The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Chapters 5 - 7
Presented By:
Becca Shepherd and Allyson Djuric
English 10CP - C Block
Basic Events
Chapter 6
Chapter 5
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• Huck tries to avoid pap
• Pap catches Huck
Huck and pap talk
Judge Thatcher and Widow Douglas try • Huck starts to get use to living
in wild
to get Huck taken from pap
• Decides to figure a way out
Pap in jail
• Hopes to escape when pap is
Out of jail; lives with new judge
sleeping
New judge tries to fix pap
• Pap sees figures of his
Pap breaks arm
imagination
Huck lies about why he had gunChapter 7
Pap and Huck go out in woods to hunt • Makes it seem like he was
murdered by robbers
Huck sees canoe in the river
• Pap comes home early; sober
Huck and pap spot half a raft
• Huck goes downstream in canoe
Huck escapes while pap gone
until reaches Jackson's Island
Characters
Huckleberry Finn - Goes to school against Pap’s threat. Gets Kidnapped by pap
and was trapped a cabin. He did escape the cabin and traveled down river to Jackson’s
Island.
Pap - Fifty years old, long, greasy hair, gray eyes, long, gray beard, white face, filthy,
and clothes all torn up (pg. 17). Pap tries to steal
Huck’s money, he threatens Huck to not go to
school, and kidnaps Huck when the Widow makes
him mad.
Judge Thatcher - Tries to make the Widow
Huck’s guardian.
Widow Douglas - Helps Judge Thatcher with
the court case.
The new judge - Denies the custody case
and invites Huck’s dad, pap, to dinner with him
and his wife. Makes a pact with Huck’s dad saying
that Huck’s dad is a better man than he was before.
Quotations for Analysis - Chapter 5
"... then they jailed him, and next day they had him before court, and
jailed him again for a week. But he said he was satisfied; said he was
boss of his son, and he'd make it warm for him" (Twain, 19).
Analysis: Pap has been jailed plenty before and he is now saying that Huck
will grow up to be like him, get into trouble as he has, and then get jailed
frequently.
"'...That's why I come. You git me that money to-morrow―I want it.'
...'I hain't got only a dollar, and I want that to―' 'It don't make no
difference what you want it for―you just shell it out" (Twain, 18-9).
Analysis: As Huck had predicted, pap returned for Huck's six thousand
dollars. Lucky enough, Huck did give Judge Thatcher the money in return for
a dollar. Now, pap can't get the money. This shows that Huck is afraid of his
father and what he does. Pap takes the dollar and goes to get drunk. If he got
his hand on that six thousand, who knows what damage could've been done.
"So he watched out for me one day in the spring, and catched me, and
took me up the river about three mile in a skiff, and crossed over to
the Illinois shore where it was woody and there warn't no houses but
an old log hut in a place where the timber was so thick, you couldn't
find it if you didn't know where it was" (Twain, 21).
Analysis: Pap harasses Huck and one day he basically kidnaps him and brings
him deep into the woods where no one is ought to find him. Even when sober,
pap hurts Huck and locks him in the cabin. Pap and Huck, don't have such a
close father son relationship, it's more forced.
"I slipped the ramrod down it [gun] to make sure it was loaded, and
then I laid it across the turnip-barrel, pointing towards pap, and set
down behind it to wait for him to stir" (Twain, 26).
Analysis: Pap got drunk, again, and that night he started to see imaginary
figures. He attacked Huck and eventually wore himself out so he fell
asleep. Huck, feeling unsafe around his father, took down the gun and was
ready to shoot him if necessary. He most likely wouldn't hesitate, if pap went
after him again, he'd probably shoot him without double thinking.
"They wont ever hunt the river for anything but my dead carcass.
They'll soon get tired of that, and won't bother no more about me"
(Twain, 30).
Analysis: Huck was clever enough to devise a plan to make it seem as if
robbers had stolen from the hut and killed Huck. He was tired of being beaten
and wanted to be free from pap and everything from St. Petersburg, Missouri.
People wouldn't be searching all over for Huck, but in the river for his corps.
When they don't find it, they'll give up and stop looking. The relationship
between Huck and pap isn't strong enough to stop Huck from framing his own
death and escaping.
"There was a little gray in they sky now; so I stepped into the woods,
and laid down for a nap before breakfast" (Twain, 32).
Analysis: After a "long night's work", Huck was satisfied that his plan was
fool proof and no one would be looking for him. His plan was well thought out
and it was easy for him to go into the woods and catch up on his sleep before it
was time to eat. He wasn't one bit worried that something might go wrong
with his plan.
Two Themes from Chapters 5 -7
Do not quit when it does not go the way one wants, one will just
strengthen the rival.
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ex: Huck’s dad’s self argument about government and his
idea to no longer vote because a black man can vote.
(Twain, 24)
Do not put oneself down for everyone is destined for great
accomplishments with the strengths and weaknesses one was
given.
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ex: Huck escaping from the cabin and how he devises a plan
to make himself look dead for when his dad returns. It is very
creative. (Twain, 28)
Questions
• What did you think of Pap’s outrage
in chapter six? What was your reaction
to this? Why do you think Pap had
this outrage during the middle of the
night? (Twain, 25).
• Why do you think the new judge wouldn't even look at
the case before he refused to separate Huck and pap?
Then when he did try to fix pap, why didn't he go back to
the case after he realized pap couldn't be reformed
(unless with a shotgun)? (Twain, 20).
Works Cited
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1884. Print.