My Summer Memories Involve Me At Camp

(275). Tom is pretending that they are all on some grand adventure, and keeps up the act no matter how dangerous it becomes. He pretends that their little raft is a Huck went along with it at first and didn’t question Tom, no matter how ridiculous his requests were, but when his friend was hurt, he and Jim decided to help Tom and get a doctor despite his protests. Jim says that he won’t budge off the raft without a doctor, not if it takes forty years (276). Jim decided that his freedom was not worth the price of Tom’s life.

First of all, Tom Sawyer does not care if someone else’s life is in his hands, for he would rather copy the books and take the most dangerous route possible. This trait is displayed in many moments in the novel, including when Jim has been captured and is being kept prisoner by the Phelps’, and Tom and Huckleberry are conspiring to plan his escape. “ ‘That’s more like,’ he says. ‘It’s real mysterious, and troublesome, and good,’ he says; ‘but I bet we can find a way that’s twice as long. There ain’t no hurry; le’s keep on looking around’ ”(p.234). As Huckleberry narrates Tom’s statement, it is seen that Tom is being quixotic to the point where it’s ridiculous. Jim is in trouble and Tom treats it like a game. Tom ultimately gets so caught up in his “adventure” that he forgets Jim is a person who still needs to be

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.

Because blacks are uneducated, he sees them as stupid and stubborn. He frequently tells stories to Jim, mainly about foreign kings and history. When Jim disagrees with Huck, Jim becomes very stubborn and refuses to listen to explanations. Huck eventually concludes, "You can't learn a nigger to argue". Jim also seems to accept that whites are naturally superior to blacks. He knows that Huck is far smarter than he is. When Tom Sawyer and Huck are planning an elaborate breakout for Jim, he allows their outrageous plan to continue because they "was white folks and knowed better than him". This mutual acceptance of whites as superior to blacks shows how deeply rooted slavery was in Southern culture. This made it very difficult for Huck to help Jim. When Tom Sawyer says he will help free Jim, Huck is very disappointed. He had never thought that Tom Sawyer, of all people, would be a "nigger stealer". Huck had always considered Tom respectable and educated, and yet Tom was prepared to condemn himself to damnation by freeing a runaway slave. This confuses Huck greatly, who no longer knows what to think about his situation with Jim. When Huck is forced to make a decision regarding slavery, he invariably sides with his emotions. Huck does not turn Jim in, despite having several chances. His best chance to do what he believes is right comes as they are rafting towards Cairo, Illinois. Huck finally

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

Huck and Tom decided that they needed to plan out, on how to save Jim. Tom talks about how rescuing Jim is too easy, since his uncle trusts everyone on his farm. He tells Huck that there is more honor in having more difficulties, so he wants to add them himself. Huck is surprised to hear this and questions Tom. Tom then talks about what else they will need on their escape. He wants to do everything the harder way. After talking, Tom decides that Jim should cut off his leg to escape, because that how people in the book did it. Huck refuses to listen to his ideas. Tom also wants to give Jim a shirt, and tell him to make a pencil, and write on a journal on the fabric. He advises that jim used his own blood as ink. Huck still refuses to let Jim do any of what he is saying. The two

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

When talking about Tom being shot, he states, “He had a dream,” I says, “and it shot him” (Twain 277). The climax of the novel is when Huck says he will go to hell in order to save Jim. They show the true meaning of friendship as Tom sacrifices his body as well as what Huck says. It is ironic how Tom and Huck were doing what is right, but, are shot because of how stupid racism was. It is also cool how Huck seems so calm under pressure. He tells a funny lie and still somehow gets away with it. He is willing to do anything to save his friends just like they would for him. The falling action is the best part of the story as the story comes together as a whole, and we learn new things. Jim has far more humanity than Tom Sawyer. Earlier in the book it states, “I do believe he cared just as much for his people as white folks does for their'n. It don't seem natural, but I reckon it's so"(Twain 157). Jim is superstitious and occasionally sentimental, but he is also intelligent, practical, and ultimately more of an adult than anyone else in the novel. Bercovitch states, “Jim, the example of man-reduced-to-beast-of-burden, is articulating the self-evident truths of human equality”(Bercovitch). Throughout the story, Jim never wants to hurt Huck, but, Tom is a liar. Kevin Scott states in his writing, “Tom has none of Huck's concerns” (Scott). Tom doesn’t know what it is like to be in

Jim is a runaway slave. He lived on Jackson’s island across the river from where the community he was originally at. By being a runaway slave, Jim is breaking the law. He is owned by another human, Miss Watson. Jim is considered the legal material property of another person. Huck rejects this legal law, and agrees to help Jim break the law by escaping. Huck is shocked at himself for doing this and even believes he will go to hell for his actions. But Huck decides to choose friendship over what society tells him to do. When Huck and Jim are on the adventure down the Mississippi, their friendship grows stronger and stronger. They depend on each other to survive. Huck attempts to turn in Jim. When Huck and Jim came to the shore by a town. Huck gets off and looks for someone to report Jim. However, Huck runs into some white people wanting to capture runaway slaves. They Huck if he had any others in the boat with him. Huck get scared for Jim and told them that there was his mom, dad and sister in the boat and they all had small pox. By doing this, Huck puts his heart ahead of his head. Huck and Jim returns to St. Petersburg. Jim gets to be free, although Huck doesn’t realize that. Huck saw Jim in a building thinking that Jim was now a slave that couldn’t leave the plantation. So he got Tom Sawyer and then Tom wanted to plan out a way to get Jim out. The plan that Tom had was ridiculous because they could just walk in and take Jim away. Huck tried to point that out to Tom but, as stubborn as Tom is, they did Tom’s plan. A while later, they finally got Jim

While the ship is sinking, a nearby sailor tells Huck “great goodness, there ain’t no chance for ‘em if they don’t git off mighty quick!” (Twain 76). Twain’s satire towards the sinking Walter Scott exemplifies his ongoing opposition towards romantics and their unrealistic ideals. In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain’s sensible topics discussing how morals clash with societal views oppose the imaginary focal point in romanticism. Because of their lack to recreate the real world, Twain uses irony of the sinking Walter Scott to emphasize the declining romanticism ideals. Last, Twain satirizes the irrationality seen in society through the antics of Tom Sawyer. When Huck and Tom try to break Jim out of enslavement after the King and Duke sold him to Tom’s Aunt Sally for forty dollars, Huck explains a simple plan of getting the raft, stealing the key to the padlock, then unlocking the door so Jim can then float down the river some more unnoticed. Unimpressed, Tom replies “I should hope we can find a way that’s a little more complicated than that, Huck Finn” (Twain 236). After carrying out one of Tom’s

Despite Huck’s initial intention to write to Tom Sawyer convey him of Jim’s location; therefore allowing Miss Watson to retrieve her “property”, Huck decides to follow his increasing sense of his conscience. Huck does expresses some worries that are selfish, such as the shame and isolation he would experience if anyone found out that he followed his moral compass and helped Jim reach freedom. Although Huck questions his conscience with these selfish thoughts, Huck worries equally as much for Jim in the fact that he may be condemned a slave forever. Huck decides to follow his moral compass and plans to free Jim from his confinement. This experience proves that Huck doesn’t follow the rules of society, but rather follows what he knows is the right thing to

But it’s too blame’ simple; there ain’t nothing to it. What’s the good of a plan that ain’t no nothing to it” (Twain 232)? This shows how Tom’s Romantic thinking will get Huck and him into trouble. Tom knows that Huck’s plan would work but he is more concerned with the troubles that come along with the plan. This is influenced by literature’s Romantic ideas. Huck realizes that Tom’s plan is going to be trouble and more complex than his when he says, “…[A]nd I see in a minute it was worth fifteen of mine for style, and would make Jim just as free a man as mine would, and maybe get us all killed besides” (Twain 233). There is no reason for Huck and Tom to make a more elaborate plan because Huck’s plan would work fine. Huck even realizes this, but Huck just has his thinking to back up his idea. While Tom has read all these books that would back up his thinking that the escape must be as complex as possible. Huck does not even question Tom’s plan because he feels Tom’s plan is just as good as his. This shows how Huck is dwarfed by society’s Romantic ideals and does not even want to try to attack these ideas.

Mark Twain also demonstrates how undesirable civilized society really is. Both Huck and Jim desire freedom, which greatly contrasts the existing civilization along the river. They both turn to nature to escape from the unprincipled ways of civilization. Huck wants to escape from both the proper, cultured behavior of Miss Watson and Widow Douglas and the tyranny of his father. Jim, on the other hand, hopes to escape from slavery and start a new life as a free man, hopefully with his own family eventually. Throughout the novel, the raft enables Huck and Jim to escape from the barbarism of their society to a place of serenity and peace, which is always on their raft, away from any other people. Through the duration of the story, Huck learns and does many things that would be contrary to the beliefs of society such as helping Jim

This Summer, I had the best time of my life. I learned some valuable lessons, I made some friends, and I had so much fun. Even if I didn’t know it. This is the story of my summer camp experience.

Back in the day, when I remember of me being a child and it was one of the best moment I could think of my childhood that happened in the summer, where good time start it and not too far off that it sound it like that we played in the water and we figured since it is a bit hot outside i was going to six flags and having some fun with our family and friend having an enjoyable time. Few things I would say about my childhood was also the summer time, when the sun was hitting my body my mom used to worry about me a lot so I would not get dark so she would tell me to put sunscreen on all the time even on my face and in front of my friends but back when I was little I did not get what or why she was saying that but now I get it on why. Sometime when I didn’t wear the slippers my feet would burn like I was walking in a fried pan but I were to just walk in grass with my wet feet and then a few seconds later same thing happens again so it was not point of walking in the grass but I still walked. I closed my eyes one time because my mom used to surprise me with friends coming over, going to swimming and having a picnic and playing with the park dogs, it would be so much fun but we had this curfew time to get back home and the only annoying thing was the bugs and bees around us that were biting out skins off and making us scratch and the dirt we use in or the mud that we use to make sand castles out of at the beach. I tried to look up and see if I would be getting some shade anytime