In the book Adventures Huckleberry Finn, we see our main protagonist Huckleberry Finn, who was a prominent character in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and his the adventures he goes on. Huck, who is the son of a verbally abusive drunk, was adopted by a widow named Mrs.douglas and we see her try to domesticate Huck and teach him to read which he reluctantly does. We see him and his friend Jim go on adventures and they eventually meet a pair of con artists named Duke and The Dauphin. As they go through town scamming, they encountered deaths and violence, but the worst thing they end up doing is selling Jim to a local farm. When Huck goes to rescue him, he realizes his new “ owners” are actually Tom Sawyers aunt and uncle. After plenty of obstacles they eventually rescue him and it is revealed that Jim was a free man all along. Aunt Sally then attempts to adopt Huck but Huck decides that he is done being domesticated and decides to move west.
1) On page 86 Kien talks about seeing one of his old war comrades, do you think that this was a effect of post traumatic stress syndrome? 2) Why do you think Kien was suddenly having flashbacks of the Screaming Jungle? 3) What do you think writing did for Kien, far as helping with the after effects of the war? 4) Why do you think Kien was sadly wandering the streets on page 86? 5) What do you think Kien was talking about when he said writing lead him into a labyrinth? 6) Why do you think Kien said that the dead sometimes had more meaning than the living? 7) What does the quote "dying and surviving were separated by a thin line" mean to you? 8) On pages 95-96 Quang tells Kien to shoot him and put him out of his misery, but Kien decides not to do it. Why do you think Kien choose not to shoot and what would you do if you were placed in the same predicament? 9) On page 93 Kien expresses his remorse for not coming in time to save the injured solider in the crater, ...
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