Intro: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is a classic novel read throughout schools all over the world in several languages and a sequel to the famous story of a rebellious southern boy who becomes a rich hero, Tom Sawyer. After having read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in 7th grade, I wasn’t very impressed with the style of writing and I was far from entertained, but now after being forced (yet again) to read a Mark Twain novel based around the same characters I have more an open mind and understanding of literature than I did a few years back when I first met Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. I chose a key chapter to focus on that takes place near the end of the novel. Chapter 37, the chapter I chose, focuses on the process of freeing Jim from confinement after being wrongfully sold by the ‘King’ to Tom Sawyer’s relatives.
First impressions: The first impression I had on this particular chapter is that Huck and Tom will easily be able to free Jim while working together but it turned out to be quite the opposite. Tom ended up …show more content…
Tom never really caused trouble for Huck before now but he also never seemed to have taken any responsibility for anything and treated everything as a game. Other characterization was developed within this chapter regardless of how small such as “had a good-natured, chuckle-headed face, and his wool was all tied up in little bunches with thread.” This was the only character description phrase in the chapter and I think he used “chuckle-headed” to describe Nat because he looked funny. Through the narrative of the chapter, I found that Huck Finn must be the speaker in this passage. He speaks to many characters such as Jim, Nat, and Tom but only has a partial point of view because the reader doesn’t know everything that’s going on, just from Huck’s point of
First impressions: The first impression I had on this particular chapter is that Huck and Tom will easily be able to free Jim while working together but it turned out to be quite the opposite. Tom ended up …show more content…
Tom never really caused trouble for Huck before now but he also never seemed to have taken any responsibility for anything and treated everything as a game. Other characterization was developed within this chapter regardless of how small such as “had a good-natured, chuckle-headed face, and his wool was all tied up in little bunches with thread.” This was the only character description phrase in the chapter and I think he used “chuckle-headed” to describe Nat because he looked funny. Through the narrative of the chapter, I found that Huck Finn must be the speaker in this passage. He speaks to many characters such as Jim, Nat, and Tom but only has a partial point of view because the reader doesn’t know everything that’s going on, just from Huck’s point of