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juliecoool
juliecoool
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High School - 9th Grade

How did people feel about Injun Joe's funeral?

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Posted by juliecoool on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 5:25 AM and tagged with feel, funeral, injun joie, the adventures of tom sawyer.

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  1. linda-allen Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

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    Twain doesn't tell us how the people felt about Injun Joe's death, but he does tell us that many people came to be a part of the funeral. People treated it almost as if it were a festive event. In chapter 33, Twain tells that

    people flocked there in boats and wagons from the towns and from all the farms and hamlets for seven miles around; they brought their children, and all sorts of provisions, and confessed that they had had almost as satisfactory a time at the funeral as they could have had at the hanging.

    Obviously, people were not sorry to see him go!

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    Posted by linda-allen on Tuesday April 29, 2008 at 7:42 AM