1. Pap doesn’t want Huck to receive and education and dislikes him because he is already able to read and write. What Pap says is the opposite of what a dad should say to his son, indeed Pap isn’t a good dad. The irony is the fact that Pap despises the education while he needs one too. He shouldn’t discourage Huck to study but use him as an example.
2. The refusal of the court to grant custody of Huck to the Widow Douglas and Judge Thatcher, preferring Huck’s brute father, reflects a society based in injustice, where the owner of the power himself are not able to fulfill their offices.
3. Huck prefers stays at the shanty because there he is free from the rules of the society. He hasn’t to behave politely and he hasn’t to care about cleaning, himself and the house. Practically when Pap isn’t there he can do everything he wants. This reflects the theme of the evasion. Huck doesn’t want to be part of the common society, he doesn’t want to be squared in a model, he wants to feel free and go looking for new adventures
4. When Pap is drunk he shows very angry with the government. His anger is fueled at most when he listens that the government approved good measures toward slaves and black people; he looks very intolerant against blacks and slaves. The reason while Pap hates government so much is in Pap himself. He is a bad guy, who doesn’t follow the rules so it’s normal that he doesn’t like who made those rules.
5. Huck’s escape and his consecutive meeting with Jim represent the theme of the Freedom. Once escaped form Pap, Huck is definitely free: free from the society, free from the rules. The first person he meets is Jim, another new-free-man. Jim himself escaped from his owner, the Widow. Now they can join together the beginning of their new free life.
6. The ironic is that Huck believes that Tom is a brave boy, an expert adventurer, skillful in planning strategy, but in the reality Tom is not so capable. Tom is just a dreamer whose imagination make him create a lot of suggestive stories that appear really because they are full of details. But Tom creation aren’t more than fantasy story, they can’t be real. In the reality Tom isn’t able to do what he tells in his story. That’s why his help wouldn’t be useful to Huck, that on the opposite, is very practical.
7. When Huck finds bread to eat he remember the Bible’s episode of the Last Dinner and links it to that. He thinks that God really can have helped him. So he restarts to think about religion and his behavior towards God.
8. When Jim meets Huck he thinks he is a ghost and wants him to go away. This reflects the big superstition of the character who even consider dead a person alive!
9. Running into Jim is like running into the freedom. Huck’s run is his rebirth because it defines the passage from the life in the society, under the rules, to a life completely free. The conflict in Huck’s mind is cause by the fact that Huck is helping Jim to escape. He is confused about that because on one side he wants to help the slave, but on the other he knows the slaves is ownership of the Widow Douglas, woman who Huck owes a lot to.
10. Huck could be called abolitionist because helping Jim, a slave, to escape, he goes against slavery and against the society, considering slavery is part of the society. So being consider an abolitionist isn’t a good thing.
11. Jim bases his prediction about the future on his past experience. In Jim’s prediction knowledge and superstition are mixed together and sometimes this let him to do previsions that come true.
12. In doing the trick to Jim, Huck wants just take fun of the man because he likes tricks. He doesn’t consider, strangely because generally he does, the superstitious meaning of his act. Jim, on the other side, who is very superstitious, says soon that that would have brought bad luck, indeed it is.
13. Huck’s trip to shore shows us different aspects of his personality. He looks smart and crafty, two new characteristic of the character that let him to build a good strategy, before for leaving home avoiding that the other people look for him, and then for asking information (he dresses up like a girl).
14. When Mrs. Loftus discusses the money that Tom had found, the common trait that emerges in the description is the exaggeration. The woman exaggerates the amount of money that Tom has found. This is very common in human speeches.
15. The satire is that the amount of the reward for a slave escaped, Jim in this case, is higher than the amount of the reward for a man who is accused to have done a murder, in this case Pap accused to have killed Huck.
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