3. The description of the country as being lonesome is symbolic of Huck's loneliness without Jim. The setting also symbolizes society, as it is the conventional description of a small Southern plantation, and Huck's return to it.
4. According to Huck, Providence always puts the right words in his mouth, so he never plans out what he's going to tell people. Miss Watson wouldn't agree with Huck. She would say that God would never help Huck lie, or deceive people, especially not in order to free a runaway slave.
5. Huck says that nobody got hurt, it just killed a nigger, which is ironic because Huck is implying that black people aren't people, but he is using that story to help free Jim, a runaway slave. It is also ironic because Huck has made it so far, but as soon as he comes back into society, he has to pretend to have the same mindset as everyone else.
6. Realism vs. romanticism because Tom Sawyer is such a big proponent of romanticism. Also, Huck vs. society, as Tom symbolizes society as well.
7. Huck wants to save Jim because they're family and he doesn't want Jim to be put back into slavery. Huck actually cares about Jim, and feels it is his responsibility to help Jim to freedom. Tom wants to save Jim so that he can have his own little romantic adventure like he reads in his storybooks, not to actually help Jim. Jim's situation is merely a stage to Tom.
8. This shows that Huck is a kindhearted and compassionate person. He doesn't like to see people in bad situations, regardless of how rotten the people were. He is sensitive to others and puts himself in their shoes. It also shows his naivety that he didn't expect people of such cruelty in the first place.
9. Tom's stealing everything anyway! Although, it's not really stealing because they're all his aunts things anyway. Tom says that they can only steal things that a prisoner would need, like tin plates to write on, a shirt to keep a journal on, and sheets to make into a ladder, which is ironic in itself, because no prisoner needs those things, and it is unnecessary to steal them. At least Huck actually ate the watermelon because he was hungry.
10. Huck lets Tom take control because he thinks that Tom is smarter than he is. He knows that Tom has an education and that he doesn't, and believes that that therefore makes Tom superior in the ways of thinking. Huck also doesn't want to cause any trouble between the both of them.
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