The Adventures of Huck Finn - Themes - Corruption of civilisation

Question 1

I ——– you ain’t used to ———, it don’t seem to come —–; what you want is ———-. You do it ————.

Answer 1

reckon / lying / handy / practice / awkward

Something that is learnt and adopted
Highlights Huck’s innocence, and how it can be influenced.

Question 2

Huck as an unreliable narrator

Answer 2

• irony as an uneducated narrator
• We see his kindness and admire him for the same reasons he sees himself as immoral.
• possesses an INNOCENT INSIGHT: critic of society is enhanced by his ignorance of societal conventions.
• his journey makes him an outsider

Question 3

“You feel ———– free and —- and ————– on a raft”

// Peter ———-

Answer 3

mighty / easy / comfortable

• the raft represents a retreat from the outside world

Peter Coveney

• conflict between life on the raft and the corruptions of society’s power
• Twain always associated a ‘reality’ of the raft rather than a dreamlike, escapist quality, which is set against the ‘unreality’ of the world which constantly sort to invade it
• asserts the values of individual experiences over the ‘threatening incubus of civilisation’

Question 4

Myra _______

Answer 4

Jenlen 
Conflict WITHIN (italics) society 

Huck and Jim divert due to Huck’s “pathlessness”