I continue to think about what would have happened to Huck if he would have never found Jim. I wonder if he would have been smart enough to out fool the people going after him, or if they would capture him. If they got ahold of Huck, would they also get ahold of Jim? Would the plot of the rest of the book change? Many questions pop up into my head as I read every chapter of this book; I think the author does a good job leaving the chapters open ended allowing the reader to wonder what is going to happen in the next. It makes a book more enjoyable to read when they one reading is interested in what is going to happen next. Huck says whenever they see a boat coming they have to light a lantern so the boat does not him them like he is so sure that the men chasing them are on horse-back or something other than a boat. If the men trying to find them were in a boat, they could potentially give themselves away. I don't understand what Huck and Jim think they are accomplishing my getting as far away from home as possible, if the men wanted to find them bad enough, they would continue to search and go as far as necessary. If they would have stayed home or near home, they could have found someone they knew to help them.
Huck talks about Pap like he was a good father; he is almost trying to blind himself from all the wrong his dad had ever done. He mentioned the lessons that Pap taught him about borrowing being okay as long as you had intentions to paying it back. When Huck and Jim see the wrecked boat, Huck wants to go check it out but Jim is totally against it. Huck says if Tom was there he would call it an adventure and go with him to check it out. Huck seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong times, or he is searching for trouble so he can try to come out on top as a hero. Huck overhears what two men were going to do to another man that had supposedly done them wrong. Huck was determined to get out of there before something more had happened and they were in a bad way. Like I said in the previously, people are becoming more accepting of African-Americans in the time period and Huck in a prime example. On page 86, Huck says it took him awhile before he could humble himself to a nigger, but he did it and afterward he didn't regret it. It really symbolized equality afterward; Huck and Jim were now on their own little adventure and they were becoming good friends that would do what they could for one another, and Jim didn't allow skin to be a deciding factor in their friendship. It is remarkable that a boy so young is changing the traditional ways of society that were set many generations before. Even though Huck had not regretted humbling up to Jim, he was still going to tell on him but he chose not to. On page 89 after Jim had floated away from Huck, he had said Huck was his best friend and the only white gentleman that kept his promise to him. Those words really got to Huck when he was in the process of ratting out Jim for being a black slave that had ran off. He knew how happy Jim had been about going to be a free man, and he just couldn't double-cross him and break his promise.
I noticed that the farther they get into different states, the hospitality changes towards whites, but the attitude towards blacks never changes. I feel like people know that they don't like black people but they don't know why; it is almost like the government setting a rule but people not knowing what it is for but they know they have to follow it. In some states people are more serious about hatred toward black people, and in other states, people know that they can receive a lot of money if they capture a runaway slave. They could care less about the person being a slave or not, they are only in it for the money. I'm hoping that as the book goes on, I am able to compare the way blacks are treated each place Huck goes.
Huck talks about Pap like he was a good father; he is almost trying to blind himself from all the wrong his dad had ever done. He mentioned the lessons that Pap taught him about borrowing being okay as long as you had intentions to paying it back. When Huck and Jim see the wrecked boat, Huck wants to go check it out but Jim is totally against it. Huck says if Tom was there he would call it an adventure and go with him to check it out. Huck seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong times, or he is searching for trouble so he can try to come out on top as a hero. Huck overhears what two men were going to do to another man that had supposedly done them wrong. Huck was determined to get out of there before something more had happened and they were in a bad way. Like I said in the previously, people are becoming more accepting of African-Americans in the time period and Huck in a prime example. On page 86, Huck says it took him awhile before he could humble himself to a nigger, but he did it and afterward he didn't regret it. It really symbolized equality afterward; Huck and Jim were now on their own little adventure and they were becoming good friends that would do what they could for one another, and Jim didn't allow skin to be a deciding factor in their friendship. It is remarkable that a boy so young is changing the traditional ways of society that were set many generations before. Even though Huck had not regretted humbling up to Jim, he was still going to tell on him but he chose not to. On page 89 after Jim had floated away from Huck, he had said Huck was his best friend and the only white gentleman that kept his promise to him. Those words really got to Huck when he was in the process of ratting out Jim for being a black slave that had ran off. He knew how happy Jim had been about going to be a free man, and he just couldn't double-cross him and break his promise.
I noticed that the farther they get into different states, the hospitality changes towards whites, but the attitude towards blacks never changes. I feel like people know that they don't like black people but they don't know why; it is almost like the government setting a rule but people not knowing what it is for but they know they have to follow it. In some states people are more serious about hatred toward black people, and in other states, people know that they can receive a lot of money if they capture a runaway slave. They could care less about the person being a slave or not, they are only in it for the money. I'm hoping that as the book goes on, I am able to compare the way blacks are treated each place Huck goes.