[The following paragraph describes Huckleberry Finn's father.]

He was most fifty, and he looked it. His hair was long and tangled and greasy, and hung down, and you could see his eyes shining through like he was behind vines. It was all black, no gray; so was his long, mixed-up whiskers. There warn't no color in his face, where his face showed; it was white; not like another man's white, but a white to make a body sick, a white to make a body's flesh crawl--a tree-toad white, a fish-belly white. As for his clothes--just rags, that was all. He had one ankle resting on Ôtother knee; the boot on that foot was busted, and two of his toes stuck through, and he worked them now and then. His hat was laying on the floor, an old black slouch with the top caved in, like a lid.

--Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn

1			Find two of the four similes in this paragraph and tell what is compared to what.
2			What can you infer about the financial condition of this man?
3			List two facts that substantiate your inference.
4			What color is stressed in the paragraph?
5			Does the man's attire complement his physical attributes? Why or why not?