Huckleberry Finn Puzzle Plot
(Ch. 27-29)
Madi Lucky, Maria Valenzuela, Dann Garcia,
Haley Dickerson, Katie Young
Episode Summary
Huck is in the middle of a scam that he decides he wants no part of.
In a desperate attempt to get out of it, he tries to fix the situation by
attempting to give back the $6,000 they stole. His so called “plan” didn’t work
out as he panicked and hid the money in the coffin. The next day, the coffin is
buried with the money inside, and Huck finally breaks down and tells Mary
Jane a plan to expose the fake Wilks brothers (her uncles). Agreeing to the
plan, she leaves the very next day. Unfortunately his plan does not work out
again, and Huck attempts to escape from the chaos with Jim, and they sail
away in a relieved mood, until they see the duke and dauphin approaching in
another boat.
Chapter 27
Huck attempts to return money, but instead hides it in the coffin
During the funeral Huck is unable to notice if anybody saw the bag of money because of a small
distraction
Duke and Dauphin make plans for both the Wilks family and their slaves
Huck then lies and tells the Duke and the Dauphin that he saw the slaves enter the room where
the money was located
In throwing off D&D he has more time for his improvised plan
Chapter 28
Huck confesses to Mary Jane about the whole situation
They both make an improvised plan to expose D&D
Jim’s life depends on this plan
Huck has a run in with Mary’s sisters and they question him on her
whereabouts
Chapter 29
Huck’s plan to expose D&D was interrupted by the real Wilks brothers
Doctor tries to prove that D&D are frauds
Tried to compare handwriting with the real Wilks brothers and Harvey and
Dauphin
H&W say they can prove that they’re the real deal
Crowd went into an uproar after finding the $6,000
Huck’s Development and Lesson
Huck starts to learn the difference between right and wrong
“I’m a goin to chance it; I’ll up and tell the truth this time, though it does seem most like
setting down on a kag of powder and touching it off just to see where you’ll go to” (Twain
141).
When he was living with his father he learned to lie and not tell the truth but now that he
finds someone that he can trust he finally gives in.
He begins to do the opposite of what he’s done all his life
He begins to make his own choices, and even though they don’t always work out, it’s a start
Literary Analyses for Chapters 27-29
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Tone : The tone in the beginning of the chapter is full of suspicion because of the setting being in a house with
a corpse. “Just then I heard somebody coming down the stairs, back behind me” (Twain 178). Toward the end
of the chapter the tone changes to regret; the character wishes that they had done something different to
change the situation. “Blame it, I says I might get hunted up and jailed;...I’ve worsened it a hundred times, and I
wish to goodness I’d just let it alone, dad fetch the whole business” (Twain 181).
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Diction: The diction is stronger toward the ending of the chapter, full of emotion to fill the setting of the funeral
“They had borrowed a melodeum-a sick one;.. it was pretty skreeky and colicky, and everybody joined in and
sung, and Peter was the only one that had a good thing, according to my notion.
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Figurative Language: While there are many quick little passages with figurative language these two stuck out
the most. “Her eyes a blazing higher and higher and higher all the time” (Twain 171)
Study Guide Questions (#6)
❖ Why does Huck say at the end of Ch. 28, “Tom Sawyer couldn’t ‘a’ done it
no neater himself. Of course he would ‘a’ throwed more style into it, but I
can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it”?
Huck states that Tom couldn’t have pulled off the plan any better that he did
because Huck feels that he has used what he has learned from Tom after
following him during their younger years, however he states that Tom would
have added style to the plan because Tom has experienced so many more
adventures compared to Huckleberry.
Study Guide Questions (#7-8)
❖ Why is the crowd laughing and shouting as they bring the second set of “Wilks brothers” to the
square?
The crowd is laughing and shouting at the second set of Wilks brother because for one when the real
wilks brothers do show up they look like a wreck and the people in the square see these brothers as
the imposters, not the King and the Duke.
❖ What disappointment does Huck face at the end of Ch. 29?
The disappointment that Huck faces at the end of chapter 29 was the King and the Duke caught jim
and Huck as they just thought they had escaped from the both of them.
Works Cited
Twain, Mark. Mark Twain Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Dover
Publications, 1994. Print.