1. He basically described them as ruthless. Arkansas residents are the kind of people that are ammused by having dogs run in circle until they can't any longer. Arkansas is another example of how people (can) are cruel and it backs up the idea behind The Damned Human Race.
2. Hucks imagination is lacking as it is so it would make the abilty to con others extremely difficult. He sees things as they are and doens't want to argue them. He knows what the King and Duke are doing is wrong so he stays out of it.
3. Twain satires the idea of honor and Southern pride which is something that should be heavely protected. Sherman shot Boggs because they had gone months with him making fun of him. People find entertainment in pain and death, and so another satire of Twains is the fact that it's a show to the people. The human nature of people is it's entertaining until it's you, and then their bravery is gone.
4. Both the circus and the Duke and King's performances play on human nature to laugh at other people's pain and suffering. The circus had a man that pretended he wasn't actually a part of the show get upset, and then get into a dangerously entertaining situation. The Duke and King's show is about Shakespeare and not very many people go see it.
5. Hucks imagination doesn't allow him to understand that what that the circus was a trick played on the people watching. He thinks that the ringmaster doesn't know what is going on and he's the one that is being fooled.
6. By saying that ladies and children aren't admitted to see the Royal Nonesuch it provokes interest to those who are allowed to go. People would be more interested in seeing something that others can't and things that could be dangerous.
7. Twain is implying that the real king and queen are no better than the ones who are acting the part. Huck doesn't know the difference because he has only read and heard information about them.
8. The significance of the story is that he cares about the mistakes he's made. He didn't know his daughter was deaf, and it was an unknown mistake at the time, but he still feels like he can never forgive himself for what he did.
9. We meet Huck, Widow Douglas, and Miss Watson, and the society he lives in. He thinks about Moses, and they talk about relgion. We learn that Huck is very superstitious(theme) when he hears spooky noises from outside and kills a spider. He meets Tom Sawyer and hides from Jim, Miss Watson's slave who almost catches Huck sneaking out. They pull a prank of Jim and he then thinks that because his hat has been moved he had been bewtiched. They start a gang with Tom even though it's more imaginative than real. Huck is taught about prayer which he takes very literally and doesn't understand. Huck later sees a boot mark and believes his father is back so he trades his fortune for a dollar with Judge Thatcher. His father comes back, takes him away, and brings him to a cabin away from the society. To escape Huck saws a hole in the wall, fakes his death, and sets out down the river. When he arrives to Jacksons Island he finds Jim and they agree to stick together. They find a dead man floating down the river, but Jim doesn't want Huck to see it because the face disintegrated. Huck and Jim float down the river and see a sinking boat called the Walter Scott. Three murders are there, Huck and Jim lose their skiff, and then take the murders and go find them help. By the time someone goes to help them the boat was gone. They later go to Granderford house and having spent some days there learning about the useless feud that they're involved in, they leave. Huck and Jim meet the King and the Duke and realize that they're both fakes. After their performance Huck goes to the circus. The four afterwards find out that Peter Wilkks dies and the king and duke pretend to be his brothers to get his inheritance instead of Peter's four daughters. Huck steals the money from the Duke and the King and hides it in the coffin of Peter's to give to the girls later. Soon after the two real brothers show up and so the fake and real brothers fight about who really is his brother. To find out, they talk about a tattoo of Peter's (which he really doesn't have) and open his coffin to find the money that Huck had hidden. Huck runs away and finds Jim. They go rafting down the river and find the Duke and the King later.
10. In chapter 26 he takes money from the Duke and the King and later blames a 'nigger'. He doesn't take the blame, and later gives the money to the three girls because he doesn't want either of the Duke of the King to have it. Even though he's helping the girls he still doesn't want to get in trouble.
In chapter 31 Huck helps Jim and doesn't care about the consequences of his actions. He'll do whatever it takes to help free his friend regardless of the color of his skin.
In both instances he's helping other people, just in chapter 26 he's afraid of the outcome of his decisions and in 31 he has grown to stand up for his actions.
The quote is ironic because he knows hes going against his society but he knows that what he's doing is right.
11/12. Huck would rather have Jim be Miss Watsons slave at 'home' than anywhere else. The Duke and the King sold him and so the letter was for Miss Watson to know where he is to get him back. Huck knows that because of this letter all its going to do is cause more problems for everyone. 'I was letting on to give up sin, but away inside of me I was holding on to the biggest one of all. I was trying to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing, and go and write to that nigger's owner and tell where he was,' he wants to be a better person, but he knows that writing this letter wouldn't necessarily help. By writing the letter he realized what he had to do and instead tore up the letter.
Good outline in 9.
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