Huck Finn Chapters15-21

Chapter 16

I notice that when Huck speaks he always refers ends his statement with “for a nigger”. In my last blog i brought up how I felt like Huck was going to have the effects of his old surroundings follow him. He doesn't know it but he’s starting to act like everyone else like Jim is below his standards because of the pigment in his skin. Can i ask what in the world in a whoop? Its been brought up many times and this guy on the boat who claims to be so hard repeatedly jumps up cracks his heel and say it. It is a slang or does it actually mean something. And what's up with so tough guy. He’s characterizing himself to be the baddest out there almost like Injun Joe once was in Tom Sawyer. Ok this whole Bar’l situation is kind of confusing me what is it, and why do many people want to put Dick Allbright ashore? It has to be something deadly to bring all of that lightning and thundering. When do you ever hear of a story where lightning killed people or crippled them? Now i would want to throw Dick Allbright ashore after hearing he killed his own child. How is the baby dead and following him. But still he left his wife not knowing a clue of anything thats horrible. I guess Jims superstitions are really true about all that bad luck stuff. Man ms. Watkins this chapter is loooooong. But rest in peace dear old dick. Did anyone notice how Huck got back to Jim and said “i'm finally home”. He's starting to really get comfortable but my problem now is that Jim is the one a little to comfortable. Now Huck is having doubts about helping Jim get to be free. Because you have to remember whatever you grow up learning is what will live on with you. How rude!!!!! Huck says on page 110 “give a nigger an inch and he’ll take an ell. That's no friendship to me and the fact that Jim actually treated Huck as his own or tried to keep him out of trouble. So Huck does care about Jim for lying for him. But what's there's to do now that the raft has been destroyed. They could've died i guess  niggers do have  good luck.

Chapter 17

Betsy is the second “nigger” were meeting. Why do i have a gut feeling that she's going to find out what hes doing to help Jim and they're going to try and help her to? who are the shepherdsons and why do they keep asking about them? As I can see this family is very photogenic but what happened to their daughter that she's dead now? They never really talk about it other then Buck. The pictures just show what words wont say

Chapter 18

ok I literally almost threw the book out the window. What kind of crap is it that where this family has a nigger for each family member. So wait they lost two sons and a daughter but aren't saying how. Why is Buck the only one talking about it? well now i know why they don't like the shepherdsons.  A feud for over thirty years you have to be kidding me. Im not going to lie I kind of shedded a tear seeing that little Buck is now dead. But i don't think Harney Shepherdson and Miss. Sophie are just safe yet.  If two families have managed to keep a feud  for over thirty years they are not going to let them two run off like that.

Chapter 19

ewwwwwwww why were they naked around each other on page 141. How are they that comfortable and in the middle of open water! but anyways Jim and his spirits are back. Huck really ventures out to being a kind hearted person because he helped those men who were getting chased. But i kind of don't get why they were all that astonished to the fact that one of the men by rights were a duke. Ok we got a bunch of liars on this raft. How is he the rightful king of France at the age of a couple hundred years old. Its obvious he said that out of jealousy. I couldn't have said it better myself they were all a bunch of humbugs and frauds. But like i said before Huck is learning and the things he has learned from being with his dad are all really positive. Pap wasn't/isn't all that bad as everyone puts him out to be.

Chapter 20

This chapter actually feels like a good one because everyone is watching out for Jim and forgetting the whole racial card. But them two weirdo's are really retarded. How do you try and come up with a play and base it off Romeo and Juliet? Like you both are men and you're trying to put up a love story play. Not to mention they don't know not one thing about plays or con. One thing that i love about Jim is that he never ever got to ahead of himself. For example most people if they were poor would become greedy but he stays good with what he has. He tells Huck that two dukes or Kings are enough because he doesn't want anymore.

Chapter 21

Someone get these fools. Not only are they bringing up Juliet but they got Macbeth and Hamlet in on this con/play to?, What type of funky play is this. So this colorful character name Boggs needs to stop. Huck can most definetly relate to Boggs daughter because an alcoholic like that who threatens whoever and feels he can do and say whatever he want will soon get a taste of his own medicine. This other character Sherburn scares me almost and we know i don't get easily scared. If someone left me a threat  “or die” listen I'd already have pissed in my pants by now.  OMGGGGGGG oh well Boggs is dead. But i don't think the town should lynch Sherburn because he wasn't messing with anyone. Boggs ,messed with him. Now I'm not saying its right because who deserves a one warning and then loose their life. But this is definitely some crazy stuff. Huck is always saying Tom loves adventures but this one i think Huck can take the W on the craziest adventure.

Chapter 6

Well i don't know about the rest of you guys but Huck is really starting to get under my skin. In chapter six after the widow threatens Pa, he takes Huck far out into the woods and hides him but the thing about that is Huck actually stays put for a while. He doesn't try to leave or anything. Thats selfish because you went from having nothing to having the best that someone much less a widow take you in as her own. He doesn't realize how much the widow cares for him and for him to be in that situation and not once mention well i wonder how she's feeling is really getting to me. Has he learned to be grateful over the time that he's spent with her, NO! Thats kind of going back to the theme of friendship and betrayal because regardless of the situation there was a sort of friendship between them. For him to betray her like that i don't think he realizes what his actions may mean. In chapter six his dad wakes up and is screaming and howling about the devils after him and the snakes won't stop biting hi. But then calls Huck the angel of death. After that he chased him around the cabin with a knife saying he was going to kill him. But what stuck out to me was how he refers to himself when he’s begging everything to stop biting and scratching him. On page  30 he says “oh let a devil alone” referring to himself. That was weird but going back to the start of the chapter he talks about government and how he raised his “son” to the best of his ability. But now the states want to take him away. Now we all know thats a bunch of bull. He really had the nerve to not vote because a nigger was allowed to !!!

Chapter 7

Huck may not get the alcoholic background from his father but he sure has learned a few things from his father, survival of the fittest. But i wonder is Huck envious of his friend Tom. Because he hasn't thought of noone but him this whole time and the only person he coens to think about is Tom. Now he’s going to jackson island. Where him and Tom once spent a couple days before. What puzzles me as well is why is it so important for him to be out on his own. His old habits came rushing back when his father took him back. I realize  that throughout most his life he only had himself but if you can have it all and a bed to sleep in why is he refusing it this much. The widow is not bad and her home surely isn't. Finally he has escaped but then ends up seeing his dad SOBER! This is a moment in history.

Chapter 8

Well i guess great minds think alike because JIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. After the whole little search party for Huck, Huck notices that he is not the only one living on the island. He goes and search to see who it is and it turns out being Jim. Ms. Watsons nigger. But like the previous chapter i still dont get why Ms. Watson thinks she is oh so a godly women when owning a slave. And listening to how Jim talks of how she treats him she isn't so innocent as she has put out to be. Jim talks about his story of being rich and i noticed that Jim called his own people niggers as well. ???? Thats kind of not in place i feel. I know Jim doesn't like being called that or treated like he has been treated so why follow through like everyone else. Why else would he have run away?. The nice things about this chapter is that a friendship between Jim and Huck has now started.

Chapter 9,10,11

Jim has told a story to Huck about how he believes in ghosts because he has seen a couple in his day. After the storm they find a dead man and i'm not going to lie when they said they found a whiskey bottle i automatically thought it was Hucks dad. But someone has shot him so it was done on purpose.Now Huck plays a joke on Jim and the worst happens, Jim gets bitten by the dead snakes mate. In these chapters theres a whole lot of talk about bad luck, good luck and superstitions. Jim and Huck are now wondering whats going on back in town so, they dress Huck up as a female to go find out. Hucks new name is sarah williams. The townspeople thought Jim had killed himself but then they switched into thinking Jim had done it. Now theres a reward out to find Jim. Now to me it sounds like the wanted someone to blame and because Jim is black they feel like he was the only suspect.  But idk why they would think Paps had something to do with it because his only reason for coming back was the money. Going back to what the lady was telling Huck or “ Sarah “ she said how Pap went and got drunk with a couple of people and never came back. Does anyone not think that he’s the one dead or is it just me?I thought she had figured out who he was but she had no clue. She only knew that she was really a he and that his name wasnt really Sarah. But niw theres trouble, The fact that theres a 300 dollar reward everyone is really trying to find Jim. And her husband and some other man are now going to go to the island and check for him. I think there are going to know people were there because they left some things out being in such a hurry to clean everything up.

chapters 12,13,14,15

In 12 Huck shows one of the things he’s actually adapted to from his father. One being that stealing is actually borrowing.See like i said before huck has learned and  took on a few things from his dad. Then Jim isn't bad at all because he actually goes and tries to teach huck. He makes both himself and Huck call three things they will not steal anymore. Jim i feel is a parent towards Huck but he just doesn't now. Like with the widow and his dad he was tld ok im your parent or guardian and this is what i say do, Jim isn't nowhere like that. They end up seeing robbers who are trying to plan out a death scene. So instead of killing the third man they want to let him drown. Heres when the dumb thoughts come into play. Both Jim and Huck say that they will go and call the sheriff. Did they not forget that they are both runaways. The community thinks one of them is dead (Huck) and they think the other killed him then ran away (Jim).They did not use their brains in that situation but thank their raft had broken. Does anyone else think that they would have really went for the sheriff or not? Hucks really not to please being stuck with the rest of the robbers knowing their trying to kill but finally he thinks about The widow.Huck finally thinks of himself of being a good person and thinks if only the Widow was here to see. i think him being away from everyone is starting to make him see what he hadn't before. Most of Chapter 14 was about what the widow had thought him. All about the biblical meanings and took it upon himself to explain it to Jim. I think he misses her but doesn't want to say it.  Just like when everything came back when he was back to living with his father, everything seems to be coming back when hes with the widows slave. Does that seem like a coincidence because i think it does but i dont get it when he says "you just can't learn a nigger to argue.".  Now this is what i mean when a friendship has  been made. They decide to try and go to ohio one of the free states for Jim. Its real friendship when a boy who was raised with people all around him to own slaves instead of befriend them and still finds a way to become friends with a nigger.But when both of them were hurt and Huck realized the joke wasnt funny he still made it his duty to go apologize. The fact that he didn't want to at first because he was black kind of makes me think he still has the ways of his town with him. The fact that he did apologize showed true friendship in my eyes.  Huck is really not that bad of a person.

Huckleberry Fin
chapters 1-5

So. far the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin has shown friendship betrayal through not only Huck but from other characters as well. See One betrayal is of Huck's father (pap) coming back and telling Huck to cut school. Anyone can be a parents but pap isn't a father. He's a drunk who comes back into his sons life and tells him to quit school because he's doing better. Wouldn't you think that a Father would encourage him to stay in. Because most of the Huck's life he isn't the proactive type well not in a positive sense at least. Huck's only real remodel in these first five paragraphs in my opinion would be the slave. Everyone else in this novel tried to make him become someone who he wasn't. Yes they were trying to make him better but that wasn't doing anything but confusing him. For example the widow. Huck's dad is one of the biggest betrayal's in his life and now everyday since  pap has been backs he's had to keep  watch out for himself. It's got to be hard to have an alcoholic as a father who only comes back because he hears that you have money. In this novel friendship plays both a big role as well as a small one. Its more of a bigger role because of his friend Tom. Tom has been one of the ones to actually guide him as a true friend would do. Tom is his only true friend and sad to say if Tom wasn't  around he would be going downhill. Instead of living with the widow and having not only a place to stay but a roof over his head.