What happens in chapter 24 of Huckleberry Finn?
What happens in chapter 24 of Huckleberry Finn?
Summary and Analysis Chapter 24 The king questions the talkative boy thoroughly about the town and discovers a local man, Peter Wilks, has just died and left all his fortune to his English brothers.
What happens in chapter 25 of Huck Finn?
Mary Jane fetches the letter her uncle left behind, and the king reads it and cries. In the letter, Peter Wilks bequeaths to his nieces his house and three thousand dollars in gold, and, to his brothers, three thousand dollars in gold. The letter also says where the gold is hidden.
What happens in chapter 26 of Huckleberry Finn?
Summary: Chapter 26 The dauphin arranges to stay in the Wilks house. Huck has supper with Joanna, the youngest Wilks sister, whom he calls “the hare-lip” because of her cleft lip, a birth defect.
What happens in chapter 30 of Huckleberry Finn?
Summary: Chapter 30 The dauphin nearly strangles Huck out of anger at his desertion, but the duke stops him. The con men explain that they escaped after the gold was found. The duke and the dauphin each believe that the other hid the gold in the coffin to retrieve it later, without the other knowing.
What decision does Huck make in Chapter 26?
Huck feels bad, because Mary Jane is so good in defending him and yet he is letting the duke and king steal her and her sisters’ money. Huck decides to return the money to the girls.
Who shows up at the end of Chapter 28 in Huckleberry Finn?
And then two men show up: the real brothers of the dead Peter Wilks.
What is Twain satirizing in Chapter 25?
Twain is criticizing the stupidity of the townspeople. The king and duke are obviously frauds but nobody catches on except the doctor. And when the doctor uses logic to expose their fraud, everybody rushes to defend “Harvey”.
Which quote from Chapter 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Which quote from chapter 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn contains sarcasm? “But we don’t want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live.”
Why does Huck feel badly in Chapter 26?
Huck feels bad, because Mary Jane is so good in defending him and yet he is letting the duke and king steal her and her sisters’ money. Huck decides to return the money to the girls. Mary Jane conforms too much to societal convention for her own good.
What is the King and duke’s plan chapter 26?
The auction of the estate is planned with the idea that the girls will go to England with their “uncles.” The king and the duke discover the gold is missing and accuse Huck. Knowing they have been sold off and will not get in trouble, Huck suggests the slaves might have taken it.
What happens in chapter 31 of Huckleberry Finn?
Huck and Jim are concerned about the clandestine behavior of the con men, and when Huck finally sees a chance to escape, he discovers that the duke and the king have made a fake handbill and turned in Jim for a $40 reward.
What does the duke remind the king of in Chapter 30?
Because he reminded him of his dead son, the man let him go, telling him to run for his life. Jim verifies Huck’s story, and finally the duke comes to Huck’s defense, reminding the king that he had not been concerned about Huck’s whereabouts when they had run from the scene.