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    This document provides a summary and study guide for chapters 1-46 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, outlining important characters, settings, themes, and events in the novel. It highlights Huck's journey down the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim and their encounters with con men the King and Duke. The summary also notes Huck's internal struggles with helping Jim escape and the novel's commentary on societal norms and racial injustice in the pre-Civil War South.

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Study Guide

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    This document provides a summary and study guide for chapters 1-46 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, outlining important characters, settings, themes, and events in the novel. It highlights Huck's journey down the Mississippi River with the runaway slave Jim and their encounters with con men the King and Duke. The summary also notes Huck's internal struggles with helping Jim escape and the novel's commentary on societal norms and racial injustice in the pre-Civil War South.

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    The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Study Guide

    Chapters 1-11
    The Setting

    Huck: a "literal-minded" boy

    All about Pap

    Justice & the "Govment"

    Huck's conundrum re: Jim

    Superstitions & Predictions: What do they suggest about Jim?

    Jim: a dynamic character


    Chapters 12-18
    Huck and the Walter Scott

    Jim & King Solomon

    Huck's guilty conscience

    Huck's pranks and Jim's response

    Irony: Jim stealing his own children

    The church service and the hogs under the church

    Life on the raft vs. life on shore


    Chapters 19-32
    Huck and Jim's nakedness while on the raft

    Huck when first meets the King and the duke

    The people at the camp meeting

    The "Royal Nonesuch": gullibility and voyeurism

    "It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race"(ch. 24).

    The King and the Duke & the "prejudiced chuckleheads"

    Huck's crises of conscience: Miss Watson & Jim

    Irony: Mrs. Phelps's comment


    Chapters 33-46
    Tom stooping to shame himself: How?

    Huck's reaction to the tarring and feathering of the King and Duke

    Tom's plan to free Jim: Huck likes it. Why?

    The watermelon: Tom & Huck's differing ethics

    Irony: the grindstone

    Jim's suffering

    Jim's nobility

    Huck abandonment of society: What does that suggest?

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