1. Chapter 31 can be considered the climax of the story because in this chapter there is a big change in Huck behavior. Before that he always underwent passively what happens around him, we was confused and not to chose a street he just left the events to pass. But in chapter 31 Huck takes a decision, gives him a direction, and he peruses it. He decides to go against the law and the society, but doing the right thing: free Jim.
2. The irony is in the statements itself because it states two opposite thing in one sentence: “all right”, with positive value and “I’ll go to hell” with negative value. The point is that Huck really did the right choice, help Jim, but however he went against the society so he really believes that despite he did a good action he’ll go to hell.
3. In the beginning of chapter 32 there is the description of the plantation where Jim works. This place look likes a typical western farm but isolated and abandoned, it is ruined. It represents the old life of Huck, a life that doesn’t belong to him anymore. It is used to symbolize his rebirth.
4. Providence is a very religious place, where everything is linked with God and faith. Here Huck reconsiders his position towards religion, he becomes more faithful. Of course Miss Watson would agree with that because she is a very religious woman who always tried to teach God teachings to Huck, and she would be fine to know that he is startin to believe or a list to consider the hypothesis.
5. The irony is the fact that even though in the steamboat accident there were some casualties, they were all niggers and so Mrs. Phelps says that there were not casualties because she doesn’t consider niggers as people but just as things.
6. The themes that appear here is romanticism against realism. Tom Sawyer is the major represent of romanticism while Huck represents the practical realism.
7. Tom is looking for adventures, he is a dreamer and want to project a plan rich of exciting details according to his romantic personality. Huck wants just to make Jim, his friend, free, without any complications.
8. Generally men thinks only to their business and this can make them mean and their souls corrupted. Huck is apart of this society because he is free. His soul is still pure and he can notice the cruelty in human behaviors because he is out of the society.
9. In the beginning Tom agrees and let Huck steals the watermelon but after Huck does it, he blame Huck saying that stealing is ok only if they need it due to the escape. However stealing is always stealing.
10. Huck let tom Tome take the control because he admires Tom very much. Tome is his model, as a person and as adventures too.
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