Huckleberry Finn: A Short Story

The chapter continues with the two boys, Tom and Huck, carefully walking through the path. They walk past the kitchen, where they try to avoid Jim, Miss. Watson’s slave. Jim hears them and comes to investigate. The two boys are hiding, while Jim comes close to them, but doesn’t see them. Jim decides to stay in that position until he hears the noise again. While Huck is debating whether he should scratch his nose, Jim falls asleep. Tom tells Huck about Jim, that he is respected by the other slaves, for going against the devil. But Jim had begun to become cocky for seeing the devil and fighting the witches.

While the dogs were barking at Huck, someone looked out the window of the house. He questioned Huck and asked who he was. He told Huck that it would be alright and he was coming down. The man came down and told Huck to come slowly inside or else he would be shot. Huck then went in the house, and he saw old men and women sitting there. They searched Huck, but ultimately decided to trust him. Huck meets a boy his age, named Buck. Buck takes Huck to his room and gives him new dry clothes. He keeps asking Huck questions and not waiting for the answers. Buck also tells Huck that he should stay there forever.

Huck has only ever known his father as the uneducated drunk that he was in the book. Therefore, when he is out with Jim for such a long period of time, he begins to look up to Jim and his outlook on life. In Document E, in the letter Huck wants to write to Miss. Watson, we see him explain somewhat the adventure him and Jim went on. Specifically, when they were traveling down the river, “...and would always call me honey, and pet me, and do everything he could think of for me, and how good he always was;” (Document E). To me, this not only shows how Huck saw Jim as a father figure, but how Jim treated Huck as his own flesh and blood. Also in Document E, we see Huck decide to help Jim rather than telling Miss. Watson where he is. This exhibits how Huck is okay with the fact that this will always be on his conscience, “‘All right then, I’ll go to hell’--and tore it up,” (Document E). Huck deciding this on his own shows us how he didn’t want anyone to know where Jim was because he wanted him to stay in his life. He also wanted to save Jim so he would still have that father figure in his life. In spite of the fact that Jim has no rights, Huck is able to learn valuable things from this man on their adventure down the

Aunt Sally and Huck seem to bond emotionally over the safe return of Tom. Tom wakes up and starts to spill and confess everything that they had done. Aunt Sally was astonished and could not believe it. He confessed to all the work and everything that they had collectively stolen.

The very stuffy Miss Watson walked over to Huck Finn. He was sitting on the front porch wasting the day away with a pipe in hand. “Get off that filthy pipe.”

decides to pose as his own half-brother, Sid. Huck tells Tom about the situation with Jim. Tom

Huck becomes more aware of his surroundings and now sees beyond the lies covering them and to the truth underneath. Due to Huck’s kind nature, he attempts to save Jim with ‘help’ from Tom. As he was walking to the Phelps farm to get Jim back, he notes that the wind “makes you feel mournful, because you feel like it’s spirits whispering… and you always think they’re talking about you… it makes a body wish he was dead, too, and done with it all” (Twain 220). Huck feels sad because he left Jim behind and now Jim is lost and most likely headed back to slavery. He blames himself for Jim’s capture and is depressed that he cannot do anything about it.

Huck tries to paddle back to Jim and the raft, but the fog is too thick and the river to rough, forcing him to wait for things to clear up. After a lonely time adrift, Huck reunites with Jim, who is asleep on the raft. He wakes Jim up and proceeds to trick him into thinking that Jim dreamed up their separation, and he had been worried about Huck being dead for nothing. Jim is quick to realize he had been tricked, and gets mad at Huck for making him seem foolish after he had been so worried and scared for Huck’s safety. “It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger,” (148) Huck says, showing moral courage in willing to apologize to Jim after realizing what he did was wrong, even though society would say

When Tom comes to visit, huck sneaks out and the widow tells him to pray more. Huch really cannot wrap his head around why people want him to pray so much. Pap, his father returns and is mad how Huck is going to school and getting educated. However, there is a court date and Huck's dad gets to keep him as long as he stops drinking. THis unltimately does not work and Huck fears for his life eben sleeing with a gun for protection. Huck decides to leave after he gets the idea after seeing araft. He sails away and land on an island where Slave Jim is located. He and Jim decide to help each other, but does get bitten by a smake in the process. AS they are on the island Huck decides to dress as a girl to see what the townspeople are saying and getting something for the snake bite. Jim tells Huck the raft is broken and how they re so close to a free state. HUck starts thinking about the big crime he is committed with helping a slave escape. He however lies because Jim is his friend. Huck soon finds himself surrounded by dogs.The dogs are called off and Huck goes to the house while Jim fixes the raft. They sail off and with the two con men con people out of money. Huck feels very guilty about fooling these townspeople. Furthermore, the toenspeople truly believe the con men are believed and the real people are thought to be fakes. They sail away but

The woman gets suspicious and asks again what his name was. Huck replies saying his name is Mary Williams, when before he said Sarah Williams. The woman

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After a long raft-ride, Huck and Jim are finally about to reach Cairo, which on their arrival would make Jim free. With the smell of freedom, Jim rambles on about how he would buy his wife and then steal his children. This sets off a spark in Huck, igniting his conscience and making him very uneasy. Huck couldn't believe that Jim would steal property from a man that hadn't done him any harm. Huck then begins feeling guilty about helping Jim escape from Miss Watson, since she had never done anything to him and didn't deserve for Jim to be stolen from her. At his departure for the town, on a mission to turn Jim in, Jim leaves Huck with these words. " Pooty soon I'll be a shout'n' for joy, en I'll say say, it's all on accounts o' Huck; I's a free man, en I couldn't ever ben free ef it hadn't it ben for Huck; Huck done it. Jim won't ever forgit you, Huck; you's de bes' fren' Jim's ever had; en you's de only fren' ole Jim's got now". (pg.86-87) Hearing these words, Huck realizes how much Jim's friendship means to him and decides not to turn in Jim. Finally, the last test of Huck's conscience comes when he finds out that the "king" and the "duke" have sold Jim. Huck gets to thinking about how wrong he was to help Jim escape, and decides he should write a letter to Miss Watson. He then changes his mind, seeing that Jim would be worse off as a runaway slave because he would be treated horribly, and Huck

Huck and Tom start to look around the cabin Jim was in and they get into another discussion about the plan. Huck finds a simple and easy way to get Jim out but Tom cannot settle for the easy way out. He says to Huck, “It’s as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row, and as easy as playing hooky. I should hope we can find a way

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