Huck And Jim: A Narrative Analysis

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“ It was a drift-canoe sure enough, and I climb in and paddled to shore,” thinks I, the old man when he see this-she’s worth ten dollars.”

Clearing up the river Huck says, “I need’s to get some food and go to Miss Watson’s.”

Assuming that even going to Miss.Watson would serve Huck better in the ending, then living with Pap.

“Oh jee there is a boat in the river with food.”

“There is some food,”,” good”.”” Huck says.

“ But Pap is coming I need to get out of here,”

Huck gets the food quickly and races out of the sight of Pap.

Finalley! Huck said. “I’m out of sight of Pap.”

Even though Huck was out of sight, he knew that Pap would still be looking for him so he gains a high tempo and keeps running.

Exhausted huck says, “ I can
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While walking Jim see’s a caterpillar he says, “ Huck do you see this.” “ See what”?” “the caterpillar”,”it has five legs instead of six.”

“Why should we care?” “ We should care because a caterpillar that is missing one or more legs will bring bad luck.”

“ Jim that is nonsense.” “ It’s not I tell you I’ve seen this before and this always brings bad luck.”

Tom thinks Jim is weird for having such a superstition, but he knows that they need to get going. So he lets Jim think that the caterpillar is bad luck. They keep walking back to Miss.Watson 's on the grass plains until the sun comes down, getting close to Miss Watson 's.

“ Say Huck I think we should call it a day and make camp.”

“ But we 're only twenty minutes away from her house, we can’t stop now.” Jim says, “ fine but don’t say that I didn’t warn you earlier about the bad luck from the caterpillar having five

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