Discussion Questions: XII -XIV

1.) Huck believes borrowing is not stealing as long a you intend to pay it back at some point.

2.) It tells us Huck wants to be like Tom.

3.)Walter Scott is a famous romantic writer. Naming the boat The Walter Scott and the boat is sinking, is showing romantic writing sinking and dying. Also, Huck goes on the boat for adventure, and he finds it but relife adventure is much different than romantic adventure.

4.) Huck tried to save the murders because he feels bad for the murders because he wouldn't want to be in a situation like that, and he didn't want to become a murder himself.

5.) He is playing on the boatman's greed and pays attention to when the boatman mentions a rich persons name and with saying the person who is stranded on the boat is related to the rich man, he is able to enlist the boatman's help.

6.)He felt this way because he figured anyway he was goning to get of the Walter Scott he would either drown or be caught and returned as a slave.

7.)He is not very accurate about the dukes and kings because he thinks of them in a romantic way.

8.) Jim doesn't know the actual story or understand the story about Solomon, he just sees a man who lives in the middle of bickering wives, has a lot of kids, and wants to split one in half. Jim doesn't like it and thinks Solomon is not very wise. Slaves can't be taught how to argue is what Huck states even though Jim was arguing and made good points. Jim and Huck both don't fully understand so they can't agree.