Tom makes Jim's escape a whole lot more complicated

So just when things seem to going as planned about Jim's escape Tom suddenly decides that the job is to easy so he makes a different plan instead of digging Jim out. Tom said that they would need a saw. Huck was confused until Tom said that they would have to saw a leg of the bed off in order to get Jim's chain free. Or, he said they could saw JIM'S leg off. Huck disagreed immediately.
After a long time of discussing the way to get Jim free they decided to stick to digging, with case knifes! Crazy stuff! Tom told Huck about a man who was prisoner in a dungeon in England. He dug himself out, and when he came out he was in China! According to Tom, it took the man thirty-seven years to make it out!

Slave cemetary walk

So last Wednesday we went on a walk at Coddle Creek church and went to the slave graveyard. Pretty spooky stuff! It was interesting because there were little humps in the earth. Which is actually were the slave are buried! I feel bad for those slaves. We had to walk on there heads!
Pastor Hunt was explaining slavery to us and how it started. One of the first times there were slaves, and perhaps the worst, was in Egypt when the Israelites were enslaved. They were treated badly.
Then MUCH later slaves were brought to America. Now, slaves were allowed to go to church, but sometimes they were forced to go.
In the graveyard for the slaves there are no individual gravestones. There was one big gravestone and that showed where the graveyard was, but that was it. It was back in the woods where it was hardly noticeable.

Huck is Tom Sawyer and almost becomes dog food

So Huck sets out to find Jim at Mr. Phelps farm. His farm sounds like a pretty nice farm from Huck's description. When the dogs almost attack him he must have been scared, but was smart enough not to move. Thankfully the nigger woman comes to his rescue.
It's funny when Mrs. Phelps says to her children, "Look, its cousin Tom!" Huck must have been thinking, "who in the world is Tom?" and "I have no idea who these people are, yet they think they know me!" Huck is very smart when he thinks that maybe later he'll pull the children aside and ask who he is.
I just can't wait until the REAL Tom Sawyer shows up, and who knows what Mr. and Mrs. Phelps will do!

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?