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Persons attempting to find a motive in
this narrative will be prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in
it will be banished; persons
attempting to find a plot in it will be
shot.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Author’s Notice. Ironically Twain asks
readers not to use the book to
moralize, as it is very much a story
about moral choices.
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But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up
and said he was going to start a band
of robbers, and I might join if I would
go back to the widow and be
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The Widow Douglas, she took me for
her son, and allowed she would
sivilize me; but it was rough living in
the house all the time, considering
how dismal regular and decent the
widow was in all her ways; and so
when I couldn’t stand it no longer, I lit
out.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Huck Finn’s strict, old
pious guardian. Emboding civilization
and respectability, she wants to
“sivilize” Huck. But he is having none
of that and wishes to throw off the
shackles of civilized society and be
free.
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You don’t know about me, without
you have read a book by the name of
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but
that ain’t no matter. That book was
made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told
the truth, mainly. There was things
which he stretched, but mainly he told
the truth.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Opening lines of the book
in which Huck introduces himself.
Mark Twain mainly told the truth in
the Tom Sawyer book, Huck says, but
everyone tells some lies, it is just the
nature of our society.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Even his friend Tom was
putting pressure on Huck to change
and would only allow him to join his
band of pirates if he was respectable.
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Pretty soon I wanted to smoke, and
asked the widow to let me. But she
wouldn’t. She said it was a mean
practice and wasn’t clean, and I must
try to not do it anymore.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Widow Douglas tries to
get Huck to quit his bad habits, like
smoking. But she allows herself to
smoke, showing her hypocrisy.
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Now she had got a start, and she
went on and told me all about the
good place. She said all a body
would have to do there was to go
around all day long with a harp and
sing, forever and ever. So I didn’t
think much of it. But I never said so. I
asked her if she reckoned Tom
Sawyer would go there, and she said
not by a considerable sight. I was
glad about that, because I wanted
him and me to be together.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Miss Watson joins in the
mission to civilize Huck and teaches
him all about Heaven. She believes
Huck’s friend Tom is destined for Hell.
But Huck likes Tom so much that he
is happy to be with him there.
 of having seen the devil and been
“Now, we’ll start this band of robbers
and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang.
Everybody that wants to join has got
to take an oath, and write his name in
blood.”
– Mark Twain
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After supper she got out her book
and learned me about Moses and the
Bulrushers and I was in a sweat to
find out all about him; but by and by
sheAND
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dead a considerable long time; so
then I didn’t care no more about him,
because I don’t take no stock in dead
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. The Widow Douglas reads
to Huck the story of Moses and the
Bulrushers from the Bible. But Huck
is less interested in dead people and
the Widow’s religion, and more in the
religion of everyday living.
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She was going to live so as to go to
the good place.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Miss Watson tells Huck
that she is praticing good Christian
ways so she will get to Heaven. This
shows her hypocrisy and that of
society then, as she owns a slave
and treats him like property.
 over him, and Jim stirred a little, but
Jim was most ruined for a servant,
because he got stuck up on account
rode by witches.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 2. At the beginning of the
book the black slave Jim is viewed,
even by Huck, as ignorant,
superstitious.
The widow, she cried over me, and
called me a poor lost lamb, and she
called me lots of other names, too,
but she never meant no harm by it.
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– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Huck recognizes the
Widow Douglas’s good intentions but
cannot bring himself to accept them.
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That is just the way with some
people. They get down on a thing
when they don’t know nothing about
it.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. Huck wants to be able to
smoke whenever he liked, but the
Widow Douglas wouldn’t allow him.
Yet he reveals that she regularly
takes snuff. The hypocrisy of society
book.
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Then she told me all about the bad
place, and I said I wished I was there.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 1. The puritan Miss Watson
tries to teach Huck manners and
religion, but Huck rejects her Heaven
as boring.
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Tom said he slipped Jim’s hat off of
his head and hung it on a limb right
he didn’t wake. Afterward Jim said
the witches bewitched him and put
him in a trance, and rode him all over
the State, and then set him under the
trees again, and hung his hat on a
limb to show who done it.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 2. Tom engages in some
trickery towards Jim, who is a
superstitious character and believes
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, he has been bewitched by witches

Chapter 2. Tom launches his gang of during his sleep.
thieves with pretty intense
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“But how can we do it if we don’t
know what it is?”
“Why blame it all, we’ve got to do it.
Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do
you want to go doing different from
what’s in the books, and get things all
muddled up?”
– Mark Twain
to lay drunk with the hogs in the
tanyard, but he hain’t been seen in
these parts for a year or more.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 2. Ben Rogers on Huck’s
father Pap. His alcoholism is no
secret to the community.
“Now,” says Ben Rogers, “what’s the
line of business of this Gang?”
“Nothing only robbery and murder,”
Tom said.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 2. The purpose of Tom
Sawyer’s gang.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,

Chapter 2. Tom explains to his gang
that when capturing prisoners it’s best
to keep them until they are
ransomed. Because that’s how
characters in books do it, he says.
 – Mark Twain
I went and told the Widow about it,
and she said the thing a body could
get by praying for it was “spiritual
gifts.” This was too much for me, but
she told me what she means – I must
help others, and do everything I could
for other people, and look out for
them all the time, and never think
about myself…but I couldn’t see no
advantage about it – except for the
other people – so at last I reckoned I
wouldn’t worry about it any more, but
just let it go.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 3. Huck has difficulty
understanding the point of prayer, as
explained to him by the Widow
Douglas. The main purpose, she
says, is to help other people. But he
sees no advantage to serving society
by giving up his freedom.
 he was around.
I had been to school most all the
time, and could spell, and read, and
write just a little, and could say the
multiplication table up to six times
seven is thirty-five, and I don’t reckon
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Ben Rogers said he couldn’t get out
Miss Watson she took me in the much, only Sundays, and so he
closet and prayed, but nothing come wanted to begin next Sunday; but all
of it. She told me to pray every day, the boys said it would be wicked to
and whatever I asked for I would get do it on Sunday, and that settled the
it. But it warn’t so. I tried it. Once I got thing.
a fish-line, but no hooks. It warn’t any
good to me without hooks. I tried for
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
the hooks three or four times, but
Chapter 2. Sunday School and
somehow I couldn’t make it work. By
religion must have rubbed off on
and by, one day, I asked Miss Watson
some of Tom Sawyer’s murder gang
to try for me, but she said I was a
members.
fool. She never told me why, and I
couldn’t make it out no way.
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– Mark Twain
Sometimes the widow would take me
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
to one side and talk about Providence
Chapter 3. Miss Watson attempts to
in a manner that would make my
instil religion into Huck. But she loses
mouth water; but maybe the next day
all credibility with him when she
Miss Watson would take hold and
explains the benefits of praying and
knock it all down again.
he fails to get what he prayed for.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 3. Huck on Widow’s
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benevolent view of religion and Miss
Pap he hadn’t been seen for more
Watson’s scare tactics. Despite their
than a year, and that was comfortable
best efforts, he never fully accepts
for me; I didn’t want to see him no
religion.
more. He used to always whale me
when he was sober and could get his
hands on me; though I used to take
to the woods most of the time when
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“Shucks, it ain’t no use to talk to you,
– Mark Twain Huck Finn. You don’t seem to know
anything, somehow – perfect
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
saphead.”
Chapter 3. Huck’s dad is abusive and
a drunk and Huck is afraid of him. As – Mark Twain
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I could ever get any further than that
if I was to live forever. I don’t take no
stock in mathematics, anyway.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 4. Huck is academically
uneducated, but he turns out to be a
very street smart kid.
 – Mark Twain
“Please take it,” says I, “and don’t ask
me nothing – then I won’t have to tell
no lies.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 4. Huck’s response to Judge
Thatcher, when Huck wants the
Judge to keep his fortune of six
thousand dollars and the puzzled
Judge asks him if something’s the
matter. Huck doesn’t want his father
to get the money. He prefers not to be
dishonest, when faced with a difficult
decision.
 you’re better’n your father, now, don’t
“And looky here – you drop that
school, you hear? I’ll learn people to
bring up a boy to put on airs over his
own father and let on to be better’n
what he is.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 5. Huck’s Pap rejects his
son’s educational pursuits.
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woods whenever his father was
around.
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At first I hated the school, but by and
by I got so I could stand it. Whenever
I got uncommon tired I played
hookey, and the hiding I got next day
done me good and cheered me up.
So the longer I went to school the
easier it got to be.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 4. Huck, who likes sleeping
in the woods, is beginning to think
that civilization isn’t so bad after all.
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“Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en
sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but
every time you’s gwyne to git well
agin.”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 4. Jim predicts Huck’s future
using a fur-ball and a quarter. Huck,
he says, is going to face great
hardships later on but will always
make it out alive.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 3. Tom to Huck. Huck is
practical and real, while Tom takes
his imagination from books and is not
HAMLET realistic.
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Jim put the quarter under the hair-
ball, and got down and listened
again. This time he said the hair-ball
was all right. He said it would tell my
whole fortune if I wanted it to. I says,
go on. So the hair-ball talked to Jim,
and Jim told it to me.
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 4. Jim has a magic hairball,
taken from an ox’s stomach, that,
when given money, supposedly tells
the future.
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“Don’t you give me none o’ your lip,”
says he. “You’ve put on considerable
many frills since I been away. I’ll take
you down a peg before I get done
with you. You’re educated, too, they
say – can read and write. You think
you, because he can’t? I’ll take it out
of you. Who told you you might
meddle with such hifalut’n
foolishness, hey? – who told you you
could?”
– Mark Twain
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,
Chapter 5. Pap to Huck. Some of first
words he has said to his son in years.
The good fortune huck appears to
have in the care of Widow Douglas –
he’s dressed well and has a basic
education – appears to make Pap
feel threatened. Since he’s not
educated, he hypocritically believes
that neither should Huck.
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