CHAPTERS
16-20
Answer the following questions- use support from the novel as evidence for your claims.
Chapter 16
Answer the following questions- use support from the novel as evidence for your claims.
Chapter 16
What does Huck have a sense of guilt for?
Why does he feel this way? Explain the external cause for his inner
turmoil.
What does Jim say to intensify this guilt? What political issue of the time does this comment introduce?
How does this conflict lead to a cultural/ historical understanding of the setting of the novel?
Ultimately, how does Huck show what he has decided to do about his nagging guilt? Why does he make this decision?
What happens to the raft? How is this event a plot device for the future chapters?
Chapter 17
What does Jim say to intensify this guilt? What political issue of the time does this comment introduce?
How does this conflict lead to a cultural/ historical understanding of the setting of the novel?
Ultimately, how does Huck show what he has decided to do about his nagging guilt? Why does he make this decision?
What happens to the raft? How is this event a plot device for the future chapters?
Chapter 17
Who are the Grangerfords? How are they and their household
characterized? How are Huck's observations of their family and home an
explanation of the historical / cultural setting of the novel?
Chapter 18
Chapter 18
Explain the characterization of the Grangerfords
and the Shepherdsons. What is Buck's opinion of the Shepherdsons?
What is his explanation of how the feud started? What does this explain about the general quality of feuds?
What event in the chapter complicates the conflict between the two families? How is this event similar to one tragic classic drama? In what way does Twain parody the earlier classic text? Also, by referring to this earlier text, what comment is Twain making about human behavior?
Chapter 19
What is his explanation of how the feud started? What does this explain about the general quality of feuds?
What event in the chapter complicates the conflict between the two families? How is this event similar to one tragic classic drama? In what way does Twain parody the earlier classic text? Also, by referring to this earlier text, what comment is Twain making about human behavior?
Chapter 19
Who are the Duke and the Dauphin? How
are the actions of these two characters on the raft symbolic of the rhetoric if
slavery in the South?
Chapter 20
Chapter 20
What do the Duke and the Dauphin represent in
Southern society from before and after the Civil War?
Overview- Chapters 16-20
Overview- Chapters 16-20
1. Make
a list of the negative aspects that originate from the civilization on the
land. What comment does Twain's satire make about civilization? Be sure
to select at least one aspect from each chapter.
2. What does the river represent in relation to the land's civilization?
3. How does Twain's evaluation of Nature and Civilization connect to earlier literary texts and even movements that we have studied this year?
2. What does the river represent in relation to the land's civilization?
3. How does Twain's evaluation of Nature and Civilization connect to earlier literary texts and even movements that we have studied this year?
