Huckleberry Finn Chapter 33 Analysis

In The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, the characters had many of intense moments in chapter 33. There are a some events that happen that put a couple of characters in bad situations. The story is told during the mid to late 1800’s. The story takes place at the Phelps’s House and also in the town. The characters are worried throughout most of the chapter about trying the help a slave and saving some conmen. The story is told in first person though the eyes of Huckleberry. Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, Aunt Sally, and Uncle Silas are the main characters in chapter 33. Finn is a smart and thoughtful white teenager that ran away to getaway from normal society, and he often goes against society with the choices he makes. Huck’s mood

They are both glad to see each other and Huck tells Tom he plans to help a runaway slave, Jim, escape from Phelps’s farm. Tom agrees to help which shocks Huck because he has always followed society’s rules. Huck then heads back to the Phelps’s Farm. Huck arrives and they think he is Tom because he told them he was in an earlier chapter. Tom arrives a half-hour later introducing himself as William Thompson and the Phelps are excited to have another guest. When they are eating dinner Tom leans over and kisses his Aunt Sally. She immediately gets mad and about hits him, but clams down and is delighted to see him when he introduces himself as Tom’s half brother, Sid Sawyer. Then, one of the Phelps boys asks if they can go to the show. Uncle Silas says no because the runaway slave told him the show is indecent. Huck knows is must be the King and Duke’s show and escape out of the house at night to alert the conmen. They are walking when they see a mob coming toward them. They see the King and Duke are already tarred and feathered, and realize they’re too late. Finally, Huck can’t believe how cruel some people are to one other. He feels guilty about what happens to the conmen even though he didn’t do anything. He then thinks a conscience is pointless because no matter what you do, it makes you feel bad. Huck observes that Tom sees it the same way. That is the final event that happens in the chapter. Additionally, Mark Twain uses literary devices throughout the chapter, which help people comprehend the context better. He uses irony to show the way society was in that time period. This is shown when he says, “Human beings can be awful cruel to one another” (Twain 225). This statement is ironic because Huck thinks people are cruel to one other only when the conmen are tarred and feathered, and not when Jim, a runaway slave, is caught and held captive. Another literary