1. By: Lucy Hong

2. Ch 1-3
“We played robber now and then about a
month, and then I resigned…We hadn‟t robbed
nobody, we hadn‟t killed any people, but only
just pretended.”
 Huck and others joined Tom Sawyer’s gang in these three chapter
expecting for it to be real action and adventure. But as the quote
proves, Tom’s gang was just supposed to be based on pretense
and the imagination of the boys. The symbol SpongeBob
exemplifies the quote because the character by itself was created
and popularized by imagination of kids and some adults just like
the main focus of these chapters.

3. Ch 4-5
“Then I turned around, and there he
was. I used to be scared of him all the
time, he tanned me so much. I
reckoned I was scared now, too…”
 Huck’s life was settling down as the widow and her sister took good
care of him and put him in school to get educated. But when Huck’
father showed up, he disturbed all the peace that has been restored
in Huck’s life forcing him to quite school and deal with a drunk and
abusive dad. The ripple in the water represents the introduction of
Huck’s father because he destroyed the previous calm and relaxing
environment the widow and others have created for Huck.

4. Ch 6-7
“I was all over welts. He got to
going away so much, too, and
locking me in. Once, he locked me
in and was gone three days. It was
dreadful lonesome.”
 Huck’s possessive father abducted him from the widow’s house
and forced Huck to live with him. The bird represent Huck being
locked in the cabin by his father during the day. Birds are destined
for freedom and the sky just like Huck is destined for the real
world. Therefore trapping Huck in a cabin is not right especially
by his own father. These two chapters set the stage for when Huck
finally escapes and goes on his adventures.

5. Ch 8
“Pretty soon he gapped, and
stretched himself, and hove off the
blanket, and it was Miss Watson‟s
Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.”
 Huck has escaped to an island away from Pap’s control by faking
his own death but he was beginning to feel the loneliness that
comes with running away. Just then, he finds Jim who was also
alone and on the run. The quote show that Huck was very glad to
have found Jim since now he won’t have to be alone anymore. The
symbol of the two wolves traveling together outside of the pack is
very similar to Huck and Jim in that Huck and Jim will be
traveling together from now seeing as they are both outcasts of
society.

6. Ch 9
“We got an old lantern, and a butcher
knife without any handle, and a bran-
new Barlow knife, and a lot of tallow
candles, and a tin candelsack, and a
guard, and a tin cup…”
 Huck and Jim pack their bags from the floating house they find on
the river and marks the start of Huck’s adventure with Jim. The
hobo sack on a stick is normally depicted in cartoons and such
when characters run away from home. Here it represents Jim and
Huck packing for their trip and them running away from what
they previously called home to freedom in the north.

7. Ch 10 -11
“Now trout along to your uncle , Sarah
Williams George Elexander Peters, and if you
get into trouble you send word to Mrs. Judith
Loftus, which is me, and I‟ll do what I can to get
you out of it.”
 Mrs. Loftus is one of the nicest ladies Huck will meet during his
trip who tries all she can to help him. Yet Huck continues to
deceive and trick her into telling him information. The wolf
dressed like the grandma to trick little red riding hood represents
Huck and Mrs. Loftus since little red riding hood is seen as a very
sincere character just like Mrs. Loftus. Though Huck did not have
such bad intentions as the wolf, he still used the same method to
achieve his goals.

8. Ch 12
“I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I
says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn‟t
back out now, and so I‟m agoing to see
what‟s going on here.”
 Huck’s decision to go on the sinking steamboat led him and Jim
into trouble when they realize the ship belongs to robbers and
their own raft has floated away. The quote shows the reason why
Huck decided to board the boat which is simply curiosity. The
symbol of the curiosity killed the cat represents this chapter
because that is the exact lesson which Huck needs to learn since he
really could have gotten not only himself but also Jim killed

9. Ch 13
“She was very deep, and I see in a minute
there warn't much chance for anybody
being alive in her. I pulled all around her
and hollered a little, but there wasn't any
answer; all dead still.”
 When Huck learned that the robbers were going to become
murderers and kill another man on the boat, Huck tries to stop
them by taking their boat and then getting help later. Though with
good intentions, Huck ended up causing the death of all three
people on board proven by the quote. Buddy from the Incredibles
was like an exaggeration of Huck as he tries to do good in the
society but ends up with disastrous results.

10. Ch 14
“‟Is a cat a man, Huck?‟ „No‟„Well, den,
dey ain't no sense in a cat talkin' like a
man. Is a cow a man? -- er is a cow a
cat?‟ „No, she ain't either of them.‟ „Well,
den, she ain't got no business to talk like
either one er the yuther of 'em. Is a
Frenchman a man?"
 This chapter was mainly about the talk between Huck and Jim.
The two continuously argued about different languages people
speaks. Jim didn’t think that there were different languages in the
world mainly because he never met anyone from outside the
country that spoke one. Just like the symbol of the frog in the
bottom of the well that thought the sky was only as big as the
opening because that all the frog saw.

11. Ch 15- 25
 “We said there weren‟t no home like a raft, after all. Other
places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don‟t.
you fell mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”

12.  Huck in chapter 15-25 begin to see the bad side of human nature
and society. The Grangerfords represented by the bomb showed
Huck how stupid pride can result in a lot of violence. Bombs are
just like family pride displayed by the two families as they both
cause death and destruction. The Duke and King represented by
the mask illustrates the deceptive side of humans. The mask here
represent the fact that humans are able to hide who they really are
and what they are thinking along with the fact that the Duke and
King managed to trick many people by putting on a play hence
the theatre mask. Greed in the book was seen when the two con
artists tried to rip off the Wilks represented by the picture of
money. Just after the first experience with the Grangerfords made
Huck realize that life on the raft was much better that in the real
society as said in the quote because life with Jim was simpler and
more care free.
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13. Ch 26
“I says to myself, this is another one that I'm
letting him rob her of her money. And when
she got through they all jest laid theirselves
out to make me feel at home and know I was
amongst friends. I felt so ornery and low
down and mean …”
 This chapter describes an important change in Huck as he decides
to listen to his conscience and try to stop the Duke and King for
the first time. The symbol of devil and angel represents the
conscience of Huck as he decides whether to help the con artists
rip off nice people or help the Wilks get their money. In the end,
Huck decides to be true to himself and help the Wilks showing
that the good (angel) side of him won.

14. Ch 27
“The lid was shoved along about a
foot, showing the dead man‟s face…I
tucked the money-bag in under the
lid, just beyond where his hands were
crossed…”
 Huck stole back the money the Duke and King ripped off from the
Wilks and ended up putting it back to where it came from; Peter
Wilks. All the work Duke and King did along with their money
that they used to fill the hole in the inheritance was for nothing.
The symbol of karma or getting what is deserved and everything
that comes around goes around was really proven by the fact that
the Duke and King’s plans were foiled and the money went back
in the Wilks’ hands.

15. Ch 28
“though I ain‟t had no experience…look
to me like the truth is better, and
actually safer than a lie.”
 Huck tells the truth for the first time to Mary Jane so she doesn’t
feel as bad about the slave family being separated. The quote
shows how Huck has lied all through the journey and even his life
but is just now learning that telling the truth is good sometimes
too. Pinocchio learned the same lesson through the fact that every
time he tells a lie, his nose grows bigger. He and Huck both had to
learn to tell the truth which was the main point of the chapter.

16. Ch 29
“’The whole bilin‟ of‟ m „s frauds!
Le‟s duck‟em! Le‟s drown‟em! Le‟s
ride‟em on a rail!‟ and everybody
was whooping at once, and there
was a rattling pow-wow.”
 The Duke and King were exposed as being frauds and con artist
and was chased out of the town by its people. Justice was finally
brought for all the people they have ripped off previously. The
symbol of a judge hammer enforces the quote that the Duck and
King are getting what they deserved since the hammer is normally
seen as a representation for justice

17. Ch 30 - 35
“Anyhow, there‟s one thing – there‟s more
honor in getting him out through a lot of
difficulties and dangers, where there
weren‟t one of them furnished to you by the
people who it was their duty to furnish
them, and you have to contrive them all out
of your own head.”
 Chapter 30-35 set the stage for when Tom comes back into the
story and brings back all his ideas of an adventure. Helping Jim
escape should have been a simple plan because there weren’t even
any guards to go through. But Tom insist on making a elaborate
plan to break him out because of his need for excitement. The
more complicated than usual escape plan for a house in the
symbol emphasize the silly point of the quote and the chapter.

18. Ch 36-37
“If we were prisoners it would, because then
we‟d have as many years as we wanted, and
no hurry…and we could keep it up right
along, year in and year out, and do it right…”
 Tom and Huck were wasting time as they try to make their plan as
complicated and spectacular as possible by digging with knifes
and baking a rope ladder pie. All of the things planned had not
actual use and failed. The quote really proves how the two were
wasting time by trying to make the escape more daring. The clock
in the trash supports the point of the quote which is basically to
show the wasted effort and wasted time represented by the clock
and the crumbled up paper

19. Ch 38 - 39
“Any book will tell you that. You try-that‟s all
I ask; just try for two or three days. “
 One of the more obvious satires used in the book was on Tom and
how much he followed the steps of a book. During ch 38-39, he
tries to repeat all the scenarios he read in adventure books on Jim.
The quote proves that he even uses books as an excuse when
convincing Jim to go along with the ridiculous plan. The symbol
bring out the point that most people will listen and follow the
instructions of a book and emphasis is put on the word
“dummies”

20. Ch 40 - 42
“And his Aunt Polly she said Tom was
right about old Miss Watson setting
Jim free in her will; and so, sure
enough, Tom Sawyer had gone and
took all that trouble and bother to set a
free nigger free!”
 The most important event of these two chapters was that Jim was
now a free man. The quote show that Jim has been set free by Miss
Watson in her will and he doesn’t have to escape to the north. The
symbol of a eagle flying in the sky highlights the freedom aspect
in that eagles and the sky both represent the freedom to do
anything.

21. The Last Chapter
 “…because Aunt Sally she‟s
going to adopt me and sivilize
me and I can‟t stand it. I been
there before. The End. Yours
truly, Huck Finn.”
The last chapter was basically just explaining the aftermath of
all the events that has happened and giving a conclusion of
what will happen to all the characters. Huck explains the
endings of all the people and tells his plans to end the book in
the quote above. The closing curtain represent the closing of
the book drawing an end to the story.