Huck Finn - Plot Flashcards

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education

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  • what does twain say about education

- is there a difference between being “educated” and being “smart”

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religion

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  • huck has a hard time deciding if he wants to go to heaven or hell
  • practicing a religion vs. living the principles of a religion
  • religious people often say one thing but do another; they need to practice what they preach
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senseless violence

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  • boggs is drunk but is shot by sherbun anyway

- family feuds

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mob mentality

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  • sherburn faces a mob’s desire to lynch him for killing boggs
  • argues that a mob does not have strength – mob mentality is cowardly
  • defuses the blame form just one character to many
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legality vs. morality

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  • it’s legal to own someone, but it can’t be morally right to do that
  • huck is illegally helping jim escape, but orally helping jim is correct
  • huck struggles with allowing legality to dictate his morality
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equality

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  • jim is arguably more of a man than any other man in the book
  • this book is more about equality and less about slavery
  • when mother and child are separated in slave auctions - emotional, moral crisis
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what makes a good man vs. a bad man

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huck’s vs. tom’s treatment of jim

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note

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  • conflict between religion and morality
  • senseless violence
  • he is at the age where he is questioning society
  • hypocrisy
  • southern society
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