At the start of chapter five I found it funny that Huck's dad was angry with Huck because of that fact that he was living in a nice house, wore nice clothes and was going to school. Huck's dad was pretty much saying that his own son shouldn't being living such a nice life and making something of himself while his father didn't have anything go for him. All his dad really wants Huck for is so he could get Huck's money, that's one of the very first things he ask Jim about after he gets done yelling at him. Huck was smart to go to Judge Thatcher and hide or get rid of the money before his dad came a took so he could go by whiskey with it and just wasted all of it, its monuments like this that I think Huck is a little bit more intelligent than what he thinks.
There's no way i could have lived the way that Huck did when his father took him and then went off into the wood to some old cabin and he didn't do anything other than smoke and fish. I was upset to see him start to go back to his old ways and starting to wonder why he ever liked living with Miss. Watson and going to school. I think that Huck could be a great kid if the things in his life didn't go so bad all the time, but that's just me. If i were Huck i would want to run away too if my dad left me at home and locked me up so there was no way for me get away.This clearing shows that his father does not care about the well-being of his own son. However, I do think that Mark Twain uses the father to kind of show how most people during this time thought about how the government was changing and how most whites had the same view on slaves whether they were a well educated person or a no good drunk. For example, on page 27 Huck's father goes on a rant about how the government was starting to let blacks be free in some states and could even vote in those states which he thought was just outrageous. But the thing that really made him mad was the idea that these black that were now free could do better in life then what he could. This seems to be a theme for the father that he gets jealous about what others have because he's a loser.
Huck was very smart about how he planned and ran away for his dad. He used the pig and the sack of corn meal to make it looked like he'd been killed or something so no one would come looking for him thinking he was alive. He did get some pretty good luck though finding the canoe just floating down the river and was able to hid it from his dad. After he got away i thought for sure that his dad was go to see him and catch him when he saw him of the river, I kind of liked this part in the book because it got exciting. When he got to the island and heard the cannons going off, because I guess that's how they found bodies in the river because they would come to the surface which was something new I learned.
In my opinion I also thought it was luck that Huck and Jim found each other on the same island after they both ran away. They could both use each other and help each other out in many ways and I don't know if they would last long without getting together. One thing that I did notice right away and made a point of was how Huck didn't treat Jim like a slave. Unlike his father Huck seems to think of slaves as equal to himself, because he did help Jim fish and get some food. While Jim helped Huck to get to shelter before it started to downpour. Another good example of how Huck doesn't think of Jim as just a slave is when he doesn't mean to have the snake bit Jim when he put the dead snake in his bed as a joke and he feels bad about it afterwards. The last thing that i thought showed that Huck cared about Jim was the fact that he went back to get Jim after he had found out about the man coming over to check the island later that night. Huck could of easily left Jim behind and saved himself but he didn't. When Huck stopped at that one woman's house to see what was going on in the town i found it kind of funny that people just let strangers into their house at night and let them sleep there and gave them food. Now days that would never happen, but i guess that could of just been something everyone did back in the day.
There's no way i could have lived the way that Huck did when his father took him and then went off into the wood to some old cabin and he didn't do anything other than smoke and fish. I was upset to see him start to go back to his old ways and starting to wonder why he ever liked living with Miss. Watson and going to school. I think that Huck could be a great kid if the things in his life didn't go so bad all the time, but that's just me. If i were Huck i would want to run away too if my dad left me at home and locked me up so there was no way for me get away.This clearing shows that his father does not care about the well-being of his own son. However, I do think that Mark Twain uses the father to kind of show how most people during this time thought about how the government was changing and how most whites had the same view on slaves whether they were a well educated person or a no good drunk. For example, on page 27 Huck's father goes on a rant about how the government was starting to let blacks be free in some states and could even vote in those states which he thought was just outrageous. But the thing that really made him mad was the idea that these black that were now free could do better in life then what he could. This seems to be a theme for the father that he gets jealous about what others have because he's a loser.
Huck was very smart about how he planned and ran away for his dad. He used the pig and the sack of corn meal to make it looked like he'd been killed or something so no one would come looking for him thinking he was alive. He did get some pretty good luck though finding the canoe just floating down the river and was able to hid it from his dad. After he got away i thought for sure that his dad was go to see him and catch him when he saw him of the river, I kind of liked this part in the book because it got exciting. When he got to the island and heard the cannons going off, because I guess that's how they found bodies in the river because they would come to the surface which was something new I learned.
In my opinion I also thought it was luck that Huck and Jim found each other on the same island after they both ran away. They could both use each other and help each other out in many ways and I don't know if they would last long without getting together. One thing that I did notice right away and made a point of was how Huck didn't treat Jim like a slave. Unlike his father Huck seems to think of slaves as equal to himself, because he did help Jim fish and get some food. While Jim helped Huck to get to shelter before it started to downpour. Another good example of how Huck doesn't think of Jim as just a slave is when he doesn't mean to have the snake bit Jim when he put the dead snake in his bed as a joke and he feels bad about it afterwards. The last thing that i thought showed that Huck cared about Jim was the fact that he went back to get Jim after he had found out about the man coming over to check the island later that night. Huck could of easily left Jim behind and saved himself but he didn't. When Huck stopped at that one woman's house to see what was going on in the town i found it kind of funny that people just let strangers into their house at night and let them sleep there and gave them food. Now days that would never happen, but i guess that could of just been something everyone did back in the day.