Chapters 31-43

Chapter 31:

Pg. 192: "After all this long journey, and after all we'd done for them scoundrels, here was it all come to nothing, everything all busted up and ruined, because they could have the heart to serve Jim such a trick as that, and make him a slave again all his life, and amongst strangers, too, for forty dirty dollars."

           -Nobody is good or bad, it is how they think that determines whether something is good or bad. Huck is a person who likes to help his friends even if he has to lie and confuse other people to do that. He is neither good nor bad, he does bad things for good reasons. Two of the other characters, the Duke and the King, do bad things for bad reasons. The King sold Jim to a person, and said he was a runaway nigger, he was lying and sold another person. Both the King and the Duke want to make money, even if it means adding more sin onto their plate. Despite Jim and Huck going along with all their ideas, they still did bad things and betrayed them.


Chapter 33:

Pg. 205: "He was the innocentest, best old soul I ever see. But it warn't surprising; because he warn't only just a farmer, he was a preacher, too, and had a little one-horse log church down back of the plantation, which he built it himself at his own expense."

           -As I mentioned before, no one is good or bad, but it's how they think. This old man thought everyone was good and so he behaved well. He did tasks to please others and keep peace, he was probably a little naive in his thinking, but it affected everyone around him and that in turn made everyone around him want to do nice things for him. They didn't want to hurt him so they tried to do as much good as possible.


Chapter 35:

Pg. 216: "You got to invent all the difficulties. Well, we can't help it, we got to do the best we can with the materials we've got. Anyhow, there's one thing--there's more honor in getting him out through a lot of difficulties and dangers, where there warn't on of them furnished to you by the people who it was their duty to furnish them, and you had to contrive them all out of your own head."

            -Tom is an unrealistic person. He reads a lot of books and wants to have an adventure so he takes the crazy ideas that they come up with in his stories and he tries to put them into action. He truly thinks that there is nothing in taking the easy way out and because of that he gets others into trouble and gets out of it. He doesn't take into account the opinions or morals of his friends and drags them into his fantasy world where he is the mastermind behind everything, but since nothing is ever as dramatic in the real world as they are in books, he has to make them elaborate to quench his thirst for adventure.


Chapter 37:

Pg. 229: "But he done us a good turn with the spoon, anyway, without knowing it, and so we'll go and do him one without him knowing it--stop up his rat-holes."

          -Even though Tom is an unrealistic person with a thirst for adventure, he does do a lot of good things. When he wants adventure, he disregards his friend's opinions, but he does still have manners to those who help him without meaning too. Uncle Silas, the old man who unknowingly helps them also does good things. He gives them a place to stay and food, is a preacher, talks to Jim, and unknowingly covers for Tom and Huck. Tom knows this so he wants to help him, but it also confuses Uncle Silas even more when they do help him. He doesn't think about it anyways and just thinks he did it and forgot.


Chapter 39:

Pg. 240: "Aunt Sally warn't over it yet; she warn't near over it; when she was setting thinking about something, you could touch her on the back of her neck with a feather and she would jump right out of her stockings. It was very curious. But Tom said all women was just so. He said they was made that way; for some reason or other."

           -Tom and Huck are boys, they grew up wrestling, sleeping outside, having wild adventures, lyng, acting impolite, the list goes on and on. They don't get that girls don't like a lot of those things, having fun they do like, but not the whole get completely gross and catch crawling wildlife. We prefer a lot more comfortable lifestyle without creepy crawlers on our kitchen table. They didn't grow up like girls, or with a girl their age so they don't understand this, so when Aunt Sally gets scared over all the snakes, they don't, can't understand. They didn't grow up like a girl, so they can't possibly understand why she would be so afraid of it.


Chapter 41:

Pg. 254: "And twice I went down the rod, away in the night, and slipped around front, and see her setting there by her candle in the window with her eyes towards the road and the tears in them; and I wished I could do something for her, but I couldn't, only to swear that I wouldn't never do nothing to grieve her any more."

             -Even though Aunt Sally is actually Tom's aunt, Huck still feels as though if she was his aunt. He also thinks for others, even if it means lying, he feels so bad that he was lying to her the whole time, especially about his identity. He can't tell her the truth though because that would get him in trouble as well as Tom and Jim. Any man would fee sad seeing a woman cry, no matter what the age, and Huck is a man who does good things. He tries to make up for all the grief they caused her by trying not to cause her anymore grief, but it still hurts him to see her cry.


Chapter 43:

Pg. 262: "We had Jim out of the chains in no time, and when Aunt Polly and Uncle Silas and Aunt Sally found out how good he helped the doctor nurse Tom, they made a heap of fuss over him, and fixed him up prime, and give him all he wanted to eat, and a good time, and nothing to do."

               -Despite Jim being black and a recently freed slave once they heard about what a great person he was, they treated him like a white man. They knew he was black, but since he did a good thing that saved their beloved family member, his skin color was ignored. He was also a free man, meaning he was equal to them, they finally realized that after the news and worked on treating him like one. Nobody is good or bad, it is what they think, besides their skin color, age, or experience. The family overcame that barrier just like Huck and Finn had, overcoming the social wall that separated them.