Critics say that Twain satirizes excessive religious fervor in the camp meeting incident. What is your opinion? Is he satirizing it or simply describing it?
satirizing because the king so easily tricked the people into giving him money. the Amen's everything is overblown, crazy preacher, people wailing
What has the duke done that will allow them to run the raft during the daylight hours
Makes a wanted flyer for Jim and they were going to pretend they captured him whenever someone came they'd say they were going to get the reward
Hamlet's soliloquy, on page 136 (yellow books)/132 (red books), as remembered by the duke, is a bunch of nice-sounding lines from several different Shakespearean plays jammed together, but they mean nothing. What plays are they from?
Macbeth, Hamlet, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet
At first the town loafers seem to be lazy good-hearted men. However, what do they do that seems cruel?
abuse animals: dog fighting, lying having about tobacco,
how do the townspeople describe Boggs? What happens to Boggs?
Sad, town drunk people think he's funny and he's harmless. Says he's going to kill but he doesn't Colonel Sherburn shoots him crowd goes to lynch the colonel
What does Colonel Sherburn say about the average man?
a coward; he's a coward. lets people walk all over him--the north
the business with the drunk who turns out to be a trick rider, fools the crowd at first. In the end who is the only one that Huck thinks has been fooled?
the ring master
after their first show fails, the duke plans a second show why does he think last line on the playbill will really draw the crowd?
ladies and children not admitted--it's exciting, scandal, filth
Why does the crowd that attends the Royal Nonesuch show tell everyone else in town that it is a good show?
so they are not the only ones that look stupid for spending money on the show embarrassed for being ripped offf mob mentality
Huck tells Jim about kings and gets some of his facts straight, but others are totally wrong. What one opinion of Huck's, and probably Twain's, comes across clearly?
all kings are rapscallions overuse power entitled deceitful
Why is Huck surprised that Jim carse so much or his children?
he can care as much as a white person
What story does Jim tell that is filled with sentimentality and sadness?
beats his daughter for not shutting the door, but she's deaf and mute. Doesn't realize until it's too late
Where does the king get all his information about the Wilks fmaily?
acts as though he will ferry a young country boy to the steam boat--pretends he's a Rev
Huck concludes this chapter by saying: "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." To what is he referring?
dauphin pretends to be deaf--fakes sign language--faking as if he is william trickery and acting pretending to be sad
To what is Huck referring to when he states, "I never see anything so disgusting."?
The duke and king crying over Mr. Wilk's coffin milking sympathy doesn't like to deceive
explain how the king and duke scam the Wilk's family and friends?
Have everyone eat with them, then they hear the will - 3,000 to the girls, 3,000 to the two brothers, find it in cellar, put in 415 of their own money to make up for missing cash, give it to the girls, Mary Jane gives it all to the dauphin and tells him to invest it
Who challenges all this nonsense?
doc robinson
how does the king try to cover his mistaken use of the word orgies
by saying they use ut in England and it's new include greek origin
Why does huck start start to feel remorse about this hoax in which he has become involved?
he has to lie and the girls were nice and defending him and he didn't want the kings to steal from them desires for someone to be on his side
despite the doctor nearly spoiling the plan, the king is still confident. Why
they have all the idiots in the town on their side
what would you suppose is Twain's opinion of the human race at the time he wrote these passages?
regards the majority of humanity as liars, cheats, and ignorant, stupid, except kids, women and Jim
where does huck the bag of gold
Pete Wilk's coffin
who do the king and duke believe has taken the gold
the family slaves--initially blame each other
why does Huck tell Mary Jane the truth
because he cannot bear to see her hurting (especially when she finds out the slave family has been separated) huck uses this time to show humanity
Find a quotation from this chapter that displays either Huck's increasing maturity, understanding of morality, or his keen observations. Copy the quote exactly and include the page number.
truth is better and safe than a lie
why were the real harvey and william wilks delayed?
will broke his arm baggage was put in a different town
at the end of this chapter why is huck elated, then depressed?
He's free again but then the duke and king row out to Huck and Jim's raft
What is Huck's reaction when he learns that king and duke sold Jim for $40?
he's justifiably angry after all that they've done for them
why does the king confess that he is the one who stole the gold and put it in the coffin?
the king is being choked by the duke
what single incident proves the king and duke are just as dumb as the townspeople?
both genuinely believe they would have made enough money from the royal nonesuch anyway
what does the duke remind the king of