The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Illustrations

Today

• View illustrations to get a visual sense of the book

• Review the book thus far

• Put the plot in sequential order

In Groups

• For each illustration, decide who it is depicting (this is usually pretty easy)

• The significance of the illustration in regards to plot, character, setting, themes, etc.

• The chapter the scene comes from (hint: look in your table of contents)

Characters in illustration:

Widow Douglas and Huck

Significance of illustration:

Huck learning his Bible lessons. Notice his face

Chapter:

One

Characters in illustration:

Tom Sawyer, Huck and the gang

Significance of illustration:

Huck follows Tom’s lead, the book is still embedded within childhood. Characterizes Huck and Tom

Chapter:

Two

Characters in illustration:

Huck or one of the robbers

Significance of illustration:

Tom’s gang is quite a failure, huh?

It looks like the time Mr. Kelly’s gang was defeated by an old lady…quite embarrassing

Chapter:

Three

Characters in illustration:

Huck and Judge Thatcher

Significance of illustration:

Huck stays one step ahead of his father and gives the Judge his money

Chapter:

Four

Characters in illustration:

Jim and Huck

Significance of illustration:

Jim listens to the hairball – the first of many of Jim’s superstitions

Chapter:

Four

Characters in illustration:

Huck and Pap

Significance of illustration:

We meet Huck’s loving father for the first time. Huck’s hunch was right. Pap is one of the reasons Huck leaves.

Chapter:

Five

Characters in illustration:

Huck

Significance of illustration:

Huck kills the pig in order to use the pig’s blood to help set up the “murder” scene

Chapter:

Seven

Characters in illustration:

Huck and Jim

Significance of illustration:

On Jackson Island, Huck is supposed to be dead so Jim thinks he is a ghost.

Chapter:

Eight

Characters in illustration:

Huck and Jim

Significance of illustration:

Jim spots a dead body in a floating house

Chapter:

Nine

Characters in illustration:

Huck and Jim

Significance of illustration:

Huck played a prank on Jim which bit him in the end

Ha Ha Ha

Chapter:

Ten

Characters in illustration:

Huck and Mrs. Judith Loftus

Significance of illustration:

Huck – or Sarah Mary Williams – is found out

Chapter:

Eleven

Characters in illustration:

Jake Packard, Bill and Jim Turner

Significance of illustration:

The three bandits are in the wreck of the “Walter Scott”

Huck witnesses this scene and it leads to a moral dillemia

Chapter:

Twelve

Characters in illustration:

Huck and the pilot

Significance of illustration:

Huck makes up a story to save the bandits

Chapter:

Thirteen

Characters in illustration:

Huck and Jim

Significance of illustration:

The guys are arguing about King Solomon

Chapter:

Fourteen

Characters in illustration:

Huck, Jim under the raft

Significance of illustration:

Jim is hiding under the raft because he has overhead Huck with a couple of slave hunters. This is right after Huck decides to stick with Jim

Chapter:

Sixteen

Chapter 17

Chapter 18