Chapter thirteen begins as Tom starts to cry as he decides he is going to leave his life behind and become a criminal. He meets up with friend Joe Harper, and he seems to be in a similar state. Joe was whipped by his mother for drinking some cream. The boys meet Huckleberry Finn and convince him to come along on their journey. Around midnight the boys meet at the riverbank and steal a raft to head out to Jackson’s island.
Huck dislikes being with his father so he fakes his own death and runs off to meet Jim, who has also run away. The two go on adventures together down the Mississippi River. Huck and Jim encounter a steamship swarmed with murdering thieves and being taken in by a family which is eventually murdered. Jim then is taken away to a plantation. Huck is loyal enough to try and rescue Jim and they ride off into the sunset when Jim is freed of slavery.
1. A scene I can personally relate to from The Adventures of Huckleberry is the part where Huckleberry Finn asks Jim about the dead man they saw. The night before this scene, Huck and Jim saw a two story house floating down the river due to the storm that had occurred earlier. Huck and Jim go to the house investigate it, and when they do, they discover a man's dead body in one of the rooms. Jim goes down to investigate it, and tells Huck the man was shot.
The chapters begin with Huck Finn on the porch of the Grangerford’s, where he introduces himself as George Jaxon, and they question him and invite him in cautiously with guns ready to fire in case he is a Sheperdson. Huck meets Buck who tells him a riddle, though Huck does not understand the concept of riddles, and that he must stay with Buck and they will have great fun. Meanwhile, Huck conceives a detailed story to tell how he was orphaned. The Grangerford's offer Huck to stay there as long as he likes at the comfortable and kind home. Buck admires the warmhearted Colonel Grangerford and his beautiful children; Bob, Tom, Charlotte, Sophia, and Buck.
A couple days later, Huck finds Jim, but Jim has a hard time believing it because he’s supposed to be dead. Jim tells him that he ran away from Widow Douglas’s, which makes Huck feel guilty keeping him. They venture to a cave on the island and stay there until the storm stops. During the storm, a dead man washes up, but Jim doesn’t let Huck look at the face because he says it’s bad luck. Huck starts to get bored on the island so he decided to go into Illinois to get news of things going on.
Huck arrives at the Phelps house he becomes to feel lonesome, because the droning of bugs and quivering of leaves make it feel “like everybody’s dead and gone.” He says that, generally, such a feeling makes a person wish he were dead too., as he approaches the house, dogs swarm around Huck, but soon a slave comes out and yells at the dogs to scram. The slave is followed by two black children, a white woman, Aunt Sally, and two white children. The white woman welcomes Huck, thinking that he is her nephew Huck. Aunt Sally then calls Huck into the house and asks questions about his journey, and because of this Huck is forced to lie, but when Aunt Sally starts to ask about his family Huck finds himself stuck.
Following Huck’s disappearance, Jim runs away and is a wanted slave. The two meet up on an island but are driven off by men looking for the runaway slave. They begin their journey down the Mississippi river to gain their longed emancipation. Along
Later on in this section, Tom, Huck, and Jim are running from workers in the night due to a spooky letter the workers received. They didn’t know they were chasing Huck, Tom and Jim so they shot at them. Tom was hit in the leg and Huck hid him and Jim in the woods and went back into town for a
Jim wants Huck to keep running, but Huck’s having a good time with his new friends and refuses to go, until he sees Jim getting whipped by the overseer. Huck tells him he’s sorry and that he wants to help him, just before the family is attacked by the Shepardson’s. Huck’s newfound friends are killed in battle over their daughter running off with a Shepardson boy. So Huck escapes with Jim during the confusion. They meet some swindlers who want to turn Jim in for ransome.
Jim, Miss Watson's slave, ran away in an attempt to escape and become a free man. On his journey to achieving that title, Huckleberry Finn and Jim cross paths. Huck had grown up surrounded by people who lived by racism so that was all he knew. He truly believed that Jim was somehow different because of the color of his skin, but that is what he was raised learning. Once they had crossed paths and decided to continue their journey together, he eventually learns that Jim is not who he thought he was.
At first we do not know this. Tom lies only for the thrill of it. Tom is easily excited by adventure and loves to follow the rules of the books. Throughout the story, Huckleberry Finn paints Tom Sawyer as his hero and is very pleased to stumble across him at Aunt Sally’s house. Jim was brought to Aunt Sally’s place and ‘imprisoned’.
Mark Twain’s essay “Fenimor Cooper’s Literary Offences” is one of the primary reasons Cooper’s work is not read much today. Cooper is well known for his Leatherstocking Saga, comprised of 5 novels. However, these novels are under fire by Mark Twain for breaking so many rules of literary art. In particular, “Chapter 1” of Deerslayer breaks three of these rules right off the bat. The rules that are broken in the first chapter alone are 3, 4, and 6.
Huck seen people looking for him and felt bad the widow and others that was looking for him were upset. Then a few day Huck seen Jim come to Jackson Island and Jim thought Huck was a ghost, but Huck learned that Jim escaped. The reason Jim escaped was because Miss Watson was thinking of selling Jim to a slave trader for eight hundred dollars. So Jim left before Miss Watson made up her mind, whether to sell him or not. While Huck and Jim are the island, they both try to help each other out.
Huck thinks about Miss Watson and how he is betraying her by helping Jim escape. Huck encounters slave catchers and he is internally whether to tell about Jim but decides not to and says, “They went and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn’t no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don’t get started right when he’s little ain’t got no show -- when the pinch comes there ain’t nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat” (Twain 102). Then later in the novel Jim is sold by some con men for $40 which upsets Huck and causes him to realize he cares about Jim and says, “All right, then I’ll GO to hell” (Twain 225). Huck is defying society’s laws by deciding to help captured Jim. Huck is maturing significantly because his perception of Jim has changed.
Huck, knowing he may go to hell, saves Jim away. He believes Christianity to take up to much stock in the dead and not the living; Huck thinks Heaven will be filled with boring, like Miss Watson and Widow Douglas, he thinks hell would be more
