Huck Finn Chapter 32-33

In these chapters Huck finds his way to Silas' farm and meets Aunt Sally. After talking to Sally for a while, Huck realizes that their nephew Tom is coming to visit them. Huck pretends to be Tom not realizing that the Tom they are referring to is Tom Sawyer. Huck leaves their house and runs to meet Tom before he gets to their house. He goes to the dock but Tom is not there. On his way home Tom passes him in a buggy. Huck jumps in the buggy and explains everything to him. Tom agrees to pretend to be a guest of Huck who is pretending to be Tom. Tom also agrees to help Huck free Jim. During this chapter Huck sees the Duke and King being tarred and feathered and he says the line, "Human beings can be aweful cruel to one another." Him saying this is completely ironic because the Duke and King are the cruelest characters in the book and he shows pitty towards them. I think Mark Twain has Huck say this to emphasize that irony.

Huck Finn Chapter 28-31

When the Duke and King went into a town, they left Jim and Huck on a raft in the river. Later Huck follows them into the town and tries to find them in the crowd. When he finds them they are fighting in a bar. After seeing them get into the fight, Huck decides to slip out and plans to escape with Jim on the raft. When he gets back to the raft, Jim is already gone. In the time it takes Huck to get from the town back to raft Jim gets captured by Duke and sold to Silas. After finding that Jim is gone, Huck decides to get Jim back. He first thinks that he should write to Jim's original owner but decides against it because he promised Jim at the beginning that he wouldn't tell on him. So he decides that he will go to the farm and try to get Jim back himself. Huck actually prays in this chapter, which is a huge surprise for him. After praying he just decides to screw over religion and morals and go for Jim. "I'm going to hell." Huck says this when he makes this decision.

Huck Finn Chapter 16-27

After Huck and Jim have picked up 'The Dean & King,' they go into towns off of the river to con people. They put on plays in order to get money for a mediocre performance. This is just one of the ways they con the people of the towns. The con they pull at a funeral is possibly the worst one. The Dean & King tell the nieces of the man that they are the niece's uncles from England. They take the note saying where the money from his will is and go and find it. They count the money end up adding some of their own money to it in order for it to reach the sum of $600 like the will said it would. Huck knows they were going to plan something to get the money so he goes to steal the money back. When he is in their room looking for the money they come in and he hears their plan. Huck finally finds the money and takes it. He ends up putting the money inside the coffin of the dead man thinking he'll be able to get it later. The coffin ends up being nailed shut and burried before he gets a chance. The true con that Dean & King pull off is that they sell the land and slaves from the man and break up a slave family. The family of the dead man put so much faith into Dean & King and they used that faith to get to the money. The Dean, King, and Huck are all pretty similar. They all steal, lie, and cheat as much as each other. The difference is that the the Dean & King lie more extensively and don't ever see that they have gone too far. Huck goes and steals the money from the Dean & King, which shows that he has a sense of going too far. There is no question that the Dean & King are the bad guys because Huck shows that he feels sorry for the family, whereas the Dean & King only look out for themselves.

Huck Finn Chapter 12-15

When Jim and Huck are running from everyone, they jump around a lot. When they are on one of the islands, they see a bunch of people in a boat wreck down the river. Huck imediately wants to go down and see the wreck. Jim hesitates because he didn't want it to be the widow or Huck's father on the boat. I think Huck wants to go down and help them for two specific reasons. The first reason is a purely selfish reason. He wanted to go down and steal whatever wasn't broken in the crash. I read something that made me remember the games Tom Sawyer wanted to play. How they would pretend to be robbers and murderers. This could play into Huck wanting to go and steal stuff out of the boat. The other reason he wanted to go down and help was because he knew if he was in that situation he would get pissed off if someone saw him stranded and simply passed him. Huck is always playing tricks and stuff but situations like this always prove to us that he is still good at heart. I guess the Widow helped him out afterall.

Huck Finn Chapter 1-11

In the beginning of the book Tom wants to play a trick on Jim but Huck tells him no. Although, Tom goes and plays a trick on him anyway, Huck still asked him not to. Much later in the book after Huck has escaped from his father he meets up with Jim again. While Jim and Huck are together they help eachother out and one major thing they do together is steal stuff from a house that comes floating down the river. When they are together Huck plays a trick on Jim. He takes a rattle snake and throws it on him as a joke to scare him. Huck thinks that it is simply a rattle snake skin but there is another rattle snake near it, which bites Jim and almost kills him. Personally, I think the trick that Huck pulls on Jim can be seen as an initiation deal. Before he knew that Jim belonged to The Widow so he didn't mess want to mess with him. But now he has run away and Huck connected with him. Tom and Huck played tricks on eachother all the time so I think it shows sort of a connection. When Huck played this trick on Jim it could be seen as the beginning of their friendship. He wasn't friends with Jim before so he didn't want to mess with him.