Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Chapter 31
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Chapter questions
- Question 1 · Recall
Where does the king go ashore, leaving Huck and the duke with the raft?
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Pikesville.Reference: Chapter 31, the landing
- Question 2 · Recall
What does Huck learn has happened to Jim?
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Jim has been caught as a runaway and is being held at Silas Phelps's place. A stranger sold him for forty dollars.Reference: Chapter 31, Huck's talk with the boy
- Question 3 · Recall
What does Huck do with the letter he writes to Miss Watson?
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He tears it up.Reference: Chapter 31, the letter
- Question 4 · Why
Why does Huck decide to try to free Jim after writing the letter?
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As he thinks it over, he remembers Jim keeping watch for him and calling him a friend on the river. The text shows these memories turning him against sending the letter.Reference: Chapter 31, Huck's decision
- Question 5 · Why
Why does the duke send Huck to a place forty miles away?
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The duke gives Huck a false location for Jim's buyer, which the text shows sending him in the wrong direction. Huck sets out, then circles back toward Phelps's.Reference: Chapter 31, Huck and the duke
Chapter summary
The raft goes south into warmer country, and the king and the duke fail at one scheme after another. Huck and Jim suspect the pair are up to something worse and agree to get away from them when they can. At Pikesville the king goes ashore. Huck and the duke find him drunk at a tavern, and when Huck gets back to the raft, Jim is gone.
A boy tells Huck that Jim has been caught as a runaway and is at Silas Phelps's place, sold by a stranger for forty dollars. Huck writes a letter to Miss Watson saying where Jim is, then thinks about Jim on the river. He tears the letter up and chooses to steal Jim out of slavery himself, in his own words. The text shows his sense that this goes against what he was taught. The duke admits the king sold Jim, and sends Huck off in the wrong direction. Huck sets out, then doubles back toward the Phelps farm.
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