I’m happy you are now a fan of this book but I can’t relate, I started to like it in chapters eight through eleven but after this section i'm back to my original views that the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is just not for me. However, I like Jim, he has a wise and father like point of view causing him to be very likable. I’m still trying to decide how I feel about Huck, at one point i’m cheering him on but then within a page I start yelling and cursing him, as if he could hear me. The whole chapter twelve was confusing, I had to read it twice because I kept getting lost. I knew something bad was going to happen the minute Jim was trying to talk Huck out of going inside the wrecked steamboat, it was as predictable as every scary movie when someone says “don’t go in there” but they do it anyways leading to only bad things. I agree with you that it was basically a drawn out description of irony. I love when Huck is constantly fighting with himself trying to figure out what the moral thing to do is but then goes back to the way he was taught. …show more content…
What kind of person does that? I then began to think about who Huck’s father was leading me to not feel angry at Huck anymore but to feel empathetic. Why would he react like a regular person who grew up in a stale household when he didn’t. When he begins to debate whether or not to turn Jim in, I decided rather than judge him immediately. I put myself in his shoes and thought based on where he lives, people would agree that turning him in would be the moral thing to do but based on the reasons he ran away, a person thinking not only morally but also rationally would agree that turning him in would be