How Did Huck And Tom Tell The Injun Joe's Trial

In the 1930s Southern Gothic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee uses the child and adult perspectives of the narrator to tell the story from the perspective of an innocent child, then adding on to it using the adult perspective, which allows the readers to have a better understanding of events in the story. It allows the narrator to tell the story as they experienced it as a child, which gives the perspective of how they feel about the events. The child’s point of view also makes the novel fit for an older audience, because they most likely understand mature topics that the child narrator does not. Using the two perspectives of the main character, Lee allows the readers to relate to and comprehend the novel better.

The perspective of a child is very much different to the perspective of an adult. A child with their lack of experience in the world have their naive outlook and irrational fears of life. On the other hand, an adult, who have had more experience with life, have more rational explanations and cynical aspect of life. In the novel To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, the readers go through the story in the eyes of a child Scout Finch, an unreliable narrator, trying to explain the conflicts of the world of adults. The book is about the Finch family against the prejudice and discrimination of the South when the father of the family Atticus, a lawyer, is defending an African American wrongfully accused of a crime. In Part 1 of the book, Harper Lee

During the adventures of Huck and Tom’s treasure hunting, the two came across the antagonist, Injun Joe. Earlier, Huck and Tom witnessed Injun Joe murder a doctor and put the blame on an innocent man. The two juvenile boys had made a vow that neither of them would tell anyone since they were scared that Injun Joe would come after them. This shows fear that most people would experience in this situation. Knowing that an innocent man will be punished for an act he did not commit, Tom’s conscience convinced him to testify against Injun Joe, freeing a guiltless man. “Critics... view incidents such as Tom's encounters with Injun Joe...as confrontations between innocence and evil which initiate Tom into the world of adult responsibilities and consequences.”

As children grow up, they open their eyes to the harsh truths in the world around them that they once did not understand or question. This is experienced by the main characters of Harper Lee’s novel To Kill a Mockingbird. The story is of a girl called Scout and her older brother, Jem, who go through the trials of growing up in the fictional small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama in the 1930s. Racism is rampant in the mindset of the townspeople, shown when the children’s lawyer father, Atticus, takes the case of an obviously innocent African-American man and they convict him in their hearts before the trial even starts. Through this all, we can see the theme of loss of innocence in the children. Lee uses characterization to portray

Atticus teaches the children how to not only recognize this problem of prejudice, but also how to defeat it. When a mob of men try to lynch Tom Robinson at the jailhouse and Atticus protects Tom, Scout innocently involves herself in the situation and as a result forces Mr. Cunningham to put himself in Atticus’s shoes. In his moment of realization, he disbands the mob, which saves Tom’s life. Atticus later explains to his children that “A mob’s always made up of people, no matter what. Mr. Cunningham was part of a mob last night, but he was still a man. Every mob in every little Southern town is always made up of people you know - doesn’t say much for them, does it?” (Lee 179). Atticus says this in order to give his children a better understanding of the events of the previous night. He also wants the children to understand that all chains have a weak link, and finding that weak link in Mr. Cunningham

Huck is disappointed and says, “So then I judged that all that stuff was only just one of Tom Sawyer’s lies” (14). Tom’s major lying, though, doesn’t start until chapter 33 and doesn’t end until the last part of the book. When asked to help Jim escape, instead of saving weeks and weeks of trouble by telling Huck that Jim is already free, Tom has to glorify rescuing Jim. He frightens the whole Phelps family and 15 men with shotguns through his childish games. He gets shot and puts poor Jim through all sorts of obstacles. His lying is definitely not portrayed as positive in any way.

Many risks have happened throughout the novel and Huck grows to make the right decisions. In the beginning, Huck is a child and is always looking for the easy way out by lying or cheating. "…No ma'am, I wasn't doin' nuthin'." P.233. At this situation, Huck is caught being mischievous and instead of telling the truth, he lies inorder to get out of trouble. Eventually, Huck grows up and sees that he should take responsibility for his actions. "...I told Tom I was going for a doctor." P.276. Huck does the responsible thing, and by doing this, he may have saved his best friends life.

While he understands the need to work quickly, he doesn’t care enough to simplify his plan, instead opting for having fun at Jim’s expense in the meantime. More interestingly, however, the way in which Tom frames the entire situation is mimicked by Huck during the aforementioned case-knife scene. Huck uses the same altered version of ‘morality’ as Tom, indicating that while he is still in favour of getting Jim out quickly, he contextualizes the problem in the same way that Tom does, whose views on the subject have already been shown to be ethically dubious. Although his specific perspective differs from Tom’s, the way in which he is interpreting the problem at hand speaks volumes about his change in attitude. A mere few chapters prior when Huck said “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”, Jim’s enslavement was a real threat, and it corresponded to an incredibly difficult ethical dilemma in Huck’s mind (Twain, 214). In contrast, the issue in Trying to Help Jim has been rendered abstract, and consequently neither Huck nor Tom take the problem with the appropriate gravity or

I believe that the reality of the situation has started to break Huck’s shell of child’s play and ignorant bliss when Tom was shot. He realizes that the situation is serious and calls for more responsibility than either two were paying it. Tom’s injury could prove to be life-threatening, if not

In chapter 14 Tom runs away with Huck and Joe, in chapter 15 Tom sneaks back into his house and plan on telling his aunt that he is safe. Once Tom had reached the house he had overheard his Aunt Polly talking to Joe’s mom talking about how on Saturday the would are having a funeral for the boys since they were still missing. This gave Tom the brilliant idea to return the day of the funeral instead of that night. Tom left without being noticed and went back to the boys, he had waited awhile to mention his plan of returning to them and once he did they were all for it. The boys had received even more attention from returning at their own funeral than they had figured, the attention continued to grow with the following days as

I know that if something weighs on your conscience and bothers you then you have to do something about it. Tom and Huck both were witnesses to a murder right in front of their faces. After witnessing this murder Tom and Huck both promise to “keep mum” about what happened and that if they tell “they may drop down dead in their tracks and rot” (71-72). Tom and Huck are both friends and made a promise, but Tom should tell the shariff so that Tom can ease his conscience. The reasons why Tom should tell the sheriff about what he witnessed is because he can save innocent Muff Potter’s life and Tom can get rid of a merciless killer roaming the streets.

Firstly, Tom Robinson was honest, while Mayella Ewell contradicted herself. During the trial, Tom demonstrated his honesty. “Jem said Atticus was showing the jury that Tom had nothing to hide,” page 225 states after Robinson is questioned about his criminal record. This shows that Atticus is trying to get the jury to understand that they can take Robinson’s words as the truth. However, Mayella Ewell, his accuser, is inconsistent during her

In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird a major theme is the loss of innocence. Whether from emotional abuse, racial prejudice or learning, Boo, Tom, and Scout all lose their innocence in one sense or another. The prejudice that each character endures leads to their loss. Through the responses of Boo, Tom, and Scout, Harper Lee shows how each character responded differently to their loss of innocence.

In the book The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn went to a cemetery with a dead cat in hopes to cure their warts. While in the cemetery, they see Joe, Dr. Robinson, and Muff Potter robbing graves. The three guys got into an argument and Dr. Robinson knocked out Muff Potter, to then have Joe stab and kill him. After, Joe put the knife into Potter’s hand and woke him up and told him that he had killed Dr. Robinson. Joe was questioned by the police and said that Potter was the killer and Potter was sent to jail. After Tom and Huck witnessed the murder, they ran to a nearby barn and made a blood oath to never tell a soul and if they do, that they drop dead and rot in their tracks. Tom has been having some nightmares and was wondering if he should tell or not. Tom should tell to police. If he does it would put justice to the whole situation. Also, it would stop Joe from hurting anyone else in the future. And finally, Joe would not hurt them for telling like they think he would.

In the book “Uncle Tom’s Children” by Richard Wright, many topics are covered through it’s different stories, such as racism, prejudice, law and order, etc. The topic of Child Psychology is highly displayed in the two of the stories, which are “The Ethics of Living Jim Crow” and “Big Boy Leaves Home”. Child Psychology is a branch of Psychology that focuses on the study of the mental and social developments of children. As the events of the stories unfold, we are able to see how the main characters’ personalities and mental states change, which involves beliefs, attitude, actions, change of heart, etc. In the stories, the personalities of the main characters change due to the experiences they go through and the situations that they are