Satire
27-30. One of the reasons was to keep rodents away from attacking the dead corpse. Back then it was a form of tradition, to sit with the dead because funeral homes were not around to preserve the body. The body of the person who passes was never left alone. Staying up with the dead was performed by the people that were closer to the person dead.
2. huck doesn't think straight when he is talking to Miss. Mary Jane. As he tells her as she is crying about a certain separated slave family that they will all be reunited again in about two weeks. it gave the readers another view on Huck. We all know Huck is a child, and he has definitely gone through a lot these past few days and years. He was born into a family with an abusive alcoholic father
3. a. They identified the tatoo on the man's chest, and asked the brothers questions, to identify who was lying.
b. They had each one of the brothers write on a piece of paper, To compare the hand writing to the letters 31-35 1.Huck says “You can’t pray a lie.” What lie is he trying to pray about? What does he mean?
2.Why does Huck tear up the letter he writes? (Chapter 31)
3.Huck is disappointed that Tom would help him steal Jim. He says “Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!” What do you think of this?
4.Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33:
1.“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
2.“But that’s always the way: it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t go no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
What does Huck mean by these two statements?
5.Why are Tom and Huck looking for a more difficult way to break Jim free?
2. huck doesn't think straight when he is talking to Miss. Mary Jane. As he tells her as she is crying about a certain separated slave family that they will all be reunited again in about two weeks. it gave the readers another view on Huck. We all know Huck is a child, and he has definitely gone through a lot these past few days and years. He was born into a family with an abusive alcoholic father
3. a. They identified the tatoo on the man's chest, and asked the brothers questions, to identify who was lying.
b. They had each one of the brothers write on a piece of paper, To compare the hand writing to the letters 31-35 1.Huck says “You can’t pray a lie.” What lie is he trying to pray about? What does he mean?
2.Why does Huck tear up the letter he writes? (Chapter 31)
3.Huck is disappointed that Tom would help him steal Jim. He says “Tom Sawyer fell, considerable, in my estimation. Only I couldn’t believe it. Tom Sawyer a nigger stealer!” What do you think of this?
4.Huck says two things at the end of chapter 33:
1.“Human beings can be awful cruel to one another.”
2.“But that’s always the way: it don’t make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person’s conscience ain’t go no sense, and just goes for him anyway.”
What does Huck mean by these two statements?
5.Why are Tom and Huck looking for a more difficult way to break Jim free?