Since Huck and Jim continued to reach states farther and farther away from home, it was odd to me that Jim told people that his name was George Jackson. I am not sure if he is worried about being found and taken back home, or if he just wants to start fresh with a new life story. When the family who finds Huck asks if he is a Shepherdson, I caught myself thinking of what would happen to Huck if he said he was a Shepherdson though he didn't know the significance of being apart of that family. Would they have given him a chance to explain that he wasn't when he found out they would kill him, or would they just shoot him carelessly. How could Miss Sophia get away with associating with a Shepherdson? I don't understand how she hid it from her family for so long. I hope she feels guilty that her sneaking around ended up getting her family killed in the violence. At the end of chapter 21 when Sherburn reacted the scene when he shot Boggs twice, I was confused on the significance of doing this. Was he doing it because of the people that were watching him and following him around? Was he just trying to freak them out and to make them think he is insane?
Huck becomes friends with a boy in the family named Buck, and he tells the family a made-up story of his past and where he had come from. Since his story was so convincing, the family allowed Huck to stay with them as long as he wanted. Huck liked everything about the house and enjoyed reading poetry and being friends with Buck. I think that he is missing Jim and Tom. In previous chapters Huck had told Jim that he had wished Tom were there; this shows that he is beginning to become lonely and miss him friends, and this makes him connect to Buck. Once Huck gets more settled into the home. He learns about the Grangorfords and describes them. He describes Miss Sophia in detail, which makes me feel like he has affections towards her. Huck soon learned about the Shepherdsons who live next door to the Grangorfords. Buck explains the family feud that has been taking place between the two families; Huck asked if any deaths had occurred this year, and Buck said they each family had killed a member of the opposing family. The reason why both families are trying to kill one another is because of a legal dispute over land from over 30 years prior. Miss Sophia asked Huck if he had liked her and if he would do a favor for her; she told Huck she had forgotten her testament at the Church and wants Huck to sneak in to get it and no one would ever find out. When she tells Huck that it is only a bookmark, I had a feeling she was lying; my prediction is that she is corresponding with a Shepherdson. I know my guess could be way off, but it makes the book more enjoyable to read when try to predict what will happen. Then, Buck's slave takes Huck down to the river to show him some water moccasins but actually shows him where Jim is hiding. Jim is excited to see Huck and they tell each other what had happened to each of them. My prediction happened to be right; the next day Miss Sophia ran off with a Shepherdson and Huck finds out Buck's father and brothers were killed because of the feud. At this point, Huck is disgusted with the violence that was taking place, but then he found Buck dead in the river. To be respectful, he dragged out Buck's body from the water and covered him up right before he went to find Jim. When he found Jim, they hurry up and get back on the river and leave to get away from the violence.
As Huck and Jim travel down the river, they encounter two men that were being chased by dogs; one older man a king and one younger man a duke. They both demand to be treated like royalty, which Huck doesn't have any problem with. It didn't take Huck long to realize that the men were liars and were not really a king or a duke, but if it were the only thing he learned from his dad, he knew it was better to let them be to ensure no quarrels. The two men asked many questions and they wondered if Jim was a runaway slave. To get the men to lighten-up and ask less questions, Huck makes up a story about his past life and why they were traveling more South. Since the weather began to look rough, the men, Huck and Jim went to bed. Huck and Jim got away as soon as it was dark, and the kind told them to stay towards the middle of the river, and not to show a light till they were long past the town. As they go into town a slave tells them that everyone went to a camp meeting; as they go to the meeting, a man is preaching and yelling. Then the king gets on stage and says he is a used to be pirate and continued to tell his story to everyone. This was his way of earning money; he made the townspeople feel guilty for him and they sent his hat around for collection. I think it is wrong that people like the king get away with tricks like that; there are other people that actually need money, and he goes up and makes up a sob story. Afterward, the duke and the king met back up with Huck and Jim and think of more ways to earn money.
One of the king and the duke's attempts to earn money was to perform "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare. They spend most of their time reciting the lines of the play and they worked restlessly. They soon reached a dirty little own where they find a circus will be taking place that afternoon. They were excited and didn't waste much time before they hung-up signs saying "Shaksperean Revival". I wasn't sure if the spelling error was Huck's fault, or it was truly what the sign had said. They were charging an admission of 25 cents; children and servants were 10 cents. While they were observing the little town, they were caught in the middle of a unique event. A drunk man named Boggs came riding into town on his horse looking for Colonel Sherburn. Sherburn tells him he will put up with the noise he is causing until one and no later. Boggs tests his luck and stays later than one, and pays the price. Sherburn shot him twice and walked away. They take Boggs to a drugstore and the hole town watches him die and decide to try and lynch Sherburn. A mob goes to Sherburn house threatening to lynch him and he confronts the mob before they reach his house. On page 145, Huck says that Sherburn sort of laughed; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it. When I read this, my throat got dry, and I just wanted to drink water because I was imaging eating sand and bread. When Sherburn scared everyone off, Huck goes to the circus and watched the participants to astonishing things that were fascinating to him. Later that night they had their play, and only twelve people showed up; they were laughing at duke and the king which made them mad. They decided to perform a different play, and they choose a title that will catch the attention of more people.
The king and Duke put on the new show and everybody loved it because it was so funny and wild. Though it was hilarious, the crowd roared for more and were disappointed in the length of the play. For the next two nights people come and act the same way as the first crowd but on the third night, people were coming in with rotten food to throw at the men performing. They were able to sneak back to the raft and leave before they had rotten food thrown at them by the barrel. As they go down the river Jim tells Huck about his daughter he mistreated before he found out she was deaf and felt guilty about what he did because she ended up dying. The duke and king want to preform the same play in other towns but are not sure if the word had gotten out from the previous town. The Duke dresses Jim up as a sick Arab so people will not give him any trouble about being a "runaway nigger". They take a steamboat and continue up the river and pick up a young boy that claims to be going to Orleans. The king says his name is Elexander Blodgett, and is one of the Lord's servants. The boy tells them about Peter Wilks, and of a will that had divided his money up to his three nieces. Huck feels that the way king and duke are frauds is enough to make him ashamed of the human race. On page 162 Huck says, "Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." When he says he's a nigger, it makes me feel like he is saying that black people are not apart of the human race. How could he say something like that it he is "friends" with Jim?
I really liked reading page 135 when the duke was marching up and down thinking of Hamlet's soliloquy. I visioned the duke doing this and I felt like I was right there watching him and listening to him. I also felt this way when Boggs came into town and Sherburn shot him twice. The description of how the town acted made me feel intimidated of Sherburn and his capabilities. If I were a person living in the town, I wouldn't be apart of the mob that wants to lynch him because I would be scared he was going to shoot me too. I noticed as I was reading the difference between things that occurred while Huck was on the water and when he was on land. I felt that more tragic things happened while Huck was on land; when he was on the water, it was peaceful and he really did not have anything to worry about.
Huck becomes friends with a boy in the family named Buck, and he tells the family a made-up story of his past and where he had come from. Since his story was so convincing, the family allowed Huck to stay with them as long as he wanted. Huck liked everything about the house and enjoyed reading poetry and being friends with Buck. I think that he is missing Jim and Tom. In previous chapters Huck had told Jim that he had wished Tom were there; this shows that he is beginning to become lonely and miss him friends, and this makes him connect to Buck. Once Huck gets more settled into the home. He learns about the Grangorfords and describes them. He describes Miss Sophia in detail, which makes me feel like he has affections towards her. Huck soon learned about the Shepherdsons who live next door to the Grangorfords. Buck explains the family feud that has been taking place between the two families; Huck asked if any deaths had occurred this year, and Buck said they each family had killed a member of the opposing family. The reason why both families are trying to kill one another is because of a legal dispute over land from over 30 years prior. Miss Sophia asked Huck if he had liked her and if he would do a favor for her; she told Huck she had forgotten her testament at the Church and wants Huck to sneak in to get it and no one would ever find out. When she tells Huck that it is only a bookmark, I had a feeling she was lying; my prediction is that she is corresponding with a Shepherdson. I know my guess could be way off, but it makes the book more enjoyable to read when try to predict what will happen. Then, Buck's slave takes Huck down to the river to show him some water moccasins but actually shows him where Jim is hiding. Jim is excited to see Huck and they tell each other what had happened to each of them. My prediction happened to be right; the next day Miss Sophia ran off with a Shepherdson and Huck finds out Buck's father and brothers were killed because of the feud. At this point, Huck is disgusted with the violence that was taking place, but then he found Buck dead in the river. To be respectful, he dragged out Buck's body from the water and covered him up right before he went to find Jim. When he found Jim, they hurry up and get back on the river and leave to get away from the violence.
As Huck and Jim travel down the river, they encounter two men that were being chased by dogs; one older man a king and one younger man a duke. They both demand to be treated like royalty, which Huck doesn't have any problem with. It didn't take Huck long to realize that the men were liars and were not really a king or a duke, but if it were the only thing he learned from his dad, he knew it was better to let them be to ensure no quarrels. The two men asked many questions and they wondered if Jim was a runaway slave. To get the men to lighten-up and ask less questions, Huck makes up a story about his past life and why they were traveling more South. Since the weather began to look rough, the men, Huck and Jim went to bed. Huck and Jim got away as soon as it was dark, and the kind told them to stay towards the middle of the river, and not to show a light till they were long past the town. As they go into town a slave tells them that everyone went to a camp meeting; as they go to the meeting, a man is preaching and yelling. Then the king gets on stage and says he is a used to be pirate and continued to tell his story to everyone. This was his way of earning money; he made the townspeople feel guilty for him and they sent his hat around for collection. I think it is wrong that people like the king get away with tricks like that; there are other people that actually need money, and he goes up and makes up a sob story. Afterward, the duke and the king met back up with Huck and Jim and think of more ways to earn money.
One of the king and the duke's attempts to earn money was to perform "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare. They spend most of their time reciting the lines of the play and they worked restlessly. They soon reached a dirty little own where they find a circus will be taking place that afternoon. They were excited and didn't waste much time before they hung-up signs saying "Shaksperean Revival". I wasn't sure if the spelling error was Huck's fault, or it was truly what the sign had said. They were charging an admission of 25 cents; children and servants were 10 cents. While they were observing the little town, they were caught in the middle of a unique event. A drunk man named Boggs came riding into town on his horse looking for Colonel Sherburn. Sherburn tells him he will put up with the noise he is causing until one and no later. Boggs tests his luck and stays later than one, and pays the price. Sherburn shot him twice and walked away. They take Boggs to a drugstore and the hole town watches him die and decide to try and lynch Sherburn. A mob goes to Sherburn house threatening to lynch him and he confronts the mob before they reach his house. On page 145, Huck says that Sherburn sort of laughed; not the pleasant kind, but the kind that makes you feel like when you are eating bread that's got sand in it. When I read this, my throat got dry, and I just wanted to drink water because I was imaging eating sand and bread. When Sherburn scared everyone off, Huck goes to the circus and watched the participants to astonishing things that were fascinating to him. Later that night they had their play, and only twelve people showed up; they were laughing at duke and the king which made them mad. They decided to perform a different play, and they choose a title that will catch the attention of more people.
The king and Duke put on the new show and everybody loved it because it was so funny and wild. Though it was hilarious, the crowd roared for more and were disappointed in the length of the play. For the next two nights people come and act the same way as the first crowd but on the third night, people were coming in with rotten food to throw at the men performing. They were able to sneak back to the raft and leave before they had rotten food thrown at them by the barrel. As they go down the river Jim tells Huck about his daughter he mistreated before he found out she was deaf and felt guilty about what he did because she ended up dying. The duke and king want to preform the same play in other towns but are not sure if the word had gotten out from the previous town. The Duke dresses Jim up as a sick Arab so people will not give him any trouble about being a "runaway nigger". They take a steamboat and continue up the river and pick up a young boy that claims to be going to Orleans. The king says his name is Elexander Blodgett, and is one of the Lord's servants. The boy tells them about Peter Wilks, and of a will that had divided his money up to his three nieces. Huck feels that the way king and duke are frauds is enough to make him ashamed of the human race. On page 162 Huck says, "Well, if ever I struck anything like it, I'm a nigger. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race." When he says he's a nigger, it makes me feel like he is saying that black people are not apart of the human race. How could he say something like that it he is "friends" with Jim?
I really liked reading page 135 when the duke was marching up and down thinking of Hamlet's soliloquy. I visioned the duke doing this and I felt like I was right there watching him and listening to him. I also felt this way when Boggs came into town and Sherburn shot him twice. The description of how the town acted made me feel intimidated of Sherburn and his capabilities. If I were a person living in the town, I wouldn't be apart of the mob that wants to lynch him because I would be scared he was going to shoot me too. I noticed as I was reading the difference between things that occurred while Huck was on the water and when he was on land. I felt that more tragic things happened while Huck was on land; when he was on the water, it was peaceful and he really did not have anything to worry about.