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42 Cards in this Set
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"By and by everybody's killed off, |
and there ain't no more feud" Buck Chapter 18 Talking about how feuds work and, ultimately, how they end. Rules of a feud just leave people dead. |
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Pap gets wound up about a "Free _____" |
N***** Chapter 6 |
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"He had an uncommon |
level head for a n*****" Huck Chapter 14 |
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"It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a n*****; |
but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither."
Huck Chapter 15 |
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"It most froze me to hear such talk... Just see |
what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free." Huck Chapter 16 |
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It was according to the old saying, "Give |
a n***** an inch and he'll take an ell" Huck Chapter 16 |
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"Thinks I, this is what |
comes of my not thinking" Huck Chapter 16 |
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"There's two hundred dollars reward on him. |
It's like picking up money out'n the road" The boy Huck meets on the road Chapter 31 The boy doesn't see Jim as a person. He sees him as a big pile of money to be claimed. |
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"A kind of cold shiver went through me... |
...I felt a little bit heavy-hearted about the gang" Huck Chapter 13 Huck may not be one for rules and laws, but he has a strong moral compass, and didn't want the gang to drown without a fair trial first. |
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"It made me all over trembly |
and feverish, too" Huck Chapter 16 |
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"he WAS most free - and |
who was to blame for it? Why, ME." Huck Chapter 16 |
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"It got to troubling me so |
I couldn't rest" Huck Chapter 16 Huck's internal system of morality is in head-on conflict with the external system of laws that society has taught him. |
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"I felt easy and happy |
and light as a feather right off" Huck Chapter 16 When Huck decided he was going to turn Jim in |
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"It hadn't ever come home to me before, what this thing was that I was doing. But now it did; |
and it stayed with me, and scorched me more and more."
Huck Chapter 16 |
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"Dah you goes, de ole true Huck; de on'y white |
genlman dat ever kep' his promise to ole Jim"
Jim Chapter 16 |
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"I said I wouldn't, and I'll stick to it. Honest INJUN, I will. People would call me a low-down
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Abolitionist and despise me for keeping mum—but that don't make no difference."
Huck Chapter 8 |
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"It would get all around that Huck Finn helped a n***** to get his freedom; and if I was ever to see
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anybody from that town again I'd be ready to get down and lick his boots for shame."
Huck Chapter 31 |
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"It was awful thoughts and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never thought no more about reforming.
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I shoved the whole thing out of my head, and said I would take up wickedness again, which was in my line"
Huck Chapter 31 In response to how he decides he'll "go to hell" for deciding to tear up the letter and help Jim |
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"But we won't LET you walk - it wouldn't |
be Southern hospitality to do it." Aunt Sally Chapter 33 |
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"It don't make no difference how foolish it is, it's
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the RIGHT way—and it's the regular way." Tom Chapter 35 Regarding the fictional 'rules' he reads about in books |
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"She would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time,
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considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways" Huck Chapter 1 |
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What is Huck incredibly opposed to people doing to him? |
"Sivilizing" him |
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"There warn’t no home like a raft, after all...
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...You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
Huck Chapter 18 |
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“Tom told me what his plan was, and I see |
in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style"
Huck Chapter 34 |
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“But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s
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going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”
Huck Chapter 43 |
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"I knowed he was |
white inside" Huck Chapter 40 |
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“The old gentleman owned a lot of farms |
and over a hundred n-----s” Huck Chapter 18 Regarding the head of the Grangerford household |
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"I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns |
myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars" Jim Chapter 8 Jim thinks he worth eight hundred dollars. Jim got his freedom by running away from Miss Watson. Therefore, he can now master his own body and mind. Freedom worth much more than just eight hundred dollars - freedom is, indeed, priceless. |
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"he would buy his wife, which |
was owned on a farm" Huck, regarding Jim Chapter 15 “Owned” is a verb that show how slaveswere treated as possessions |
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“I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks |
does for their’n. It don’t seem natural, but I reckon it’s so” Huck Chapter 23 |
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“Do you reckon a n----- can run |
across money and not borrow some of it?” The Duke Chapter 26 Ironically, it’s the whitemen who are into shady dealings, fraud and theft |
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“Tom Sawyer was in earnest, and was actually going to help steal that |
n----- out of slavery. That was the thing that was too many for me” Huck Chapter 34 |
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“Here was a boy that was respectable and wellbrung up; and had a character to lose... and yet here he was, |
without any more pride, or rightness, or feeling, than to stoop to this business, and make himself a shame” Huck Chapter 34 Regarding Tom |
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“He allowed we was white folks and |
knowed better than him” Huck Chapter 36 Regarding Jim (Tom has toldJim about their extravagant plan) |
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“He ain’t no bad |
n-----, gentlemen” The Doctor Chapter 42 |
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"The crowd washed backsudden, and then broke all apart and went tearing off |
every which way, ...I could a staid, if I’d a wanted to, but I didn’t want to" Huck Chapter 22 Colonel Sherburn beats back a potential lynch mob by standing up to bullies and taking their cowardly measure. Huck describes the last, tail-between-their-legs moments this way |
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“She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn’t do nothing but sweat and
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sweat, and feel all cramped up.”
Huck
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“You didn’t want to come… But if only half a man…shouts ‘Lynch him, lynch him!’ you’re
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afraid to back down—afraid you’ll be found out to be what you are—cowards” Colonel Sherburn Chapter 22 |
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"Human beings can be
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awful cruel to one another" Huck Chapter 33 |
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"Who told you you might meddle
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with such hifalut’n foolishness" Pap Chapter 5 In regards to how Huck can read and write, but pap can't, and Pap doesn't like the fact that his son is bettering himself |
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"Rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and
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good people takes the most interest in"
Huck Chapter 13 Huck thinks the Widow Douglas would be proud of him for helping such people. Could also be a reference to himself and why the Widow took him in. |
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"LADIES AND CHILDREN
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NOT ADMITTED"
Duke Chapter 22 Highlights the desire of the southerners for smut and low comedy (they couldn't handle Shakespeare); they’ll be attracted to a show where only men can be admitted |
