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.