Saturday, April 19, 2014
Huck Finn ch 31-43
The theme of betrayal is instantly portrayed in chapter 31 when the king sells Jim for drinking money. Seriously? And to make things better, the duke gave Huck false information regarding where Jim was. They went through all that trouble to protect Jim and they just give him away? More importantly, Huck and Tom's friendship pops up again. While I first got the impression that Tom thought he was hot stuff and Huck was his little sidekick, I have come to find that maybe that isn't the case after all. When Huck asks Tom to help him out with the whole Jim situation, instead of judging him because he's helping out a slave, Tom agrees without saying a word about it. Through this, I realized that not only did Huck and Tom mature as characters over the course of the novel, but their friendship did as well. Overall, the betrayal took place in the beginning/middle of the book. The most evident had to have been Pap's mistreatment towards Huck. It's okay though because he's dead now. Boy, do I love happy endings. The theme of friendship was more prominent. Readers really got to see the relationship between Huck and several other characters. Huck and Jim went from being practically acquaintances to best friends I would say. Not only did we see a friendship form, we also got to see the relationship between Huck and Tom mature. If you compare the two boys at the beginning of the novel and the boys at the end, it is clear that both are now thoughtful and considerate of others; a quality that was never there to begin with.
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Your post is very well written, but I didn't think Tom and Huck matured that much. Huck was having internal conflict when he was making a decision to betray Jim or not. I also feel as though Tom went along with Huck's plan because it was a chance for him to rekindle his old adventures. However, you did make ne think twice about Tom and wonder if he actually changed
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tiarah on the the fact that Tom didn't mature and change. I don't feel as though he did because he was the same childish boy we imagined as in the beginning. Huck on the other hand matured because of his friendship with Jim in the end suppose to the beginning. Their friendship was an unlikely one but possible. And they made it work.
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