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.