Thursday, November 29, 2007

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.

1 comment:

Grant Husselman said...

Hey guy, I'm commenting back on your post. So yeah, I read it and I definitely agree with what youre saying. I also think that more could have been said here about what else influenced Huck's decision to free Jim. I also think that he didn't just up and decide to screw over religion, but he gave the whole matter a lot of thought and decided that religion wasn't going to help him much in the future and he didn't really care too much for it, so it didn't make sense to make a decision based on religion. Good post though SAS.
Peace