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When he finds Jim again, he lies and tricks Jim saying that Jim was drinking and fell asleep and it was all a dream. However, when Jim sees the trash in the river, he knows Huck was lying to him.
By the end of the book, he had started to realize that he really did care about Jim. Huck is writing Miss Watson a letter towards the end of the book talking about where Jim is and how she can get him back. After writing the letter, Huck starts to think about the good times he had with Jim and says that “...somehow I couldn’t seem to strike no places for me to harden against him, but only the other kind.”(213). This was the most powerful part in the book for me because after thinking of all the good that Jim has brought him, he tears up the paper and says “All right, then, I’ll go to hell”(214). In Huck’s mind, he had the choice to send the letter and go to heaven or to try to save Jim and go to Hell for doing the wrong thing as far as the widow taught him.
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.
I Agree… “The Federalist No. 84” and “The Anti-Federalist No.84”, both have their views on what should happen to our government. Whether it is to add a bill of rights or not, but I agree with the writer of “The Federalist No.84” because if the Constitution is adopted, then it will be our Bill of Rights, also based on other countries’ bill of rights then it may argue with a semblance of reason. Because I have read both sides of the discussion, I can see who is wrong and why.
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.
When Huck hears this from Jim, it tares at Huck. He decides not to turn in Jim (which he could have done easily.) Huck’s conscience basically ate him alive. Huck was on the verge of turning in Jim, and seemed that was what he should do. However after thinking about it, Huck decided he would feel worse if he turned Jim in as opposed to keeping him free.
After realizing his mistake, Huck feels like a fool and is remorseful. These feelings show that Huck is starting to mature and realize that he cannot act like a child all the time. It also shows that Huck is starting to care for a Jim and it forms an odd sort of bond between them. These feelings are reinforced more in chapter 11 when Huck chooses not to turn in Jim.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn I’m very excited to see what happens next chapter in the adventure of Huckleberry Finn novel. Huck was bored in society of Huck’s father and Widow Douglas ( Huck’s guardian ). So, Huck was a runaway to freedom life, and meet slave Jim on the way, their meet various story in the novel. I think that some chapter of novel can be find of the social today.
My quote for my journal entry is “ That book was made by Mark Twain… he told the truth mainly… there was things he stretched but he mainly told the truth.” Page 11. Huckleberry Finn is the narrator of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Huckleberry is the one speaking during this quote, Huck is telling the story to the reader and his thoughts on Mark Twain. The importance of this quote is to show the reader before the start of the book how Mark Twain writes, to give a preview or an opinion of Mark Twain.
1. The novel talks about Huck Finn who is abused cruelly by his drunken father, he joins up with a runaway slave by the name Jim and escapes down Mississippi river on a tranche. On their mode, they come across a fatal hostility, con artists, and charms from the pre-civil war south. All this time, Huck's basic decency and conscience fight with the society spawned ideas about right and wrong, slavery and race.
This transition is the result of the extended period of time that the two spend together, which allows Huck to look past the differences that he has been taught to observe for his entire life and view Jim for what he is; a fellow man. By the end of this passage, Huck’s resolve to do right by Jim is so strong that he is willing to suffer eternal damnation rather than betray Jim. Perhaps Huck’s most important statement in this passage is “Alright then, I’ll go to hell”; here he decides he’s willing to go to hell for eternity rather than causing Jim to return to his life as a slave. At first Huck just thought of Jim the property of another person, a good to be bought and sold regardless of any evidence that he was a human being. As they travel together, this viewpoint is gradually weakened by examples of Jim’s humanity, culminating in a model shift that goes against everything Huck has been taught about the societal status of a
An occasion where Huck’s individuality is observed
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.
trying to run away from all of his problems and in the process runs into an escaped slave, Jim. Instead of turning Jim in, Huck helps him on his journey to the north. During the book Huck grows from a immature boy to a more respectable young man. Huck begins to see how different people can be. Throughout the story Huck grows as a character and that is because of the people he meets along the way.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was wrote by Mark Twain in February, 1885, 20 years after the Civil War. However, the setting of the book takes place before the civil war in various locations as Huckleberry Finn, a boy about 10 years old, tries to race up the Mississippi river to escort Jim, a runaway slave, to freedom. Over the course of Huck and Jim’s adventures, they both become reliant on each other, as Huck develops what he feels is a moral obligation to see Jim to freedom, and Jim comes to respect and nearly worship Jim because of his efforts to free Jim. Throughout the book, the cultural attitudes and imposition of cultural norms at the time are very evident, and when reading it is plain to see that The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn’s
