Huck Gets Away
1. Why did Huck's father make his son get up forcefully?
= He wanted to know what was Huck doing with his gun.
2. How did Huck lie to tell about the gun?
= Huck lied that somebody was trying to enter into their hut so he took the gun to prevent him from entering into their hut.
3. What did Huck find after coming to the river line?
= Huck found that the water had risen high and the swift current was carrying large branches along with it.
4. What did Huck catch sight of and what did he do to it?
= Huck caught sight of a fourteen feet long beautiful canoe. He dived in and caught it before it floated past. He hid it into the bushes. When he escaped he would paddle far away in it so that his father could not catch him.
5. Why did Huck's father curse him? What did he tell in reply to this?
= Huck's father cursed him as he was being so slow and Huck told him that he had fallen into the river.
6. What gave Huck an idea about his plan for escape?
= When Huck's father referred to the imaginary man who came to enter their hut, Huck got an idea to plan his escape from the hut.
9. What did they find at the river line at mid day? What did his father do then?
= They found a raft floating by nine logs together. They pulled it to the bank.
His father locked him and went to the town to sell those logs and buy whisky.
10. Which are the things Huck carried to the canoe for his escape?
= Huck carried a sack of flour, some meat, whisky, coffee, sugar, gun-powder and shot, the frying pan, the coffee pot and two blanket.
11. Which thing he could not have though he needed it?
= He needed an axe but there was only one of it and it was part of his plan to leave that behind.
12. Why Huck did not leave any track to the canoe?
= Huck did not left any track as it was grass all the way to the canoe.
13. Why did Huck go into the woods?
= Huck went into the woods and had the good luck to shoot a half-wild pig. He carried it back to the hut.
14. What did he do with the pig?
= Huck broke in the door of the hut with the axe and carried the pig in. He cut the throat of the pig and laid it on the floor to bleed. Then he put a lot of big stones into an old bag which he dragged through the blood on the floor, out of the hut and down to the river where he threw it in.
15. Why did Huck do the plan of the pig and the stones?
= He wanted people to think that something had been dragged bleeding, to the river. He meant them to think that it was his body.
16. What did he do to the axe and to the pig?
= he covered the axe with blood and stuck some of his hair on it before throwing it into a corner of the hut. He then dropped the pig into the river?
17. What was his next idea?
= He fetched the sack of flour from the canoe and put it in the hut where it used to stand. He made a small hole in the bottom of the sack and carried the sack over the grass to shallow lake. A stream flowed out of the farther side of the lake but it did not flow into the river. As he walked, the flour poured out of the sack, making a little track all the way to the lake. he then tied up the sack with a piece of string and carried it back to the canoe.
18. What did Huck want by the stone and flour plan?
= He wanted that people will follow the track of that bag of stones to the river bank and drag the river for his dead body. They will follow the flour track to the lake and go searching down the stream to find the robbers who killed Huck and stole the supplies. They would not search the river for anything but his body. They would soon get tired of that and forget all about him.
19. Where did Huck like to stay?
= Huck liked to stay in the Jackson's Island. He knew it pretty well and nobody never goes there.
20. What did Huck find when he woke up next morning?
= He saw that a boat was approaching. As it came near, he saw that his father was in it. He passed very close to him but could not see him as he was hidden among the bushes.
21. How did Huck reach the Jackson's Island?
= He silently glided the canoe downstream and it did not take him long to reach Jackson's Island. He landed where some thick bushes were growing and hid his canoe among them.