It
was as bright as glory" (Twain 43-44).
Analysis: Huck does not worry about
the storm's potential danger because
he is so in awe of its beauty and
power. Huck is now more in
touch with nature than he was in the
beginning of the novel.
Anna Hartmann
Anna Hartmann
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 9 CONTINUED
"...I made Jim lay down in the canoe
and cover up with the quilt, because if
he had set up people could tell he was
a n***** a good ways off" (Twain 46).
Analysis: The people of this time
period and setting are so
prejudiced against
African-Americans that
Jim must hide down
in the canoe to ensure
he and Huck's safety.
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 10
Anna Hartmann
"...the first thing we done was to bait one of the big
hooks with a skinned rabbit and set it and catch a catfish
that was as big as a man..." (Twain 48).
Analysis: Huck is becoming more
savvy about nature, but he is still an
excitable teenage
boy. He is exaggerating the truth, a
trait which recurs throughout the
novel.
Anna Hartmann
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 10 CONTINUED
"...I was weakening; I was getting
afraid that I had come; people
might know my voice and find me
out" (Twain 49).
Analysis: Huck is becoming more
paranoid and afraid about
being discovered and
realizing that he
may not be as clever
as he thinks he is.
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 11
Anna Hartmann
"'A good many thinks he [Jim] done it. [killed Huck] But
they'll get the n***** pretty soon now, and maybe they can
scare it out of him'" (Twain 51).
Analysis: Judith tells a disguised Huck that everyone
believes Jim killed Huck. The people of this society
are quick to judge based on race or social status
and immediately assume it must have been
Jim, even though Huck isn't really dead.
Anna Hartmann
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 11 CONTINUED
"Jim never asked no questions, he
never said a word; but the way he
worked for the next half hour
showed about how he was scared"
(Twain 58).
Analysis: Jim, although Huck is
younger than he, still feels
obligated to obey Huck and not
question orders because Huck is
white.
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 12
Anna Hartmann
"We catched fish and talked...It was kind of solemn,
drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs
looking up at the stars..."(Twain 58).
Analysis: Huck and Jim have begun
to become comfortable with each
other. Although this is still not an
outright friendship,
Huck's prejudiced opinion
of Jim is showing signs
of future change.
Anna Hartmann
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 12 CONTINUED
"Mornings before daylight I...borrowed a watermelon, or a
mushmelon, or a punkin...Pap always said it warn't no harm to
borrow things...widow said it warn't anything but a soft name
for stealing...toward daylight we concluded to drop crabapples
and p'simmons" (Twain 59).
Analysis: Huck and Jim are struggling between right
and wrong. Authority figures in their lives have told
them certain unwritten rules, but when those
rules conflict, a compromise is necessary. This
also shows that these figures still have an
influence on Huck and Jim.
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 13
"Now was the first time that I begun
to worry about the men...I begun to
think how dreadful it was, even for
murderers, to be in such a fix"
(Twain 65).
Analysis: Huck, deep inside, is a
sympathetic, caring person. He has a
truly good heart and puts himself in
unfortunate people's shoes. He is
beginning to regret mean deeds he
has done.
Anna Hartmann
Anna Hartmann
QUOTATIONS CHAPTER 13 CONTINUED
"I wished the widow knowed about it. I judged she would be
proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions
and deadbeats is the kind the widow and good people takes the
most interest in" (Twain 68).
Analysis: Even though he has been away from her
for months, Huck is still thinking about the widow
and what would make her happy. He still has a
hint of society inside him influencing what he
does.
RISHABH - THEMES
Self value outweighs monetary value.
• Many people believe that money is the way to success
• "Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's
wuth eight hund'd dollars (Twain 42)
• Poor runaway slave
o Acknowledges his value positively
RISHABH - THEMES
Addiction to money causes people to be
inhumane
• Three robbers on boat
o They kill one who tried to kill others for
money
• Robbers steal money in the first place
• Huck had to leave in the first place due to
money
RISHABH - THEMES
Communication is the key to success
• Huck Finn goes back into town
• Immediately informs Jim who "asked no
questions; he never said a word" (Twain 56).
• Effective communication skills is necessary
especially in this situation
o One person speaks, another listens trusting
him/her
QUESTIONS FOR PEERS
NATALIE
1.) Based on the background given of Huck and Jim, the readers
know these two characters are different and similar, so do you
think these two boys will get along better or worse in the future?
2.) Though Huck is a very racist character, in
these chapters he lets an African American man
become better friends with him; why do you
feel he is letting this is happening?
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