The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain
1 You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly--Tom's Aunt Polly, she is--and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before. 2 Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich. We got six thousand dollars apiece--all gold. It was an awful sight of money when it was piled up. Well, Judge Thatcher he took it and put it out at interest, and it fetched us a dollar a day apiece all the year round --more than a body could tell what to do with. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied. But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow and be respectable. So I went back.
The author's choice to have Huckleberry Finn narrate his own story
A lends the work a dark and serious tone.
B lends the work a captivating, tense tone
C lends the work a surprisingly hostile tone.
D lends the work an informal, lighthearted tone. .
Of the five choices below, indicate the two lines from the passage which show that Huck thinks of himself, as well as most of his acquaintances, as "bad."
A I never seen anybody but lied one time or another...
B There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.
C You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter.
D Now the way that the book winds up is this: Tom and me found the money that the robbers hid in the cave, and it made us rich.
E The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
A I never seen anybody but lied one time or another...
E The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.
The author's choice to have Huckleberry Finn narrate his own story lends the work an informal, lighthearted tone. (D)
The two lines from the passage which show that Huck thinks of himself, as well as most of his acquaintances, as "bad" are:
- "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another..." (A)
- "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son...and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out." (E)
To answer the first question, "The author's choice to have Huckleberry Finn narrate his own story" is best described as lending the work an informal, lighthearted tone. This can be determined by examining the language and tone used by Huckleberry Finn throughout the passage. He speaks informally, using slang terms and colloquial language, and his narrative style is light and humorous.
To answer the second question, the two lines from the passage that show that Huck thinks of himself and his acquaintances as "bad" are:
A) "I never seen anybody but lied one time or another..." - This line suggests that Huck believes that everyone, including himself, has told lies at some point.
E) "The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the house all the time..." - This line indicates that Huck feels out of place and uncomfortable in the "civilized" environment of the Widow Douglas' home, highlighting his sense of not fitting in with the expectations of society.