Huck Finn 3

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of the gang so that they don’t get caught, but Tom insists on playing a trick on Jim. So he lifts Jim's hat from his head and hangs it on a nearby limb. Huck tells us that Jim later turned this incident into an elaborate tale of being visited by witches while he slept. At this point in the story, Huck doesn’t have feelings for Jim one way or the other. Huck just doesn’t care much for Jim and sees nothing wrong with the prank that has just been played by Tom.
After staying with his drunken and unreasonable father for a short period of time, Huck grows tired of his current living conditions and see no other way out of this rut, but to escape and runaway. Jim also has the notion to run away from Miss Watson because she is about to sell him and separate him from his wife and kids. Both characters take it upon themselves to sneak away to Jackson’s island, not knowing the other’s intention to do the same. After spending a few days on the island, they ...

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human in the eyes of Huck. Another instance is shown in the next chapter. After Huck finds out the story that is being passed around by the local townspeople about Huck and Jim, he finds out that they are after Jim, trying to capture him, but they believe that Huck is actually dead. Though Huck knows that he can run off by himself and not have to worry about being found out anymore, he runs back to the raft and says, “Git up and hump yourself, Jim! There ain’t a minute to lose. They’re after us!” (62). This is a key moment in the book because it shows that Huck is willing to continue to travel with Jim and help him to his freedom, even though he does ...

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