Economics
What would you do if you had 167,396.02 dollars as a thirteen year old kid, that you found on an adventure. Would you keep your life the same or would you go out and have fun and live completely different. A lot of people would go out and buy a new car, T.V, or even a new whole entertainment system. Well back in the 1800s they didn’t have any of that stuff so when Tom Sawyer (Tom) and Huckleberry Finn (Huck) from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn find all of this money it really doesn’t change their life a ton. Huck and Jim see all types of different social classes on their journey that they are taking down the Mississippi River, from the people that don’t really earn their money the right way, the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class. Huck doesn’t want anything to do with “sivilization,” ( ) so while he is living with his father in the cabin, he comes up with the idea to fake his own death. After he fakes his death he takes off and floats down the river until he finds Jim a slave …show more content…
They make no money at all. When they were going to sell Jim so before they sold him Jim ran away. He was so happy that they were going to sell him for eight hundred dollars or in today 's time almost twenty eight thousand. which shows that he thinks that is life is worth only twenty eight thousand. Huck on the hand towards the end of the book wouldn’t have traded Jim for six thousand dollars. Also while Huck is at the Grangerfords the slaves there are definitely smart even though they are slaves. They are one of the smartest characters in the book. They hide Jim on island on a swamp. They put him on the swap island so that the dogs couldn’t smell him if they sent dogs. They also wouldn’t actually show Huck where Jim was so they weren’t associated with Jim at all. They took Huck into the swamp then said that there was some snakes in the weeds when it was really
What would you do if you had 167,396.02 dollars as a thirteen year old kid, that you found on an adventure. Would you keep your life the same or would you go out and have fun and live completely different. A lot of people would go out and buy a new car, T.V, or even a new whole entertainment system. Well back in the 1800s they didn’t have any of that stuff so when Tom Sawyer (Tom) and Huckleberry Finn (Huck) from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn find all of this money it really doesn’t change their life a ton. Huck and Jim see all types of different social classes on their journey that they are taking down the Mississippi River, from the people that don’t really earn their money the right way, the upper class, the middle class, and the lower class. Huck doesn’t want anything to do with “sivilization,” ( ) so while he is living with his father in the cabin, he comes up with the idea to fake his own death. After he fakes his death he takes off and floats down the river until he finds Jim a slave …show more content…
They make no money at all. When they were going to sell Jim so before they sold him Jim ran away. He was so happy that they were going to sell him for eight hundred dollars or in today 's time almost twenty eight thousand. which shows that he thinks that is life is worth only twenty eight thousand. Huck on the hand towards the end of the book wouldn’t have traded Jim for six thousand dollars. Also while Huck is at the Grangerfords the slaves there are definitely smart even though they are slaves. They are one of the smartest characters in the book. They hide Jim on island on a swamp. They put him on the swap island so that the dogs couldn’t smell him if they sent dogs. They also wouldn’t actually show Huck where Jim was so they weren’t associated with Jim at all. They took Huck into the swamp then said that there was some snakes in the weeds when it was really