Cecelia's Thoughts...

What is like to have a regret? I mean, how could you deal with the remorse of something that is gone, done, not possible anymore?
So here is the big deal: how could Huck turn Jim in and still the good kid, the smart and brave main character that we all like? In fact, even if Jim is just a slave, or worse, he is a fugitive who's (unjustly) blamed of murder, he is also a friend of Huck, and shares his secrets and his fears. Jim becomes more than a friend but the paternal figure which is missing in Huck's youth. A slave, rejected by the society and dehumanized as a beast becomes the kindest to a white kid which refuses to submit its life to his father's will (and to the society's typesetting, so he gets rid of his money, abandon the town and its people and hides on an uninhabited island). How could Huck sell this kind of relationship just because of a moural boundary (which belongs to the society that he regrets) when he has just showed what his heart is able to feel, trying to save the band of mourders on the boat?
I guess this is the reason why the author got stucked for a while in writing this book.

Huck

I am enjoying this book very much. It is much different just because of the audience i feel like is for younger boys. it always amazes me on how clever Huck can be. from the very beginning you can just tell he is smarter than others and his old man. when he is escaping from his dad he just continues to out think him. i love the humor that the author uses because it keeps me interested in the novel. i really dont think this book is too racist. there are parts that are questionable but i think that was just the time period. back then it was a common thing to call a black persona that. In this particular novel i do agree it is overly used, i think it is completely uneccesary to use the n-word on almost ever page but if thats how it was back then, than ok. Some will say that is still racism even though they didnt know it, and ya i guess thats true but because they didnt know it didnt exsist to them. By just reading how Huck's dad and Jim act you can obviously tell who is more intelligent. maybe not by language but by wit, how well they survive, and handle different obstacles. i personally do think this book should be taught in all schools because i dont think it is racist.

My thoughts on Huck Finn

I think that Huck Finn is a good book. Even though its an easier read and it is written for younger boys, i still really like it. I can always make connections to it through some of the things i would do when i was little like pull pranks, mine might not of been as "good" as there's though. Just the humor he throws in there is what i think pulls the whole story together and makes you want to keep reading. The one thing that it was hard to get use to was the N-word, there are times where its either unnecessary or just over used. I know that they used it a lot back then and it was just how things went but its just hard to get used to cause most people are taught today that we shouldn't refer to colored people as the N-word. Other than that the story isn't predictable at all but its an adventure story that shows different conflicts that they go through. It actually made me sad when Huck was going to go turn Jim in. I thought for sure he was more loyal than that, I'm glad he lied to the men and got money. The relationship between Huck and Jim are pretty equal. I don't think Huck looks down on Jim, I think he sees him pretty much as a friend. I thought this really stood out that night Jim came back from the town and he heard that the Older Man was coming out to look for Jim to kill him, And Huck made distractions, the fire in another place. Then when Huck told Jim the news he said come on WE have to get out of here. I thought this showed that they were together through all of this. Finally when they got to the fog and got separated and Huck played a prank on Jim, i thought that that he thought it was just going to be a funny laugh but when he realized that it actually hurt Jim he was sad. He just wanted to play a prank, but Jim didn't take it the way he thought he would, I think this kind of showed Huck and put him in his place that he needs to be nice to keep the only things he has around. From what i have read so far i really like this book and I'm sure there are going to be a lot more adventures and crazy things that happen!

huck Finn .. davis b

I really like this book because it is fun to read and easy to relate to my own childhood memories because I always remembered playing cops and robbers, running around similar to the main characters of Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. I loved to play pranks on my older brother along with my twin brother. This book is written in a boys' perspective, therefore I have found it very easy to read as well as understand.

This book is, as you said in class, a product of its time. During the 1830s black people made up a huge percentage of the South, however were insulted, enslaved and treated horribly. It may come off as being prejudice, however it is truly how they spoke during this era. The use of the N word is a constant reminder of how derogatory this book is. But it is also simply how the kids and all white people were taught to speak. I do believe it should be taught because it is how our history truly played out. It was disgusting and awful, but today we need to learn from what the people of our past. The book, Huck Finn, Samuel Clemmings set back 50 years from when he was writing it, could have also been very important because in the 1880s was when racism was at a climatic point. It shows how little thing shad truly progressed, however by this time the civil war was already over and racism was already being solved. Who knows why he put these books in this time period, but it was evident it was to show some facts of our history as a well as reach out to many readers and remind them of their childhood.

I am confused of why he would stop on page 72. I understand what went on but I think it was probably just because he needed time to think of something super dramatic that he could through in there.

A key factor in this novel if how huck and jim are companions it shows how innocence has brough them together. This is fun, and the tricks are also funny as wellas meant in a harmless manner. The fact that Huck aplogizes really shows how they will not betray eachother and how honesty is a pounding theme. I really like this book.

Huck and Jim have become close. More like best friends trapped on an island together. But when Jim finds out that Huck pranked him, he went bolistic and compared Huck to trash. I feel like this reaction was appropriate because if you were to put yourself in Jim's shoes, you would feel betrayed and disrespected. His whole life, Jim was a slave and was dehumanized because of his race. His friendship with Huck finally made him feel like he was a human not a product. Huck made Jim like a total fool, and only dehumanize Jim a tad bit more.


This kind of shows that yes, this book can be written down as racist, but I also believe that it should be taught in a high school classroom. Racism is in our history, in our older generations and our responsibility to accept that as human being, we are never truly equal to each other.

I for one enjoy this book and like how it's easy and fun to read. it can get hard to understand at certain pints, but the adventurous plot and story line make it hard to really stop reading and put it down. There's suspense around every corner!

Huckleberry Finn and Nigger Jim

For the third time in the novel, Huck Finn tricks nigger Jim. (pp. 63-65) After the huge incident on the river, separating Huck and Jim, Huck pretends it never happened. “You couldn’t a got drunk in that time, so of course you’ve been dreaming” (64). Clearly, the trauma was reality, yet Huck thinks it’s humorous to trick the runaway slave. In his eyes, it’s normal to poke fun at niggers because he has been raised with these ideas as norms. Huck was so convincing, Jim even believed him even though he knew it was not a dream. However, Huck is different than most white people. After tricking Jim, he felt guilty and wished he hadn’t done it. “It made me feel so mean I could almost kissed his foot to get him to take it back” (65). Huck’s mindset has been changed and he realizes that Jim, although black, is a human being and has the same feelings he does. Inches away from helping the slave find freedom, Huck begins to question why he should continue to aid Jim. He knows that what he is doing is illegal, yet he continues to put his life in danger for the better of someone else. Just as all the confusion was cycling through Huck’s mind, the slave hunters approach Huck, asking if he has seen any escaped slaves. Shocked and mentally torn, Huck hesitates before finally telling the men he was only with a white man. When they ask to see the man, Huck agrees because he knows better than to cause any suspicion. Being extremely clever and able to easily derive a lie, Huck begins talking about his father who is extremely sick with small pox. By playing innocent and concerned, the hunters feel more than sorry for him. Not only do they turn around, but two of the men give Huck twenty dollars, which he even splits with Jim. This shows how Huck is anything but racist. He risked his life for Jim and even gave Jim the money that was given to him. The chapter continues with Jim saying, “Huck, you’s de bes’ fren’ Jim’s ever had” (67). Although this is a cute moment in the novel, I believe it frightens Huck and he feels he is stuck with Jim, unable to get away or abandon him without feeling terribly bad. The chapter ends with Jim and Huck being separated because their boat was destroyed by another. I think Mark Twain stopped here because he struggled to decide whether they should find each other or Huck should run far away before Jim could find him. This is a turning point in the novel where the entire plot could shift to the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” versus the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Jim.” It’s understandable for Twain to be confused where to take his story next, so am I excited to find out what he decided.

Hucky

Overall, I like this book a lot. Its a quick good memorable read with so many small ideas placed in the middle to keep me thinking. I like it more than the Scarlet Letter for sure. Now onto the scenes. After Huck catches up with Jim on the raft, and plays this prank of lies, I start to get the feeling that Jim has become a very non racist character. What I mean by that is when he stands up to Huckleberry, he shows that the black slaves are more sypathetic and smart than the old south would have us believe. Its almost like the racism is reversed, since now the smart black Jim has seen through the white man's lies, showing the inferiority of the whites. Huck realizes his stupid prank realllly hurt Jim's idea of them being friends working towards the same cause. The other scene when the hunters show up; shows how Huck has evolved from this "smarter Tom Sawyer" to a sympathetic adult symbol. He does originally want to turn Jim in, with the lowering of himself we he says he was going to steal his children. Huck tells the slave hunters he is white in a split second decision which he didn't fully understand. Only after he gets back to the raft and has a revalation, he finally understands why he is helping Jim."Whats the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong" He finally realizes why he has helped JIm get this far, being his murderer after all. After this point, a whole new realm of thoughts must have swarmed Clemmens and that must be the reason he stopped writing. There was just to many angles to go at from this point, do they get caught?, do they get away to the north?, do they die?, must of taken that time off to think about the best way to go and still keep the same kind of story.

Hummmmmmmmmm

Huck and Jim tie their raft to a small sapling tree and when the current gets strong it pulls the raft which pulls on the tree and the tree becomes loose. As the current continues to pull in eventually pulls the sapling completely out of the ground and the raft begins to float down the river... with Jim on it. The raft and Jim float through the fog down the river. Eventually Huck finds them. When he comes up to it he sees that Jim is asleep and he decides to climb aboard and play a prank on Jim. He tells Jim that the raft coming lose and floating through the fog was all a dream. soon Jim becomes convinced and believes Huck. Jim notices shrub and leaves all over the raft and realizes that Huck had played a trick on him. When he notices he had once again been tricked by a young man he feels sad. He thinks Huck is his best friend and is upset that Huck would do such a thing. This shows a new side of Jim from the first trick played on him at the beginning of the book. The first trick makes Jim look like a stupid person, uneducated, and believes in anything. This trick changes Jim a little bit. Jim is hurt by it and he reacts with sadness.
I think Twain stopped writing for a year and a half because we are at a point in the book where they have passed Cairo. Their plan was to stop there and move onto the Ohio River. Now they can't do that and if they continue down the river it will lead them further and further into Slave country. Twain is trying to write about Jim gaining freedom, but how will he do that if they keep going further and further into the South?

Huckleberry Finn

Huck Finn and Jim have become good friends over their time on the river. The third joke that Huck plays on Jim happens in the fog when they get separated. Both start whooping to each other to try and find their location, but they keep moving around. Eventually Finn finds the raft, and Jim is asleep. The fog is gone by now, and Huck decides to play a joke on Jim. He wakes Jim up and tells him that he fell asleep and Huck decided to let him sleep for ten minutes. But Jim is sure that they got separated and that there was fog and they couldn't find each other. Huck assures him it was just a very vivid dream, but Jim stands up and says "En all you wuz thinkin' 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie. Dat truck dah is trash; en trash is what people is dat puts dirst on de head er dey fren's en makes 'em ashamed." This is a big step for Jim, because it is the first time that he stood up for himself. The first joke he thought that he was rode by the witches, the second he almost died, but blames it on superstition and tells Huck not to blame himself. This was the one time Jim actually stood up for himself to Huck. And Huck humbled himself to Jim, even if he is black. Huck, even though born to racists and raised by racists, is getting over that and is starting to see Jim more as a friend then a runaway slave. This is shown more when the slave catchers come. Jim is truly considering turning in Jim because he knows it is wrong to be helping a slave. But when the time comes to tell the slave catchers that Jim is a runaway, he can't do it. Huck did try to tell them that Jim was black, but he choked on his words and eventually gave up and said Jim was white. When the men asked to see him, Huck said sure, but then made up a disease so the men wouldn't want to go near him. Huck was smart about it though, he never said a name of any illness because he wanted the men's help. Huck sees that Jim is now a friend and he keeps by his word to not tell anyone he ran away. When Mark Twain put this aside, I really don't know why he did because I can't get into his mind. But I think it happened because after Jim and Huck become friends and are heading to Cairo it was hard to continue because Jim and Huck are getting closer to freedom, but what do you do next? You either let Jim and Huck get to the free states, or Jim gets captured. I think this took a long time to think about because Jim is a real character now, so do you really want to catch him? Or catch him and make a better story? It would have been a tough decision depending on how attached to the characters Mark Twain was.

HUCK FINN!!

The prank Huck played on Jim was really mean and stupid. It was kind of confusing to read, but then I realized that Huck wanted Jim to look dumb. He told Jim that he was dreaming and none of that stuff happened. Huck thought it was okay to pull pranks on Jim... maybe because he is black or maybe because Huck wanted to be like Tom. At first, Jim did not really know what was going on and he was extremely confused. Then, he started to believe Huck. I think Mark Twain wanted Jim to be perceived as gullible and ignorant. Twain possibly wanted to get the idea out that if Jim was a white educated man, he would have known that Huck was lying to him. Later, Huck tells Jim what he had done, even though he felt like he couldn't confess to a black person. Huck was confronted by white men with guns hunting for runaway slaves. They questioned Huck about his raft and who was on it. Huck had to stop a second and think about if he should turn Jim in, because ultimatley, Huck was doing some very wrong too. He decided not to reveal the man's race who was accompanying him on the raft. I'm not sure if he did it for Jim or for himself. He hated being lonely and he was enjoying Jim's company. He tells the men that his father is on the raft, who would obviously be white. The men with guns wanted to make sure Huck was not lying, but Huck told the men his father had small pox. Jim told Huck that he was his best friend. At the end of page 72, Twain stopped writing the story for almost year. The chapter ends with Huck and Jim getting separated and Huck spotting a log cabin. He moved closer to the cabin only to hear frightening dogs barking. I could see how he got stuck because he probably wanted the book to continue on with excitement, but he he was unsure of how to do it. I also think he wanted it to be realistic, but he did not know what he wanted to do. I honestly do not know what to expect, but I am sure that it is going to be thrilling.

Huck and Jim

Huck and Jim have now been spending a lot of time together floating down the river and are becoming friends. Huck is Jim's only friend, and the only one he can trust.
After jim and Huck were separated in the fog Huck probably thought that he could make a fool out of Jim and it would still be funny. Huck told Jim that it was all a dream, but really Huck was there all along. yet he had no idea the trick really hurt Jim deeply. Huck says "it was fifteen minutes before i could work myself up to go and be humble to a nigger- but i done it , and i warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither." Huck was feeling sorry for Jim that he pulled that prank and was glad he apologized. Huck never had the intention to hurt Jim. After all Huck is just a little boy who admires Tom . Tom gave Huck the inspiration to pull pranks on less intelligent folks, especially blacks.
when Huck and tom began to come closer to freedom Huck had second thoughts about helping an escape slave to freedom. Huck was so close to turning Jim in, but lucky for Jim they ran into a couple of slave searchers. Huck came up with a story and ended up getting 40 bucks out of the deal. it ended up to be a good thing the he didn't turn in Jim. also had he turned in jim he would no longer have a buddy to go along with him in his adventure.
at the end of the scene was when Mark Twain had writers block. this may have been from having great ideas that led him up to this point. he also flew by the big scenes that were so great. if he hadn't this book wouldn't be half the book it is today. Mark needed time to come up with more great scenes. i think he wanted to continue to make the story kid friendly.

HUCK FINNNNNN

So, basically the book has had a complete transformation from the beginning. Racism seems to be less of a key role because Jim and Huck have a good relationship, mostly because they are by themselves. Tom hasn't been present lately, so racism has been downplayed. In the past couple sections Jim and Huck have become very good friends. When Huck plays a prank of Jim, Jim actually cares and his feelings get hurt. This displays how much Jim really depends on Huck to be his friend, because he is all that he currently has and because they have gone through a lot together lately. Then a little after that bit, Huck realizes how much he really cares about Jim. Huck, being the wierd, supersticious, need to do the right thing kid decided that society would expect him to turn in Jim for being a runaway. And he gets so close to really doing it when he runs into a few slave hunters, but right at the last second he makes up the huge excuse that the man in his raft is white. And he is actually his dad and he is very sick. The men assume he has small pox and make the decision to not go to the raft. This could also apply to the fact that racism isn't that important to kids. Huck is young, somewhere under twelve, and he never thought that it was ok to make fun of Jim, or avoid him, but he only came to be his friend. If anyone else knew of their friendship, like the widow or any adults, they would have Jim turned back in and would scold Huck for being associated with a black, and also the little secret about him faking his death would get out. So far, I don't think this novel is overly racist and I do think that there's not a problem for it to be taught in schools. Slavery and racism was a big part of the United State's history and kids need to be educated about it so they know it's wrong and something to that extent cannot happen again. Some parts might be rough, but it's the only way for kids to learn.

Huck Finn. Sonja

"So Jim went to work and told me the whole thing right through, just as it happened" (64). Huck's trick on Jim is that after they got separated in a huge fog and had a time finding each other, he told Jim everything he was saying was a dream and that it didn't happen. Jim was confused because Huck went on saying that they never got separated and there never was a fog, they never had to call for each other and that Huck was there all the time. Huck did this mean trick because he thought he was supposed to. All through his life he was showed and taught to play tricks on African Americans, especially from the infamous Tom Sawyer. After He saw how confused Jim was Huck started to feel bad about his mean trick, Jim had no idea what was going on and probably thought he must be crazy, he felt stupid and demeaned.
After Huck saw Jim walk away to his wigwam without saying anything he felt completely awful about what he did. "It was fifteen minutes before I could work myself to go and humble myself to a nigger, but I done it, and I warn't ever sorry for it afterwards, neither. I didn't do him no more mean tricks, and I wouldn't done that one if I'd knowed it would make him feel that way" (65).

Later on, Jim starts to talk about how excited he is to be free and all the plans he had once he was. This makes Huck very uncomfortable because he feels as if he's doing something awful by letting Jim run away. Society has pounded into his head since birth that people should own Jim just because of the color of his skin. Huck decides to turn Jim in and conveniently slave hunters show up. But at the last second he tells the men that the other person on his raft is white and gets them away with a cool lie about it being his father with smallpox. Huck obviously really does care about Jim and this is another way we can see their relationship growing.

I think Twain suddenly suffered from writers block after page 72 because of how the chapter ended. Huck and Jim had gotten separated again and I think Twain was letting the book write itself and didn't know what other adventure to bring them on. He purposed this book to make money and probably couldn't think of another problem to get Huck and Jim into.

Huck Finn thoughts

The majority of Huck Finn is written as a boy's book. Really it's called The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and that's what it is. The book is full of adventures that Huck goes on, like the scene on the boat. While the fog part is much more intense than anything that has occurred before, it is still something that a kid could be very interested in because it is exciting. Not everything in Huck Finn is geared towards boys, however. Some of the ideas about racism could not be understood by small children. That's probably a good thing because if they did understand it that could have a bad effect on them. But even if the children don't understand the themes, Huck still says "nigger" quite often, and even if a child wouldn't understand it they might use the word. So it's mostly a kids book but not entirely. Huck and Jim's relationship fluctuates at various times in the novel. They have a very good relationship while on Jackson island as shown by Huck immediately running to tell Jim "They're after us." It shows that they have a good relationship. After the fog incident they are not doing as well because of what happened and the stupid trick that Huck played on Jim. Huck always thought that not turning Jim in was bad and with their relationship in turmoil he gives it even more thought. Huck almost turns Jim in because their relationship is not doing so well. He decides not too because he knows Jim is all he has, and is his best friend. I think that after this Twain suffers from writers block because he doesn't know what should happen next. I think that he had to make a big decision about the direction to take the novel in. There are so many things that could have happened that he didn't know what would have made the most money.

huck fin

Although Huck Finn isn't the kind of book that i would normally pick up to read, I am having fun reading it. I think that this book definitely has a racist point of view but i think that it is relevant to the time period that the book was written and it wasn't supposed to be a book against blacks. Mark Twain is product to his time period and reading this gives a good sense of how things were when slavery was real and what the people and especially the kids of this time were like. I think Huck Finn was written for little boys but it is also a fun book for adults to read. There are some events in the book that seem a little more extreme and not for kids but i think that when kids read this book they probably wouldn't pick up on those events. This book does a good job of showing character and hooking the reader in to the story. Reading this book reminds me of most little kid adventures and it is a fun book to read.

I enjoyed this last reading. The part with the incident in the fog really shows a new side to Jim and the foolishness of Huck. Huck decides to play another prank on Jim after they get separated . Jim falls for the prank at first but then he comes around and realizes that it was just a prank that Huck was playing on him. When he finds this out his feelings are really hurt. I think that this part humanizes Jim a little more. I was able to sympathize with Jim and experience his character in a more compassionate way. Earlier in the book i feel like the like Jim was always portrayed at sub human (result of the time period) but now i care more about his character. After this happens I am surprised that Huck still feels compelled to turn Huck in. I realize that during this time period a runaway slave is a bad thing but I kinda felt like Huck's opinion had changed. It was most shocking because it was after Jim tells Huck that Huck is his best friend. I got worried when the slave hunters conveniently show up but soon i was relived because Huck still decides to save Jim. I think these events are making the book less racist. Jim is getting to be an actual character in the book instead of a random bystander. And the "white" character and the "black" character are becoming friends. :)))))))

Huck Finn

Pages 57-72, to me, are the most interesting of the book so far. I really love the changes in Jim and how the relationship between Huck and Jim sort of alters into something different. The pages of 63-65 are very interesting. During these pages, Huck tries to fool Jim into thinking that the fog never really happened. Here, you see a lot of Jim's humanity shine forth. As Huck continues to go along with his plot to fool Jim, Jim begins to "'terpret" his "dream" and later tells Huck that the leaves, rubbish, and smashed oar mean that, "What do dey stan' for? I's gwyne to tell you. When I got all wore out wid work, en wid de callin' for you, en went to sleep, my heart wuz mos' broke bekase you wuz los', en I didn' k'yer no mo' what become er me en de raf. En when I wake up en fine you back agin', all safe and soun', de tears come en I could a got down on my knees en kiss' yo' foot I's so thankful. En all you wuz thinkin' 'bout wuz how you could make a fool uv ole Jim wid a lie." This quote shows that Jim is not the dumb black man that he was made out to be before. He is now transforming into a human with real emotions and real ideas. He knows what is going on and feels mad that Huck tried to make a fool out of him. Huck later apologizes to Jim and says that it took him fifteen minutes, "before I could work myself up to go and humble myself to a nigger-but I done it, and I warn't every sorry for it afterwards, neither." This quote really struck me because Huck is realizing that Jim isn't just a dumb slave and that no matter how much slavery makes black out to be in-human, they really are just like white people. Another part of this reading was very suspenseful when Huck thinks about how what he is doing is so wrong. Jim keeps saying how thankful he is to Huck and how it is all because of Huck that he will gain his freedom. This makes Huck feel AWFUL because all the while that Jim is saying this, Huck is debating whether or not to turn him in. Even when the slave capturers come up to Huck, he must make a decision of whether or not he wants to turn Jim in. In the end, Huck ends up lying and saying he is with his sick white father. Huck later ends up deciding that he'll do whatever is most convenient for him from now on, because it seems that either way Huck goes (turning Jim in or not) is terrible. In addition to these two parts of the book, there was the part where Jim and Huck argue over whether King Solomon was correct or not in threatening to chop a baby in half. Huck says that King Solomon is wise, but Jim believes that Solomon is stupid and wonders why the hell he would waste a child by chopping it in half. This is establishing (further) the idea that Jim is smart and has opinions and knows what is going on. Jim ends up winning the argument because Huck has nothing else to rebuttal with, even though he says it's because Jim is stubborn, but truly this shows Jim becoming worth so much and meaning a lot.

Huck Finn

While I was reading and Huck started talking about how Jim had been dreaming about the whole incident that had just happened minutes before, even confused me. Twain made the writing of the fog and how Jim and Huck got lost seem so vivid and the details were very good. Then once Huck tried to convince Jim it hadn't happened it made me really angry and even confused me to what Huck was saying. Poor Jim must of felt so stupid and I felt so bad for him. He thought that Huck was his friend. It was like when Tom Sawyer tricked Jim before with the hat and he started talking about the witches. That happened because Tom thought it would be funny and felt it was okay. Jim didn't know but when a boy he thought was his best friend tried to humiliate Jim and make him feel stupid so Jim was sad. Afterwards, Huck did feel bad for what he had done so he ended up telling Jim what he had done. It was good to see that Huck realized how bad it was to trick Jim and he actually realized that he shouldn't ever do it again. I think that Huck plays these tricks on Jim even though they are good friends because it's what he has known and seen done before. Also I couldn't believe that Huck considered turning Jim in. Huck thinks about this when Jim is talking about how he is so close to freedom and it's all because of Huck his best friend. It was at that moment that Huck's conscience started telling him that he had the chance to do what society believed was right which is to turn in the escaping slave. Huck had never heard Jim talk of such freedom before and it angered him. He thought, "He wouldn't dare to talk such talk in his life before." Jim was talking about saving up money and stealing his children away from slavery. I think this really scared Huck because he was the cause of this escape and he had helped Jim and by helping Jim that meant he was also helping other slaves escape and Huck wasn't used to that thought. He had grown up thinking that slaves were not allowed to escape and that they must have a master and must follow their master's rule. That's why it was so hard for him to accept at first, it was so against society. After Huck had thought about giving Jim away, he thought some m0ore and decided not give Jim away after all Huck would end up being lonely and he had become such a good friend with Jim, why give it all away just because society believed it to be that way. Also I think that Twain had writers block on page 72 because when he was writing he just went off and by the time he realized that Jim and Huck had seperated he wasn't quite sure where he could go next based off of what he knows. So it's interesting to see where he will take it considering he could do whatever he would like.

I find, Adventures of Huckelberry Finn a much more laid back and easy to read book. It was meant to be for young readers and for the dual of the Tom Sawyer book which was also set in the early 1830s. It is for men or young boys and how they are intrigued to explore, play practical tricks on other people and develop their own sense of adventure as well. Huck is a boy between the age of a child and a teenager and is finding himself. He already has many set opinions but beats to his own drum and does not want to create a problem or interfere with other people's lives. He simply wants to runaway from his drunken father, and on the same not help his father by not giving his dad the money to drink. his dad controls him and unlike most parents does not want the better being of his descendent but merely wants to drink himself "the forty yards away." Huck runs away to define himself and a better life for himself as well. On the way his companion, adult companion becomes Jim, an older black man who has been accused of killing Huck who previously facked his death. A theme already is the conflict between nature. And how everyone can once again be themselves. Also it is how honor is portrayed and how Huck makes this decision to go and live on with Jim at his side. They become a team an avid adventureres that will probably constantly be running away from society and the thoughts. When reading to page 72, it comes across as if he has stopped writing because this is a pivitol moment where Jim is taken from the boys. I don't know if he wanted to keep going. But he was publically known in the late 1870s that he needed to get this book out . Him stopping probably caused some financial problems. however the book is both a kids book and shows the time period in the 1830s..... It is a big thing that he wrote it so much early in date then when he was writing. I still do not grasp this? Thanks.