At the end of the meeting, people had brought up an offering and offered him to stay a night. The king told them no because he had more saving to do. The king got all kinds of money and they went back to the boat where Jim and the duke is. One time huck and Jim found an abandoned steamboat. Huck went on the boat and saw men talking about killing their partner and got off as quick as possible.
This ends up being a bad decision on the King’s part because soon after the real brothers show up and the King and Duke must leave without any money, not even the already stolen six thousand. Twain uses the King’s greed to represent the southerners who did not want to give up slavery because they would lose money from it. In the end, slaves were freed and hundreds of plantations and southern properties were destroyed during the Civil War. One critic even wrote, “ Huck has to keep moving,
Thought out a person's childhood, they experience events that transform them to become who they are later in the life. People have to deal with the decision of what right and what's wrong. At a young age, Huck chooses to run away from his home because he was raised by a father who was an alcoholic and means towards Huck. He really did not care for him. Huck knows this is wrong, but does it anyway, he decides to help a slave name Jim escape and try to help him reunite with his family again, by doing this he knows he is going to get in trouble if he gets caught.
Huck insinuates both that Jim’s superstition is silly and that his actions may have actually brought them good fortune. Jim responds, “Never you mind, honey, neveryou mind. Don’t you get too peart. Mind I tell you, it’s a-comin”(62). Huck then narrates that Jim’s prediction comes true.
When they first discover the fake background of the duke, Huck and Jim “...bow, when [they speak] to him, and say ‘Your Grace’…one of [them] ought to wait on him at dinner… [they] done it.” Similarly, with the king, Jim and Huck “... [get] down on one knee to speak to him, and always [call] him ‘Your Majesty,’ and [wait] on him first at meals… Jim and [him]... doing this and that and t’other for him…” Upon first meeting the duke and king, and hearing their backstories, Huck believes and acts respectfully toward both men.
After leaving the feud, Huck comes back to the safety of the raft and says to Jim, “We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft” (116). For Huck, the raft is a safe and secure spot; with Jim on the raft, Huck feels protected and that he has a dependable friend. As Huck spends more time with Jim, he begins to see Jim as more human and someone he can trust.
Everybody has someone in his or her life who teaches him or her how to be a better person. Throughout the novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain uses Jim, a slave, as a source of symbolism for Huck’s maturity. First, Jim teaches Huck about what it truly means to be civilized. Next, Jim shows Huck about the value of family. Lastly, Jim teaches Huck about racial inequality and how to accept people.
• A steamboat crashes into the raft, which, in turn, separating Huck and Jim. • After the steamboat collision with the raft, Huck finds himself in front of the Gangerford house. • The conflict between the Grangerfords and Shephardsons is introduced as the Grangerfords harshly ask if he is from the Shephardson family. • Once inside the house, Huck further learns about the conflict between the two families and that they have been fighting for so long that they do not even remember why.
In Huck Finn, Mark Twain shows us that Huck is not bright for his age. He struggles with situations a lot of times and his choices could've been great or it could've turned out poorly. One of Huck's biggest mistakes was putting 10,000 dollars in a coffin. The worse part about that was when hid it in the coffin and a bunch of people came down to coffin, he didn’t know if the money was still in the coffin. Huck shows his terrible quick thinking skills in this citation, “ I run into the parlor, and took a swift look around, and the only place I see to hide the bag was in the coffin.
Up until the 19th century, people were segregated into separate groups based upon race, color, or religion. Throughout the novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Jim acquired a unique relationship with Huck. He took it upon himself to get to know Jim better as they sailed along the Mississippi River. At this time if one was caught associating with a black slave it was greatly frowned upon. Before the 19th century, whites were considered superior, and personal experiences changed their views on minorities; seeing the kindness in people over power.
It made him sick, seeing them tarred and feathered didn’t make him feel any better, he said “...human beings can be awful cruel to one another” (233). He knows the King and Duke are criminals but still feels sympathy. Huck develops a sense of conscience and morality, rare for someone his
Though unfortunately for Huck and Jim the con-artists are waiting for them at the raft so Huck and Jim have no choice but to stay with the pair for more scams in more towns. The con-artists commit their worst scam when they sell Jim to a farmer by telling him about the reward out for Jim. Huck quickly discovers where Jim is being held as a slave and sets out to rescue him. At the farm Jim is being enslaved at a woman there mistakenly calls Huck, “Tom”. Huck realizes that the people who bought Jim are Silas and Sally Phelps: Tom Sawyer’s uncle and aunt.
Huck also wants to help Jim reach a free state, so they head towards Cairo. Instead of arriving at Cairo, they pass it by mistake and they reach a town where a family takes in Huck and keeps Jim. The family is involved in a dangerous feud which kills some of the family members. Huck and Jim get back on their raft and on their journey, they find two men claiming to be a duke and a king. The duke and king take advantage of Huck and Jim and make them help out with their plays.
In chapter 15, Huck tries to trick Jim by pretending that Jim dreamed up their entire separation. Jim tells Huck the story of his dream, making the fog and the troubles he faced on the raft into an allegory of their journey to the free states. Soon Jim notices all the dirt, tree branches and debris, that accumulated on the raft while it was unanchored. He gets mad at Huck for believing him after he had worried so much about him. He starts to really care about Huck and is hurt that he would lie to him like that.
Huck knew the two were no good, but he went on with helping them anyway. It seems to me the King and the Duke are only trouble for Huck. I assume in future chapters they will cause havoc and slow down Huck and Jim on their journey. If Huck hadn’t picked the two up they could have gained hundreds of miles, and possibly be free already. For this reason I chose “trust your gut” as the theme, because if Huck had done so he would have been much better
