1. Pap isn't being a good dad. He should be encouraging his son to get an education and have good religious beliefs instead of threatening him for trying to have these things. Pap is too selfish to realize that these are good things because he can't look past the idea of his son being better than him. It's ironic because Pap should try to have these things himself, and the fact he's telling the opposite of what his son should be doing.
2. Society wants to keep their family together and since it's still an option that's what they choose. They choose the easiest thing to do, and that's not what a good society does.
3. Even though he is beaten by his father he is still free from the other rules of society because his father is too drunk to set any or even care. He prefers living with his father with no rules than in a house where this is restrictions. Theme: Freedom.
4. Pap doesn't believe in freedom for slaves or colored people which makes him extremely racist. Him commenting on the government can't be taken too seriously. His views of what are really going on in his society or the world are very different from other peoples. He's upset with the government because he doesn't like to follow the rules they set even though better people have no problem with doing so.
5. Freedom. Both Huck and his father have different ideas of what their freedom is. Pop thinks Huck is his, when Huck thinks he's under Ms. Watson.
6. It wouldn't have been successful. He's all ideas no actions. If Tom was there he probably would have gotten Jim caught.
7. The bread is a biblical reference (last supper..Huck is ignorant of it). The bread is supposed to find the 'dead' body of Huck. The idea is that maybe prayer works for someone, but not him.
8. Jim thought Huck was a ghost. Huck doesn't want to tell Jim his story because he's too scared that he'll go home and tell Ms. Watson that he's still alive now that he's 'free'.
9. They're both reborn, they're both free. Huck is helping Jim run away, and that's something he can be more than punished for.
10. In his society being an abolitionist is something you didn't want to be called. Being against slavery is going against their society.
11. It goes back to his personal experiences which gives him personal knowledge. He also learns from Jim and others around him.
12. The snake is just skin, and it's typical of Huck because he's a trickster. He doesn't see it from the other persons perspective; Jim was scared, he's superstitious.
13. All he wants is to be free, and he doesn't mind sending people that love him on a wild goose chase to find his unknowingly fake decaying carcass.
14. Common trait is over exaggeration; she over exaggerates how much money there is.
15. People think that Pa killed Huck, and the satire shows that a run away slave is worse than a murder. Pa; $200. Jim; $300.
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