The adventures of

Huckleberry Fin
Book information
•Author: Mark Twain
•Editorial: Penguin Books (Pocket Edition)
•First published in 1885
•Easy to read
•Adventures book (everyone likes adventures)
•Depicts accurately the different societies near the
Missouri
•Interesting narration from the point of view of a
child
•Situation of black people in 1885
 Curiosities
•NOTICE: “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
•A large variety of dialects appear in the book
•Black people’s English written uniquely
•Boats and ships are always girls (She)
•Severe concern about witches and superstitions
 Main characters
Miss Watson Huck’s “Pap” Judge Thatcher

Huckleberry Fin Tom Sawyer

Jim

Jim’s Family (Unknown)

 Summary
Introduction, Huck and Miss Watson
Meeting Jim
Huck’s father arrives, Huck escapes
Encountering Jim in Jackson’s Island
Travelling with the Raft (The Floating House)
The Grangerfords and the Shepherdsons
King and Duke
Stealing the Nigger
End
 Analysis of the book
Jim, an exceptional black man

Friendship between Jim and Huck. Is Jim a father for

Huck? A brother? Only a friend?

Differences between Jim and the black society

Quote 5 conversations
 Jim, an exceptional black man
Who is Jim? Miss Watson’s big nigger

He escapes and wants freedom

Black people are slaves, and however he does not blame on

white people

He is the opposite of Uncle Tom, but an

excellent person

However, he is very superstitious

Friendship between Jim and Huck
Jim escapes when Huck disappears, and everyone
thinks he is guilty

He joins Huck and takes care of him, provides him

food and adult protection (Mother and father role)

He has conversations with Huck, they like to talk (big

brother role)

He even cries for Huck,

Differences between Jim and the black
society
Black society: Conformist, servant, humble....

They are uncle Tom: Never reply to white people, always

serve with a smile

Jim is different: New generation of free black people

He does not want to end slavery, just his slavery

He wants to live with his family

 Quote 5 conversations
First quotation: When Jim first appears (p.14)

“Who dah?” / “Say – Who is you? Whar is you? Dog my

cats ef I didn’t hear sumf’n. Well, I knows what I’s
gwyne to do. I’s gwyne to set down here and listen tell
I hears it agin”
“Who’s there?” / “Say, who are you? What are you? Dog
my cats if I didn’t hear something. Well, I know what I
am going to do. I am going to sit down here and listen
till I hear it again”
 Quote 5 conversations
Second quotation: First encounter after they both
escape (p.49)

“Hello – Doan’ hurt me – don’t! I hain’t ever done no

harm to a ghos’. I awluz liked dead people, en done all
I could for ‘em. You go en git in de river agin, wah you
b’longs, en doan’ do ‘nuffn to Ole Jim, ‘at ‘uz awluz yo’
fren’.”
 Quote 5 conversations
Third quotation: Random argument(p.49)

“I doan’ k’yer what de widder say, he warn’t no wise

man, nuther. He had some er de dad-fetchedes’ ways I
ever see. Does you know ‘bout dat chile dat he ‘uz
gwyne to chop in two? / Well, den! Warn’t dat de
beatenes’ notion in de worl’? You jes’ take en look at it
a minute. Dah’s de stum, dah – Dat’s one er de women;
heah’s you – Dat’s de yuther one;
 Quote 5 conversations
Fourth quotation: First contact with disappeared
Jim(p.229)

“’Why Huck! En good Ian! Ain’ dat Misto Tom? / “No,

sah / I hain’t said nothing, sah / No, sah; not as I
knows on
 Quote 5 conversations
Fifth quotation: Goodbye Jim(p.280)

“ ‘Dah, now, Huck, what I tell you? – what I tell you up

dah on Jackson islan’? I tole you I got a hairy breas’, en
what’s de sign un it; en I tole you I ben rich wunst, en
gwineter to be rich agin; en it’s come true, en heah she
is! Dah, now! Doan’ talk to me – signs is signs, mine I
tell you; en I knowed jis’ ‘s well ‘at I ‘uz gwineter be
rich agin as I’s a stannin’ heah dis minute!”
 Conclusion
A very important novel that criticised racism and
racial segregation
It also showed black people as humans, with their best
side
In the actual times is still a book which is read in
school
The adventures of Huckleberry Fin is the first book in
Major American Literature written in Vernacular