How Does Tom Escape

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Huck finally finds out why a good boy like Tom would like to help a negro to escape because Jim is already freed by Miss Watson. In the quote, “Tom Sawyer had gone and took all that trouble and bother to set a free n*** free!” (Twain 218). At first, Huck says Tom fell in his estimation because he will help to steal Jim. Secondly, Tom doesn't seem hurry to set Jim free; conversely, he tries to find various kinds of complicated ways to leave clues for people to discover. All in all, in account of Tom knows Jim is already free, he does all of these things, but never tell Huck about it and he gets his willingness to surprise

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