Our new friend Huck!

1. The widow she cried over me, and called me a poor lost lamb, and she called me a lot of other names, too, but she never meant no harm by it. She put me in them new clothes again, and I couldn't do nothing but sweat and sweat, and feel all cramped up. [...] The widow rung a bell for supper, and you had to come to time. When you got to the table you couldn't go right to
eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them"
The widow Douglas seems to be truly interested in saving Huck's condition. Although she reflects a common personality of her age,  she is actually a good woman: the widow tries to make Huck a respectable teen, even though Huck does not like or is interested society's etiquette.
Huck doesn't care about Moses story. This shows us how realistic the main character is: he doesn't see the connection with the present ("Moses had been dead a considerable long time; so
then I didn't care no more about him")

2. superstition is a motif. We see more than one example over the first chapters already. It is something that is compared and constrasted with Christianity, that might symbolize the society that criticizes superstition, although it seems that also christianity is a series of superistitious rituals (according to Twain's view). Here are a couple of examples in the first chapter of Huck's superstition. Ghosts
(I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when itwants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving." and then  "Pretty soon a spider went crawling up my shoulder. [...] I didn't need anybody to tell me that that was an awful bad sign and would fetch me some bad luck."

3.  Huck's view of afterlife is different from christians (and the widow). He sees death and afterlife as a change, as something different to do - he wants to have adventures. Death is mentioned because it is a motif and it helps us to understand Huck's personality.

4. Tom and Huck play a joke on him just to have fun and -especially Tom- make fun of him

5. Huck is talking. He views Jim as a "ruined servant" since with the attention of people, and people listening and coming to him, he wouldn't have worked much any more since he would have felt important, so he was kinda useless as servant.

6. appearance vs reality. ...?
we're talking about Tom, that, knowing that he's doing something wrong, leaves the cents. He does that only because he wants to while Huck would have stolen the candles without paying cause he'd really need them.

7. Tom is a really shrewd guy, educated, he knows what he does, the consequences of his actions, he's got imagination, understands the difference between good and bad. On the other hand, Huck is really ingenuous, uneducated and innocent. He does not know what is true and what is not, but tries to be as realistic as possible.

8. Tom wants to be and feel more noble and important

9.  To Huck, pray is requested to get what you what, intended as things. We can see how materialistic he is and attached to reality, while the widow sees the prayer gifts as spiritual gifts.

10. Tom calls Huck a numskull.. because he actually is. He doesn't understand the difference between reality and fantasy.

11. Huck is just showing his traits: he's a pure realist. While Tom sees things that are only in his mind, and he is so creative to be able to invent these things, Huck is apparently too realistic to figure it.

12. Huck knows that Pap is going to try to get money from Huck, since he's become famous thanks to the money he's made.

SECOND PART:
1. Pap is being an anti-dad. He's doing the exact opposite of what he should be doing. This is an example of situational irony.

2. criticism. The society does not want to break familiar bonds, they don't care about what best, but just what they're expected to do.

3. Freedom from the society which seems kind of unfair (see Huck entrusted to the drunk father).  He likes to live without the society rules that he was forced to follow when he was with the widow.

4. Twain is sending a message opposite to Pap's words. What we get from the speech are the thoughts of an extremely racist man... and he wants to point out the fact that the success is gained only from the ones who deserve it.

5. we haven't read this part ye

6. Huck wants Tom to show him how good and clever he seems now. The plan would have more elaborated and maybe not successful because too elaborated.