What does it mean to have hair like tow?
What does it mean to have hair like tow?
towhead
How do Huck and Jim avoid being seen?
Huck and Jim build a wigwam on the raft and spend a number of days drifting downriver, traveling by night and hiding by day to avoid being seen.
Why does Huck try to save the murderers?
Huck stops to try to save the murderers because he feels bad for them. He thinks that there is a possibility that he could have been a murderer, and he wouldn’t want to be stuck on a wrecked steamboat. This shows that Huck is very capable of empathy towards others.
How did Huck try to save the robbers on the wreck?
Huck then goes ashore and finds a ferry night-watchman. To try to save the robbers, because he feels guilty leaving them for dead, he tells the man that his family ran into the wreck while traveling downriver and that they are stuck there. The man immediately gets his ferry moving to try and save them.
How did Huck and Jim justify stealing?
Huck justifies stealing vs. borrowing as he mulls over Tom’s words in Chapter 35. It is all stealing, Huck realizes, but sometimes the theft is justified when need, not greed, is the motivation.
How does Huck feel about stealing?
Huck feels bad about the cons robbing the girls and decides he will not stand for it. He decides to steal the gold and overhears the king’s plans to take the girls for the entire estate. Even the duke questions going so far, but the king has an answer for it. When able, Huck takes the gold.
What happens on the wrecked steamboat in Huckleberry Finn?
Terms in this set (6) Whom do Huck and Jim discover on the wrecked steamboat? Jim and Huck find robbers on the wrecked boat. Jim and Huck are trapped on the boat with the gang of murderers/robbers because their raft has come lose and drifted away. They steal the boat that belongs to the gang to escape.
What happens to Jim and Huck when a steamboat hits their raft?
What happens to Jim and Huck when a steamboat hits their raft? Jim has a head wound and Huck fears he will die . Huck tried to make Jim believe the whole incident in the fog was a dream.