Jim is caught and Huck goes to "hell"

So finally Huck rids himself of the king and duke, and unexpectedly Jim is captured!
Now Huck is distraught about losing his only friend (at the moment.) It is strange that now he decides to tell Miss Watson about Jim. The fact that he almost repents and decides not to do evil any more is strange, considering his upbringing and Pap, but after he rips up the note to Miss Watson and says that he will go to hell is sort of scary. It shows that he doesn't care about Faith.
It is funny how the king and duke are going to try the whole "Show" thing on this unexpecting town. I hope that this will be there last performance.
So now all Huck has to do is to somehow get Jim back, and get rid of those humbugs!!!!!!

Another of Huck's plans, and the mumps

So Huck devised a plan with Mary Jane to capture the 'king' and the 'duke.' It was very smart of him. I can't wait until the men who saw the king do the "play" arrive there. They truly will, "tar and feather them and throw them into the river!"
Huck though is terrible at remembering last names. Now Susan and the hare-lip think Mary Jane is visiting four different families, and they think that Mary Jane might get the Mumps along with the measles, whooping-cough, erysiplas, consumption, yaller janders, and brain fever. "My land! And they call it the mumps?"
The king and duke think now that they have everything covered, at least until the people find out about who they really are.

Social Context of Huck Finn

1. Slavery. Back then people thought it was okay to own slaves. By this you can tell that they probably just didn't feel like doing the work. When you think about it they didn't even need slaves.
2. Life on the river - class - passage on river. The most used boat was probably the good old raft. The boats that people traveled on showed there class also. For instance, the rich and wealthy probably rode on ferry's and big boats. Where as slaves and the lower classes traveled on either rafts or canoes.
3. Class systems - eduaction - physical labor - $. The main classes were the rich and powerful, the people who where fairly wealthy, peasants or the poor, and slaves. Slaves were not allowed to be educated. Until they were free, maybe there were a couple who had been educated before. Also the slaves were doing most of the physical work. The white's did some but less then the black's did. They were treated terrible, they were whipped if they made a mistake, most of the time. Money seperated the classes big time. Servants and slaves are different in this matter, servant's were paid, but slaves, no way. Slaves didn't have any, except for every now and then. The rich people however could by anything they wanted.

The two biggest liars in the world

So now Huck and Jim meet the King of France and the Duke of "Bilgewater," amazing! NOT!!!!! These men are most likely just humbugs who are robbers.
They can make anyone believe them. Mary Jane and her sister certainly do. I think they have nothing to do with this family. They just want money. I'm glad Huck spoiled there plans by hiding the money in the coffin, but is he going to explain this to Mary Jane? He probably is clueless about what to say.
Wonder what Jim has been doing all this time?

Comparison of the escapes

Both Huck and Jim had a pretty good reason to escape but, Huck's escape is definetly more exciting than Jim's.
     Huck had to work his way out, where as Jim just had to leave the house.  Both of them were scared.  Considering that you that as soon as your pap gets home its time for a whippin' or that pretty soon you are going to be sold again.
     This shows that both escapes were different in some ways and similair in others.

Cross post

I agree with you, Eli, that Huck is like a boy scout. However, he does not have all of a boy scout's characteristics.  He definetly isn't clean, but he is sort of reverant.  He isn't always trustworthy though, but definently he is smart.
    To go through the steps of planning his escape is pretty amazing, escpecially since he came up with the plan.  It is funny that he would even kill a pig and sprinkle the blood on the floor to make Pap think he was murdered.  He can at least survive.
http://sparrow-hawks.blogspot.com/2009/09/huckleberry-finn.html

Alex's B-day

Went to Alex's B-day party yesterday and had a lot of fun.  We went to the pool and it was freezing.  I got right back out after i got in.  Bbrrrrr!