Huck, don't sweat it!

4. The bounty hunters want to give Huck $40 because of the story he made up: that "his father was sick". The ironic situation is due to the fact that their illegal job does not respect ethic or moral values at all, while their action for Huck's father seems to be extremely kind. This shows that these people good people, but misguided.

5. The two means of transportation are a symbol for the individual vs the society. The "naturally" created raft stands for the individual, who is lead by his feelings and acts good because of his pure soul. On the other hand the "industrially" created steamboat is a symbol of society which destroys the natural morals of humans.

6. Mark Twain wanted his book to be a sequel of Tom Sawyer. While writing his memoir he went on a cruise down the Mississippi and met interesting people that gave him the inspiration to keep on writing the book that he could use as a satire to help slavery and racism, since in the south racism was using an extreme form of violence to keep black people away from power.

7. The description makes fun of the romantic idea of death, which is distorted from the realistic view that Twain had. The family is hypocritical: their behavior does not correspond to the words they speak. The fact that they go in the church with the guns is an evident example of this hypocrisy.

9. Huck's reaction indicate his naivety, and his realism and attachment to the present and the concrete. The motif of Moses is probably used because of the action that they do: they both free slaves. And a slight irony might be caught: from Twain's not-religious point of view, this shows how good can a people act without being religious.

10. Another criticism is made to religious people: the hogs seem to go to the church everyday, while christians just go there when they have to. He might be highlighting also the contradiction in the family. The most "religious" people go to the church and appreciate the sermon and the brotherly love, but their feud continues as soon as they leave the holy place.

11. The feud is typical in the romantic literature, and of course it recalls one of Shakespeare's masterpieces- Romeo and Juliet. The satire is made over the fact that the family does not even know what is the origin of the rivalry, but they keep on fighting. Sometimes people follow someone's footprints although there is not a right or fair reason.

12. The raft is of course compared to the freedom that the two have when they're on the river, which is the moment in which Huck and Jim can be themselves and free from the corrupted society (grangerford house) in fact on the shore the situation in much different. Although the accommodation might be more comfortable by an objective point of view, Huck's pure soul can not bear the corrupted society.

13. The clothes do represent the habits of the community: on the river they are more comfortable without them, because they get rid of all the hypocrisy that they have to bear on the shore.

14. Huck does not want to have troubles, he knows that kind of people and he has learnt how to deal with them. This reaction shows a maturation of his character.

16. The amazing love story is re interpreted by two man, Juliet is a bald, liar, old man while in Shakespeare she is the most pure and beautiful girl. The motif is used to make fun both of the feud in the previous chapters and the literary idealistic thought that is so far from Twain's reality.

17.  The pirate, the worst kind of criminal, is played by the "king", person that should be the noblest. The pirate wants to redeem himself, as we've seen before with Pap. The two characters have not changed as they say, but they speculate on people's religious feelings (charity, brotherly love..) to obtain what the want. The satire is used on these feelings. People do them because they want to respect their believes' criteria, although they are actually helping criminal actions.

18. Everything that they do, and the way they behave, do not correspond to the names they call themselves: King and Duke. But maybe Twain is just emphasizing his idea of the corrupted royalties.