Adventures of Huck Finn: Chapter 16

Vocabulary

Skiff- a shallow, flat- bottomed open boat with sharp bow and square stem.

Thicket- a dense group of bushes or trees

Obleeged(oblige)- do as someone asks or desires in order to help or please them.

Memorable Passage #2 Meaning

The meaning of this memorable passage is the way Huck coscience is making him feel. He feels torn between the two. His heart and his conscience is sending him two different messages. He know that tther would be mad if they were to find to find out that he is helping Jim become a free slave. He feels wrong either way it goes. He feels bad that he isn't following with what other are saying. His conscience is making him feel guilty and ashamed. But as well, he feels bad in his heart if he were to give Jim up because he do care for him.

Memorable Passage #2

" They went off, and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn't no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don't get started right when he's little, ain't got no show-- when the pinch comes there ain't no nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat. Then I thought a minute, and says to myself, hold on,--s' pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I, I'd feel bad -- I'd feel just the same way I do now. When then, says I, what's the use you learning to do right, when it's troublesome to do right and ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same? I was stuck. I couldn't answer that. So I reckoned I wouldn't bother no more about it, but after this always do whichever come handiest at time.

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Memorable Passage #1 Meaning

In the first memorable passage, Huck is basically stating that he'd never seen Jim so happy. Jim wasn't as talkative until he found out that he'd be free. He was filled with joy inside that he hasn't felt in a long time. Jim talked about the first things he'd do when he'd become free.

Huck: "S'pose you'd a done right and give Jim up; would you felt better than what you do now? No, says I,(Twain 16).

- Huck in this Chapter is feeling extremely guilty. He know that it is breaking the law when it comes to helping Jim out, but that is his friend. Huck lies to the others to save Jim from being captured by them.

Jim: "We's safe, Huck, we's safe! Jump up and crack yo' heels, dat's good ole Cairo at las', I jis knows it!"(Twain 16).

- Jim has never been so eager to reach free land. He is excited for the new things he will be experiencing in the free land. He talks a long the boat ride all the new things he will endure when he gets there. Huck has never seen this side of Jim before. He has not stop talking non-stop while looking for the town of Ciaro.

Themes In The Chapter

Loyalty is one theme presented in this chapter. He knows that if he keeps helping Jim he can get in so much trouble but since he cares for Jim his loyalty lies with him. Another theme that is in this chapter is Friendship. Huck and Finn has created a strong bond. When it comes to slaves in the south, you are to report any runaways and send them back to their original owner. Huck is helping Jim get to free land just for his friend to be happy. If Huck wasn't to care for Jim, he would of sent him back but he doesn't. He'd feel awful if he did. He likes seeing his friend happy.

Memorable Passage #1

" It most froze me to hear such talk. He wouldn't ever dared to talk such talk in his life before. Just see what a difference it made in him the minute he judged he was about free. It was according to the old saying, "give a nigger an inch and he'll take an ell." Thinks I, this is what comes of my not thinking. Here was this nigger which I had as good as helped run away, coming right out flat-footed and saying he would steal his children-- children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm.

Adventures of Huck Finn: Chapter 16