Thursday, December 6, 2007

Huck Finn Chapter Final Chapter

I honestly hated the last chapter of the book. I loved the rest of the book but after reading the ending chapter, I got kind of mad. There was so much in the book about the relationship between Jim and Huck that when the book just kind of ended I got mad. In the end it didn't focus on them at all. It simply told us that Huck went out west and Jim got freed. It didn't tell us anything else. Until the last chapter I really liked this book. I still think it is good, it just bothered me. D :< Oh well...I just won't think about the last chapter. As far as a happy ending goes...It wasn't happy but it wasn't a sad ending. On the one hand it's happy because Jim got freed and Huck got his adventure. On the other hand Jim and Huck became such good friends that when they seperate from eachother it is sad.

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Huck Finn Chapter 34-38

While Tom and Huck are at Silas' place, they make their plans to steal Jim back. After a few nights of looking for Jim, they finally see a slave going to a shed with a plate of food. Huck makes the decision that Jim is probably in the shed. The two boys decide they are going to find their way into the shed just to see if it is true or not. Tom finds out that the guard assigned to keeping Jim in the shed is very superstitious. Tom and Huck use this to their advantage. After hearing Jim yell from inside the shed Tom tells the slave that he is screaming because of witches. The slave lets the two of them into the shed where they find Jim. From then on the three of them, Jim, Tom, and Huck, could have escaped by the end of the night with no problems. However, Tom wants to make it much more of a game. The three of them go on for ages about how it is done in the books and how they need to escape with more of a bang then just leaving. The problem is that when the three of them start making their exit more novel-worthy Jim has to do more and more. Huck starts to treat Jim as a slave again rather then a friend. Even though they are trying to free Jim and they are friends with him, Huck and Tom start to make him do these tedious jobs that are completely unnecessary. Huck needs to realize that Jim is still his friend and he can't treat him like that if he is willing to free him.