Huck Finn Chapter 13

About the Sir Walter Scott, a steamboat. Mark Twain hated all kinds of Romantic authors, and the mention of Sir Walter Scott evokes the memory of one of the greatest Scottish authors of all time, Sir Walter Scott who wrote the classic Ivanhoe. Because this ship is wrecked on the river, we can surmise that

• Twain wanted Sir Walter Scott to live forever.

• Twain wanted Sir Walter Scott to die a miserable death.

• Twain wanted Sir Walter Scott to be rescued from his romantic pain.

• Twain wanted to meet Sir Walter Scott.

What is ironic about this quote?

But take it all around, I was feeling ruther comfortable on accounts of taking all this trouble for that gang, for not many would a done it. I wished the widow knowed about it. I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.

• Huck doesn't seem to realize he is a rapscallion like the others.

• Widow Douglas really would rather Huck hang around better people than thieves and murderers.

• The widow would propbably want to help those people who really need help, not those who do not want to be converted to a better lifestyle.

• The widow would propbably want to help those people who really need help, not those who do not want to be converted to a better lifestyle, and Huck doesn't realize he's truly to help people who should be in jail.

What is ironic about the following line? "... we turned in and slept like dead people."

• In the sight of the town they came from, they are dead.

• Jim doesn't realize he is dead.

• Huck doesn't realize he is dead

• The widow doesn't know that she is dead.