Huck Study Questions

1. What do we learn about Jim in these chapters?

That he has humanistic qualities just as everyone else, and that he is willing to help someone he cares about regardless of how it affects him.

2. What effect does the Doctor's speech in support of Jim have? How do you feel about that?
It allows Jim bread and water only but halts the rough treatment of him. It however keeps him in chains. Upset that he was not freed.

3. What is the significance of the bullet?
It makes the story realistic

4. Where is Huck going at the end of the novel? What does this imply about his view of the world in which he lives?
West away from society. He disagrees with how society treats one another and how gullible it is.

5. Comment on the style of the novel. Do you feel it represents the Realist tradition as we have discussed it? What aspects of Huck's character make him a good narrator? What problems did you encounter (if any) due to Huck's narration? Speculate on how a different narrator or a third person omniscient narrator would impact the story.
It is significant as far as the moral of the story is. It clearly represents how idiotic society can be and how ridiculous certain views were at the time. Aside from a slight bit of trouble trying to read the dialect produced by Huck, there were no problems. A different narrator would make the story very different and probably more confusing. If Tom was another main character it would however be interesting to learn what is going through Tom's head.